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Jürgen von der Lippe
Jürgen von der Lippe, born Hans-Jürgen Dohrenkamp, is a German comedian and television presenter whose comedy song "Guten Morgen, liebe Sorgen" reached number 3 in 1987.
Jürgen Wess
Jürgen Wess is a molecular pharmacologist leading the Molecular Signaling Section at NIH's NIDDK in Bethesda since 1998, known for linking muscarinic acetylcholine receptors to appetite, body weight, and glucose control, and for DREADD technology.
Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944) was a Lithuanian and Russian symbolist poet, translator, and diplomat who served as Lithuania's envoy to the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1939.
Jurgis Kunčinas
Jurgis Kunčinas (1947–2002) was a prominent Lithuanian writer, poet, and translator from German, best known for the novel Tūla (1993), an acclaimed portrayal of Vilnius.
Jurgis Savickis
Jurgis Savickis (1890–1952), who wrote under the pen name Rimošius, was a Lithuanian modernist writer and diplomat who served as envoy in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and other posts, dying in exile in France.
Juri Ermolenko
Juri Ermolenko (ЕРМОЛЕНКО Юрий Анатольевич, born 1967, Belgorod) is a Russian running target shooter, 1995 European champion with a 679.6 world record, and co-holder of the 1158 team world record set in 2002.
Juri Poutanen
Juri Poutanen is a Finnish astronomer, professor and director of Tuorla Observatory at the University of Turku, working on accreting black holes and X-ray polarimetry.
Juri Rappsilber
Juri Rappsilber is a biochemist known for cross-linking mass spectrometry, Einstein Professor of Bioanalytics at TU Berlin since 2011 and a group leader at the University of Edinburgh.
Juri Tamm
Jüri Tamm (Юрий Августович Тамм, 1957–2021), Estonian hammer thrower for the Soviet Union; double Olympic bronze medallist (1980, 1988), 1987 world silver, brief 1980 world record holder at 80.46 m, later Estonian parliament member.
Juri Tarmak
Jüri Tarmak (Yury Aaduvich Tarmak, 1946–2022), Estonian high jumper for the USSR; 1972 Munich Olympic gold at 2.23 m, first Estonian athletics Olympic champion, last straddle-technique gold medalist; personal best 2.25 m.
Juri Toomre
Juri Toomre is an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and a JILA fellow since 1974, known for research on the Sun's interior through convection, dynamos, and helioseismology.
Jüri Vips
Jüri Vips (born 2000, Tallinn) is an Estonian racing driver; 2017 ADAC F4 champion, Red Bull junior and F1 test/reserve driver until a June 2022 Twitch racial slur dismissal, later F2, IndyCar (RLL) and 2026 IMSA GTD Pro with McLaren.
Juri Yokoyama
Juri Yokoyama (横山樹理), Japanese volleyball player born 1955 in Kitakyushu; won gold in women's volleyball at Montreal 1976 with Japan, plus 1974 World Championship and Asian Games titles.
Jurickson Profar
Jurickson Profar, Curaçao-born MLB outfielder and switch hitter (Rangers, Athletics, Padres, Rockies, Braves); former No. 1 prospect, 2024 NL All-Star, later twice suspended for PEDs.
Juridical Stela
The Juridical Stela is a limestone stela from Karnak, Thebes, dated to Year 1 of King Nebiryraw I, recording the legal transfer of the governorship of El-Kab.
Jurien Island
Jurien Island is a small Antarctic island northeast of Cape Leguillou, Tower Island, Palmer Archipelago, charted and named Île Jurien by d'Urville's French expedition on 4-5 March 1838.
Jurin Asaya (浅谷珠琳)
Jurin Asaya (浅谷珠琳), stage name JURIN, born 2002 in Chigasaki, Japan, is leader, main dancer, and lead rapper of XG; a former pro snowboarder and model, she debuted solo as JURIN ASAYA with PS118 (feat. Rapsody) in 2025. Not the Jurin AI company.
Jurin's law
Jurin's law gives the height a liquid rises or is depressed in a narrow capillary tube, inversely proportional to the tube radius, named for the English physiologist James Jurin.
Juris Doctor
The Juris Doctor (J.D.) is the three-year postgraduate professional law degree required for legal practice in the US, awarded also in Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines; it replaced the LL.B. between 1964 and 1969 and its doctoral status is debated.
Juris Hartmanis
Juris Hartmanis was a Latvian-born American computer scientist who, with Richard E. Stearns, founded computational complexity theory, won the 1993 ACM Turing Award, and chaired Cornell's computer science department.
Juris Šics
Juris Šics (born 1983, Sigulda) is a Latvian luger who raced doubles with brother Andris Šics, winning Olympic silver 2010 and two bronzes 2014 across five Games, retiring after 2021/22.
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction is a court's or government agency's power to adjudicate and issue orders, and the territory where that power may be exercised. Covers subject matter and personal jurisdiction, Pennoyer, International Shoe, federal and state divisions, and international aspects.
Jurisdiction in divorce with a foreign element
Jurisdiction in divorce with a foreign element is the set of rules deciding which court may hear a divorce with cross-border connections, such as different nationalities or residences.
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion (Juridiction de Saint-Émilion), a 7,847-hectare UNESCO World Heritage vineyard landscape in Gironde, France, inscribed in 1999 under criteria (iii) and (iv) across eight communes founded by John Lackland.
Jurisdiction stripping
Jurisdiction stripping: Congress's use of the Article III Exceptions Clause and its control over lower federal courts to remove classes of cases from judicial review, bounded by Klein, Plaut, and Patchak.
Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence (Latin juris prudentia, science of law) is legal philosophy: the study of what law is. Covers legal positivism, natural law, Kelsen's pure theory, historical jurisprudence, and formalist versus realist schools.
Jurjen Battjes
Jurjen Battjes (born 1939) is a Dutch coastal engineer and fluid mechanician, Professor Emeritus at Delft University of Technology, known for the surf-similarity parameter and the Battjes–Janssen wave-breaking model.
Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma
Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma (1904–1964) was a Dutch mathematician who wrote the standard 1936 monograph on Diophantine approximation and proved a 1935 equidistribution theorem central to uniform distribution theory.
Jurji Zaydan
Jurji Zaydan (جرجي زيدان) was a Lebanese-born novelist and historian who founded the Cairo journal al-Hilal in 1892 and wrote historical novels on Islamic history.
Jurkat
Jurkat (CVCL_0065) is an immortalized human T-lymphocyte leukemia cell line from a 14-year-old boy with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the standard model for TCR signaling, HIV studies, and CAR-T testing, with known PTEN, MSH2, and MSH6 defects.