edgepedia

All articles starting with J

20,615 articles

Juan Vivaldi

Juan Manuel Vivaldi, nicknamed Juanma and Lobo, is an Argentine field hockey goalkeeper who won gold at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics across four Games.

Juan W. Valle

Juan W. Valle is a Peruvian-born, British-based medical oncologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester, known for the ABC-02 and TOPAZ-1 trials in biliary tract cancer.

Juan Williams

Juan Williams (born 1954) is an American journalist, longtime Washington Post and NPR reporter, and Fox News senior political analyst since 1997, author of Eyes on the Prize and Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary.

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1855–1931) was a Uruguayan romantic poet, known as the "Poeta de la Patria", best remembered for the epic poem Tabaré.

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is a materials scientist and associate professor at Georgia Tech known for perovskite solar cell research; he received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Juan‐R. Malagelada

Juan-R. Malagelada (Joan Ramon Malagelada Benaprés) is a Spanish gastroenterologist known for the 2003 Lancet review "Gut flora in health and disease" and studies of gastric motility.

Juana Azurduy

Juana Azurduy, also known as Juana Azurduy de Padilla, was an Upper Peruvian guerrilla commander who fought for independence from Spain, promoted to generala by Argentina and Bolivia in 2009.

Juana Barraza

Juana Barraza Samperio, Mexican former wrestler La Dama del Silencio, convicted as serial killer La Mataviejitas for strangling elderly women in Mexico City; 759-year sentence (50-year cap), arrested 2006 via fingerprints.

Juana de Ibarbourou

Juana de Ibarbourou, born Juana Fernández Morales and titled Juana de América in 1929, was an Uruguayan poet whose 1919 Las lenguas de diamante made her famous across Latin America.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Juana Inés Ramírez de Asbaje, 1648/1651-1695), Hieronymite nun, poet, and scholar of colonial New Spain; author of Primero sueño and Respuesta a Sor Filotea, called the Tenth Muse and Phoenix of Mexico.

Juana la Loca (2001 film)

Juana la Loca (Mad Love) is Vicente Aranda's 2001 Spain-Italy-Portugal historical drama starring Pilar López de Ayala as Juana I of Castilla and Daniele Liotti as Felipe el Hermoso; it won her a Silver Shell and a Goya and was Spain's Oscar entry.

Juana Manso

Juana Manso, also known as Juana Manso de Noronha, was an Argentine writer and educational reformer who directed Buenos Aires's first coeducational school from 1859.

Juana Manuela Gorriti

Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816–1892) was an Argentine writer, editor, and salon hostess exiled in Bolivia and Peru, author of Sueños y realidades and host of Lima's veladas literarias.

Juana Maria

Juana Maria, the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, a Nicoleño woman left behind in the 1835 removal, rescued in 1853, died in Santa Barbara; last attested speaker of the Takic Nicoleño language.

Juana Molina

Juana Molina, Argentine singer-songwriter born 1961 in Buenos Aires, former star of the sketch show Juana y sus hermanas, left acting in 1996 for music; albums Segundo, Halo, and DOGA (2025) on her label Sonamos.

Juanbi Tang

蠲痹汤 (Juanbi Decoction) is a classic Chinese medicine formula for painful obstruction (bi) syndromes; a Song Yangshi Jiacang Fang version and an 11-herb Yixue Xinwu version treat rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

Juancho Hernangómez

Juancho Hernangómez (born 1995, Madrid) is a Spanish forward, 2016 Nuggets first-round pick, seven-year NBA veteran, 2024 EuroLeague champion with Panathinaikos, and 2019 World Cup and EuroBasket 2022 winner with Spain.

Juanda International Airport

Juanda International Airport (Bandar Udara Internasional Juanda) is the main airport serving Surabaya and East Java, Indonesia, located in Sidoarjo Regency; it handled 13.5 million passengers in 2025.

Juande Ramos

Juande Ramos (Juan de la Cruz Ramos Cano, born 1954), Spanish football manager; won two UEFA Cups with Sevilla (2006, 2007), the 2008 League Cup with Tottenham, and briefly managed Real Madrid.

Juanes

Juanes (Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez, born 1972, Medellín) is a Colombian rock-pop singer-guitarist, ex-Ekhymosis metal frontman, 29-time Grammy/Latin Grammy winner, 2019 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year, and peace activist via Mi Sangre and Paz Sin Fronteras.

Juanfran (footballer, born 1985)

Juanfran, full name Juan Francisco Torres Belén, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right-back and won Euro 2012 with Spain during eight seasons at Atlético Madrid.

Juanfran Pérez Llorca

Juanfran Pérez Llorca (Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca) is a Spanish politician of the People's Party of the Valencian Community serving as President of the Generalitat Valenciana.

Juanita Brent

Juanita O. Brent is an American Democratic politician serving in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 18th district since 2019, now in her fourth term.

Juanita Broaddrick

Juanita Broaddrick, Arkansas nursing home administrator and Jane Doe No. 5 in the Paula Jones suit, alleges Bill Clinton raped her in 1978; no charges resulted, Starr called her account inconclusive.

Juanita Castro

Juanita Castro (Juana de la Caridad Castro Ruz, 1933-2023), Cuban entrepreneur, sister of Fidel and Raúl Castro; CIA informant codename Donna from 1961, exiled to Miami in 1964, pharmacy owner, 2009 memoirist.

Juanita Moore

Juanita Moore (1914-1915 birth records conflict; died January 1, 2014), American actress Oscar-nominated for Imitation of Life (1959); third African American supporting-actress nominee, fifth Black Oscar nominee overall; received a posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2024. Not the San Francisco drag performer Juanita MORE!.

Juanita W. Fleming

Juanita W. Fleming was an American nurse scientist and academic administrator who became the first Black professor in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing and a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing.

Juanlu Sanchez

Juanlu Sanchez (Juan Luis Sánchez Velasco, born 2003, Seville) is a Spanish footballer, Sevilla FC academy product and right back/midfielder, who won gold with Spain at Paris 2024 and scored the 85th-minute semifinal winner against Morocco.

Juanma Lopez

Juanma Lopez (Juan Manuel López Martínez, born 1969, Madrid) is a Spanish former footballer, a centre back who spent eleven seasons at Atlético Madrid, won the 1992 Olympic football gold with Spain, three Copas del Rey and the 1996 double, and now works as a players' agent.

Juanpa Zurita

Juanpa Zurita (Juan Pablo Martínez-Zurita Arellano, born 1996, Mexico City) is a Mexican creator, actor, and producer who rose on Vine in 2013, starred in Luis Miguel, La Serie, founded ARCO Entertainment Media, and led Love Army earthquake-relief fundraising.