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Junnosuke Suzuki

Junnosuke Suzuki (鈴木 淳之介, born 2003) is a Japanese defender for Danish club F.C. København and Japan, converted from midfielder to center back at Shonan Bellmare in 2024.

Juno

Juno, chief goddess of Roman religion, wife and sister of Jupiter in the Capitoline Triad; Italian goddess of women and the state whose epithets include Regina, Moneta (source of "money" and "mint"), Lucina, and Sospita, distinct from Greek Hera.

Juno (film)

Juno (2007) is a comedy-drama directed by Jason Reitman, written by Diablo Cody, starring Elliot Page as a pregnant teen arranging an adoption; it won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and grossed $143.5M in the US.

Juno (mythology)

Juno, Roman queen of the gods, wife and sister of Jupiter, member of the Capitoline Triad with Minerva; Italic goddess linked to Etruscan Uni, iuno spirit of women, Juno Moneta source of 'money' and 'mint', Matronalia festival, Aeneid antagonist.

Juno (Overwatch)

Juno (Juno Teo Minh) is a Mars-born Support hero in Overwatch 2, trialed July 19-21, 2024 and launched in Season 12: New Frontiers; abilities include Mediblaster, Pulsar Torpedoes, Glide Boost, Hyper Ring, and Orbital Ray.

Juno (song)

"Juno" is a 2024 pop song by Sabrina Carpenter, track 10 on Short n' Sweet, written with Amy Allen and John Ryan, referencing the 2007 film Juno and famous for its tour choreography.

Juno (spacecraft)

Juno is a NASA solar-powered orbiter that has studied Jupiter from a polar orbit since July 4, 2016, launched August 5, 2011 as the second New Frontiers mission.

Juno and the Paycock

Juno and the Paycock is a 1924 tragicomedy in three acts by Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, set in a Dublin tenement during the Irish Civil War.

Juno Awards

The Juno Awards, first given as the Gold Leaf Awards, are Canada's national music prizes, presented by CARAS and decided by member delegates, industry judges, and sales data.

Juno Awards of 2026

55th Annual JUNO Awards, Canada's music prizes, held in Hamilton, Ontario, March 26-29, 2026, hosted by Mae Martin; Tate McRae won four awards, Nelly Furtado entered the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Juno Beach

Juno Beach was the Canadian-assigned Normandy landing zone of D-Day, 6 June 1944, assaulted by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division; about 21,000 troops landed for over 1,150 casualties and the deepest Allied advance that day.

Juno Chasma

Juno Chasma is a 915-km-long rift valley (chasma) on Venus, centered at 30.5° S, 111.1° E in quadrangle V-47, named for the Roman goddess in 1982 and mapped geologically by Senske.

Juno Online Services

Juno Online Services, Inc., a New York-based American Internet service provider, launched free e-mail in 1996 and later merged with NetZero in 2001 to form United Online.

Juno Temple

Juno Temple (Juno Violet Temple, born 1989, London) is an English actress, daughter of director Julien Temple; BAFTA EE Rising Star 2013, Keeley Jones in Ted Lasso, Dot Lyon in Fargo season five, four Emmy nominations.

Juno Therapeutics

Juno Therapeutics was a Seattle-based biotechnology company founded in 2013 to develop CAR T cell therapies for cancer; Celgene acquired it in 2018, and its lead drug became Breyanzi.

JunoCam

JunoCam is the color visible-light camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 2016; built for public outreach, it lets the public pick targets and process images.

Junoon (जुनून) (1979 film)

Junoon (जुनून), a 1978 Hindi-Urdu historical drama directed by Shyam Benegal and produced by Shashi Kapoor, adapts Ruskin Bond's A Flight of Pigeons; set in the 1857 rebellion, it won the National Award for Best Hindi Film and six Filmfare Awards.

Junoon (जुनून) (1992 film)

Junoon (जुनून), also known as Obsession, is a 1992 Hindi-language horror thriller directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Rahul Roy, Pooja Bhatt, and Avinash Wadhavan, with music by Nadeem-Shravan.

Junooniyat

Junooniyat (जुनूनियत), 2016 Hindi romance directed by Vivek Agnihotri, starring Pulkit Samrat and Yami Gautam; T-Series production released 24 June 2016, box-office disaster at ₹4.24 crore net. Distinct from the Junooniyatt TV series.

Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer best known for his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Junqiao Wu

Junqiao Wu is a materials scientist who chairs materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley, known for work on vanadium dioxide and a temperature-adaptive radiative roof coating published in Science in 2021.

Junqueira Freire

Junqueira Freire (Luís José Junqueira Freire, 1832 to 1855) was a Brazilian Benedictine monk and ultraromantic poet of Salvador, Bahia, known for the poetry collection Inspirações do claustro (1855).

Junshi Biosciences (君实生物)

Junshi Biosciences (君实生物), formally Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai biopharmaceutical company founded in 2012, best known for the anti-PD-1 antibody toripalimab, the first China-developed biologic approved by the US FDA.

Junshu and Pingzhun (Equal Transport and Price Stabilization policies)

Junshu and pingzhun were Han dynasty fiscal policies under Emperor Wu, administered by Sang Hongyang, that stabilized prices and circulated goods between regions for profit.

Junsuk Rho

Junsuk Rho (노준석) is a South Korean nanophotonics researcher and endowed chair professor at POSTECH, working on metasurfaces, structural color, metalens-based AR displays, and LiDAR since 2014.

Junta of Chuquisaca

The Junta of Chuquisaca (Revolución de Chuquisaca) was the 25 May 1809 uprising in Chuquisaca, Upper Peru, that deposed Ramón García Pizarro, president of the Real Audiencia de Charcas.

Junta of National Reconstruction

The Junta of National Reconstruction (Junta de Gobierno de Reconstrucción Nacional) was the five-member provisional government formed by the Sandinistas that ruled Nicaragua from 1979 until Daniel Ortega's 1985 election.

Junta Tuitiva of La Paz

The Junta Tuitiva of La Paz (Junta Tuitiva de La Paz) was a governing junta formed in La Paz in July 1809 after an uprising against royal authorities.

Juntacadáveres

Juntacadáveres is a 1964 novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, in which the pimp Larsen tries to open a brothel in the fictional city of Santa María.

Juntuo Biopharma (君拓生物)

Juntuo Biopharma (君拓生物), formally Shanghai Juntuo Biomedical Technology Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai biotechnology company founded in 2021 by Junshi Biosciences, known for the VV116 COVID-19 drug and JT118 monkeypox vaccine.