All articles starting with J

Joseph Plunkett

Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887–1916), Irish poet, journalist, and Easter Rising leader; signatory of the Proclamation, IRB director of military operations, author of The Circle and the Sword and 'I See His Blood Upon the Rose'.

Joseph Pohle

Joseph Pohle (1852–1922) was a German Catholic dogmatic theologian and philosopher who helped organize the neo-scholastic revival in Germany and wrote the standard textbook Lehrbuch der Dogmatik.

Joseph Polchinski

Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018) was an American theoretical physicist at UC Santa Barbara known for discovering D-branes, his two-volume textbook String Theory, and the 2012 black hole firewall argument.

Joseph Polisena Jr.

Joseph M. Polisena Jr. is the Democratic mayor of Johnston, Rhode Island since January 2023, succeeding his father Joseph Polisena Sr. An attorney and former town council vice president, he is known for the Amazon tax deal, a public-notices dispute with the Sun Rise, and an eminent-domain move against an affordable housing project.

Joseph Popolo Jr.

Joseph V. "Joe" Popolo Jr., American businessman and U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (confirmed October 7, 2025); founder of Charles & Potomac Capital and former Freeman Company CEO.

Joseph Potter (actor)

Joseph Potter is an English actor from Clifton, Bedfordshire, a Guildhall graduate known for Philip Ridley's The Poltergeist (OFFIE winner), Nicolas de Lenfent in Interview with the Vampire, My Policeman, and Don John at Shakespeare's Globe in 2026.

Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) was an English chemist, minister, and prolific author who isolated oxygen in 1774, discovered several gases, and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1794 after a mob destroyed his Birmingham laboratory.

Joseph Prince

Joseph Prince, born Xenonamandar Jegahusiee Singh, is a Singaporean televangelist and author who has led New Creation Church since 1990 and is known for his "gospel of grace".

Joseph Puglisi

Joseph Puglisi, known as Jody Puglisi, is an American structural biologist at Stanford who studies the ribosome and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer (Pulitzer József, 1847–1911), Hungarian-born American publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York World, pioneer of mass-circulation journalism, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes and Columbia Journalism School.

Joseph Purcell (actor)

Joseph Purcell, born in 1999 to actor Dominic Purcell, is a breakout star of vertical microdramas, best known as Hunter Black in His Nerd and the Tubi film Glamping.

Joseph Quinn (actor)

Joseph Quinn (born 1993, London) is a British actor, LAMDA graduate, known as Eddie Munson in Stranger Things, Geta in Gladiator II, Johnny Storm in the MCU Fantastic Four, and George Harrison in Sam Mendes's Beatles films.

Joseph R. Bertino

Joseph R. Bertino was an American physician-scientist in cancer pharmacology whose research on methotrexate resistance led to leukemia and lymphoma treatments; he served as president of ASCO and the AACR.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library

Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library: the 16th NARA-administered presidential library, holding Biden administration records at College Park, Maryland, open to FOIA January 20, 2030, with a planned Delaware building.

Joseph R. Bloomer

Joseph R. Bloomer was an American hepatologist and physician-scientist who defined the enzymatic defects underlying the porphyrias and directed the UAB Liver Center from 1995 to 2016.

Sep 20, 2026

Joseph R. Ecker

Joseph R. Ecker is a plant biologist and epigenomicist who directs the Genomic Analysis Laboratory at the Salk Institute and pioneered single-base-resolution DNA methylation mapping.

Joseph R. Gannascoli

Joseph R. Gannascoli (born 1959) is an American actor and former chef, known as Vito Spatafore on The Sopranos and for the 2006 crime-cookbook novel A Meal to Die For.

Sep 27, 2026

Joseph R. Goodwin

Joseph R. Goodwin, born 1942, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of West Virginia since 1995, appointed by President Bill Clinton.

Joseph R. Lakowicz

Joseph R. Lakowicz, born 1948, is an American fluorescence spectroscopist, professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and author of the standard textbook Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy.

Sep 20, 2026

Joseph R. Nevins

Joseph R. Nevins is an American molecular biologist at Duke University known for discovering the E2F transcription factor and its regulation by the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor.

Oct 22, 2026

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (Josef Václav Radecký z Radče) was a Bohemian-born Austrian field marshal who won at Custoza and Novara, restoring Austrian rule over Lombardy-Venetia.

Joseph René Vilatte

Joseph René Vilatte, consecrated Mar Timotheos in 1892, was a French-born cleric who founded the American Catholic Church and became a principal founder of Independent Catholicism in North America.

Joseph Ritt

Joseph Fels Ritt (1893–1951) was an American mathematician at Columbia University who created differential algebra, the algebraic theory of ordinary and partial differential equations, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1933.

Sep 19, 2026

Joseph Robinson Lindley

Joseph Robinson Lindley, known in Peru as José, was a British immigrant who founded a soft-drinks company in Lima in 1910 that created Inca Kola, which outsold Coca-Cola in Peru.

Joseph Rotblat

Joseph Rotblat (Józef Rotblat, 1908–2005) was a Polish-born British physicist who left the Manhattan Project in 1944 and shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize with Pugwash.

Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (Moses Joseph Roth, 1894–1939), Austrian-Jewish novelist and journalist from Brody, Galicia; author of The Radetzky March (1932) and Job; Frankfurter Zeitung feuilletonist, Paris exile from 1933.

Joseph Rudnick

Joseph Rudnick is a statistical physicist, UCLA professor emeritus and former Dean of Physical Sciences, known for the Rudnick–Gaspari asphericity and Rudnick–Hu winding-angle results and the textbook Elements of the Random Walk.

Joseph Russo (mobster)

Joseph "J.R." Russo (1931-1998), Patriarca crime family consigliere, killed informant Joseph Barboza in San Francisco in 1976, led a 1989 Boston faction revolt, and was recorded at the FBI-taped 1989 Medford induction ceremony; sentenced to 16 years in 1992 and died in prison.