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Justin Wrobleski

Justin Wrobleski (born 2000) is a left-handed pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers; 2021 11th-round pick from Oklahoma State, 2024 debut, 2025 World Series champion, 2026 NL All-Star.

Justin Young (singer, born 1978)

Justin Kawika Young, also known as Justin Young or Kawika Young, is a Hawaiian singer-songwriter from Kailua, Oahu, with eleven number-one Hawaii radio hits, a decade touring with Colbie Caillat, the country band Gone West, and the band Seven Suns.

Justin Yu

Justin Yu is a name shared by several unrelated people: a Berkeley BAIR robotics PhD student with Ken Goldberg, an MIT Tetris champion (fractal161), an MIT EECS engineer, a restaurant GM, a Clairvest associate, an IOC coordinator, an actor, and athletes.

Justin Zook

Justin Zook is an American biomedical engineer and genomics researcher at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who co-leads the Genome in a Bottle Consortium and received a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Justin.tv

Justin.tv was a live video streaming website launched in San Francisco in 2007 by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel, and Kyle Vogt, shut down in 2014 to focus on Twitch.

Justin's House

Justin's House is a British children's comedy series on CBeebies in which Justin Fletcher entertains a live audience of young children from 2011 to 2023.

Justina Machado

Justina Machado (born 1972, Chicago) is an American actress known for Vanessa Diaz on Six Feet Under, Penelope Alvarez on One Day at a Time, Darci Factor on Jane the Virgin, and The Horror of Dolores Roach. Not to be confused with Tati Machado.

Justina Valentine

Justina Valentine (born 1987, Passaic County, New Jersey) is an Italian-American rapper, singer, and TV personality, longest-running female Wild 'N Out cast member (Season 8, 2016, onward), known for "Candy Land" with Fetty Wap and albums Scarlet Letter, Favorite Vibe, and Infrared.

Justinas Marcinkevičius

Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930–2011) was a Lithuanian poet, dramatist, and translator, regarded as the poet of the Nation, whose verse-drama trilogy recreated the birth of Lithuanian statehood and who later helped lead the Sąjūdis independence movement.

Justinas Pranaitis

Justinas Bonaventūra Pranaitis (1861–1917) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest who wrote the 1892 anti-Talmud book The Talmud Unmasked and testified for the prosecution at the 1913 Beilis trial.

Justine (de Sade novel)

Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue, is a 1791 erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade, set in France before the Revolution, telling of a virtuous young woman's misfortunes.

Justine Bateman

Justine Bateman, American actress, writer, director, and author born 1966 in Rye, New York; played Mallory Keaton on Family Ties (1982–89), directed Violet (2021), wrote Fame and Face, and advises SAG-AFTRA on AI.

Justine Braisaz Bouchet

Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, born 1996 in Albertville, France, is a French biathlete, 2022 Olympic mass start champion and five-time world champion with 22 World Cup wins; competed as Justine Braisaz at PyeongChang 2018.

Justine Clarke

Justine Clarke is an Australian actress, singer, and television host, born in 1971, known for presenting Play School and winning the 2018 ARIA Award for Best Children's Album.

Justine Dufour Lapointe

Justine Dufour-Lapointe (born 1994, Montreal) is a Canadian freestyle skier, 2014 Sochi Olympic moguls champion and 2018 silver medallist, sister of Chloé and Maxime, later a two-time Freeride World Tour champion (2023, 2025).

Justine Frischmann

Justine Frischmann, born 1969 in London, is an English painter and former musician who co-founded Suede, then fronted Britpop band Elastica, whose 1995 debut hit UK No. 1; since 2005 she has worked as a visual artist.

Justine Greening

Justine Greening, British chartered accountant and former Conservative MP for Putney (2005–2019), served as Education, International Development and Transport Secretary; first openly LGBT woman in UK cabinet; later founded the Purpose Coalition.

Justine Henin

Justine Henin, Belgian tennis champion (born 1982, Liège), seven-time Grand Slam winner, 117 weeks as world No. 1, 2004 Olympic gold, retired No. 1 in 2008, Hall of Fame 2016.

Justine Lupe

Justine Lupe (Justine Lupe-Schomp), American actress born 1989 in Denver, Juilliard-trained; known for Willa Ferreyra in Succession, Holly Gibney in Mr. Mercedes, Astrid Weissman in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Morgan in Netflix's Nobody Wants This.

Justine Mintsa

Justine Mintsa is a Gabonese novelist and academic of Fang origin who writes in French. She taught English literature at the Université Omar Bongo in Libreville for decades.

Justine Mitchell

Justine Mitchell is an Irish-British actress (Trinity College Dublin) known for Smother's Elaine Lynch, Conversations with Friends, Derry Girls, and stage roles at the National, Donmar, and Gate theatres; not the lawyer, businesswoman, or analyst of the same name.

Justine Musk

Justine Musk (born 1972) is a Canadian novelist, née Wilson, author of BloodAngel (2005), Uninvited (2007), and Lord of Bones (2008), a Marie Claire essayist, TEDx speaker, and first wife (2000–2008) of Elon Musk, with whom she has six children.

Justine Nameere

Justine Nameere Nsubuga (born 1989) is a Ugandan lawyer, former television presenter, Masaka City Woman MP, and Minister of State for Local Government in Museveni's 2026 cabinet, daughter of Vincent Ssempijja.

Justine Siegal

Justine Siegal, American baseball coach and executive; first woman to coach pro men's baseball (Brockton Rox 2009), throw MLB batting practice (2011), and coach for an MLB organization (Athletics 2015); founded Baseball For All and co-founded the Women's Pro Baseball League.

Justine Skye

Justine Skye (Justine Indira Skyers, born 1995) is a Brooklyn-born American R&B and dance singer of Jamaican descent, Tumblr-famous for purple hair and covers, known for "Collide" with Tyga, the albums Ultraviolet, Space & Time, and the Warner dance album CANDY.

Justine Suissa

Justine Suissa is a singer-songwriter best known as vocalist of OceanLab, the vocal trance project formed in London in 2000 with Above & Behind, whose 'Satellite' reached number 19 on the UK chart in 2004.

Justine Waddell

Justine Waddell, South African-born British actress, producer, and screenwriter; star of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Wives and Daughters; founder of Klassiki and writer of Virginia Woolf's Night & Day (2026).

Justine Wong Orantes

Justine Wong-Orantes, born 1995, is an American volleyball libero, Nebraska's career digs leader (1,890), Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist and Best Libero, and Paris 2024 silver medalist with Team USA.

Justinian I

Justinian I (Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus), Eastern Roman emperor 527–565, codified Roman law in the Corpus Juris Civilis, reconquered North Africa and Italy, rebuilt Hagia Sophia, and fought Sasanian Persia.

Justinian II (Ιουστινιανός Β΄)

Justinian II (Ιουστινιανός Β΄, Rhinotmetos, ca. 668–711), last Heraclian Byzantine emperor, ruled 685–695 and 705–711; deposed and nose-slitted in 695, restored in 705 with Bulgar khan Tervel's help, first to put Christ on Byzantine coins, beheaded in 711.