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Judy Lewis

Judy Lewis (1935–2011), American actress, TV writer/producer and psychotherapist; biological daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable, concealed until her 1994 memoir Uncommon Knowledge; also producer of the soap Texas.

Judy Lieberman

Judy Lieberman is an American immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for her work on killer lymphocytes, pyroptosis, and RNA interference as drugs.

Judy Loe

Judy Loe (Judith Margaret Loe, 1947-2025), English television actress; breakthrough as Lulli Palmer in Ace of Wands; roles in Casualty, Holby City, Inspector Morse; widow of Richard Beckinsale, mother of Kate Beckinsale.

Judy Mikovits

Judy Mikovits, former Whittemore Peterson Institute research director, led the retracted 2009 Science paper linking XMRV to chronic fatigue syndrome; later an anti-vaccine activist featured in the false-claim Plandemic video.

Judy Moody

Judy Moody: children's chapter book series by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds, Candlewick Press, first book 2000; moody third-grader Judy, brother Stink spin-off, 17 titles, 2011 film.

Judy Murray

Judy Murray OBE, Scottish tennis coach, former player (64 Scottish titles), and Great Britain Fed Cup captain 2011–2016; mother and first coach of Andy and Jamie Murray, founder of the Judy Murray Foundation.

Judy Oil and Gas Field

Judy is an oil and gas field in block 30/7a of the UK central North Sea, about 240 km from Aberdeen, discovered in 1980 and producing since the mid-1990s.

Judy Parfitt

Judy Parfitt (born 7 November 1935, Sheffield) is an English RADA-trained actress known for Gertrude in Hamlet (1969), Dolores Claiborne, Girl with a Pearl Earring, two BAFTA nominations, and Sister Monica Joan in Call the Midwife.

Judy Reyes

Judy Reyes, born 1967 in the Bronx, is a Dominican American actress known as Carla Espinosa on Scrubs, Zoila on Devious Maids, Quiet Ann on Claws, and Selena Soto on High Potential.

Judy Schwank

Judy Schwank is an American Democratic politician who has represented Pennsylvania's 11th Senatorial District since 2011, previously serving as a Berks County Commissioner and dean at Delaware Valley College.

Judy Sheindlin

Judy Sheindlin (Judith Susan Blum), born 1942 in Brooklyn, is a former New York Family Court judge who became the television judge on Judge Judy (1996-2021) and Judy Justice (2021), retiring in 2026.

Judy Smith

Judy A. Smith, American crisis manager and former deputy press secretary to George H.W. Bush, founder of Smith & Company, inspiration for Olivia Pope on ABC's Scandal and its co-executive producer.

Judy Tenuta

Judy Tenuta (Judy Lynn Tenuta, 1949-2022), American stand-up comedian, the accordion-playing "Love Goddess" and "Aphrodite of the Accordion"; founded the parody religion Judyism, won the 1988 American Comedy Award for best female comedy club performer, and received two Grammy nominations.

Judy Vernon

Judy Vernon is a British former sprint hurdler who competed at the 1972 Munich Olympics and won the 1974 Commonwealth Games 100 meters hurdles title.

Judy Ward

Judy Ward is an American Republican politician and registered nurse representing Pennsylvania's 30th Senate district since 2018, its first female senator, after two House terms.

Judy Warnick

Judy Warnick is an American Republican politician who served in the Washington House from 2007 before joining the State Senate in 2014, representing the 13th district.

Judy Woodruff

Judy Woodruff, American broadcast journalist, senior correspondent and former anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour; co-anchored with Gwen Ifill from 2013, sole anchor until December 2022, now leads America at a Crossroads.

Judyann Elder

Judyann Elder (born Judith Ann Johnson, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress, director, writer, and producer; Negro Ensemble Company founding member, Broadway's I Have a Dream, TV roles on Murphy Brown, Martin, Family Matters, and director of A Private Act (2013).

Jue

The jue (爵) is a Chinese ritual bronze wine vessel with a long spout, three pointed legs, and two rim posts, used in Shang dynasty ancestral rites.

Jue Chen

Jue Chen is a Chinese-born American structural biologist and biochemist at The Rockefeller University known for determining the atomic structures of CFTR, the chloride channel mutated in cystic fibrosis, and of ABC transporters.

Jue Xing Dang Tian Wo Dang Shang Quanguo Zhuangyuan

觉醒当天,我当上全国状元 (Jue Xing Dang Tian Wo Dang Shang Quanguo Zhuangyuan) is an 88-episode 2025 Chinese vertical short drama, released 13 June 2025, about Lin Shengxue, framed and jailed, who reveals a perfect national gaokao top score and cuts ties with the Lin family.

Juegos de amor y poder

Juegos de amor y poder is a 2025 Mexican TelevisaUnivision telenovela by Carlos Bardasano, remaking Chile's Juegos de Poder; 70 episodes starring Claudia Martín and Arap Bethke, aired on Univision and Las Estrellas.

Juegos Florales

The Juegos Florales (Floral Games) are poetry contests with flower-named prizes revived from medieval troubadour contests and widely adopted in Latin America in the early twentieth century.

Jueju

Jueju (绝句) is a form of classical Chinese poetry of exactly four lines, each of five or seven characters; the five-character form is called wujue and the seven-character qijue.

Juellinge

Juellinge, near Vesterborg on Lolland, Denmark: Early Roman Iron Age burial site found in 1908 during railway construction, with four graves of three women and a girl, including a richly furnished woman buried with Roman drinking equipment and a cauldron of fermented barley-berry drink.

Juelz

Juelz is the stage name of Julian Ching, a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ from Vancouver, British Columbia, known for bass and trap music.

Juelz Santana

Juelz Santana (LaRon Louis James, born 1982) is a Harlem rapper and Diplomats (Dipset) member known for From Me to U, What the Game's Been Missing!, "There It Go (The Whistle Song)", and features on "Run It!" and "Beamer, Benz, or Bentley".

Juemiao Haoci

Juemiao Haoci (绝妙好词, "Extremely Fine Ci Lyrics") is a seven-juan anthology of Southern Song ci poetry compiled by the literatus Zhou Mi after the Song fell.

Juerg Leuthold

Juerg Leuthold is a Swiss physicist, Full Professor at ETH Zurich since 2013, who heads the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields and is known for plasmonic modulators and switches with record bandwidths.

Juergen Albrecht Richt

Juergen A. Richt is a German-trained veterinary virologist at Kansas State University who studies zoonotic diseases and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.