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Juan Francisco de León
Juan Francisco de León was a Canary Islander cacao planter and local official in Panaquire, Venezuela, who led the 1749–1751 rebellion against the Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas's trading monopoly.
Juan Francisco Estrada
Juan Francisco Estrada, "El Gallo", Mexican boxer from Puerto Peñasco, Sonora; WBO/WBA flyweight champion (2013) and WBC/WBA super flyweight champion who beat Román González twice in their trilogy, later losing to Jesse Rodríguez (2024) and Tenshin Nasukawa (2026).
Juan Francisco Funes
Juan Francisco Funes Arjona (Juanfran Funes), Spanish football manager born 1983 in Loja; Málaga CF head coach since November 2025 who won promotion to Primera División in 2026 after eight years, contract to 2028.
Juan G. Santiago
Juan G. Santiago is a mechanical engineer and the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor at Stanford University, known for microfluidics, electrokinetics, and electric field-driven CRISPR diagnostics.
Juan Gabriel
Juan Gabriel (Alberto Aguilera Valadez, 1950-2016), Mexican singer-songwriter 'el Divo de Juárez'; wrote over 1,500 songs, sold 100 million albums, hits include Amor Eterno and Querida; 1990 Bellas Artes concert; subject of 2025 Netflix docuseries.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born 1973 in Bogotá) is a Colombian novelist whose fiction, translated into about thirty languages, deals with the political and drug-war history of late twentieth-century Colombia.
Juan García Esquivel
Juan García Esquivel (Esquivel!, 1918-2002), Mexican pianist, arranger, and composer, father of Space Age Pop lounge music, RCA Victor stereo pioneer, composer of Mucha Muchacha and Odisea Burbujas, revived in the 1990s.
Juan Garrido
Juan Garrido was a free African conquistador who fought in the Caribbean and Mexico, including the 1521 fall of Tenochtitlan, and claimed to be the first to sow wheat in New Spain.
Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman (1930–2014) was an Argentine poet who won the 2007 Premio Cervantes, his work marked by the Dirty War disappearance of his son and his own exile.
Juan Germán Roscio
Juan Germán Roscio (1763–1821) was a Venezuelan ideologue of the independence movement who drafted the 1811 declaration of independence and first constitution, and died as interim Vice-president of Colombia.
Juan Gilardi
Juan Ignacio Gilardi (born 1981, San Fernando, Argentina), nicknamed Juani, is an Argentine field hockey defender of Club San Fernando who won gold at Rio 2016 with Los Leones, scoring the quarterfinal-winning stroke against Spain.
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1490–1573) was a Spanish humanist, translator of Aristotle, and chronicler of Charles V who defended the Spanish conquest against Las Casas at Valladolid in 1550.
Juan González (baseball)
Juan González (Juan Alberto González, "Juan Gone"), born 1969 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, is a former MLB outfielder, two-time AL MVP (1996, 1998) with the Texas Rangers, 434 career home runs, and Texas franchise leader in homers and RBI.
Juan Gris
Juan Gris (José Victoriano González Pérez, 1887–1927), Spanish painter in Paris and leading master of Synthetic Cubism; Bateau-Lavoir neighbor of Picasso, Kahnweiler contractee, died aged 40.
Juan Guaidó
Juan Guaidó (Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez), Venezuelan opposition politician and Voluntad Popular cofounder; declared himself interim president on 23 January 2019 under Article 233 after Maduro's disputed 2018 re-election, was recognized by the U.S. and 50-plus governments, and saw the interim government dissolved in January 2023.
Juan Gualberto Gómez
Juan Gualberto Gómez Ferrer (1854–1933) was a Cuban journalist, politician, and independence leader who organized the Cuban Revolutionary Party's work on the island in 1895.
Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda
Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (1948–2022) was a Colombian poet, essayist, literary critic, and diplomat who directed the magazine Eco and served as ambassador to Greece.
Juan Hernández (footballer, born 2007)
Juan Hernández Torres (born 2007, Teruel) is a Spanish attacking midfielder for Barcelona's reserve side Barça Atlètic; joined La Masia from Real Zaragoza in 2020, Spain U17 and U19 international, shirt 41, contract to 2028.
Juan Hernandez Perez
Juan Hernandez Perez (Juan Bautista Hernández Pérez), Cuban boxer born 1962 in Pilón, Granma; won bantamweight (54 kg) gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, beating Bernardo Piñango in the final, and later Central American and Caribbean Games welterweight titles.
Juan I. Fuxman Bass
Juan I. Fuxman Bass, also known as Juan Ignacio Fuxman Bass, is an Argentine computational biologist at Boston University who maps human transcription factor networks.
Juan Ignacio Cirac
Juan Ignacio Cirac is a Spanish theoretical physicist who directs the Theory Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and pioneered trapped-ion quantum computing.
Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin
Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin, born in 1965 in Manresa, Spain, is a Spanish theoretical physicist who, with Peter Zoller, first proposed building quantum computers with trapped ions.
Juan Ignacio Molina
Juan Ignacio Molina (1740–1829) was a Chilean Jesuit, expelled in 1767, who spent his life in Italy writing the principal works on Chile's nature and civil history.
Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck
Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck is a Uruguayan systems neuroscientist and quantitative ethologist, an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania who co-authored the 2019 Science study on rats playing hide-and-seek.
Juan Isidro Jimenes
Juan Isidro Jimenes was a Dominican merchant and politician who served two terms as President of the Dominican Republic, 1899 to 1902 and 1914 to 1916.
Juan Iturbe
Juan Iturbe, full name Juan Manuel Iturbe Arévalo, is a Paraguayan winger born in Buenos Aires in 1993, a 2014 Roma signing for a reported €30 million who now plays for Cerro Porteño.
Juan J. Armesto
Juan J. Armesto (Juan José Armesto Zamudio) was a Chilean ecologist who studied the ecology and biogeochemistry of Chile's native forests and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Juan J. Badimón
Juan J. Badimon is a Spanish-born pharmacologist and Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, known for work on HDL cholesterol, high-risk plaque, and empagliflozin in heart failure.
Juan J. de Pablo
Juan J. de Pablo is an American chemical engineer who models polymers and liquid crystals, and became Executive Dean of NYU's Tandon School of Engineering in 2024.
Juan J. Lafaille
Juan J. Lafaille is an immunologist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for research on γδ T cells and regulatory T cells.