All articles starting with J

JOYRYDE

JOYRYDE is the performance name of Jon Ford, an English DJ and producer whose bass-heavy fusion of garage, house, and trap defined bass house in the mid-2010s.

Joystick

A joystick, also called a control stick, is an input device with a stick on a base that the user tilts to control a cursor, vehicle, or on-screen character.

Joytech

Joytech is the mass-market brand of Joy Industrial Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese bicycle hub and wheelset maker founded in Taichung in 1971 by Chen Chun-hsiung.

JOYY Inc.

JOYY Inc. (欢聚集团) is a Nasdaq-listed live streaming and social media company headquartered in Singapore, co-founded by David Xueling Li in 2005 and known for Bigo Live, Likee, and imo.

Jože Pirjevec

Jože Pirjevec (born 1940, Trieste) is a Slovenian historian at ZRS Koper and SAZU member, author of Tito and His Comrades, Partizani, and histories of Yugoslavia.

Józef Beck

Józef Beck was a Polish soldier and diplomat, a close collaborator of Józef Piłsudski, who served as foreign minister of the Second Polish Republic from 1932 to 1939.

Sep 24, 2026

Józef Bem

Józef Bem (1794–1850) was a Polish artillery general who served in the November Uprising and led the Hungarian revolutionary army in Transylvania, 1848–49, dying as an Ottoman pasha.

Józef Brudziński

Józef Brudziński (1874–1917) was a Polish pediatrician and neurologist remembered as the father of Polish pediatrics, who described four signs, including the neck sign, for detecting meningitis.

Józef Chłopicki

Józef Chłopicki (1771–1854) was a Polish major general, a veteran of the Kościuszko Uprising and the Napoleonic wars, and dictator of the November Uprising of 1830–1831.

Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989), Polish socialist turned communist politician, Auschwitz prisoner, and prime minister of the People's Republic of Poland 1947–1970 with a 1952–1954 break, longest-serving PRL premier.

Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki

Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki (1867–1937) was a Polish general who commanded the I Polish Corps in revolutionary Russia in 1917–1918 and led the victorious Greater Poland Uprising, building it into the regular Wielkopolska Army.

Jozef Gabčík

Jozef Gabčík (1912–1942), Slovak soldier and commander of Operation Anthropoid, who with Jan Kubiš assassinated Reinhard Heydrich in Prague on 27 May 1942, then died in the Cyril and Methodius cathedral crypt on 18 June 1942.

Sep 21, 2026

Jozef Gecz

Jozef Gecz, born 1962, is a human molecular geneticist and Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Adelaide whose team has discovered more than 350 disease genes.

Oct 21, 2026

Jozef Grudzien

Jozef Grudzien (Józef Grudzień, 1939–2017), Polish amateur lightweight boxer, Legia Warszawa; Olympic gold Tokyo 1964 (beat Barannikov 5:0), silver Mexico 1968 (lost to Ronnie Harris), European champion 1967.

Józef Haller

Józef Haller (1873–1960) was a Polish general who commanded the Blue Army in France and in 1920 performed the wedding of Poland to the sea at Puck.

Józef Hauke-Bosak

Józef Hauke-Bosak (1834–1871) was a Polish general who served in the Imperial Russian Army before commanding insurgent units in southern Poland during the January Uprising of 1863.

Sep 21, 2026

Jozef J. Zwislocki

Józef Zwisłocki (1922–2018) was a Polish-born American auditory physiologist whose 1948 dissertation first explained cochlear traveling waves mathematically; he spent most of his career at Syracuse University.

Józef Lubański

Józef Kazimierz Lubański (1914–1946) was a Polish theoretical physicist known for the Pauli–Lubański vector, still used in field-equation analyses; he died unexpectedly in Delft, aged thirty-two.

Józef Marcinkiewicz

Józef Marcinkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who published 55 papers on analysis and probability before being killed as a reserve officer in the 1940 Katyń massacre.

Józef Padewski

Józef Padewski, also known as Joseph Padewski, was a Polish National Catholic Church bishop who led its diocese in Poland and died in communist custody in 1951, widely regarded as a martyr.

Józef Piłsudski

Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935), Polish statesman, soldier, and socialist leader; first chief of state of restored Poland, victor of the 1920 Battle of Warsaw, and authoritarian ruler after his May 1926 coup.

Józef Poniatowski

Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813) was a Polish general and Marshal of France who commanded the Duchy of Warsaw's army and died at the Battle of Leipzig.

Oct 21, 2026

Jozef Pribilinec

Jozef Pribilinec, Slovak race walker born 1960 in Kremnica, 1988 Seoul Olympic 20 km walk champion in 1:19:57, 1983 world record holder (1:19:30), World and European medalist for Czechoslovakia, later Slovak parliament member and businessman.

Józef Retinger

Józef Retinger was a Polish political organizer who advised General Sikorski's government-in-exile, parachuted into occupied Poland in 1944, and later helped found the Bilderberg Group.

Sep 21, 2026

Jozef Schell

Jozef Schell, known as Jeff Schell (1935–2003), was a Belgian microbiologist and plant molecular biologist who turned Agrobacterium into the standard method for making genetically engineered plants.

Sep 27, 2026

Jozef Síkela

Jozef Síkela is a European politician who has served as European Commissioner for International Partnerships since 2024, after careers in banking and as a trade minister.

Józef Sowiński

Józef Sowiński (1777–1831) was a Polish artillery general and one-legged veteran of Borodino who died defending Warsaw's Wola redoubt during the November Uprising against Russia in 1831.

Oct 20, 2026

Jozef Szmidt

Jozef Szmidt (Józef Szmidt, born Josef Schmidt), Polish triple jumper, "Silesian Kangaroo"; Olympic gold 1960 and 1964, first to clear 17 m (17.03 world record, 1960), defected to West Germany 1975.

Jozef Tiso

Jozef Tiso (Josef Tiso) was a Slovak Catholic priest and politician who led the Nazi-allied Slovak State as president from 1939 to 1945, and was executed for treason in 1947.