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Jagat Seth banking house
The Jagat Seth banking house (جگت سیٹ) was a banking firm at Murshidabad, Bengal, that served as banker to the Bengal nawabs in the early 1700s.
Jagat Seths
The Jagat Seths (জগৎ শেঠ) were a Jain banking and mercantile house based at Murshidabad, Bengal, whose heads held the hereditary Mughal title Jagat Seth, meaning "banker of the world".
Jagat Singh Negi
Jagat Singh Negi, born in 1957 at Kalpa, is an Indian National Congress politician who serves as a Himachal Pradesh minister holding revenue, horticulture, and tribal development portfolios.
Jagath Wickramaratne
Jagath Wickramaratne, Sri Lankan physician-politician (born 1968, Polonnaruwa), NPP MP and Speaker of Parliament since 17 December 2024; chairs the Constitutional Council and faces a CIABOC investigation and a no-confidence motion.
Jagathy Sreekumar
Jagathy Sreekumar, born Sreekumar Achary in 1951, is an Indian actor and comedian known as the "comedy emperor" of Malayalam cinema, with more than 1,000 films.
Jagati
Jagati (जगती) is a Vedic meter of four twelve-syllable lines, 48 syllables per stanza, the third most common meter in the Rigveda with 1,358 verses.
Jagatjit Singh
Jagatjit Singh (ਜਗਤਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ) was the Maharaja of the princely state of Kapurthala in Punjab from 1877 to 1948, remembered as the architect of modern Kapurthala.
JAGB method
The JAGB method, introduced by Madore and Freedman in 2020, measures galaxy distances using carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars as near-infrared standard candles and helps calibrate the Hubble constant.
Jagdambika Pal
Jagdambika Pal, born 1950, is an Indian politician and BJP member of the Lok Sabha who has represented Domariyaganj, Uttar Pradesh, in four consecutive terms since 2009.
Jagdeep (जगदीप)
Jagdeep, born Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri, was an Indian actor and comedian who worked in Hindi cinema for six decades, appearing in close to 400 films.
Jagdeep Dhankhar (जगदीप धनखड़)
Jagdeep Dhankhar (जगदीप धनखड़), Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of India and Rajya Sabha Chairman, 11 August 2022 to 21 July 2025; former West Bengal Governor, Rajasthan Senior Advocate, and Lok Sabha member who resigned citing health.
Jagdeep Sidhu
Jagdeep Sidhu is an Indian film writer and director in Punjabi cinema, whose Qismat (2018) was his directorial debut and Shadaa (2019) broke box office records.
Jagdeo Singh
Jagdeo Singh, Trinidad and Tobago attorney (called to the bar 1989, Fortis Chambers), elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on May 23, 2025 at the start of the 13th Republican Parliament; also chairs the PAAC; not the Guyanese politician Bharrat Jagdeo.
Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II)
Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1) was a Luftwaffe fighter wing formed in 1939 to defend Germany's North Sea coast, the only unit to fly the He 162 jet.
Jagdgeschwader 52
Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52) was a German Luftwaffe fighter wing of the Second World War, credited with more aerial victories than any other fighter unit in history.
Jagdish Bhagwati (जगदीश भगवती)
Jagdish Bhagwati (जगदीश भगवती), born 1934 in Bombay, is an Indian-born economist who spent most of his career at Columbia University, known for trade theory and defending globalization.
Jagdish Devda (जगदीश देवड़ा)
Jagdish Devda (जगदीश देवड़ा) is a BJP politician and Deputy Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He has won successive assembly elections since 1990 and holds major ministerial portfolios.
Jagdish Raj
Jagdish Raj (Jagdish Raj Khurana, 1928-2013), Bollywood character actor born in Sargodha; famous as the most typecast actor, playing a police inspector in 144 films from CID (1956) to roles as DSP, DIG and Commissioner, with hits like Deewaar, Don and Shakti.
Jagdish Vishwakarma
Jagdish Vishwakarma is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, a three-time MLA from Nikol in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's minister of state for co-operation and rural industries, and BJP Gujarat president since 2025.
Jagdishpur–Haldia & Bokaro–Dhamra pipeline
The Jagdishpur–Haldia & Bokaro–Dhamra pipeline, popularly known as Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga, is a natural gas pipeline in eastern India built and operated by GAIL.
Jagdpanther
The Jagdpanther, officially Panzerjäger Panther (Jagdpanzer V), was a German Second World War tank destroyer that mounted an 8.8 cm anti-tank gun on the Panther chassis.
Jagdpanzer IV
The Jagdpanzer IV was a German turretless tank destroyer of World War II, built on the Panzer IV chassis and armed with a 75 mm gun.
Jagdtiger
The Jagdtiger, also designated Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B, was a German heavy tank destroyer built on a lengthened Tiger II hull and armed with a 128 mm gun.
Jäger (infantry)
Jäger (German for hunter) denotes German light infantry first raised by Frederick II of Prussia against Austrian Croats, armed with rifles, recruited from foresters, and surviving today in Bundeswehr and other European units.
Jager Burton
Jager Burton, born Camden Jager Burton, is an American football center and guard for the Green Bay Packers, drafted in 2026 after playing at Kentucky.
Jager und sammler
Jager und sammler (hunters and gatherers) names two Stone Age board games: Carcassonne – Jäger und Sammler (Hans im Glück, 2002, Wrede/Brunnhofer, tile-laying) and Jäger und Sammler (Amigo, 2010, Reiner Knizia, hex-grid collection game), unrelated despite the shared title.
Jägerbomb
Jägerbomb (Jag bomb, Turbojäger): bomb shot dropping a Jägermeister shot into Red Bull or another energy drink; popular from the early 2000s, ~4–8% ABV, ~190 calories, origins disputed.
Jägermeister
Jägermeister: German herbal liqueur (Kräuterlikör) from Wolfenbüttel, 35% ABV, 56 secret botanicals, created by Curt Mast 1934, launched 1935; cold-macerated, oak-aged, 117.6 million bottles sold in 2025.
Jagex
Jagex (Jagex: The RuneScape Company) is a Cambridge, UK game developer founded in 2000 by Andrew Gower, creator of RuneScape (2001), Old School RuneScape (2013), and Dragonwilds; over 300m accounts, $1.5bn revenue, owned by CVC and Haveli since 2024.
Jagga Jasoos (जग्गा जासूस)
Jagga Jasoos (जग्गा जासूस) is a 2017 Hindi musical adventure film directed by Anurag Basu, starring Ranbir Kapoor as teenage detective Jagga and Katrina Kaif as Shruti. It flopped despite Pritam's music and later found a cult audience.