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Jonathan D. Cohen

Jonathan D. Cohen is an American cognitive neuroscientist, the Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor at Princeton University and a founding co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.

Jonathan D. Dinman

Jonathan D. Dinman is an American molecular biologist and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, known for his work on programmed ribosomal frameshifting and translational control.

Jonathan D. G. Jones

Jonathan D. G. Jones (born 1954) is a British plant molecular geneticist at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, known for cloning plant disease-resistance genes and the zigzag model of plant immunity.

Jonathan D. Gitlin

Jonathan D. Gitlin is an American pediatrician and physician-scientist known for establishing Wilson disease and Menkes disease as disorders of copper-transporting ATPases, and an elected National Academy of Medicine member.

Jonathan D. Gray

Jonathan D. Gray is an American investor serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone, which he joined in 1992 and where he built the world's largest real estate platform.

Jonathan D. Licht

Jonathan D. Licht is an American physician-scientist who studies how altered transcription and chromatin regulation drive leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, and leads Van Andel Institute as president.

Jonathan D. Spence

Jonathan D. Spence (1936–2021), British-born American historian of China and Yale Sterling Professor, author of The Search for Modern China, MacArthur Fellow, and president of the American Historical Association in 2004–2005.

Jonathan Daniels

Jonathan Myrick Daniels (1939-1965), New Hampshire-born Episcopal seminarian and VMI valedictorian, joined the Selma voting rights campaign, was jailed in Hayneville, and was killed August 20, 1965 shielding Ruby Sales from deputy Tom Coleman's shotgun; later named an Episcopal Church martyr.

Jonathan David

Jonathan David, Canadian striker born in Brooklyn to Haitian parents, raised in Ottawa; Gent, Lille (Ligue 1 title 2021, 109 goals), Juventus, loan to Atlético Madrid; Canada's all-time top scorer, 43 goals, 2026 World Cup hat-trick vs Qatar.

Jonathan Davis

Jonathan Davis is the American lead vocalist and songwriter of Korn, the Bakersfield band credited with launching nu-metal via its 1994 debut. Known for raw lyrics on trauma and bullying, quintuple-platinum Follow the Leader, and later dubstep experiments; distinct from other people named Jonathan Davis.

Jonathan de Guzmán

Jonathan de Guzmán (Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán), born 1987 in Toronto, is a Canadian-born Dutch retired midfielder, 14 Netherlands caps, 2014 World Cup third place, who won cups with Feyenoord, Swansea City, Napoli, and Eintracht Frankfurt and retired at Sparta Rotterdam in 2026.

Jonathan Del Arco

Jonathan Del Arco, Uruguayan-American actor (born 1966), played Hugh the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Picard and Dr. Morales on The Closer and Major Crimes; also an LGBT activist.

Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme (1944-2017) was an American director of The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense; began under Roger Corman with Caged Heat.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Jonathan Dimbleby (born 1944) is a British broadcaster, historian, and journalist, son of Richard Dimbleby and brother of David. Known for ITV's This Week, the 1973 Ethiopian famine report, the 1994 Prince of Wales interview, and chairing Any Questions? 1987-2019.

Jonathan Djanogly

Jonathan Simon Djanogly, British Conservative solicitor and politician, MP for Huntingdon 2001-2024 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Justice 2010-2012, responsible for LASPO, court closures, and civil legal aid reform.

Jonathan Dordick

Jonathan Dordick is an American biochemical engineer and Institute Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute known for pioneering biocatalysis and molecular bioprocessing, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Jonathan dos Santos

Jonathan dos Santos Ramírez (born 1990), Mexican defensive midfielder; Barcelona and La Masia product, Villarreal and LA Galaxy (captain) midfielder, now Club América, 2018 World Cup squad member.

Jonathan Dostrovsky

Jonathan Dostrovsky is a Canadian neurophysiologist at the University of Toronto known for recording single neurons in awake patients during surgery for pain and movement disorders.

Jonathan Drori

Jonathan Drori CBE is a British educator, media executive, and author who, as the BBC's Head of Commissioning, led the creation of bbc.co.uk and later wrote bestselling plant books.

Jonathan Drouin

Jonathan Drouin, born 1995 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, is a Canadian NHL left winger drafted third overall by Tampa Bay in 2013; QMJHL MVP and 2013 Memorial Cup winner with Halifax, later Montreal, Colorado, Islanders, and Blues.

Jonathan E. Hawley

Jonathan E. Hawley, born 1971 in Peoria, Illinois, is a United States district judge for the Central District of Illinois, appointed by President Biden in 2024.

Jonathan E. Menard

Jonathan E. Menard is a fusion plasma physicist who serves as Deputy Director for Research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and led the STAR spherical tokamak power-plant design.

Jonathan E. Rosenberg

Jonathan E. Rosenberg is an American medical oncologist specializing in bladder and other genitourinary cancers, and Chief of the Genitourinary Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering since 2018.

Jonathan E. Shaw

Jonathan E. Shaw is an Australian endocrinologist and diabetes epidemiologist, Deputy Director of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne and professor at Monash University.

Jonathan E. Spanier

Jonathan E. Spanier is an American condensed matter physicist at Drexel University, a 2006 PECASE recipient known for ferroelectric photovoltaics and tunable microwave materials research.

Jonathan Eaton

Jonathan Eaton (1950–2024) was an American economist who, with Samuel Kortum, built the Eaton–Kortum model of international trade; their 2002 paper won the Frisch Medal and the 2018 Onassis Prize.

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was an American Congregational minister at Northampton, Massachusetts, and philosophical theologian who led early revivals of the First Great Awakening, wrote Freedom of the Will, and briefly served as president of Princeton.

Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper)

Jonathan Edwards, British triple jumper (born 1966), world record holder at 18.29 m since Gothenburg 1995; Olympic champion Sydney 2000, double world champion, former Sunday-observance Christian, later broadcaster and London 2012 LOCOG figure.

Jonathan Engle

Jonathan W. Engle is an American radiochemist and medical physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who leads the Cyclotron Research Group and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.

Jonathan F. Bean

Jonathan F. Bean is an American physiatrist and Harvard Medical School professor who directs the New England GRECC at VA Boston and studies rehabilitation in older adults.