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José Saramago
José Saramago (1922–2010), Portuguese novelist and 1998 Nobel laureate in literature, author of Blindness, Memorial do Convento, and The Gospel according to Jesus Christ; exiled to Lanzarote in 1993 after state censorship.
José Sarria
José Julio Sarria (December 13, 1922 – August 19, 2013) was a San Francisco drag performer and WWII veteran, first openly gay candidate for U.S. public office (Board of Supervisors, 1961), founder of the Imperial Court System, and Empress I, the Widow Norton.
José Sarukhán Kermez
José Sarukhán Kermez, born 1940, is a Mexican plant ecologist who served as UNAM rector from 1989 to 1996 and led the biodiversity agency CONABIO for three decades.
José Scheinkman
José Scheinkman is a Brazilian-born economist who has held chairs at Chicago, Princeton, and Columbia, known for mathematical models of speculative bubbles, trust, and the growth of cities.
Jose Serrano
José Serrano is an American politician, a Democratic member of the New York State Senate representing the Bronx's 29th district since 2005, chairing the Cultural Affairs committee.
José Silva
José Silva, in full José Carlos Rebelo da Silva, is a Portuguese stem cell biologist known for identifying Nanog as a gateway to the pluripotent ground state.
José Solache
José Solache, full name José Luis Solache, Jr., is an American Democratic politician elected in 2024 to the California State Assembly from the 62nd district, after serving in Lynwood city government.
Jose Sosa
Jose Sosa (José Ernesto Sosa, "Principito"), Argentine attacking midfielder born 1985 in Carcarañá; Estudiantes, Bayern Munich, Napoli, Beşiktaş, Milan; Olympic gold 2008; 19 Argentina caps; distinct from the MLB pitcher José Sosa.
Jose Sylvio Fiolo
Jose Sylvio Fiolo (born 1950, Campinas, Brazil), Brazilian breaststroke swimmer; set the 100 m breaststroke world record 1:06.4 in 1968 and competed at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympics; father of water polo player Pietro Figlioli.
José T. Mata
José T. Mata (1917–1997) was a Mexican businessman who co-founded the import-export firm Servitje y Mata and was a founding partner of Panificación Bimbo in 1945.
José Tadeo Monagas
José Tadeo Monagas was a Venezuelan military caudillo who served as President from 1847 to 1851 and 1855 to 1858, ruling alongside his brother José Gregorio.
José Tomás Boves
José Tomás Boves, called El León de los Llanos, was a Spanish royalist chief who led llanero cavalry against Bolívar in Venezuela, dying in battle in 1814.
José Tomás de Cuéllar
José Tomás de Cuéllar (1830–1894) was a Mexican novelist, journalist, painter, and diplomat who wrote as Facundo; his ten-novel series La linterna mágica depicts Mexico City's middle class.
Jose Torres Gil
Jose Torres Gil (José Augusto Torres Gil, nicknamed "Maligno") is an Argentine BMX Freestyle Park rider who won Olympic gold in Paris in 2024, Argentina's first medal of those Games.
José Touré
José Touré (José Bassidiki Touré), born 1961 in Nancy, French attacking midfielder-forward nicknamed "Le Brésilien"; FC Nantes, Bordeaux, Monaco; 16 France caps, 4 goals; Olympic gold 1984.
José Trinidad Cabañas
José Trinidad Cabañas (1805–1871) was a Honduran general and Liberal politician who served as constitutional president of Honduras from 1852 to 1855, known as the "Soldado de la Patria."
José Urquidy
José Luis Urquidy (born 1995, Mazatlán, Mexico) is a Mexican right-handed pitcher, 2022 World Series champion with Houston; 3-0 with a 1.54 ERA in World Series play, most Fall Classic wins by a foreign-born pitcher.
José Valenzuela
Jose "El Rayo" Valenzuela (born 1999), Mexican-born American southpaw boxer from Renton, Washington; WBA super lightweight champion 2024-2025 after beating Isaac Cruz, lost to Gary Antuanne Russell, avenged Edwin De Los Santos by 2026 KO.
José Vasconcelos
José Vasconcelos (1882–1959) was a Mexican lawyer, philosopher, and educator who, as first Secretary of Public Education from 1921 to 1924, built literacy campaigns, rural schools, and libraries, and wrote La raza cósmica.
José Victorino Lastarria
José Victorino Lastarria (1817–1888) was a Chilean novelist, essayist, and liberal politician who led the Generation of 1842, founded the Sociedad Literaria, and championed a national Chilean literature.
Jose Vidal
José Vidal (1896-1974), Uruguayan footballer, Olympic gold medalist at Paris 1924 and Copa América winner 1923 and 1924; seven senior caps, one goal, club Belgrano Montevideo.
José Villar
José Villar is an Argentine physician specializing in obstetrics and perinatology, Professor of Perinatal Medicine at Oxford since 2006, known for leading INTERGROWTH-21st, which set international standards for fetal growth and newborn size.
José Wagner Furtado Valle
José Wagner Furtado Valle is a Brazilian-born theoretical particle physicist at CSIC's IFIC in Valencia, best known for the 1982 Schechter–Valle theorem linking neutrinoless double beta decay to neutrino Majorana mass.
José Zaragoza Alonso
José Zaragoza Alonso is a Spanish politician of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), a deputy in the Congress of Deputies and chair of its Constitutional Committee.
José Zorrilla
José Zorrilla y Moral (1817, Valladolid–1893, Madrid) was a Spanish poet and playwright of Romanticism, best known for Don Juan Tenorio, still performed yearly around All Saints' Day.
Jose Zorrilla Stadium
Estadio José Zorrilla: municipal stadium in Valladolid, Spain, home of Real Valladolid CF since 20 February 1982; built for the 1982 World Cup, capacity 27,618, Fondo Sur closure planned for 2027.
Jose-Alain Sahel
José-Alain Sahel is a French ophthalmologist who founded the Institut de la Vision, chairs ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh, and co-founded about a dozen biotech companies.
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull is a Spanish macroeconomist and the Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for quantitative models of inequality, bankruptcy, and business-cycle fluctuations.
Jose, Marques Alvarez de Bohorquez
José Álvarez de las Asturias-Bohórquez Goyeneche, Marqués de los Trujillos (1895–1993), Spanish cavalry captain and show jumper; won team jumping gold for Spain on Zalamero at Amsterdam 1928.
Joseba Andoni Agirretxea Urresti
Joseba Andoni Agirretxea Urresti, born in Ondarroa in 1966, is a Spanish Basque Nationalist Party politician, deputy for Gipuzkoa since 2008 and chair of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Committee.