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Jagga Raya

Jagga Raya (జగ్గ రాయ) was a great noble of the Vijayanagara empire who murdered the nominated successor in 1614, set up a rival claimant, and was defeated by Echama Naique.

Jagga Smith

Jagga Smith (born 2006) is an Australian rules footballer, a 182cm midfielder for Carlton in the AFL, drafted with pick 3 in 2024, and the 2026 AFL Rising Star winner.

Jagged Alliance, also Jagged Alliance 2 (JA2), is a Sir-Tech turn-based tactical RPG series of hired mercenaries; JA2 (1999, Arulco) won 16+ awards, and Haemimont's Jagged Alliance 3 (2023, Grand Chien) revived it.

Jagged Edge (film)

Jagged Edge is a 1985 American courtroom thriller directed by Richard Marquand, written by Joe Eszterhas, starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote, and Oscar-nominated Robert Loggia; Columbia released it October 4, 1985.

Jagged Island (island)

Jagged Island is a small rocky island 2.5 miles NNW of Round Point, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, charted by Discovery Investigations in 1935; Argentina calls it Isla Gregores.

Jagged Little Pill

Jagged Little Pill (1995), Alanis Morissette's third studio album and first international release, co-written with Glen Ballard; 33 million copies sold, 1996 Grammys including Album of the Year, and a 15-Tony-nomination Broadway musical adaptation.

Jagged Little Pill (musical)

Jagged Little Pill, a jukebox musical by Diablo Cody with Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard's music, opened on Broadway December 5, 2019, earned 15 Tony nominations and a Best Book Tony, and closed December 17, 2021.

Jaggery (गुड़)

Jaggery (गुड़, gur) is unrefined non-centrifugal sugar made by boiling sugarcane juice or palm sap. India produces over 70% of the world's jaggery; it contains 65–85% sucrose and retains minerals and polyphenols absent from refined sugar.

Jaggesh (ಜಗ್ಗೇಶ್)

Jaggesh (ಜಗ್ಗೇಶ್), born Eshwar Gowda in 1963, is a Kannada film actor, director and politician nicknamed Navarasa Nayaka, with 120-plus films since 1980 and service as a Karnataka MLC and Rajya Sabha member.

Jagiellonia Białystok

Jagiellonia Białystok, Polish Ekstraklasa football club founded 1920, named Jagiellonia since 1932 after the Jagiellonian dynasty. First Polish champions in 2023/24; Conference League quarter-finalists 2024/25; plays at Białystok's 20,704-seat municipal stadium.

Sep 24, 2026

Jagiellonian dynasty

The Jagiellonian dynasty (Jagiellonowie) was a royal house descended from Jogaila, grand duke of Lithuania, that ruled Poland from 1386 to 1572 and also held Bohemia and Hungary.

Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński), Poland's oldest university, founded in Kraków by Casimir III in 1364, refounded by Jagiełło in 1400; 16 faculties, ~50,000 students, Collegium Medicum, QS 2026 rank 303.

Jagir system in the Sikh Empire

The jagir system in the Sikh Empire (ਜਾਗੀਰ) was a system of revenue assignments, granted by Maharaja Ranjit Singh for life and funding military and charitable purposes.

Jagir system under the Marathas

The jagir system under the Marathas (जागीर) assigned land revenue to nobles and commanders in place of salary; Shivaji abolished it where possible, but later Maratha states relied on it.

Jagjit Singh

Jagjit Singh (Jagmohan Singh Dhiman, 1941–2011), the Indian "Ghazal King", singer and composer who popularized ghazals via The Unforgettables, Arth, Saath Saath, and Mirza Ghalib; Padma Bhushan 2003.

Oct 10, 2026

Jagjīvan Dās

Jagjīvan Dās (जगजीवन दास), c. 1670–1761, was a religious teacher of Awadh who founded a Satnami sect at Barabanki teaching devotion to a formless God.

Jagjivan Ram (जगजीवन राम)

Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was an Indian freedom fighter and parliamentarian, the leading Dalit figure in Congress, and became Deputy Prime Minister in 1979.

Jagmeet Singh (ਜਗਮੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ)

Jagmeet Singh (ਜਗਮੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ), Canadian politician and criminal defence lawyer born in Scarborough, Ontario; Ontario NDP deputy leader and MPP for Bramalea—Gore—Malton 2011–2017; first non-white leader of a major Canadian federal party, led the NDP 2017–2025, MP for Burnaby South, defeated in Burnaby Central in 2025 and resigned.

Jagmohan Dalmiya

Jagmohan Dalmiya (1940-2015), Indian cricket administrator and Kolkata businessman; BCCI treasurer 1983, BCCI president 2001-2004 and 2015, and first Asian ICC president 1997-2000 who brought the World Cup to Asia.

Oct 22, 2026

Jagnayaka

Jagnayaka (जगनायक) is a name cited in connection with Apabhramsha Jain poetry whose identity remains unverified, and no specialist source attributes a work to him.

Jagnik

Jagnik (जगनिक) was a court bard of the Chandela king Paramardideva (Parmal), who ruled from Kalinjar and Mahoba, and is traditionally credited with composing the Alha-Khand ballad cycle.

Jago

Jago is a two-player word board game by Alex Randolph, published by Spear's Games, honored by the Spiel des Jahres jury; players lay letter tiles, race an hourglass timer, and capture opponent words by changing their meaning.

Sep 27, 2026

Jagoda Lazarević

Jagoda Lazarević (born 1969) is a Serbian politician and career economic diplomat serving as Minister of Internal and Foreign Trade, previously Serbia's Commissioner General at Expo 2020 Dubai.

Jagodina

Jagodina (GFK Jagodina, formerly FK Jagodina) is a Serbian football club founded in 1962; it won the 2013 Serbian Cup, finished third in the 2013/14 SuperLiga, dissolved in 2018, and was revived under its current name in 2020.

Oct 3, 2026

Jagratha (ജാഗ്രത)

Jagratha (ജാഗ്രത), also CBI Diary Part II, is a 1989 Malayalam crime thriller, the second CBI-series film, directed by K. Madhu, written by S. N. Swamy, starring Mammootty as Sethurama Iyer investigating actress Ashwathy's death; a good film that underperformed at the box office.

Jagriti: Ek Nayi Subah (जागृति: एक नई सुबह)

Jagriti: Ek Nayi Subah (जागृति: एक नई सुबह) is a Hindi Zee TV drama (premiered 16 September 2024, Guroudev Bhalla Productions) about a girl of the marginalized Chitta community fighting for education against Kalikant Thakur, with a 12-year leap and an off-air report in December 2025.

Jagsthausen

Jagsthausen, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg's Heilbronn district on the Jagst river, site of the Götzenburg where Götz von Berlichingen was born in 1480 and of a Roman cohort fort (Cohors I Germanorum) on the UNESCO Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes.