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Jordynne Grace
Jordynne Grace (Patricia Forrest Parker, born 1996), "The Juggernaut", American wrestler and powerlifter; three-time TNA Knockouts World Champion, 2024 Royal Rumble guest, now signed to WWE SmackDown.
Jorf Lasfar power station
The Jorf Lasfar power station is a 2,056 MW coal-fired power plant on Morocco's Atlantic coast near El Jadida, the country's largest, operated by TAQA Morocco.
Jörg Burger
Jörg Burger, also known as The Modernist and The Bionaut, is a German electronic music producer from Cologne who helped shape the city's minimal techno scene.
Jorg Diesch
Jörg Diesch, born 1951 in Friedrichshafen, is a German sailor who won Flying Dutchman gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics with brother Eckart, finished fifth at Los Angeles 1984, and later practiced as an orthopaedic surgeon in Kiel.
Jörg Duschmalé
Jörg Duschmalé, born 1984, is a Swiss chemist and great-great-grandson of Roche founder Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche who has represented the family shareholder group on Roche's board since 2020.
Jörg Enderlein
Jörg Enderlein, also published as Joerg Enderlein, is a biophysicist and professor at the University of Göttingen since 2008, known for metal-induced energy transfer (MIET) microscopy.
Jörg F. Löffler
Jörg F. Löffler is a materials scientist and professor at ETH Zurich who heads the Laboratory of Metal Physics and Technology and pioneered biodegradable magnesium implant alloys.
Jorg Friedrich
Jörg Friedrich (born 1959, Rathenow) is an East German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's eights at Moscow 1980, world champion in eights 1979 and coxed fours 1981; not the author or bobsledder Friedrich.
Jörg H. W. Distler
Jörg H. W. Distler (born 1976) is a German rheumatologist known for research on fibrosis and TGF-β signaling in systemic sclerosis; he has led rheumatology at Düsseldorf since 2022.
Jörg Haider
Jörg Haider (1950–2008), Austrian right-wing populist politician, FPÖ chairman 1986–2000 and Carinthian governor, led the FPÖ to 26.9% in 1999, entered government in 2000, later founded the BZÖ, and died in a car accident in 2008.
Jörg Hamm
Jörg Hamm is a molecular biologist who studies snRNPs and RNA export, known for a 1990 Cell paper from EMBL Heidelberg showing the RNA cap signals nuclear export.
Jörg Harms
Jörg Harms (Joerg M. Harms) is a German crystallographer who, with Frank Schluenzen in Ada Yonath's group, determined the 3.1 Å structure of the bacterial 50S ribosomal subunit in 2001.
Jorg Hoffmann (olympedia 47836)
Jörg Hoffmann (born 1970, Schwedt/Oder), German freestyle swimmer; 1991 double world champion 400/1,500 m, world record 14:50.36, first under 15 minutes; Olympic 1,500 m bronze 1992; later Potsdam coach.
Jorg Hoffmann (olympedia 86702)
Jörg Hoffmann (born 1963, Sondershausen) is a German former luger; with Jochen Pietzsch he won 1988 Olympic doubles gold, 1984 bronze, and four world titles for East Germany. Not the swimmer of the same name.
Jörg Imberger
Jörg Imberger is an Australian environmental engineer who founded the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia and won the 1996 Stockholm Water Prize.
Jörg J. Goronzy
Jörg J. Goronzy is a German-trained physician-scientist in immunology and rheumatology, a Stanford professor emeritus and Mayo Clinic professor known for research on T cell aging.
Jörg Kärger
Jörg Kärger, born 1943 in Erfurt, is a German physicist and professor emeritus at Leipzig University known for NMR studies of diffusion in nanoporous materials such as zeolites.
Jorg Landvoigt
Jörg Landvoigt (born 1951), East German rower; with twin brother Bernd won Olympic coxless pairs gold 1976 and 1980, bronze in the 1972 eights, and 179 of 180 races in the pair.
Jörg Libuda
Jörg Libuda (born 1968 in Bochum, Germany) is a German physical chemist who chairs Interface Research and Catalysis at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, known for model catalysts and electrocatalysis.
Jorg Lucke
Jörg Lucke (born 1942, Berlin) is an East German rower, double Olympic champion: coxless pairs 1968 Mexico City with Heinz-Jürgen Bothe, coxed pairs 1972 Munich with Gunkel and Neubert; also world champion 1975.
Jörg Neugebauer
Jörg Neugebauer (born 1963 in Berlin) is a German computational materials physicist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf, known for ab initio thermodynamics.
Jörg Reichert
Jörg Reichert is a German physicist who at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics helped demonstrate the stability of femtosecond frequency combs, work named in the 2005 Nobel Prize background.
Jörg Schmiedmayer
Jörg Schmiedmayer is an Austrian experimental physicist and professor at TU Wien, known for developing the atom chip and studying non-equilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional quantum gases.
Jörg Semmler
Jörg Semmler is a German politician and lawyer from Hildesheim who serves as State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery, after leading the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's office from 2019.
Jorg Siebert
Jorg Siebert (Georg Siebert, born 1944, Wetzlar) is a German rower who won gold in the men's eights for West Germany at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics under coach Karl Adam, later CEO of Gelita AG; not the powerlifter or racing driver Sieberts.
Jörg Vogel
Jörg Vogel is a German molecular biologist and infection biologist, founding director of the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research in Würzburg and a pioneer of dual RNA-seq.
Jörg Woithe
Jörg Woithe (born 1963, East Berlin), East German freestyle swimmer for SC Dynamo Berlin; 1980 Olympic 100 m freestyle champion (50.40), 1982 world champion, 1987 European 50 m champion; later coach and lubricants executive.
Jörg Wrachtrup
Jörg Wrachtrup, born 1961 in Herford, Germany, is a physicist at the University of Stuttgart known for detecting a single molecular spin in 1993 and diamond quantum sensing.
Jorge Alessandri
Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez was a Chilean civil engineer and independent right-of-center politician who served as President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and lost to Salvador Allende in the 1970 election.
Jorge Alessandri Vergara
Jorge Alessandri Vergara is a Chilean lawyer and UDI politician, a Deputy for the 10th District since 2018 and President of the Chamber of Deputies since 2026.