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Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, also called Jamaica Blue Mountain, is a certification-mark Arabica Typica coffee grown up to 1,800 m in four Jamaican parishes, JACRA-inspected, barrel-packed, and 65-80% exported to Japan.
Jamaican cuisine
Jamaican cuisine, the cooking of Jamaica (Cuisine of Jamaica, Jamaican food), blends Taíno, African, Spanish, British, Indian, and Chinese influences; known for jerk, ackee and saltfish, patties, rum, and Blue Mountain coffee.
Jamaican dollar
The Jamaican dollar (JMD) is the national currency of Jamaica, issued solely by the Bank of Jamaica since decimal adoption in 1969, with polymer notes and a floating exchange rate.
Jamaican financial crisis 1996
The Jamaican financial crisis of 1996 was the collapse of most of Jamaica's domestically owned banks and life insurers between 1994 and 1998, resolved through the government rescue agency FINSAC.
Jamaican Maroons
Jamaican Maroons: descendants of escaped enslaved Africans who formed independent communities in Jamaica's interior, won the 1739–1740 treaties of freedom and self-government after guerrilla warfare, and persist today as autonomous communities with Akan-rooted traditions.
Jamaican Patois
Jamaican Patois (Patwa, Jamaican Creole) is an English-lexifier creole and the mother tongue of most of Jamaica's 2.8 million people, with Akan-influenced vocabulary, preverbal tense-mood-aspect particles, no official status, and the Cassidy-JLU orthography.
Jamaican patty
The Jamaican patty, also known as the Jamaican beef patty, is a baked half-moon pastry from Jamaica with a flaky yellow crust and spiced beef filling.
Jamaican Revivalism
Jamaican Revivalism is a Jamaican folk religion blending African spirituality with Christianity, arising from the Great Revival of 1860–61, with worship centered on drumming, dancing, and spirit possession.
Jamais vu
Jamais vu (jamais-vu), French for 'never seen', is the opposite of déjà vu: a metamemory state in which familiar places, people, or words suddenly feel strange and unfamiliar. Rarer than déjà vu, it is inducible in the laboratory by word repetition and occurs in temporal lobe epilepsy.
Jamal Adams
Jamal Adams, born 1995, NFL safety and linebacker from LSU; drafted 6th overall by the Jets in 2017, traded to Seattle in 2020, set the DB single-season sack record (9.5), signed a record $70M extension, later Titans and Vikings.
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (جمال الدين الأسدآبادي)
Jamal al-Afghani was a highly influential Iranian-born writer and activist. He traveled widely, urging Muslim unity and resistance against Western imperialism in the 19th century.
Jamal al-Din al-Isfahani
Jamal al-Din al-Isfahani (جمال الدين الأصفهاني) was the twelfth-century vizier of the Zangid atabegs of Mosul, remembered for mediating between Nur al-Din and Qutb al-Din Mawdud.
Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi
Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi (جمال الدين المزي) was a Syrian Shafii hadith scholar (1256–1341) who headed the Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya in Damascus and wrote Tahdhib al-kamal, a biographical dictionary of hadith transmitters.
Jamal al-Din al-Zayla'i
Jamal al-Din al-Zayla'i (جمال الدين الزيلعي) was a Hanafi jurist and hadith scholar in Mamluk Cairo, best known for Nasb al-Raya, tracing the hadith of al-Hidaya.
Jamal al-Din Muhammad
Jamal al-Din Muhammad (جمال الدين محمد) was a Burid ruler of Damascus from 1139 to 1140, succeeding his brother and leaving the throne to his young son.
Jamal Ben Saddik (جمال بن صديق)
Jamal Ben Saddik (جمال بن صديق), born in 1990 in Antwerp, is a Moroccan-Belgian heavyweight kickboxer known for his long GLORY career and rivalry with Rico Verhoeven.
Jamal Blackman
Jamal Blackman (Jamal Clint-Ross Blackman, born 1993, Croydon) is a 1.99 m goalkeeper, ex-Chelsea academy player with no first-team appearances, later at Sheffield United, Leeds, LAFC, Exeter, Shrewsbury, and Morecambe, now a Barbados international.
Jamal Crawford
Jamal Crawford is an American former NBA guard from Seattle who played 20 seasons for nine teams and won the Sixth Man of the Year Award three times.
Jamal Duff
Jamal Duff (Jamal Edwin Duff, born 1972) is a former NFL defensive end from San Diego State, drafted 204th overall by the Giants in 1995, who played 41 games with 9.0 sacks and later became an actor in Dodgeball and The Marine.
Jamal Edwards
Jamal Edwards (1990-2022), British entrepreneur and DJ, founded SBTV (SmokeyBarz TV), the YouTube music platform that launched Ed Sheeran, Stormzy, and Dave; MBE 2014; died aged 31.
Jamal Harrison Bryant
Jamal Harrison Bryant is an American pastor who founded Empowerment Temple in Baltimore in 2000 and has led New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, since 2018.
Jamal Haynes
Jamal Haynes, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets running back (2021-2025), converted wide receiver who rushed for 1,059 yards in 2023 and 944 in 2024, then signed with the Cincinnati Bengals as a 2026 undrafted free agent.
Jamal Hill (American football)
Jamal Hill (born 2001) is an NFL linebacker, No. 56 for the Houston Texans; Oregon Ducks alumnus, sixth-round 2024 draft pick (188th/189th overall), 23 career games, 14 combined tackles.
Jamal Iddrissou
Jamal Iddrissou (born 2007, Brescia) is an Italian centre forward at Inter Milan's U23 side in Serie C and an Italy youth international; Inter U18 top scorer with 18 goals, Youth League hat-trick vs Real Betis, model Marcus Thuram.
Jamal J. Azar
Jamal J. Azar (born 1937) is a McMan Chair professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Tulsa, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
Jamal Jarrah (جمال الجراح)
Jamal Jarrah (جمال الجراح), born 1956, Lebanese Future Movement MP for West Bekaa–Rashaya, Bank Med executive, Minister of Telecommunications 2016–2019 and Information Minister 2019, later referred for trial and fined $11.3 million.
Jamal Lewis (footballer)
Jamal Piaras Lewis (born 1998, Luton) is a Northern Irish left-back who played for Norwich City, Newcastle United (£15m, 2020), loans at Watford and São Paulo, and Preston North End; 40 Northern Ireland caps.
Jamal Lowe
Jamal Akua Lowe (born 1994, Harrow, London) is a Jamaican international forward and winger for Sheffield Wednesday, formerly of Barnet, Portsmouth, Wigan, Swansea, and Bournemouth; ex-PE teacher who rose via non-league football.
Jamal Lyon
Jamal Lyon is the openly gay middle son of Lucious and Cookie Lyon on Fox's Empire, played by Jussie Smollett; named Lucious's successor in season 1, married Kai in primetime's first gay Black wedding, and was written out after Smollett's 2019 arrest.
Jamal Mashburn
Jamal Mashburn, nicknamed "Monster Mash", is an American former NBA small forward and All-Star for the Mavericks, Heat, and Hornets who later built a portfolio of over 100 businesses.