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José Figueres Ferrer
José Figueres Ferrer, known as Don Pepe, was a Costa Rican coffee grower and three-time president who led the 1948 civil war and abolished the army in 1948.
Jose Figueroa deportation case
Jose Figueroa deportation case: Salvadoran refugee José Luis Figueroa, ordered deported from Canada in 2010 under IRPA s. 34(1)(f) for FMLN membership, spent two years in Langley church sanctuary until the order was cancelled in December 2015.
José Fonte
José Fonte (José Miguel da Rocha Fonte), Portuguese centre-back born 1983 in Penafiel; Euro 2016 and Nations League 2019 winner with Portugal, Ligue 1 champion with Lille in 2021; retired May 2026 at Casa Pia, then became Sunderland assistant coach.
José Fructuoso Rivera
José Fructuoso Rivera was a Uruguayan general and caudillo who served as Uruguay's first constitutional president from 1830 to 1834 and again from 1839 to 1843.
José G. Santiesteban
José G. Santiesteban is a Mexican-born American catalysis scientist who spent over 30 years at Mobil and ExxonMobil and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
José García Villa
José García Villa, who wrote as Doveglion, was a Filipino modernist poet in New York known for the comma poem and named National Artist of the Philippines in 1973.
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, known as Doctor Francia or El Supremo, was a Paraguayan lawyer and statesman who led independence and ruled the country as dictator from 1814 until his death in 1840.
José Gervasio Artigas
José Gervasio Artigas (1764–1850) was a soldier and revolutionary leader regarded as the foremost hero of Uruguay, who fought for independence and federalism from 1811 to 1820.
José Goldemberg
José Goldemberg, born in 1928 in Santo Ângelo, is a Brazilian experimental nuclear physicist who served as Brazil's Minister of Education and championed sugarcane ethanol.
Jose Gomez
Jose Gomez (José Gómez Mustelier, born 1959, Las Tunas, Cuba), Cuban amateur middleweight boxer; 1980 Moscow Olympic champion, 1978 world champion, 1979 Pan American Games gold medalist; retired at 26.
José González (singer)
José González, also Jose Gonzalez, Swedish-Argentine indie folk singer-songwriter and classical guitarist born 1978 in Gothenburg; known for the Sony Bravia-advertised Knife cover "Heartbeats", albums Veneer and In Our Nature, and the band Junip.
José González (wrestler)
José Huertas González, aka Invader #1, Puerto Rican wrestler who debuted in Chicago in 1965, held multiple WWC titles, and was acquitted in the 1988 stabbing death of Bruiser Brody in San Juan.
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, alias El Mexicano (1947–1989), Colombian drug trafficker and co-founder of the Medellín Cartel; oversaw cocaine labs, financed paramilitaries, implicated in the Galán assassination, and was killed by police in Sucre in December 1989.
José Gorostiza
José Gorostiza (1901–1973) was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat of the Contemporáneos group, best known for the philosophical long poem Muerte sin fin (1939).
José Guadalupe Posada
José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) was a Mexican printmaker who produced an estimated 20,000 prints for the Mexico City penny press; his satirical calaveras, including La Catrina, became symbols of the Day of the Dead.
José Gustavo Guerrero
José Gustavo Guerrero (1876–1958) was a Salvadoran jurist and diplomat who presided over both the Permanent Court of International Justice and its successor, the International Court of Justice.
José Gutiérrez Guerra
José Gutiérrez Guerra (1869–1929) was a Bolivian banker and Liberal Party politician, president of Bolivia from 1917 to 1920 and the last of the Liberal era.
Jose H. Blanchet Mancilla
Jose H. Blanchet Mancilla is a probability theorist and Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, known for provably efficient rare-event simulation algorithms.
José Hernández
José Hernández (1834–1886) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and federalist politician who fought Buenos Aires centralism and wrote Martín Fierro (1872), the summit of gauchesque literature.
José Hernández (music)
José Hernández is an American mariachi musician, composer, and educator based in Los Angeles, founder of Mariachi Sol de México and the all-female Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles.
José Hierro
José Hierro, full name José Hierro del Real, was a Spanish poet, art critic, and member of the Real Academia Española who won the 1998 Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
José Holebas
José Holebas, Greek left-back born 1984 in Aschaffenburg, Germany; played for 1860 Munich, Olympiacos, Roma, and Watford; 20 Greece caps, Euro 2012 and 2014 World Cup.
José Ignacio Pascual
José Ignacio Pascual, known as Nacho Pascual, is a Spanish condensed-matter physicist who has been an Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastián since 2012.
José J. Escarce
José J. Escarce is an American health economist and internist, a UCLA distinguished professor of medicine and health policy who studies physician incentives and racial disparities in health care.
José J. Veiga
José J. Veiga (1915–1999) was a Brazilian writer from Goiás whose fiction blends magical realism with social criticism, best known for Os cavalinhos de Platiplanto.
José Jalife
José Jalife (José Jalife Sacal) is a Mexican-born physician-scientist in cardiac electrophysiology who studies rotors in atrial and ventricular fibrillation at CNIC Madrid and the University of Michigan.
José Jerí
José Jerí (José Enrique Jerí Oré), Peruvian lawyer and Somos Perú politician, president of Congress from July 2025 and interim president of Peru 10 October 2025 to 17 February 2026, removed by congressional censure in the Chifagate scandal, succeeded by José María Balcázar.
José Jiménez (character)
José Jiménez, also Jose Jimenez, is a comedic Latino immigrant character created and played by Bill Dana on The Steve Allen Show from November 23, 1959, famous for "My name, José Jiménez," the astronaut routine, The Bill Dana Show (1963–1965), and his 1970 retirement amid stereotyping controversy.
José Joaquín de Olmedo
José Joaquín de Olmedo (1780–1847) was an Ecuadorian poet and statesman, first vice president of Ecuador and author of the ode La victoria de Junín.
José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport
José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, also known as Simón Bolívar International Airport, Ecuador, serves Guayaquil and is Ecuador's second-busiest airport, with its current terminal opened in 2006.