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Jose Baez (lawyer)
Jose Baez, American criminal defense lawyer and founder of the Baez Law Firm in Miami, known for acquittals of Casey Anthony (2011) and Aaron Hernandez (2017), Harvey Weinstein fee dispute, Harvard Law teaching.
José Ballivián
José Ballivián (1805–1852) was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of Bolivia from 1841 to 1847, winning the Battle of Ingavi.
José Balta
José Balta was a Peruvian army officer and politician who served as President of Peru from 1868 to 1872, leading a railway-building program financed by guano revenue.
José Baquíjano
José Baquíjano (José Baquíjano y Carrillo, 1751–1817) was a Peruvian jurist and Enlightenment writer, a judge of the Real Audiencia of Lima and precursor of independence.
José Barluenga
José Barluenga (1940–2016) was a Spanish organic chemist and professor at the Universidad de Oviedo, known for introducing N-tosylhydrazones in cross-coupling reactions and for Barluenga's reagent.
Jose Barrientos
Jose Barrientos (José Eduardo Barrientos Schweyer, 1904–1945), Cuban sprinter nicknamed Relámpago del Caribe; 1928 Amsterdam Olympic 100 m quarter-finalist and Cuban flagbearer; killed in an aviation accident; the Barrientos Memorial meeting honors him.
José Baselga
José Baselga (1959–2021) was a Spanish-born medical oncologist who led the development of targeted breast cancer therapies such as trastuzumab and pertuzumab, and served as physician-in-chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering.
José Basílio da Gama
José Basílio da Gama (1740 or 1741–1795) was a Luso-Brazilian Arcadismo poet, best known for the epic O Uraguai of 1769 about the campaign against the Guaraní Jesuit missions.
José Batista Sobrinho
José Batista Sobrinho, known as Zé Mineiro, is the Brazilian founder of JBS, the world's largest meat company, which he began as a butcher shop in Anápolis, Goiás, in 1953.
José Batlle y Ordóñez
José Batlle y Ordóñez, known as Don Pepe, was a Uruguayan journalist and Colorado politician who served twice as president of Uruguay, from 1903 to 1907 and 1911 to 1915.
José Bautista
José Bautista, nicknamed Joey Bats, is a Dominican former MLB outfielder (2004–2018) and Blue Jays icon: 54-homer 2010 season, 344 career home runs, the 2015 ALDS bat flip, Level of Excellence and Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame honoree.
Jose ben Joezer
Jose ben Joezer, Hebrew Yose ben Yoezer (יוסי בן יועזר), was a priestly sage of Zeredah who, with Jose ben Johanan, formed the first of the five zugot.
José Benavidez Jr.
José Benavidez Jr., known as "El Phoenix," is a professional boxer who won the WBA interim super lightweight title before losing to Terence Crawford in 2018.
Jose Bento de Assis
Jose Bento de Assis (José Bento de Assis Júnior), Brazilian sprinter and long jumper born 1915 in Campinas; won 13 South American golds, four 100m titles 1937-1945, and ran an unratified 10.2 in 1938 equaling Jesse Owens' world record time.
José Bergamín
José Bergamín (1895–1983) was a Spanish essayist, playwright, and editor of the Generation of '27, known for aphoristic prose and long exile after the Spanish Civil War.
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (1763–1838), the "Patriarch of Independence", was a Brazilian statesman, mineralogist, and poet who led Brazil's first ministry and directed the 1822 separation from Portugal.
José Bosingwa
José Bosingwa (José Bosingwa da Silva, born 1982, DR Congo) is a Portuguese former right-back who won the Champions League with Porto in 2004 and Chelsea in 2012, plus four Portuguese titles, and earned 26 Portugal starts.
José Burgos
José Apolonio Burgos was a Filipino Catholic priest who advocated reform of Spanish rule and the return of parishes to native clergy, executed in 1872.
Jose C. Florez
Jose C. Florez is a physician-scientist in type 2 diabetes genetics who serves as physician-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital, Jackson Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Broad Institute member.
José C. Paz
José C. Paz: partido and city in northwest Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, created in 1994 from General Sarmiento, named after the La Prensa founder José Clemente Paz; 326,992 inhabitants (2022), home of UNPAZ.
José Cabrera Nuclear Power Plant
The José Cabrera Nuclear Power Plant (Zorita) was Spain's first commercial nuclear power plant, utilizing a Westinghouse single-loop pressurized water reactor at Almonacid de Zorita from 1969 until 2006.
José Cadalso
José Cadalso (1741–1782) was a Spanish writer and army officer who died as a colonel at the siege of Gibraltar, known for Cartas marruecas and Noches lúgubres.
José Calderón (basketball)
José Manuel Calderón, Spanish point guard born 1981 in Villanueva de la Serena; undrafted 2005, 14 NBA seasons with seven teams led by eight years with Toronto Raptors; 2006 world champion with Spain; now Cleveland Cavaliers assistant general manager.
José Callejón
José Callejón (José María Callejón Bueno), Spanish right winger born 1987 in Motril, Real Madrid academy product; won La Liga 2012, two Coppa Italia titles with Napoli, record Spanish scorer in Serie A with 64 goals; retired 2025 at Marbella FC.
Jose Canseco
Jose Canseco (Jose Canseco Capas Jr.), Cuban-born MLB outfielder, 1986 AL Rookie of the Year, 1988 unanimous AL MVP, first 40-40 season, 462 home runs; admitted steroid use in 2005 book Juiced.
José Cardoso Pires
José Augusto Neves Cardoso Pires (1925–1998) was a Portuguese writer of novels, stories, and plays, known for O Delfim and Balada da Praia dos Cães and his dry, adjective-free prose.
José Carlos Mariátegui
José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930) was a Peruvian Marxist journalist and essayist, regarded as the founder of Marxism in Latin America; he founded the magazine Amauta in 1926.
Jose Carlos Souza
Jose Carlos Souza (José Carlos Ferreira Souza Junior), Brazilian swimmer born 1971 in São Paulo; 1992 Barcelona Olympian (6th, 4x100 m freestyle relay) and 1993 short-course 4x100 m freestyle relay world record holder and world champion.
José Carreras
José Carreras (Josep Carreras), Spanish Catalan lyric tenor born Barcelona 1946; one of the Three Tenors with Domingo and Pavarotti; 1987 acute leukemia survivor who founded the José Carreras Leukemia Foundation; over sixty operas in repertoire.
José Castelo Branco
José Castelo Branco (born 1962, Tete, Mozambique) is a Portuguese socialite, art dealer, and reality TV star, winner of Quinta das Celebridades 2004, husband of diamond heiress Betty Grafstein, now facing a domestic violence trial.