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Juan Orlando Hernández
Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), president of Honduras 2014–2022, convicted in New York in 2024 of conspiring to import over 400 tons of cocaine, sentenced to 45 years, pardoned by Trump and released 1 December 2025.
Juan P. Casas
Juan P. Casas, also known as Juan Pablo Casas, is a Colombian-trained genetic epidemiologist at UCL and LSHTM who uses Mendelian randomisation to test cardiovascular causes.
Juan P. Frías
Juan P. Frías (Juan Pablo Frías) is a Chilean-born endocrinologist and clinical trialist who has led more than 250 diabetes studies and directs the Los Angeles Institute for Metabolic Research.
Juan Pablo Ángel
Juan Pablo Ángel (born 1975, Medellín), Colombian striker; Atlético Nacional, River Plate, Aston Villa (62 goals), New York Red Bulls (58 MLS goals), 9 goals in 33 Colombia caps; retired 2014.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
Juan Pablo Di Pace (born 1979) is an Argentine actor, musician, and director from Buenos Aires, known for Fernando on Fuller House, Jesus in A.D. The Bible Continues, Dallas, Mamma Mia!, and the film Duino.
Juan Pablo Duarte
Juan Pablo Duarte (1813–1876) was a Dominican nationalist politician, writer, and military leader who founded La Trinitaria in 1838 and is honored as the Father of the Nation.
Juan Pablo Galavis
Juan Pablo Galavis, born 1981 in Ithaca, New York, is a Venezuelan-American former pro soccer player and the first Latino lead of ABC's The Bachelor (season 18, 2014), a controversial season that ended without a proposal to Nikki Ferrell.
Juan Pablo Montoya
Juan Pablo Montoya is a Colombian racing driver, born in 1975 in Bogotá, who won the 1999 CART championship as a rookie, two Indianapolis 500s, and seven Formula One races.
Juan Pablo Raba
Juan Pablo Raba Vidal (born 1977, Bogotá) is a Colombian actor and producer known for telenovela Mi gorda bella, Gustavo Gaviria in Netflix's Narcos, Six, and the 2026 Yellowstone spin-off Dutton Ranch; also hosts the mental health podcast Los hombres sí lloran.
Juan Pablo Vielma Centeno
Juan Pablo Vielma Centeno is an operations researcher known for mixed-integer optimization and the JuMP modeling language, who taught at MIT Sloan before joining Google Research.
Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán
Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán (1748–1798) was a Peruvian Jesuit exiled to Italy who sought British support for Spanish American independence and wrote the Carta a los españoles americanos.
Juan Padilla
Juan Padilla (Juan Padilla Alfonso, born 1965, Havana) is a Cuban former second baseman who won Olympic baseball gold with Cuba at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996, starred for Industriales, and later managed Cuba and Ecuador.
Juan Pedro Arremon
Juan Pedro Arremon (Arremón, 1899-1979), Uruguayan right winger for CA Peñarol; won gold with Uruguay at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, playing against the Netherlands and in the replayed final against Argentina.
Juan Perón
Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974), Argentine general and three-time president (1946–55, 1973–74), founder of Peronism and the Justicialist Party, labor-based populist leader, exile in Madrid, died in office 1974.
Juan Pío Montúfar
Juan Pío Montúfar (1758–1819) was a Quito nobleman who presided over the first autonomous junta of 10 August 1809, remembered as the First Cry of Independence.
Juan Píriz
Juan Píriz (full name Juan Emilio Píriz, 1902–1946) was a Uruguayan center-half for Peñarol, Defensor, and Nacional who won football gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, his only two international caps; distinct from the forward Juan Emilio Píriz born 1908.
Juan Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León, Spanish conquistador and governor of Puerto Rico (from 1508), led the 1513 three-ship voyage that named La Florida and the failed 1521 colonization attempt on the Calusa coast.
Juan Ponce Enrile
Juan Ponce Enrile (1924–2025), Filipino lawyer and politician; Marcos defense minister who implemented martial law in 1972, broke with Marcos at EDSA in 1986, Senate President 2008–2013, acquitted of graft in 2025, later Chief Presidential Legal Counsel.
Juan Porras
Juan Carlos Porras is an American Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 119 in Miami-Dade County, known for homeowners association reform and property tax relief legislation.
Juan Pujol García
Juan Pujol García, codenamed Garbo by the British and Arabel by the Germans, was a Spanish double agent in World War II who invented a 27-agent fictitious network for the Abwehr, helped deceive Germany about the Normandy landings, and was decorated by both sides.
Juan R. Cubillos‐Ruiz
Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz is a Colombian-born immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for showing how tumors disable dendritic cells via ER stress, work that spawned Quentis Therapeutics.
Juan R. Sánchez
Juan R. Sánchez, also known as Juan Ramon Sánchez, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Pennsylvania since 2004, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Juan R. Torruella
Juan R. Torruella (1933–2020), Puerto Rican federal judge and Olympic sailor; first Hispanic judge on the First Circuit, chief judge there 1994–2001, and leading scholarly critic of the Insular Cases.
Juan Rafael Angel Perez
Juan Rafael Ángel Pérez Córdoba (Rafael Pérez), Costa Rican long-distance runner, 1946-2019; two-time Olympian (1968, 1972), 1974 Saint Silvester winner, 1976 half marathon world best 1:03:46.
Juan Rafael Mora Porras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras was a Costa Rican merchant and politician who served as President from 1849 to 1859 and led the 1856–1857 campaign against William Walker.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote Platero y yo, prose poems about a man and his donkey.
Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium
Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium, Bayamón's ~12,500-seat sports venue about 10 miles from San Juan, opened as a baseball park (1973/1974) for the Vaqueros and became Puerto Rico's de facto national football stadium, home of the Islanders, Puerto Rico FC and Bayamón FC.
Juan Riquelme Angulo
Juan Riquelme Angulo Caicedo (born 2008, San Lorenzo, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian striker, 1.93 m, from Independiente del Valle, signed by Sunderland in 2026 for about USD 6.7 million; scored among the youngest Ecuador goals.
Juan Rivera (immunologist)
Juan Rivera is an immunologist who is deputy scientific director at NIAMS and led its Laboratory of Molecular Immunogenetics, known for work on IgE receptor signaling.
Juan Rodés
Juan Rodés was a Spanish hepatologist who founded the Liver Unit of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in 1968, building it into one of Europe's leading liver centers.