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Jotamario Arbeláez
Jotamario Arbeláez, pen name of José Mario Arbeláez Ramos (born 1940, Cali), is a Colombian poet who led the Nadaísmo movement in Cali and won national poetry prizes.
Jotaro Kujo (空条 承太郎)
Jotaro Kujo (空条 承太郎, Kūjō Jōtarō) is the protagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 Stardust Crusaders by Hirohiko Araki; a 17-year-old grandson of Joseph Joestar whose Stand Star Platinum stops time. Also in Parts 4 and 6, voiced by Daisuke Ono.
Jotham
Jotham (Hebrew Yotam, also rendered Joatham) was a king of Judah in the eighth century BC, the son and successor of Uzziah and father of Ahaz, credited with building the Temple's upper gate.
Jotham Russell
Jotham Russell (born 2003) is an Australian defensive end for the New England Patriots, signed via the NFL International Player Pathway after playing rugby league for Tweed Heads Seagulls.
Jothan Msibi
Jothan Msibi, known as "Mswazi", was a wealthy and feared Pretoria taxi owner who led a national taxi organization and built transport, security, and construction businesses before dying in January 2024.
Jothimani
Jothimani, born in 1975 in Tamil Nadu, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Karur in the Lok Sabha since 2019, winning re-election in 2024.
Jotidāsa
Jotidāsa (जोतिदास) is, in the Theravāda tradition, a wealthy brahmin of Pādiyattha who built a monastery for Mahā-Kassapa, learnt the three Piṭakas, and became an arahant.
Jotta A
Jotta A is the stage name of José Antonio Viana de Hollanda, a Brazilian singer who became a child gospel star, winning SBT's Jovens Talentos Kids in 2011.
Jottacloud
Jottacloud is a Norwegian cloud storage and online backup service founded by Roland Rabben in 2008, marketed around privacy and data stored in company-owned Norwegian data centers.
Jotun FPSO
The Jotun FPSO is a floating production, storage and offloading vessel in the Norwegian North Sea, serving the Jotun field from 1999 and the Balder area from 2025.
Jötunheimr
Jötunheimr (Old Norse Jǫtunheimr, plural Jǫtunheimar) is the land or world of the jötnar, the giants of Norse mythology: east of Midgard, beyond the Iron Wood and the never-freezing river Ífingr, the setting of Thor's journey to Útgarða-Loki and the namesake of Norway's Jotunheimen mountains.
Jotuni Patera
Jotuni Patera was a 100 km patera on Venus at 6.5°S, 214°E, named for Finnish writer Maria Jotuni, adopted by the IAU in 1997 and dropped in 2011 when mapping showed no patera exists there.
Jötunn
Jötunn (Old Norse jǫtunn, plural jötnar), also called jotun, is a giant-like being in Germanic and Old Norse mythology, opposed to the Æsir gods, descended from Ymir, often wise, and surviving as Swedish jätte and Danish jætte.
Joual
Joual is the popular, English-influenced variety of Quebec French named from a folk pronunciation of cheval. Its 1959-1975 querelle du joual and Michel Tremblay's 1968 play Les Belles-sœurs made it a literary language and identity symbol.
Joubert syndrome
Joubert syndrome (JS, OMIM PS213300), also called Joubert-Boltshauser syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive ciliopathy defined by the molar tooth sign on brain MRI, hypotonia, ataxia, developmental delay, and over 40 causative ciliary genes.
Jouissance
Jouissance is a French noun for intense pleasure, including orgasm, and for the legal right to enjoy property; as a term of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Barthes's criticism it means enjoyment beyond the pleasure principle, usually left untranslated.
Jouko Salomaki
Jouko Salomäki (born 1962, Kauhajoki) is a Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic welterweight (74 kg) champion and 1987 world champion; his 1984 gold remains Finland's latest Olympic wrestling gold. Banned two years in 1990 for steroid smuggling.
Joukowsky transform
The Joukowsky transform, also written Joukowski or Zhukovsky transform, is a conformal map that turns flow around a circle into flow around an airfoil to compute lift.
Joule
The joule (symbol J) is the SI derived unit of energy, work, and heat, equal to one newton-meter, adopted in 1889 and named after physicist James Prescott Joule.
Joule expansion
Joule expansion, also called free expansion, is the expansion of a gas into a vacuum inside an insulated container, with no temperature change for an ideal gas.
Joule heating
Joule heating, also called Ohmic or resistive heating, is the irreversible conversion of electrical energy into heat when current flows through a resistive element, as quantified by Joule's law.
Joule–Thomson effect
The Joule–Thomson effect, also called the Kelvin–Joule effect, is the temperature change of a real gas forced through a valve or porous plug from higher to lower pressure.
Jouni Uitto
Jouni Uitto (1943–2022) was a Finnish-born dermatologist and cutaneous biologist, called the father of EB research, who chaired dermatology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia from 1986.
Jour de fête
Jour de fête (1949) is Jacques Tati's debut feature comedy, starring Tati as village postman François who attempts an American-style mail round by bicycle; shot in 1947 at Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, with a lost Thomsoncolor version restored in 1995.
Jourdan Dunn
Jourdan Dunn (born 1990) is a British model from west London, scouted in Primark and signed to Storm. First Black model to walk Prada in over a decade (2008), British Fashion Awards Model of the Year 2008 and 2015, Vogue Italia Black Issue cover model.
Jourdan Lewis
Jourdan Lewis, NFL cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars, formerly Dallas Cowboys (2017-2024). Michigan All-American, 2017 third-round pick (92nd), nickel/slot specialist with 14 career interceptions.
Jourdan Miller
Jourdan Miller, American model, winner of America's Next Top Model Cycle 20 (Guys & Girls, 2013), the first co-ed cycle; six first call-outs; defeated runner-up Marvin Cortes; prizes included a Guess campaign and NEXT contract.
Journal Article Tag Suite
Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an XML standard, published as ANSI/NISO Z39.96, defining elements for tagging journal articles, developed by NCBI and first released in 2003.
Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Clarivate's annual journal-level citation report from the Web of Science Core Collection, best known for the Journal Impact Factor; first published 1975, 2026 edition covers 22,643 journals in 254 categories.
Journal de Physique
The Journal de Physique, founded as Journal de Physique Théorique et Appliquée in 1872 by Joseph Charles d'Almeida, was the first periodical devoted exclusively to physics.