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Joon Sung Park
Joon Sung Park is a South Korean venture capital investor who serves as Co-CIO and Managing Director at Legend Capital, known for early investments in HYBE, AnyColor, and Lunit.
Joondalup
Joondalup: planned satellite city and local government area in Perth's northern suburbs, on Mooro Boodjar; Strategic Metropolitan Centre with Joondalup Health Campus, Edith Cowan University, Lakeside Joondalup, and the 1992 Joondalup rail line, now the Yanchep Line.
Joong Hee Lee
Joong Hee Lee (J.H. Lee) is a South Korean materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at Jeonbuk National University in Jeonju, working on renewable-energy materials and electrocatalysts.
Joonyeol Lee
Joonyeol Lee is a South Korean neuroscientist who studies how the brain combines prior expectations with noisy sensory data to guide movement, using smooth pursuit eye movements.
Joop Carp
Joop Carp (Johan Robert Carp, 1897-1962), Dutch Olympic sailor; won 1920 Antwerp gold in 6.5m class aboard Oranje with brother Berend Carp and Piet Wernink, 1924 Paris bronze in 6m class, and placed eighth at Berlin 1936.
Joop Schaye
Joop Schaye is an astronomer and full professor of galaxy formation at Leiden Observatory since 2011, who led the EAGLE cosmological simulation and leads the COLIBRE project.
Joor, Inc.
Joor, Inc. is a New York-based B2B wholesale platform for the fashion industry, founded by Mona Bijoor in 2010, serving more than 14,000 brands and 700,000 buyers across 150 countries.
Joos van Cleve
Joos van Cleve, also recorded as Joos van der Beke, was a Netherlandish painter who ran one of Antwerp's most productive workshops, leaving more than 300 paintings.
Joosje Burg
Joosje Burg (born 1997, Veghel) is a Dutch field hockey forward for HC Den Bosch and the Netherlands; Olympic gold medalist Paris 2024 who broke her nose in the semifinal and missed the final, with 91 senior caps and 35 goals.
Joost Businger
Joost Alois Businger (1924–2023) was a Dutch-born American atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, known for the 1971 flux-profile relationships and developing the sonic anemometer.
Joost Eerdmans
Joost Eerdmans (born 1971) is a Dutch politician who leads JA21 in the House of Representatives, where he has served since 2021 and chairs the Justice and Security committee.
Joost G.J. Hoenderop
Joost G.J. Hoenderop is a Dutch molecular kidney physiologist and full professor at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for identifying the calcium channel TRPV5 and studying TRP channels in calcium and magnesium balance.
Joost Gribnau
Joost Gribnau is a Dutch epigeneticist studying X chromosome inactivation, and is Professor of Epigenetics at Erasmus MC and a department head at Leiden University Medical Center.
Joost J. Oppenheim
Joost J. Oppenheim (1934–2022) was a Dutch-born American immunologist known as "the Father of Cytokines" who spent six decades at the NIH, discovering interleukin-8 and MCP-1.
Joost Klein
Joost Klein (born 1997, Leeuwarden) is a Dutch gabber pop rapper and former YouTuber (EenhoornJoost). Eurovision 2024 entrant with "Europapa," disqualified before the final, case dropped; first Dutch-language Coachella artist and 2026 world tour headliner.
Joost N. H. Reek
Joost Reek (born 1967) is a Dutch chemist, professor of supramolecular catalysis at the University of Amsterdam since 2006, who founded the catalyst-testing company InCatT.
Joost P.H. Drenth
Joost P.H. Drenth (Johannes Paulus Hubertus Drenth) is a Dutch hepatologist who identified the gene causing hyper-IgD syndrome and heads gastroenterology and hepatology at Radboudumc.
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679) was a Dutch poet and playwright of the Dutch Golden Age, known for the tragedies Gysbreght van Aemstel and Lucifer.
Joost van der Westhuizen
Joost van der Westhuizen (1971–2017), South African Springbok scrum-half: 89 caps 1993–2003, 38 tries, 1995 Rugby World Cup winner famed for tackling Jonah Lomu, 1999 captain, later motor neurone disease campaigner through the J9 Foundation.
Joox Thailand Music Awards
JOOX Thailand Music Awards (JTMA), annual Thai music awards by JOOX/Tencent Thailand since 2017; winners decided by JOOX streaming counts, industry votes, and fan votes; sixth edition held 2022.
Jop Kind
Jop Kind is a Dutch molecular biologist who leads a group at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, studying chromatin and gene regulation in single cells.
Jophiel (יוֹפִיאֵל)
Jophiel, also known as Yofiel or Iophiel, is an angel of wisdom and beauty in Jewish rabbinic, kabbalistic, and later esoteric tradition rather than the Bible.
Jophielle Love
Jophielle Love (born 2014, Nîmes, France) is a Franco-American child actress and Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter, known as Violet Finn on General Hospital (2019–2024, 120 episodes), Cooper Ormewood on Will Trent, and Ghost Kid/Chica's soul in Five Nights at Freddy's.
Jopie Selbach
Jopie Selbach (Johanna Katarina Selbach-Koé, 1918-1998), Dutch freestyle swimmer of ADZ Amsterdam; won gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at the 1934 European Championships and the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting relay world records.
Jopie van Alphen
Jopie van Alphen, Dutch backstroke swimmer of the mid-1950s; swam lead-off on the Netherlands' 4×100 m medley relay world record (5:00.1, Paris, 17 July 1955) and won a 200 m backstroke race in 2:36.1.
Jopie Waalberg
Jopie Waalberg (Johanna Maria Elisabeth Waalberg, 1920-1979), Dutch breaststroke swimmer; 1936 Olympian, first woman under 3:00 for 200 m breaststroke (2:58.0, 1937), three-time world record holder, 1938 European bronze medalist.
Joplin (Mercurian crater)
Joplin is an impact crater on Mercury about 139 km in diameter, named after the American ragtime composer Scott Joplin and approved by the International Astronomical Union in 2012.
Joplin, Missouri
Joplin, Missouri: a city of about 53,900 in Jasper County, southwest Missouri, founded 1873 from rival mining camps and once the lead and zinc capital of the world; today a hub on Route 66 and Interstates 44 and 49.
Joppa Steam Plant
The Joppa Steam Plant, also called the Joppa Power Plant, was a 1,100 MW coal-fired power station in Joppa, Illinois, on the Ohio River, which operated from 1953 until 2022.
Jor-El
Jor-El, also Jor-L, is DC Comics' Kryptonian scientist father of Superman (Kal-El), created by Siegel and Shuster in Action Comics #1 (1938); known for predicting Krypton's doom, the Phantom Zone, and portrayals by Brando, Crowe, Stamp, and Cooper.