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Jonathan Lindsey

Jonathan Lindsey is an American politician and Republican member of the Michigan Senate from the 17th district, elected in 2022 after serving in the U.S. Army Special Forces.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Jonathan William Lipnicki (born 1990) is an American actor and producer, the child star of Jerry Maguire and Stuart Little, later a Buffalo 8 executive producer and cast member of Primetime (2026).

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a 1970 fable by Richard Bach about a seagull who leaves his flock to master flight, becoming the best-selling novel of 1972.

Jonathan Long

Jonathan Z. Long is a biochemist and Associate Professor of Pathology at Stanford University, where since 2018 his lab has discovered Lac-Phe, an exercise-induced metabolite that suppresses appetite.

Jonathan Loughran

Jonathan Loughran (born 1966) is an American actor and comedian from Philadelphia, a longtime Adam Sandler collaborator and assistant, known for Kill Bill's trucker, Robideaux in The Waterboy and Grown Ups, and co-producing Hustle; distinct from the Irish-linked producer of the same name.

Jonathan Lourie

Jonathan Lourie is a British financier who co-founded Cheyne Capital in London in 2000 with Stuart Fiertz and remains its chief executive and investment officer.

Jonathan Lubin

Jonathan Lubin (born 1936) is an American mathematician, long at Brown University, known for the Lubin–Tate formal group, which gives explicit abelian extensions of p-adic fields.

Jonathan Lunine

Jonathan Lunine is an American planetary scientist and Chief Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 2024, known for research on Titan and the outer Solar System.

Jonathan Lynn

Jonathan Lynn (born 1943, Bath, England) is a British director, screenwriter, actor, and author, co-creator with Antony Jay of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and director of Clue, My Cousin Vinny, and The Whole Nine Yards.

Jonathan M. Goldberg

Jonathan M. Goldberg is an American structural cell biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies the protein coats that package cargo into transport vesicles.

Jonathan M. Graff

Jonathan M. Graff is an American molecular and developmental biologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for work on Smad signaling and fat stem cells.

Jonathan M. Gregory

Jonathan M. Gregory is a climate scientist at the University of Reading who studies climate sensitivity and sea-level change and served as an IPCC lead author.

Jonathan M. Kalman

Jonathan M. Kalman is an Australian cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne who performed Australia's first curative atrial fibrillation ablation in 1997.

Jonathan M. Levine

Jonathan M. Levine is an American plant ecologist, the J.N. Allison Professor and department chair at Princeton University, known for research on species coexistence and plant invasions.

Jonathan M. Mann

Jonathan M. Mann (1947–1998) was an American physician and epidemiologist who founded the WHO Global Programme on AIDS, built the health-and-human-rights framework, and died in the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off Nova Scotia.

Jonathan M. Rothberg

Jonathan M. Rothberg, born 1963, is an American scientist and serial entrepreneur known for bringing next-generation DNA sequencing to market through 454 Life Sciences and Ion Torrent.

Jonathan M. Samet

Jonathan M. Samet is an American pulmonary physician and epidemiologist whose research on air pollution, tobacco smoke, and radon has shaped public health regulation and tobacco controls.

Jonathan M. Scholey

Jonathan M. Scholey, also known as Jonathan Scholey, is a cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Davis known for research on kinesin motors, mitotic spindles, and intraflagellar transport.

Jonathan M. Wainwright (general)

Jonathan M. Wainwright was an American Army general who surrendered Corregidor to the Japanese in 1942, spent over three years as a prisoner of war, and received the Medal of Honor.

Jonathan Majors

Jonathan Majors, American actor (Yale School of Drama, 2016), known for Lovecraft Country, Da 5 Bloods, Creed III, and Marvel's Kang the Conqueror; convicted of misdemeanor assault in December 2023 and dropped by Marvel.

Jonathan Mangum

Jonathan Mangum (born 1971) is an American improvisational comedian, actor, and announcer, co-host of Let's Make a Deal since 2009 and a rotating fourth-chair performer on the CW Whose Line Is It Anyway? revival.

Jonathan Marchessault

Jonathan Marchessault, also known as Jon Marchessault, is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who won the Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy with the Vegas Golden Knights in 2023.

Jonathan Marchini

Jonathan Marchini is a British statistical geneticist, formerly Professor of Statistical Genomics at Oxford and, since 2018, head of statistical genetics at the Regeneron Genetics Center.

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer is an American archaeologist and anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who has excavated the Indus civilization city of Harappa since 1986 and studies its crafts, trade, and writing.

Jonathan Martin (American football)

Jonathan Martin, former Stanford left tackle and Miami Dolphins 2012 second-round pick (42nd overall), played 38 NFL games; left Miami in 2013 amid the Incognito bullying case, later traded to the 49ers.

Jonathan Martin (Florida politician)

Jonathan Martin is an American attorney and Republican member of the Florida Senate from District 33, elected in 2022; a former prosecutor, he chaired the Lee County Republican Party.

Jonathan Martinez

Jonathan "Dragon" Martinez, born 1994, American UFC bantamweight, 19-6-0, known for devastating inside leg kicks that stopped Cub Swanson and Adrian Yanez; lost to Jose Aldo and Marcus McGhee.

Jonathan Mckee

Jonathan McKee (Jonathan Dunn McKee, born 1959), American sailor: 1984 Olympic Flying Dutchman gold with Carl Buchan, 2000 49er bronze with brother Charlie; 49er, Melges 24, and Tasar world champion; America's Cup and offshore racer.

Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades (born 1947, Salisbury), FRSL and hon FRIBA, British writer and film-maker on architecture, food and culture; over 60 BBC documentaries since 1990, Times restaurant critic 1986-2001, author of Pompey and An Encyclopaedia of Myself.

Jonathan Milan

Jonathan Milan (b. 2000, Tolmezzo) is an Italian track and road cyclist for Lidl-Trek: Olympic team pursuit gold (Tokyo 2020), two-time individual pursuit world champion and world record holder (3:58.850), and a Tour de France green jersey and stage-winning sprinter.