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J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie (1860–1937), Scottish novelist and playwright, creator of Peter Pan; born in Kirriemuir, guardian of the Llewelyn Davies boys, gave the Peter Pan copyright to Great Ormond Street Hospital.
J. M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee (born 1940, Cape Town) is a South African-born Australian novelist, two-time Booker Prize winner (Life & Times of Michael K, Disgrace) and 2003 Nobel laureate in Literature, known for spare allegorical fiction.
J. M. Daly
Joseph Michael Daly (1922–1993) was an American plant physiologist who studied wheat and bean rusts at the University of Nebraska and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1984.
J. M. G. Le Clézio
J. M. G. Le Clézio (Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio), French novelist born 1940 in Nice, 2008 Nobel Literature laureate; author of Le Procès-verbal, Désert, and Mauritius-rooted fiction.
J. M. Synge
J. M. Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, and travel writer, a leading figure of the Irish Literary Revival and co-director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
J. M. W. Turner
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), English Romantic landscape and marine painter famed for luminous light and atmosphere; Royal Academician at 26, creator of the Liber Studiorum and the 1856 Turner Bequest at Tate.
J. Magarian Blander
Julie Magarian Blander is an Armenian American immunologist who studies how the innate immune system detects microbes and cell death, holding an endowed professorship at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2016.
J. Marc Overhage
J. Marc Overhage is an American physician-informatician who created the Indiana Network for Patient Care, a community-wide health information exchange, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2010.
J. Marie Hardwick
J. Marie Hardwick is a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University who studies programmed cell death and the BCL-2 protein family, and helped show that viruses trigger apoptosis.
J. Marion Sims
J. Marion Sims (1813–1883), American surgeon called the father of modern gynecology, developed vesicovaginal fistula repair, the Sims speculum and position, and founded New York's Woman's Hospital, but experimented without anesthesia on enslaved women, making his legacy deeply contested.
J. Marshall Shepherd
J. Marshall Shepherd (James Marshall Shepherd) is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Georgia known for research on urban effects on weather and hurricanes.
J. Martin Bollinger
J. Martin Bollinger Jr. is an American enzymologist and chemical biologist at Penn State since 1995, known for trapping short-lived metal–oxygen and radical intermediates in metalloenzymes.
J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop (John Michael Bishop, 1936–2026) was an American virologist at the University of California, San Francisco who co-discovered proto-oncogenes, earning the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
J. Michael Chu
J. Michael Chu, also known as Michael Chu, is an American private equity investor who co-founded the consumer-focused firm Catterton in 1989 and led its successor, L Catterton.
J. Michael Gaziano
J. Michael Gaziano is an American preventive cardiologist and chronic disease epidemiologist at VA Boston and Harvard Medical School who directs the VA Boston epidemiology center and helps lead the Million Veteran Program.
J. Michael Harrison
J. Michael Harrison (John Michael Harrison, born 1944) is an operations researcher who spent 1970 to 2011 at Stanford, known for Brownian networks and equivalent martingale measures in option pricing.
J. Michael Kosterlitz
J. Michael Kosterlitz, born John Michael Kosterlitz in 1943, is a British condensed-matter physicist at Brown University known for the Kosterlitz–Thouless transition and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.
J. Michael Luttig
J. Michael Luttig (born 1954) is a retired American judge, Fourth Circuit 1991-2006 under George H.W. Bush, former Boeing general counsel, and adviser who told Mike Pence he lacked authority to overturn the 2020 election.
J. Michael McWilliams
J. Michael McWilliams, also known as John Michael McWilliams, is an American internist and health policy researcher who is a professor at Harvard Medical School studying Medicare.
J. Michael Mendel
J. Michael Mendel (Joel Michael Mendel) was an American animation producer, Syracuse University graduate and line producer on Rick and Morty, with producer credits on 207 episodes of The Simpsons and five Primetime Emmy Awards, who died September 22, 2019, in Los Angeles at age 54.
J. Michael Plumb
J. Michael Plumb (John Michael Plumb, born 1940) is an American Olympic eventing rider, the only U.S. athlete named to eight Olympic teams, who won six Olympic medals (two gold, four silver) from 1964 to 1984.
J. Michael Riva
J. Michael Riva (John Michael Riva, 1948–2012) was an American production designer, grandson of Marlene Dietrich, Oscar-nominated for The Color Purple and Emmy-winning for the 79th Academy Awards, known for The Goonies, Lethal Weapon, Iron Man, and Django Unchained.
J. Michael Straczynski
Joseph Michael Straczynski (JMS), born 1954, American screenwriter, producer, and comic book writer; creator of Babylon 5, Crusade, Jeremiah, and Sense8; writer of Changeling, Thor, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Superman: Earth One; two-time Hugo winner and BAFTA nominee for Changeling.
J. Michael Tatum
J. Michael Tatum (John Michael Tatum, born 1976, McKinney, Texas) is an American voice actor, ADR director, and script writer for Funimation dubs, known as Sebastian Michaelis, Okabe Rintaro, Erwin Smith, and Sir Hammerlock.
J. Mohamed Farvas
J. Mohamed Farvas (ஜே. முகமது பர்வாஸ்) is a TVK politician, MLA for Aranthangi (Pudukkottai) since May 2026 and Tamil Nadu's Minister for Labour Welfare and Skill Development under CM C. Joseph Vijay.
J. Murray Mitchell
J. Murray Mitchell (1928–1990) was an American climatologist who coined the term Arctic haze and became an early voice warning of global warming, serving as senior research climatologist at NOAA.
J. N. Ranjan
J. Nicholas Ranjan, born 1978, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
J. Nicholas Betley
J. Nicholas Betley is a neuroscientist and associate professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how hunger and thirst reshape behavior and pain through AgRP neurons.
J. Nicholas Laneman
J. Nicholas (Nick) Laneman is an American electrical engineer at the University of Notre Dame known for cooperative wireless communication research and a 2006 PECASE award.
J. Nwando Olayiwola
J. Nwando Olayiwola is an American family physician and health equity researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022 and a Humana health equity executive.