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Jordan Thompson
Jordan Thompson (born 1997, Edina, Minnesota) is an American opposite spiker for USA Volleyball and LOVB Houston; Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020, silver at Paris 2024, and Cincinnati's all-time NCAA kills leader.
Jordan Thompson (footballer, born 1997)
Jordan Andrew Thompson (born 1997, Belfast) is a Northern Irish left-footed central midfielder for Preston North End and Northern Ireland (39 caps); formerly Manchester United academy, Rangers, Blackpool, and Stoke City.
Jordan Thompson (tennis)
Jordan Thompson (born 1994, Sydney) is an Australian tennis player, career-high No. 26 singles and No. 3 doubles, 2024 Los Cabos champion and 2024 US Open doubles winner with Max Purcell.
Jordan Tigani
Jordan Tigani is an American database engineer, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck (2022), built on DuckDB. Previously a founding engineer, engineering director, and product lead of Google BigQuery (Dremel) and CPO of SingleStore; author of the Big Data is Dead thesis.
Jordan Todosey
Jordan Todosey (born 1995, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress known as Lizzie MacDonald in Life with Derek and Adam Torres, the first scripted transgender teen series regular, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, winning a 2011 Gemini Award; she also records music as odditie.
Jordan U. Gutterman
Jordan U. Gutterman is an American oncologist who joined MD Anderson in 1971, led its Biological Therapy Section, and pioneered alpha interferon therapy for hairy-cell leukemia.
Jordan van den Berg
Jordan van den Berg (born 2002, Johannesburg) is a South African NFL defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears, drafted 213th overall in 2026 after Penn State and first-team All-ACC seasons at Georgia Tech.
Jordan van den Lamb
Jordan van den Lamb, alias Purple Pingers, is an Australian lawyer and Victorian Socialists candidate known for shitrentals.org, renters' rights advocacy, squatting campaigns, and 2025 Senate and 2026 Melbourne candidacies.
Jordan Veretout
Jordan Veretout (born 1993, Ancenis) is a French central midfielder at Al-Arabi SC; former Nantes, Aston Villa, Fiorentina, Roma, Marseille and Lyon player, 6 France caps, U20 World Cup 2013 and Nations League 2021 winner, 2022 World Cup finalist.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Vogt-Roberts (born 1984, Detroit) is an American film and TV director of The Kings of Summer (2013) and Kong: Skull Island (2017), formerly Sony's attached Metal Gear Solid director.
Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller is a psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who studies genetic risk for psychiatric disorders, including depression and schizophrenia.
Jordan W. Tappero
Jordan W. Tappero is an American physician and epidemiologist who led CDC responses to the Haiti cholera and West African Ebola epidemics before joining the Gates Foundation in 2018.
Jordan Walker Ross
Jordan Walker Ross (born 1990, Arlington, Texas) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer with cerebral palsy and scoliosis, known as Little James in The Chosen, Mikel in 1883, and host of the What's Your Limp? podcast.
Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Jordan Walker-Pearlman (born 1967, New York City) is an American director, writer, and producer of The Visit (2000), Constellation (2005), and The Requiem Boogie (2024), and Gene Wilder's nephew.
Jordan Watkins
Jordan Watkins (Tyrell Jordan Watkins, born 2002) is an NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers; a Louisville/Ole Miss receiver drafted 138th overall in 2025 after a 906-yard, 9-touchdown senior season and a 4.37-second combine 40.
Jordan Whittington
Jordan Whittington (born 2000) is a Los Angeles Rams wide receiver and kick returner, drafted 213th overall in 2024 out of Texas, a PFWA All-Rookie kick returner averaging 28.3 yards per return as a rookie.
Jordan Wright
Jordan Wright is an American Democratic politician who represents Harlem's 70th district in the New York State Assembly, taking his seat in January 2025 after serving as chief of staff to Council Member Yusef Salaam.
Jordan Wright (TV personality)
Jordan Wright, British reality TV personality (Ex on the Beach 2017, TOWIE 2018), former London firefighter, later Hampton Gate Wealth director; died in Phuket, Thailand, March 2026, aged 33.
Jordan Wu
Jordan Wu (吴炳昌) is a Taiwanese semiconductor executive who co-founded Himax Technologies in 2001 and has served as its president and chief executive officer since 2005.
Jordan–Hare Stadium
Jordan–Hare Stadium (Pat Dye Field) is Auburn University's on-campus football stadium in Auburn, Alabama, home of the Tigers since 1939; capacity 88,043, 11th-largest on-campus, renamed from Auburn Stadium and Cliff Hare Stadium, with the Jordan–Hare North Project underway.
Jordan–Wigner transformation
The Jordan–Wigner transformation maps fermionic creation and annihilation operators to qubits, one qubit per mode, using Pauli Z strings to encode fermionic signs; introduced in 1928.
Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster (born 1980, Panama City) is an American actress known as Mia Toretto in the Fast & Furious films since 2001, also starring in The Faculty, Dallas, Lethal Weapon, and the upcoming Fast Forever (2028).
Jordana Bryant
Jordana Bryant (born 2005) is an American country pop singer-songwriter from Pennsylvania, formerly on Riser House Entertainment, now independent; her debut album Hopeless Romantic arrived September 4, 2026.
Jordana Spiro
Jordana Spiro (born 1977, Manhattan) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. Known as P.J. Franklin on My Boys and Rachel Garrison on Ozark; her directing debut Night Comes On won Sundance's NEXT Innovator Award.
Jordanes
Jordanes, sixth-century historian of Gothic descent writing in Constantinople, composed the Romana and Getica in 551-552; the Getica abridges Cassiodorus' lost Gothic History and claims Gothic origins in Scandza.
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank: the 24 April 1950 union of the West Bank and East Jerusalem with Transjordan under King Abdullah, recognized only by the UK, ended by Israel's 1967 capture and formally renounced in Jordan's 31 July 1988 disengagement.
Jordanian Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة الأردنية)
Jordanian Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة الأردنية), also the Arab Army and formerly the Arab Legion, are Jordan's land, air, and naval military, founded in 1921, under the King as supreme commander, now restructuring.
Jordanian dinar (دينار أردني)
The Jordanian dinar (دينار أردني) is the currency of Jordan, issued by the Central Bank of Jordan and pegged to the US dollar since 1995.
Jordanian novel
The Jordanian novel (الرواية الأردنية) is the tradition of novel writing in Arabic in Jordan, a branch of the modern Arabic novel that matured after the 1967 Arab defeat.
Jordanian option
The Jordanian option, also known as the Palestinian–Jordanian federation, is a proposed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict returning the West Bank to Jordanian control or federation with Jordan.