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Jonathan Grigg

Jonathan Grigg is a British pediatric respiratory physician, Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and Environmental Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, known for research on air pollution and children's wheezing.

Jonathan Grimm

Jonathan Grimm is an American chemist and Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who applies synthetic organic chemistry to biological imaging, including improved fluorophores and dopamine sensors.

Jonathan Grodnick

Jonathan Grodnick is an American financial executive who was CEO of Chicago Trading Company, a proprietary options market-making firm in Chicago, from 2023 to 2025.

Jonathan Groff

Jonathan Groff (born 1985, Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American stage and screen actor. Known as Melchior in Spring Awakening, King George in Hamilton, Holden Ford in Mindhunter, Kristoff in Frozen; won the 2024 Tony for Merrily We Roll Along and starred in Just in Time.

Jonathan Guilmette

Jonathan Guilmette (born 1978, Montréal) is a Canadian short track speed skater, 2002 Olympic 5,000m relay gold and 500m silver medallist, 2006 relay silver, world relay champion 2006, later a coach.

Jonathan H. Gruber

Jonathan H. Gruber is an American health economist and Ford Professor of Economics at MIT who helped shape Massachusetts' 2006 health reform and advised on the Affordable Care Act.

Jonathan Haggerty

Jonathan "The General" Haggerty (born 1997, Orpington, England) is an English Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer in ONE Championship, a two-sport champion holding the ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing title and former flyweight and bantamweight Muay Thai champion.

Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist at NYU Stern, known for the social intuitionist model, Moral Foundations Theory (with Jesse Graham and Craig Joseph), and books The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation on teen mental health and smartphones.

Jonathan Harker

Jonathan Harker is the young English solicitor and first narrator of Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula, imprisoned in Castle Dracula and later a vampire hunter; adaptations often merge his role with Renfield or sideline him.

Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere

Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (born 1967), British media executive who owns and chairs Daily Mail and General Trust through Rothermere Continuation Limited; inherited the chairmanship in 1998, took DMGT private in 2021, and served as chief executive from 2022.

Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin, 1914-2002) was an American character actor, the campy villain Dr. Zachary Smith on CBS's Lost in Space (1965-68), Bradford Webster in The Third Man, and a Pixar voice actor; not the casting director or any other namesake.

Jonathan Hickman

Jonathan Hickman (born 1972) is an American comic book writer and artist known for The Nightly News, East of West, Marvel's Fantastic Four, Avengers, Secret Wars (2015), the Krakoa-era X-Men, and the relaunched Ultimate Universe.

Jonathan Higgins

Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, fictional British majordomo of Robin's Nest in Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988), played by Emmy winner John Hillerman; WWII-veteran backstory, Dobermans Zeus and Apollo; reboot counterpart Juliet Higgins.

Jonathan Himmelfarb

Jonathan Himmelfarb is an American nephrologist known for the oxidant-stress framework of cardiovascular disease in kidney failure and founding director of the University of Washington's Kidney Research Institute.

Jonathan Hinder

Jonathan Hinder (Jonathan James Hinder), Labour MP for Pendle and Clitheroe since 4 July 2024, won the new Lancashire seat with a 902 majority; former London police inspector, Blue Labour member and chair of the policing APPG.

Jonathan Hodgkin

Jonathan Hodgkin, born 1949, is a British geneticist who, as a doctoral student of Sydney Brenner and later Professor of Genetics at Oxford, defined the sex-determination pathway of C. elegans.

Jonathan Hoefler

Jonathan Hoefler is an American typeface designer, founder of the type foundry Hoefler&Co, known for Gotham, Knockout, Mercury, Sentinel, and Archer; the company was acquired by Monotype in 2021.

Jonathan Homer Lane

Jonathan Homer Lane (1819–1880) was an American astrophysicist and patent examiner who first treated the Sun mathematically as a gaseous body in his 1870 paper.

Jonathan Hutchinson

Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913) was an English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, and pathologist who described Hutchinson's teeth, the triad of inherited syphilis, and Hutchinson's freckle, and was knighted in 1908.

Jonathan Hyde

Jonathan Hyde (born Brisbane, Australia; sources give 1947 or 1948) is an Australian-born British actor, RADA graduate and RSC veteran, known for Jumanji, Titanic, The Strain, and Trollhunters.

Jonathan I. Silverberg

Jonathan I. Silverberg is an American dermatologist and professor at George Washington University who directs clinical research and led trials of dupilumab and other atopic dermatitis treatments.

Jonathan Idema

Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema (1956–2012), American ex-Special Forces soldier and convicted fraudster who ran a private jail in Kabul, was sentenced to 10 years by an Afghan court in 2004, pardoned by Karzai in 2007, and died in Mexico in 2012.

Jonathan Isaac

Jonathan Isaac (born 1997) is an American NBA forward, drafted sixth overall in 2017 by the Orlando Magic, known for elite defense and a 2020 ACL tear; waived June 2026, then re-signed.

Jonathan J Deeks

Jonathan J Deeks, known as Jon Deeks, is a British biostatistician and professor at the University of Birmingham known for the I² statistic and Cochrane Handbook statistics chapters.

Jonathan J. C. Grey

Jonathan J. C. Grey, or Jonathan James Canada Grey, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2023.

Jonathan J. Cole

Jonathan J. Cole (1953–2023) was an American aquatic ecologist and biogeochemist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Jonathan J. Darrow

Jonathan J. Darrow is a pharmaceutical policy and intellectual property researcher on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, known for New England Journal of Medicine analyses of FDA drug regulation.

Jonathan J. Finley

Jonathan J. Finley, also known as J. J. Finley, is an English physicist who has held the Chair of Semiconductor Quantum Nanosystems at the Technical University of Munich since 2013.

Jonathan J. Miner

Jonathan J. Miner is an American physician-scientist in immunology and rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the first mouse models of Zika transmission in pregnancy.

Jonathan Jackson (actor)

Jonathan Jackson (born 1982, Orlando, Florida) is an American actor, musician, and author, the original Lucky Spencer on General Hospital, a multi-Daytime Emmy winner, Avery Barkley on Nashville, and frontman of the band Enation.