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Jonathan Butler

Jonathan Butler is a South African singer, guitarist, and songwriter from Cape Town who rose from child stardom under apartheid to an international pop and jazz career.

Jonathan C. Cohen

Jonathan C. Cohen is an American human geneticist at UT Southwestern who, with Helen Hobbs, used the Dallas Heart Study to show PCSK9 mutations lower LDL cholesterol and heart disease risk.

Jonathan C. Craig

Jonathan C. Craig is an Australian pediatric nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist at Flinders University, known for large clinical trials in children's kidney disease, including the PRIVENT trial.

Jonathan C. Horton

Jonathan C. Horton is a neuro-ophthalmologist and visual neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on the visual cortex and for treating amblyopia and strabismus.

Jonathan C. Howard

Jonathan C. Howard, also known as Jonathan Howard, is a British immunologist and cell geneticist, Professor Emeritus at Cologne, known for identifying the TAP peptide transporters.

Jonathan Cagan

Jonathan Cagan is an American mechanical engineer and design theorist at Carnegie Mellon University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026 for design automation and medical technologies.

Jonathan Cahn

Jonathan Cahn (born around 1959) is an American Messianic Jewish author and minister who leads Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, New Jersey, and wrote the bestseller The Harbinger (2012).

Jonathan Cain

Jonathan Cain (Jonathan Leonard Friga, born 1950, Chicago) is Journey's keyboardist and songwriter since 1980, ex-the Babys and Bad English, co-writer of Don't Stop Believin' and Open Arms.

Jonathan Cake

Jonathan Cake (born 1967, Worthing, Sussex) is an English actor known for the 1998 biopic Mosley, Desperate Housewives, and stage roles in Baby Doll and Medea, winning the 2002 Barclays Best Actor Award and a 2003 Theatre World Award.

Jonathan Calleri

Jonathan Calleri, Argentine centre-forward born 1993 in Buenos Aires, plays for São Paulo FC. Former All Boys and Boca Juniors striker, 2016 Copa Libertadores top scorer, ex-West Ham, Las Palmas, Alavés, Espanyol, Osasuna; Copa do Brasil 2023 winner.

Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing house founded in January 1921 by Jonathan Cape and George Wren Howard, now a Vintage imprint of Penguin Random House.

Jonathan Capehart

Jonathan Capehart (born 1967) is an American journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Washington Post opinion writer, MSNBC's The Weekend co-host, and PBS NewsHour analyst, author of the 2025 memoir Yet Here I Am.

Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll (Jonathan Samuel Carroll), American novelist living in Vienna, author of The Land of Laughs (1980) and Mr. Breakfast (2023); blends realism and the fantastic ('impossible realism'), winner of World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards.

Jonathan Cavendish

Jonathan Cavendish is a British independent film producer, co-founder of Imaginarium Studios with Andy Serkis, known for Bridget Jones's Diary, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Breathe (about his father Robin Cavendish), and Animal Farm.

Jonathan Chase (American ecologist)

Jonathan M. Chase is an American community ecologist who leads the Biodiversity Synthesis group at iDiv in Germany, known for work on scale-dependence, habitat fragmentation, and insect decline.

Jonathan Chavez

Jonathan Chavez is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Georgia's 13th district, a 23-year Air Force veteran with deployments to Iraq.

Jonathan Cheban

Jonathan Cheban, known as Foodgod, is an American reality television personality and food influencer, a recurring friend on Keeping Up With the Kardashians who legally changed his name in 2017.

Jonathan Cherry

Jonathan Cherry (born 1978, Montreal) is a Canadian actor known for Rory Peters in Final Destination 2, Rudy in House of the Dead, Willie in WolfCop, and Coach Pete in The Novice.

Jonathan Chey

Jonathan Chey, also credited as Jon Chey, is a video game developer who co-founded Irrational Games in 1997 with Ken Levine, managed System Shock 2, and founded Blue Manchu.

Jonathan Christopher Mattingly

Jonathan Christopher Mattingly is a Duke University mathematician known for work on stochastic systems and for statistical analysis of gerrymandering that led North Carolina to redraw its maps.

Jonathan Clayden

Jonathan Clayden (born 1968) is a British organic chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bristol since 2015, known for atropisomerism, organolithium chemistry, and dynamic foldamers.

Jonathan Coachman

Jonathan Coachman, known on screen as "The Coach", is an American sportscaster who worked for WWE from 1999 to 2008 and 2018 to 2021, then ESPN.

Jonathan Conricus

Jonathan Conricus, Swedish-Israeli retired IDF lieutenant colonel, International Spokesperson 2017-2021; combat commander in Lebanon and Gaza, first IDF officer at UN HQ, later senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Jonathan Corren

Jonathan Corren is an American allergist and immunologist at UCLA known for clinical trials of biologic asthma therapies, especially tezepelumab, and for research on the cytokine TSLP.

Jonathan Coulton

Jonathan Coulton (born 1970), Brooklyn-based geek singer-songwriter, aka JoCo, who quit software in 2005 for the Thing a Week podcast (52 songs) and wrote "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone" for Valve's Portal games.

Jonathan Creek

Jonathan Creek: BBC One comedy-drama (1997–2016) created by David Renwick, starring Alan Davies as a magician's trick designer who solves impossible crimes from his windmill home, with Caroline Quentin and later companions; BAFTA-winning howdunnit.

Jonathan Crombie

Jonathan Crombie (1966-2015) was a Canadian actor best known as Gilbert Blythe in CBC's Anne of Green Gables (1985), its 1987 and 2000 sequels, and Road to Avonlea; also a Stratford Festival and Broadway (The Drowsy Chaperone) performer, son of Toronto mayor David Crombie.

Jonathan D. Ashwell

Jonathan D. Ashwell is an American immunologist who led the NCI Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology from 1992 to 2024, known for T-cell receptor signaling research.

Jonathan D. Bray

Jonathan D. Bray is an American geotechnical earthquake engineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley, known for liquefaction, seismic slope, and surface fault rupture procedures.

Jonathan D. Casey

Jonathan D. Casey is a pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist and Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for pragmatic randomized trials of routine critical care decisions.