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Jamal Murray
Jamal Murray (born 1997) is a Canadian NBA guard for the Denver Nuggets, drafted seventh overall in 2016; 2023 NBA champion, two-time 50-point playoff scorer, first All-Star in 2025-26.
Jamal Musiala
Jamal Musiala, German attacking midfielder for FC Bayern and Germany, born Stuttgart 2003, ex-Chelsea academy, youngest Bayern Bundesliga debutant and scorer, contract to 2030, six Bundesliga titles, 2025 injury and 2026 neurological episodes.
Jamal N. Whitehead
Jamal N. Whitehead, born 1979, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Washington since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Jamal Roberts
Jamal Roberts, American soul and gospel singer from Meridian, Mississippi; won American Idol season 23 in 2025 with 26 million votes, second Black male winner after Ruben Studdard; debut single Heal topped Billboard gospel charts; debut album The Journey (2026).
Jamal Shead
Jamal Shead, born 2002, is an NBA guard for the Toronto Raptors, drafted 45th overall in 2024 from Houston; Big 12 Player of the Year and Naismith Defensive Player of the Year.
Jamal Woolard
Jamal Woolard, also known as Gravy, is an American actor and rapper born 1975, best known for playing The Notorious B.I.G. in Notorious (2009) and All Eyez on Me (2017).
Jamala (Джамала)
Jamala (Susana Jamaladinova), born 1983 in Osh, is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar singer-songwriter who won Eurovision 2016 with "1944", the first partly Crimean Tatar entry, about the 1944 deportation; albums include Qırım (2023).
Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba
Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba (born 2006, Birmingham) is an English attacking midfielder, ex-West Brom academy, who joined Aston Villa in 2023, scored an 87th-minute Europa League winner v Salzburg, and returned to West Brom on loan in February 2026.
Jamali Kamboh
Jamali Kamboh (جمالی کمبوہ) was a Persian-language Indian poet, tazkira writer, and Suhrawardi Sufi shaikh of Delhi who served the Lodi sultans, Babur, and Humayun.
Jamalpur District
Jamalpur District (জামালপুর জেলা), Bangladesh, in Mymensingh Division; named after Hazrat Shah Jamal. Became Bangladesh's 20th district on 26 December 1978; area 2,031.98 sq km, population about 2.5 million (2022).
Jamar K. Walker
Jamar K. Walker, born Jamar Kentrell Walker, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2023.
JaMarcus Russell
JaMarcus Russell is a former quarterback drafted first overall by the Oakland Raiders in 2007 and released after three seasons.
Jamari Johnson
Jamari Johnson: name shared by two FBS football players, an Oregon/Louisville tight end from Inglewood, Calif. (57 catches, 857 yards), and a Cincinnati safety from Birmingham, Ala.
Jamasp
Jamasp (جاماسپ) was a Sasanian king of kings who ruled the Persian Empire from 496 to 498 or 499, between the two reigns of his brother Kawad I.
Jamba (model family)
Jamba is a family of large language models from AI21 Labs, first released in March 2024, combining Transformer and Mamba layers with a 256K-token context window.
Jamba Juice
Jamba Juice (Jamba) is an American smoothie and juice bar chain founded as Juice Club by Kirk Perron in San Luis Obispo in 1990, franchising since 1993, public 2006, Focus Brands 2018, now GoTo Foods with 710 U.S. stores.
Jamba, Angola
Jamba is a town in Cuando Cubango Province, southeastern Angola, that served from the late 1970s to the early 1990s as UNITA's headquarters and provisional capital under Jonas Savimbi.
Jambalaya
Jambalaya, also spelled jumbalaya, is a Louisiana Creole and Cajun one-pot rice dish in which rice cooks with andouille, chicken, seafood, and the holy trinity; Creole (red) versions use tomatoes, Cajun (brown) ones do not.
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" is a country song written and recorded by Hank Williams, released in 1952 and number one on the country chart for 14 weeks.
Jambaran-Tiung Biru Unitized Oil and Gas Field
Jambaran-Tiung Biru Unitized Oil and Gas Field (JTB) is an onshore gas and condensate field in Bojonegoro Regency, East Java, Indonesia, operated by Pertamina EP Cepu since 2022.
Jambavan (जाम्बवान्)
Jambavan (जाम्बवान्, Jāmbavān), also Jambavanta, is the bear king of Hindu epic, minister of Sugriva in the Ramayana, awakener of Hanuman's powers, and later opponent of Krishna over the Syamantaka jewel.
Jambi
Jambi is an Indonesian province in central Sumatra, capital Jambi City, formed 1957–1958 from a former sultanate and Dutch residency; 53,435.72 km2, 9 regencies and 2 cities, about 3.8 million people, resource-based economy, and the Muarajambi Buddhist temple complex.
Jambi City
Jambi City (Kota Jambi), capital of Jambi Province, Sumatra, on the Batanghari River; former sultanate seat, Dutch colonial residency from 1906, provincial capital since 1958, population about 650,000.
Jambi Sultanate
The Jambi Sultanate (Kesultanan Jambi) was a Malay Islamic state on the Batanghari River in eastern Sumatra, a major pepper-trading sultanate from 1615 until the Dutch took control in 1904.
Jambo
Jambo (17 April 1961 – 16 September 1992) was a western lowland gorilla silverback at Jersey Zoo, Jersey, who in 1986 protected five-year-old Levan Merritt after the boy fell into the enclosure, an event filmed by Brian Le Lion that changed public perception of gorillas.
Jambo (greeting)
Jambo is a Swahili noun meaning 'matter, thing, affair' and, as Jambo!, a tourist-facing East African 'hello' shortened from the proper greeting Hujambo? / Sijambo. Distinguished from the everyday Habari? ('news') and casual Mambo? greetings; plural mambo; Proto-Bantu etymology.
Jambr
Jambr (Ջամբռ) is an eighteenth-century historical and memorial work by Catholicos Simeon I Yerevantsi of the Armenian Apostolic Church, written between 1765 and 1769 and compiled from Etchmiadzin documents.
Jambukeswarar Temple, Thiruvanaikaval
Jambukeswarar Temple, also called Thiruvanaikoil or Jambukeswaram, is a Shiva temple on Srirangam island near Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, and one of the five Pancha Bhoota Sthalams.
Jambukhādaka
Jambukhādaka (जम्बुखादक) was a wandering ascetic of the Buddha's time who visited Sāriputta at Nālaka in Magadha, asking the questions answered in the sixteen suttas of SN 38.
Jamdani (জামদানি)
Jamdani (জামদানি), also called Dhakai Jamdani, is a sheer, figured muslin cotton fabric handwoven around Dhaka, Bangladesh, using a discontinuous supplementary-weft technique; UNESCO-inscribed in 2013 and Bangladesh's first GI product (2016).