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Jonathan Jackson (Illinois politician)

Jonathan L. Jackson, born in 1966 and son of Rev. Jesse Jackson, is the Democratic U.S. Representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district, serving since January 2023.

Jonathan Jacobson

Jonathan Jacobson is an American Democratic politician representing New York's 104th Assembly district, first elected in 2018 after serving on the Newburgh City Council and as an assistant state attorney general.

Jonathan James

Jonathan James (cOmrade), American hacker born 1983, first US juvenile sentenced to custody for hacking; breached DTRA and NASA in 1999, downloading $1.7 million ISS software; died May 18, 2008 during TJX investigation.

Jonathan Jesus

Jonathan Jesus (Jonathan de Jesus Alves, born 2004, São Vicente, Brazil) is a Brazilian centre-back for Cruzeiro, signed from Ceará in 2024 for R$ 8 million, a converted former forward who became a starter under Artur Jorge.

Jonathan Kagan

Jonathan C. Kagan is an immunologist who directs basic research at Boston Children's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor, known for studies of Toll-like receptor signaling, inflammasomes, and pyroptosis.

Jonathan Kay

Jonathan Kay is an American rheumatologist, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, who studies rheumatologic complications of chronic kidney disease and biosimilars.

Jonathan Kaye

Jonathan Kaye is an American immunologist who studies T cell and innate lymphoid cell development, known for identifying the transcription factor TOX and for work on thymic positive selection.

Jonathan Keeperman

Jonathan Keeperman, aka "Lomez" on X, is a former UC Irvine English lecturer, founder of far-right Passage Press, popularizer of "the longhouse", and co-host with Chris Rufo of the BlazeTV podcast "Rufo & Lomez".

Jonathan Keltz

Jonathan Lippert Keltz (born 1988, New York) is an American actor known as Jake Steinberg on HBO's Entourage, Leith Bayard on The CW's Reign, and for Prom (2011), 21 & Over (2013), and Hallmark lead roles.

Jonathan Kerrigan

Jonathan Kerrigan (born 1972, Lincolnshire), English actor and composer; TV leads as Sam Colloby in Casualty, PC Rob Walker in Heartbeat, Neil in In the Club; composed Merseybeat's title theme; married to actress Shelley Conn.

Jonathan Kimmelman

Jonathan Kimmelman is a biomedical ethics researcher and James McGill Professor at McGill University who studies the ethics of testing new medical technologies in humans.

Jonathan King

Jonathan King (Kenneth George King, born 1944) is an English pop singer, producer and TV presenter who discovered Genesis, ran UK Records, and was convicted in 2001 of child sex offences, serving three and a half years.

Jonathan Kipnis

Jonathan Kipnis, Israeli-born American neuroimmunologist at Washington University in St. Louis; discovered meningeal lymphatic vessels in 2015, reframing CNS immune privilege and brain drainage in Alzheimer's disease.

Jonathan Knight

Jonathan Rashleigh Knight (born 1968), American-Canadian singer, oldest member of New Kids on the Block with brother Jordan; left the band in 1994, became a home renovator, and hosts HGTV's Farmhouse Fixer and Crashers while touring with NKOTB.

Jonathan Kodjia

Jonathan Adjo Kodjia, Ivorian forward born 1989 in Saint-Denis, France; starred at Bristol City (20 goals) and Aston Villa (31 goals), earned 18 Ivory Coast caps with 11 goals, played at AFCON 2019, last club Versailles.

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol, American education writer and former Boston teacher, Rhodes Scholar, author of Death at an Early Age (National Book Award) and Savage Inequalities (1991), chronicler of school funding inequality and segregation.

Jonathan Kraft

Jonathan Kraft, eldest son of Robert Kraft, is President of the Kraft Group and an owner of the New England Patriots; he led the franchise's 1990s rebranding, financed Gillette Stadium, and co-founded KAGR.

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is an American Democratic politician and former Alaska state legislator who represented Southeast Alaska for a decade and is the 2026 Democratic nominee for Governor of Alaska.

Jonathan Kuminga

Jonathan Kuminga, Congolese NBA forward, born 2002, in Goma; G League Ignite product drafted 7th overall in 2021 by Golden State, 2022 champion, traded to Atlanta in 2026, now with Minnesota Timberwolves on a two-year, $13 million deal.

Jonathan L. Payne

Jonathan L. Payne is an American paleobiologist and Dorrell William Kirby Professor at Stanford University, known for quantitative studies of mass extinctions and extinction selectivity in the fossil record.

Jonathan L. Tilly

Jonathan L. Tilly is an American reproductive biologist at Northeastern University known for research on ovarian aging and stem cells that may generate new eggs.

Jonathan Langdon

Jonathan Langdon (Jonathan Marcus Langdon), Canadian actor born 1987 in Toronto, known as Lou Carmody in NOS4A2, Hank in No Tomorrow, Hudson in Run the Burbs, Coach in Disney's Zombies, and voice of Barney.

Jonathan LaPaglia

Jonathan LaPaglia (JLP), Australian actor and host born 1969 in Adelaide; former emergency physician; starred in New York Undercover, Seven Days, The District, The Slap, Underbelly: Badness, Love Child; hosted Australian Survivor 2016-2025, succeeded by David Genat.

Jonathan Larson

Jonathan Larson was an American composer and playwright who wrote the musical Rent and died at 35, winning a Pulitzer Prize and four Tony Awards posthumously.

Jonathan Lavine

Jonathan Lavine is an American private equity and credit investor who founded Bain Capital Credit in 1998 and co-led Bain Capital from 2016 to 2024.

Jonathan Lee Riches

Jonathan Lee Riches, aka JLR Investigates, an American convicted wire fraudster who filed thousands of frivolous federal lawsuits as a prisoner, drew court injunctions, and later became a true-crime personality covering the Nancy Guthrie case.

Jonathan Leff

Jonathan Leff, M.D., is a physician and biotechnology executive who oversaw the US approval of Esbriet at InterMune and joined Sofinnova Investments as an Executive Partner in 2020.

Jonathan Leko

Jonathan Leko (Jonathan Kisolokele Leko, born 1999, Kinshasa) is an English right winger from West Brom's academy, first player born in 1999 to play in the Premier League; later Birmingham City, Charlton, MK Dons, now Penybont.

Jonathan Levin (economist)

Jonathan Levin is an economist and entrepreneur who co-founded the blockchain data platform Chainalysis in New York in 2014, serving as Chief Strategy Officer before becoming CEO in 2024.

Jonathan Levy

Jonathan Levy, also known as Jon Levy, is a Managing Director at Y Combinator, which he joined in September 2008 as its first employee outside the founders.