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Jorgen Sundelin
Jörgen Sundelin (Jörgen Lars Sundelin), Swedish Olympic sailor born 1945 in Stockholm; won 1968 Olympic gold in the 5.5-metre class with brothers Ulf and Peter aboard Wasa IV, and raced Dragon 1972 and Soling 1976.
Jørgen Vestbo
Jørgen Vestbo is a Danish respiratory physician and Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester known for research on COPD, including the 2015 lung-function trajectories study.
Jorgie Porter
Jorgie Porter (Jorgina Alexandra Porter, born 1987) is an English actress and model, known for Theresa McQueen in Hollyoaks (2008–2016, returning 2020), Dancing on Ice 2012 runner-up, I'm a Celebrity 2015, and Fame The Musical stage debut.
Jorginho (footballer, born 1991)
Jorginho (Jorge Luiz Frello Filho), Brazilian-born naturalized Italian defensive midfielder born 1991 in Imbituba; played Verona, Napoli, Chelsea, Arsenal, now Flamengo; won Champions League and Euro 2021, third in 2021 Ballon d'Or.
Jorhat
Jorhat, Assam: city and district headquarters in the Brahmaputra Valley, heart of India's tea industry with 135 estates, Tocklai Tea Research Institute (1911), and Assam Agricultural University.
Jorien ter Mors
Jorien ter Mors is a retired Dutch speed skater, born in 1989, who won three Olympic gold medals and one bronze in both short track and long track.
Joris Daudet
Joris Daudet (born 1991, Saintes) is a French BMX racer, 2024 Paris Olympic gold medalist in 31.422 seconds, three-time world champion (2011, 2016, 2024), and double European champion who competed at four Olympics.
Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens, born George Henri Anton Ivens (1898–1989), was a Dutch documentary filmmaker who made roughly 70 films, from avant-garde landmarks like The Bridge and Rain to political documentaries.
Joris Sprakel
Joris Sprakel (born 1980 in Oss, Netherlands) is a Dutch physical chemist and mechanobiologist, a personal professor at Wageningen University who studies how plants sense mechanical signals.
Joris van der Hoeven
Joris van der Hoeven is a CNRS research director in computer science at École polytechnique, known for transseries and the 2019 O(n log n) integer multiplication proof with David Harvey.
Joris Voorn
Joris Voorn (요리스 보른) is a Dutch DJ and record producer of underground house and techno from Tilburg, co-running the Green, Rejected, and Spectrum labels with Edwin Oosterwal.
Jorj O. Osterberg
Jorj O. Osterberg (1915–2008) was an American geotechnical engineer and Northwestern University professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975, known for the piston soil sampler and the Osterberg Cell.
Jorja Fox
Jorja Fox (Jorja-An Fox, born 1968), American actress and producer, known as Sara Sidle on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2015) and CSI: Vegas (2021), Dr. Maggie Doyle on ER, Gina Toscano on The West Wing, and co-founder of Seafox Productions.
Jorja Miller
Jorja Miller (born 2004, Timaru) is a New Zealand rugby player who plays sevens and fifteens for the Black Ferns and won Olympic gold at Paris 2024.
Jorja Smith
Jorja Smith (Jorja Alice Smith), English R&B/soul singer-songwriter from Walsall; 'Blue Lights' (2016) led to Drake's More Life, Lost & Found (2018), falling or flying (2023), and What Are the Odds (2026), all on her label FAMM.
Jorjiana
Jorjiana (Jorja Faith-Wilson, born 2004) is an American rapper from Michigan City, Indiana who broke out in late 2024 with the viral On The Radar freestyle "ILBB2", later remixed by GloRilla, and released the mixtape Project 219 (2025) and the EP 5 Elements (2026).
Jorma Kaukonen
Jorma Kaukonen is an American guitarist and singer, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and his role in founding the Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio.
Jorma Kinnunen
Jorma Kinnunen (1941-2019), Finnish javelin thrower, 1968 Olympic silver medallist (88.58 m) and world record holder (92.70 m, Tampere 1969); father and coach of 1991 world champion Kimmo Kinnunen.
Jorma Taccone
Jorma Taccone (born 1977, Berkeley, California) is an American comedy writer, actor, and director, one third of The Lonely Island with Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. He created SNL Digital Shorts, won a 2007 Emmy for "Dick in a Box," and directed MacGruber, Popstar, and Over Your Dead Body.
Jormungand (ヨルムンガンド) (manga)
Jormungand (ヨルムンガンド) is Keitaro Takahashi's seinen manga serialized in Monthly Sunday Gene-X 2006–2012, 11 volumes, about arms dealer Koko Hekmatyar and former child soldier bodyguard Jonah; adapted into a two-season anime and published in English by VIZ.
Jörmungandr
Jörmungandr (Old Norse Jǫrmungandr, Miðgarðsormr), the Midgard or World Serpent of Norse mythology: Loki's child cast into the sea by Odin, grown to encircle the world with tail in mouth, Thor's nemesis in the fishing trip, the cat of Útgarða-Loki, and mutual death at Ragnarök.
Jørn Lande
Jørn Lande, full name Jørn Marumsrud Lande, is a prolific Norwegian hard rock singer. He is best known for his vocal work with Masterplan, Jorn, and Avantasia.
Jørn Olsen
Jørn Olsen (1946–2026) was a Danish physician and epidemiologist, professor of social medicine at Aarhus University and principal architect of the Danish National Birth Cohort.
Jörn Piel
Jörn Piel, born 1967, is a German chemist and microbiologist, professor of Microbial Interactions at ETH Zurich since 2013, studying bacterial natural products from sponge symbionts for drug discovery.
Jørn Utzon
Jørn Utzon (1918–2008) was a Danish architect best known for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell roofs he resolved through spherical geometry before resigning in 1966.
Jörn Walter
Jörn Walter is a German molecular biologist and Senior Professor for Genetics and Epigenetics at Saarland University, known for work on DNA methylation and epigenetic reprogramming in development.
Jörn Weisbrodt
Jörn Weisbrodt is a German-born arts administrator and opera stage director, artistic director of Toronto's Luminato Festival from 2011, former executive director of Robert Wilson's RW Work, and husband of Rufus Wainwright since 2012.
Jorn Wenzel
Jorn Wenzel (Jörn Wenzel), born 2004 in Freital, Germany, is a bobsledder and Bundespolizei officer who won gold as brakeman in the four-man at the 2026 Winter Olympics with pilot Johannes Lochner.
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Jorn-Steffen Pischke is a labor economist and professor at the London School of Economics who co-authored Mostly Harmless Econometrics with Joshua Angrist and studied why firms pay for training.
Jornada Biosphere Reserve
Jornada Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in southern New Mexico designated in 1976, covers 247,869 ha of the Chihuahuan Desert and hosts the Jornada Experimental Range and LTER program, famed for grassland-to-shrubland desertification research.