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Juan Carlos Lemus
Juan Carlos Lemus García (born 1965, Pinar del Río) is a Cuban boxer, 1992 Barcelona Olympic light-middleweight (71 kg) gold medalist, 1991 world amateur champion, and 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games champion.
Juan Carlos Onetti
Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and short-story writer who won the 1980 Premio Cervantes and created the fictional city of Santa María.
Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo
Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo (born 1981), son of Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, directed Canal 8 and runs Difuso Comunicaciones, the regime's advertising producer; sanctioned by OFAC in 2020 under E.O. 13851 and reportedly purged from the family media apparatus in late 2025.
Juan Carlos Osorio
Juan Carlos Osorio, Colombian football manager; Mexico head coach 2015-2018 (33W-10L-9D), 2018 World Cup win over Germany, 7-0 loss to Chile; noted for rotations, notebooks; later Tijuana and Clube do Remo.
Juan Carlos Perez
Juan Carlos Pérez (Pérez Rondón), Cuban right-handed pitcher born 1969 in Puerto Padre, Las Tunas; pitched for Las Tunas in the Serie Nacional and won baseball gold with Cuba at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Distinct from the Giants outfielder and other namesakes.
Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix
Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician, secretary general of the party in Cádiz, a member of Congress, and mayor of San Roque.
Juan Carlos Saéz
Juan Carlos Sáez Carreño is a Chilean physiologist and neuroscientist known for research on connexin and pannexin channels, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Juan Carlos Valencia González
Juan Carlos Valencia González, alias "Pelón" or "El R-3"/"O3", is the alleged CJNG cartel leader, stepson of El Mencho, a U.S.-born dual citizen indicted in Washington D.C. in 2020 and still a fugitive with a $25 million U.S. reward.
Juan Carlos Valerón
Juan Carlos Valerón Santana, known as El Mago, is a Spanish retired footballer, an attacking midfielder who spent 13 seasons at Deportivo and won 46 caps for Spain.
Juan Carlos Varela
Juan Carlos Varela, in full Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez, is a Panamanian politician and businessman who served as President of Panama from 2014 to 2019.
Juan Carlos Zabala
Juan Carlos Zabala (El Ñandú criollo), Argentine runner born 1911 in Rosario, won the 1932 Olympic marathon in 2:31:36, the first South American Olympic gold and youngest marathon champion.
Juan Carlos Zúñiga‐Pflücker
Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker is a Canadian immunologist and professor at the University of Toronto whose OP9-DL1 co-culture system generates T cells from stem cells in over 1,000 laboratories.
Juan Carrillo
Juan Carrillo is an American Democratic politician and member of the California State Assembly, representing the 39th district since 2022, after serving on the Palmdale City Council and School Board.
Juan Casado
Juan Casado (born 1971) is a Spanish physical-organic chemist, full professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universidad de Málaga, known for spectroscopic studies of organic diradicals and π-conjugated molecules.
Juan Ciscomani
Juan Ciscomani, born in 1982, is an American Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative from Arizona's 6th congressional district since 2023 and the 2026 Republican nominee.
Juan Colmenero
Juan Colmenero de León, born 1951 in Madrid, is a Spanish condensed-matter physicist, professor at the University of the Basque Country and first Spaniard to win the Walter Hälg Prize.
Juan Corona
Juan Vallejo Corona, Mexican-born California farm labor contractor and serial killer, convicted of murdering 25 itinerant farmworkers buried in Yuba City-area peach orchards in 1971; first conviction overturned, 1982 retrial conviction upheld; died 2019.
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón was a Venezuelan caudillo and marshal who led the Federal War and served as president of Venezuela from 1863 until his overthrow in 1868.
Juan Cuadrado
Juan Cuadrado (Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello, born 1988, Necoclí, Colombia), Colombian winger and wing-back; five Serie A titles with Juventus plus Inter 2023/24, Chelsea 2014/15 Premier League, 73 Colombia caps, joined Millonarios in 2026.
Juan de Ayala
Juan Manuel de Ayala y Aranza (1745–1797) was a Spanish naval officer and cartographer who in 1775 commanded the first European voyage known to have entered San Francisco Bay.
Juan de Betanzos
Juan de Betanzos was a Spanish chronicler and official interpreter in the Viceroyalty of Peru, known for the Suma y narración de los Incas, finished in 1557.
Juan de Bolas
Juan de Bolas, known to the Spanish as Juan Lubolo, was an early Maroon leader in Jamaica, regarded as the first Maroon chief known in history.
Juan de Borja
Juan de Borja y Enríquez de Guzmán was a Spanish nobleman who served as president, governor, and captain general of the Nuevo Reino de Granada from 1605 to 1628.
Juan de Castellanos
Juan de Castellanos (1522–1607) was a Spanish priest and chronicler, author of the Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias, a verse history of the conquest of the Caribbean.
Juan de Dios Peza
Juan de Dios Peza (1852–1910) was a Mexican lyric poet known as "el poeta del hogar" (the poet of the home), best remembered for the widely recited poem "Reír llorando."
Juan de Espinosa Medrano
Juan de Espinosa Medrano, called el Lunarejo, was a Peruvian priest, preacher, and playwright of the seventeenth-century Baroque, known for the Apologético, the first literary criticism written in America.
Juan de Flandes
Juan de Flandes was a Netherlandish painter documented in Spain between 1496 and 1519 who served Queen Isabel la Católica of Castile and later supplied large altarpieces across Castile.
Juan de Fuca
Juan de Fuca, usually identified as the Greek mariner Apóstolos Valerianos, claimed in 1592 to have discovered the strait between Vancouver Island and Washington State that bears his name.
Juan de Fuca Plate
The Juan de Fuca Plate is a small oceanic tectonic plate off the Pacific Northwest coast, a remnant of the Farallon Plate subducting beneath the North American Plate.
Juan de Fuca Ridge
The Juan de Fuca Ridge is a 500 km submarine mountain chain in the northeast Pacific where seafloor spreading separates the Pacific and Juan de Fuca Plates.