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Jonny Moseley

Jonny Moseley, American freestyle skier born 1975 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; 1998 Nagano Olympic moguls gold medalist with the 360 mute grab, 2002 fourth with the Dinner Roll, later TV host and NBC analyst.

Jonny Nilsson

Jonny Nilsson (Erling Martin Jonny Nilsson, 1943–2022), Swedish speed skater; Olympic 10,000 m gold at Innsbruck 1964 (15:50.1), world allround champion 1963 at Karuizawa, five world records, later founded a professional skating league.

Jonny Owen

Jonny Owen (Jonathan Tudor Owen), born 1971 in Merthyr Tydfil, is a Welsh producer, actor, and writer, BAFTA Cymru winner for The Aberfan Disaster, creator of Svengali, director of I Believe in Miracles, and a Nottingham Forest director. Distinct from the boxer Johnny Owen.

Jonny Quest

Jonny Quest (The Adventures of Jonny Quest) is Hanna-Barbera's 1964 ABC animated adventure series by Doug Wildey, 26 episodes, starring Jonny, Dr. Benton Quest, Race Bannon, and Hadji, canceled for cost, later revived in 1986 and 1996.

Jonny Quest (TV series)

Jonny Quest is a 1964 Hanna-Barbera prime-time animated action-adventure series created by Doug Wildey, airing 26 episodes on ABC. It follows Jonny, Dr. Benton Quest, Race Bannon, Hadji, and Bandit, and spawned 1986 and 1996 revivals.

Jonny Searle

Jonny Searle (Jonathan William C. Searle, born 1969) is a British Olympic rower, elder brother of Greg Searle; gold in coxed pairs at Barcelona 1992 with Garry Herbert, bronze in coxless fours at Atlanta 1996.

Jonny Wilkinson

Jonny Wilkinson (born 1979), English rugby union fly-half whose right-footed extra-time drop goal won England the 2003 World Cup final 20-17; 91 England caps, 1,246 international points, Newcastle and Toulon career.

Jonny Williams

Jonny Williams (Jonathan Williams, born 1993) is a Welsh midfielder, ex-Crystal Palace, Charlton, Swindon, Gillingham, now Eastleigh; 33 Wales caps, 2 international goals, 23 club goals in 403 appearances.

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848) was a Swedish chemist, a founder of modern chemistry, who determined the atomic weights of 43 elements, introduced letter-based chemical symbols, and discovered silicon, selenium, and thorium.

Jónsi

Jónsi (Jón Þór Birgisson, born 1975) is the Icelandic Sigur Rós frontman known for cello-bowed guitar and falsetto to B5; solo albums Go (2010) and Shiver (2020), film scores, and multimedia installations.

Jontay Porter

Jontay Porter (born 1999, Columbia, Missouri), brother of Michael Porter Jr., is an American center-forward who played for the Grizzlies and Raptors and received an NBA lifetime ban in April 2024 for betting on games and limiting his own participation.

Jonti Picking

Jonti Picking, aka Mr Weebl or Weebl, is a British animator and musician born in Doncaster, creator of Weebl and Bob, Badger Badger Badger, and Narwhals, and founder of weebls-stuff.com and Jelly Penguin.

JonTron

JonTron (Jon Jafari, born 1990) is an American YouTube comedian known for the JonTronShow, co-founding Game Grumps and NormalBoots, and his 2017 immigration debate controversy that led Playtonic to cut him from Yooka-Laylee.

Jonty Rhodes

Jonty Rhodes (Jonathan Neil Rhodes, born 1969), South African cricketer famed for revolutionary fielding and the 1992 World Cup diving run-out of Inzamam-ul-Haq; 52 Tests, 245 ODIs, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1999.

Jonty Skinner

Jonty Skinner (John Alexander Skinner), South African sprint swimmer born 1954, barred from the 1976 Olympics by the apartheid ban; weeks later he set a 100 m freestyle world record of 49.44 that stood until 1981, then became a leading coach.

Jonvelle

Jonvelle, commune in Haute-Saône, France, in a double meander of the Saône; known for a Gallo-Roman villa with bath complex (Monument Historique), a tile workshop, and a medieval priory and castle.

Jonvic Remulla

Juanito Victor "Jonvic" C. Remulla is a Filipino politician who has served as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government since 2024, after serving as Governor of Cavite.

Jony Ive

Jony Ive (Sir Jonathan Paul Ive) is a British industrial designer, born in 1967, who led the design of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad at Apple.

Joo Ho-jin (주호진)

Joo Ho-jin (주호진) is a fictional character, born 1991 in-show, and main protagonist of Netflix's 2026 rom-com Can This Love Be Translated? (이 사랑 통역 되나요?). A multilingual interpreter played by Kim Seon-ho, he interprets for actress Cha Mu-hee (Go Youn-jung) on the dating show Romantic Trip.

Joo Hock Chua

Joo Hock Chua, also known as Chua Joo Hock, is a Singapore venture capitalist who leads Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India and backed Grab.

Joo Won

Joo Won (주원, real name Moon Jun-won) is a South Korean actor born 1987 in Seoul, a former musical star known for Bread Love and Dreams, Bridal Mask, Good Doctor, Yong-pal, and Netflix's Carter; distinct from actress Ryu Won born 1997.

Joochan Hong

Joochan Hong (Hong Joo-chan, 홍주찬), born in 1999, is a South Korean singer and musical actor best known as the main vocalist of Golden Child, which debuted in 2017.

Jooho Moon

Jooho Moon (문주호, also Joo Ho Moon) is a South Korean materials scientist and Underwood Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, known for antimony chalcogenide solar water-splitting devices exceeding 10 percent efficiency.

Joohoney

Joohoney (주헌), born Lee Joo-heon, is a South Korean rapper and producer in the boy group Monsta X, and a solo artist since his 2023 EP Lights.

Jook Walraven

Jook Walraven is an atomic physicist who, with his supervisor Isaac Silvera, first stabilized spin-polarized atomic hydrogen in 1980, creating the first studied dilute quantum gas.

Jools Holland

Jools Holland (Julian Miles Holland, born 1958) is a British pianist, bandleader of the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, former Squeeze member, The Tube co-presenter, and host of BBC Two's Later... with Jools Holland.

Jools Lebron

Jools Lebron (@joolieannie), born 1993, is a Chicago-based transgender TikTok beauty creator whose August 2024 "very demure, very mindful" video went viral, made "demure" Dictionary.com's 2024 word of the year, and triggered a trademark dispute, later fame-fueled addiction, and a 2026 GoFundMe backlash.

Joomla

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system for publishing websites and web applications, forked from the Mambo CMS in 2005 and built on PHP and MySQL.

Joon Hak Oh

Joon Hak Oh (오준학) is a South Korean professor of chemical and biological engineering at Seoul National University who works on organic and chiral optoelectronic devices.

Joon Park

Joon Park (박준형, born 1969) is a Korean-American singer, rapper, and actor, best known as the leader of the South Korean boy group g.o.d, which debuted in 1999.