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Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (Јован Јовановић Змај) was a Serbian poet and physician who laid the foundations of Serbian children's poetry; he also edited the satirical magazine Zmaj.
Jovan Karamata
Jovan Karamata (Јован Карамата; 1902–1967) was a Serbian mathematician, one of the greatest of 20th-century Serbia, who founded the theory of regularly varying functions and proved Littlewood's Tauberian theorem concisely.
Jovan Nenad
Jovan Nenad, called the Black Man, was a self-proclaimed Serbian emperor who ruled a short-lived state in southern Hungary from 1526 until his death in 1527.
Jovan Oliver
Jovan Oliver (Јован Оливер), also known as Ioannes Liberos, was a magnate of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan, holding the titles of sebastokrator and despotes.
Jovan Perišić
Jovan Perišić (Јован Перишић) is a Serbian folk (narodna) singer born in 1972 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, active since the late 1990s and known for the 2007 hit "Moje najmilije".
Jovan Ristić
Jovan Ristić (Јован Ристић) was a Serbian statesman and historian who served several times as prime minister and twice as royal regent in the 19th century.
Jovan Skerlić
Jovan Skerlić (Јован Скерлић) was a Serbian literary historian and critic, professor at the University of Belgrade, editor of Srpski književni glasnik, and advocate of Yugoslav unity.
Jovana Prekovic
Jovana Preković (Јована Прековић), Serbian karateka born 1996, Olympic gold medalist in women's kumite -61 kg at Tokyo 2020, two-time world champion (2018, 2021) and 2021 European champion.
Jovenel Moïse
Jovenel Moïse (1968–2021), Haitian banana exporter and PHTK politician, 58th president of Haiti 2017–2021; won the repeated 2016 election with 55.7%, ruled by decree from 2020 amid a term dispute, and was assassinated 7 July 2021.
Jovi
Jovi is a Cameroonian rapper, sound engineer, and producer from Douala who founded New Bell Music and pioneered Mboko, a style fusing Cameroonian rhythms with trap and electronic production.
Jovial
Jovial, born Juliet Miriam Ayub, is a Kenyan Afro-pop singer from Mombasa based in Nairobi, who rose to fame in 2019 through the Otile Brown duet "Zichune".
Jovian (emperor)
Jovian (Flavius Iovianus), Roman emperor 363–364, elected after Julian's death during the Persian retreat; concluded the cessionary peace of 363 with Shapur II, restored Nicene Christianity, and died at Dadastana.
Jovica D. Badjić
Jovica D. Badjić (sometimes written Badjic) is a supramolecular chemist, a professor at The Ohio State University since 2004, known for the 2004 molecular elevator.
Jovis Fossae
Jovis Fossae is an IAU-approved system of grabens on Mars in northern Tharsis, approved 1985, diameter 332 km, centered near 19.68°N, 243.40°E; northern end of the Olympica–Jovis Fossae outflow channel system near Jovis Tholus.
Jōwa Incident
The Jōwa Incident (承和の変) was an 842 political purge in Japan in which Crown Prince Tsunesada was deposed and his associates Tomo no Kowamine and Tachibana no Hayanari were exiled.
Jowi
Jowi is the stage name of a Polish-born, Duisburg-based hard-techno DJ and producer who records on Scantraxx and co-founded KRAWALL Records, with her breakthrough at Verknipt Festival in 2024.
Jowita Przystał
Jowita Przystał (born 1994, Kraków) is a Polish ballroom dancer, Polish Open Latin Champion 2014, winner of The Greatest Dancer 2020 and Strictly Come Dancing 2022 with Hamza Yassin.
Jowo Mikyo Dorje
Jowo Mikyo Dorje (ཇོ་བོ་མི་བསྐྱོད་རྡོ་རྗེ), also called Jowo Chungwa, is one of Tibet's two most sacred Buddha statues, enshrined in Lhasa's Ramoche Temple and traditionally brought by the Nepalese princess Bhrikuti as dowry to Songtsen Gampo.
Jowo Shakyamuni
Jowo Shakyamuni, also known as Jowo Rinpoche, is a Buddha statue in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, regarded as the holiest image in Tibetan Buddhism.
Jowon Briggs
Jowon Briggs (born 2001) is an NFL defensive tackle, No. 91 for the New York Jets; a 2024 seventh-round Browns pick from Cincinnati traded to the Jets in 2025, a 2025 starter with 4 sacks, and a tenor who plays 12 instruments.
Joy (2015 film)
Joy is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama written and directed by David O. Russell, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Long Island inventor Joy Mangano, creator of the Miracle Mop.
Joy (dog)
Joy was Tsarevich Alexei Romanov's cocker spaniel, the only pet to survive the 1918 execution of the Romanov family at Yekaterinburg; he was taken to England by Colonel Pavel Rodzianko and buried in Windsor under a stone reading "Here lies Joy".
Joy (Inside Out)
Joy is the Amy Poehler-voiced personification of happiness leading Riley's five emotions in Pixar's Inside Out (2015) and Inside Out 2 (2024); her arc pivots from suppressing Sadness to accepting all emotions as vital.
Joy (박수영) (singer)
Joy (조이), real name Park Soo-young (박수영), born 1996, is a South Korean singer, actress, and host. Red Velvet member since August 2014; solo debut with the 2021 remake album Hello; distinct from SNSD's Choi Soo-young and comedian Park So-young.
Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson (Friederike Victoria Gessner, 1910–1980), Austrian-born Kenyan naturalist and author of Born Free (1960) about the lioness Elsa; founded the Elsa Conservation Trust and was murdered in Kenya in 1980.
Joy Baba Felunath
Joy Baba Felunath (জয় বাবা ফেলুনাথ, The Elephant God) is Satyajit Ray's 1979 Bengali mystery film, the second Feluda adaptation after Sonar Kella, set in Varanasi during Durga Puja and winner of the 1978 National Award for Best Children's Film.
Joy Barcoma
Joy Barcoma (Joymayanne Felix Barcoma), Filipino beauty queen, TV host, and comedian, Pambansang Jusa; won Miss Philippines Earth 2025, finished Top 8 at Miss Earth 2025, and hosts GMA's Unang Hirit and The People Have Spoken.
Joy Behar
Joy Behar (born Josephina Victoria Occhiuto, 1943) is an American comedian and talk show host, an original 1997 co-host of ABC's The View who left after 16 seasons, returned in 2015, and hosted HLN and Current TV shows.
Joy Bergelson
Joy Bergelson is an American plant evolutionary geneticist at New York University known for showing that plant disease-resistance genes persist for millions of years rather than evolving by arms races.
Joy Bryant
Joy Bryant (born 1974, Bronx, New York) is an American actress and former model known for Jasmine Trussell on Parenthood and Cheryl in Antwone Fisher; also For Life, Good Girls Revolt, and The Spiderwick Chronicles.