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Josip Pavic
Josip Pavić (born 1982, Split) is a retired Croatian water polo goalkeeper; Olympic gold London 2012, silver Rio 2016, world champion 2007, FINA world player of the year 2012, distinct from the footballer of the same name.
Josip Pečarić
Josip Pečarić (born 1948 in Kotor) is a Croatian mathematician specializing in mathematical inequalities, a professor at the University of Zagreb and full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Josip Plemelj
Josip Plemelj (1873–1967) was a Slovenian mathematician known for the Sokhotski–Plemelj formulas, his 1908 solution of the Riemann problem, and serving as the first rector of the University of Ljubljana.
Josip Stanišić
Josip Stanišić, born 2000 in Munich, is a Croatian defender (number 44) for Bayern Munich, contract to 2029. Versatile full-back/center-back; 2023/24 Leverkusen loan double winner; Croatia international, World Cup 2022 third place.
Josippon
Josippon (Sefer Yosippon) is a medieval Hebrew chronicle, written in Southern Italy in the tenth century, retelling Jewish history from Daniel and Esther to the destruction of the Second Temple.
Joško Gvardiol
Joško Gvardiol, Croatian defender born in Zagreb, plays for Manchester City and Croatia. Signed from RB Leipzig in 2023 for €90m (£77m), a world-record fee for a centre-back; contract extended to 2031.
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450–1521), Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer also called Josquin Des Prés, princeps musicorum, active in Milan, Rome, Ferrara, and Condé-sur-l'Escaut; famed for Missa Pange lingua and Ave Maria, with only 143 of 335 attributed works accepted as authentic.
Joss Ackland
Joss Ackland (Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland, 1928-2023), English character actor of 200-plus film and TV roles, known for Lethal Weapon 2, The Hunt for Red October, White Mischief, Evita, and Shadowlands.
Joss Christensen
Joss Christensen, born in 1991, is an American freestyle skier who won the first Olympic gold medal in men's slopestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Joss Favela
Joss Favela, born José Alberto Inzunza Favela in 1990, is a Mexican singer-songwriter from Sinaloa who wrote for Banda El Recodo and Julión Álvarez before debuting in 2016.
Joss paper
Joss paper, also called spirit money or ghost money, is paper burned in Chinese ritual so offerings of money, clothing, and effigies reach the afterlife through smoke.
Joss Stone
Joss Stone (Joscelyn Eve Stoker, born 1987) is an English soul singer who debuted with The Soul Sessions (2003), became the youngest female artist to top the UK album chart with Mind, Body & Soul, won a Grammy and two BRITs, and completed a six-year Total World Tour.
Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon, born 1964 in New York, is the American screenwriter and showrunner behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and The Avengers, later accused of on-set abuse by Ray Fisher and Charisma Carpenter, which he denies.
Joss Whedon filmography
The Joss Whedon filmography covers the television series he created, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and films he wrote and directed, including The Avengers.
Jossie Esteban y la Patrulla 15
Jossie Esteban y la Patrulla 15, also known as Josie Esteban y La Patrulla 15, is a Dominican merengue orchestra founded in 1979 and based in Puerto Rico.
Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas, born 1958, is a German ophthalmologist who was Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Heidelberg University's Mannheim faculty, known for glaucoma research and the Beijing Eye Study.
Jost function
The Jost function is an analytic function of the complex wave number that encodes the bound states, resonances, and scattering phase shifts of a quantum two-body problem.
Jostedalsbreen
Jostedalsbreen, Norway's largest glacier and the largest ice cap on the European mainland (458 km², 2019), an ice cap in Vestland county, western Norway; 81 outlet glacier units, Little Ice Age maximum around 1755, ongoing retreat and projected halving by 2100.
Jostle
Jostle names two board games: Mark Steere's 2010 two-player abstract on a 10x10 board with 32 checkers, won by the last player to move, and Jantke's Jostle 2007 dice track game.
Josua Placeus
Josua Placeus (Josué de la Place, c. 1596–1655 or 1665) was a French Reformed theologian and professor at Saumur, best known for teaching the mediate imputation of Adam's first sin.
Josua Tuisova
Josua Tuisova Ratulevu, nicknamed The Bus or Human Bulldozer, is a Fijian rugby wing and centre, Olympic sevens gold medalist at Rio 2016, Fiji XV international since 2017, and Racing 92 player after Toulon and Lyon.
Josua, Ratu Vakurunabili
Josua Vakurunabili, born in 1992 in Vatukarasa, Fiji, is a rugby sevens forward who won Olympic gold with Fiji at Tokyo 2020 and Commonwealth silver in 2018 and 2022.
Josué Caicedo
Josué Caicedo, Ecuadorian left-back born 2007 in Guayas, LDU Quito player loaned to FC Barcelona's Barça Atlètic for 2026/27 with a €2.5 million buy option; distinct from Moisés, Jordy, and Felipe Caicedo.
Josué de Castro
Josué de Castro (1908–1973) was a Brazilian physician and federal deputy who argued hunger is socially produced, wrote The Geography of Hunger, and chaired the FAO Council.
Josué Guimarães
Josué Guimarães (1921–1986) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist from Rio Grande do Sul, known for the trilogy A Ferro e Fogo on German colonization.
Josué Montello
Josué Montello, full name Josué de Sousa Montello (1917–2006), was a Brazilian novelist and journalist best known for Os tambores de São Luís (1975), a novel on slavery.
Josué Vergara
Josué Yamir Vergara Ortega (born 2007, Panama City) is a Panamanian centre-forward, 1.96 m, at KAA Gent since July 2026; formerly Tauro FC and Latvia's Auda, where he scored 14 goals in 20 league games.
Josy Barthel
Josy Barthel (Joseph Barthel, 1927–1992) was a Luxembourgish middle-distance runner who won the 1,500 meters at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Luxembourg's only officially recognized Olympic gold medal.
Josyf Slipyj (Йосиф Сліпий)
Josyf Slipyj (Йосиф Сліпий) was head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church from 1944 who spent 18 years in Soviet prisons and exile, then rebuilt the banned church from Rome as cardinal and major archbishop.
Jota Samper
Jota Samper (José Jaime Samper Escobar) is a Colombian architect and urban planner from Medellín, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for the Atlas of Informality.