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J. O'H. Tobin
J. O'H. Tobin, also known as John O'Hara Tobin, was a British virologist who isolated respiratory syncytial virus in 1963 and traced Legionnaires' disease to shower water.
J. Om Prakash (जे. ओम प्रकाश)
J. Om Prakash (जे. ओम प्रकाश), born Om Prakash Juneja (1927–2019), was a Hindi film producer and director who founded Filmyug, produced hits like Aandhi, directed Aap Ki Kasam, and was Hrithik Roshan's maternal grandfather.
J. P. Arencibia
J.P. Arencibia (Jonathan Paul Arencibia, born 1986) is a former MLB catcher, Toronto Blue Jays starter 2011-2013 with 80 career home runs, later New York Mets catching coach.
J. P. Calabrese
J. Philip Calabrese, born 1971, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 2020, nominated by President Trump.
J. P. Clark
J. P. Clark, born John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, was a Nigerian poet, playwright, and scholar counted among the pioneers of modern Nigerian poetry; he died in 2020.
J. P. Donleavy
J. P. Donleavy (1926-2017), American-born Irish novelist, author of The Ginger Man (1955), banned in Ireland and published by Olympia Press; won a 21-year legal battle with Maurice Girodias and bought the press, settling at Levington Park, Mullingar.
J. P. Dutta
J. P. Dutta (Jyoti Prakash Dutta), born 1949 in Bombay, is a Hindi film director and producer known for patriotic war films Border (1997), Refugee (2000), LOC: Kargil (2003), and Paltan (2018), and the National Integration Award for Border.
J. P. Guilford
J. P. Guilford (1897–1987) was an American psychologist and psychometrician at the University of Southern California whose Structure of Intellect model rejected a single IQ factor.
J. P. Manoux
J. P. Manoux, full name Jean-Paul Manoux, is an American actor and comedian known for Phil of the Future and voicing Kuzco in The Emperor's New School.
J. P. McManus
JP McManus (John Patrick McManus, born 1951, County Limerick), Irish billionaire gambler and racehorse owner, record 78 Cheltenham Festival wins, nine Champion Hurdles, three Grand Nationals, green and gold silks.
J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan, born John Pierpont Morgan, was an American investment banker who organized financial rescues and formed U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar American company, in 1901.
J. P. Morgan Jr.
J. P. Morgan Jr., also known as John Pierpont Morgan Jr., was an American banker who headed J.P. Morgan & Co. from 1913 to 1943.
J. P. Nadda (जगत प्रकाश नड्डा)
Jagat Prakash Nadda (जगत प्रकाश नड्डा), born 1960 in Patna, is an Indian BJP politician: party national president 2020–2026, three-term Himachal Pradesh MLA, Rajya Sabha member, and Union Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers minister.
J. P. R. Williams
J. P. R. Williams, known as JPR, was a Welsh rugby union full-back who won 55 Wales caps from 1969 to 1981 and toured with the British and Irish Lions.
J. P. Thuminad
J. P. Thuminad (ಜೆಪಿ ತುಮಿನಾಡು), born Jaya Prakash Thuminad, is an Indian film director, writer, and actor known for the 2025 Kannada horror comedy Su From So.
J. Pat O'Malley
J. Pat O'Malley, also known as James Patrick O'Malley, was an English actor and singer. He provided voices for Walt Disney animated productions, including Alice in Wonderland (1951).
J. Paul Attfield
J. Paul Attfield is a materials chemist at the University of Edinburgh known for solving the Verwey problem of magnetite in 2012 and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2014.
J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty (Jean Paul Getty) was an American oil magnate, named the richest American by Fortune in 1957, who left nearly $700 million to the Getty museum trust.
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum, also called the Getty Center and Getty Villa, is a free two-site art museum in Los Angeles County run by the J. Paul Getty Trust, holding European art, photography, and about 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities.
J. Peter May
J. Peter May, born in 1939, is an American algebraic topologist at the University of Chicago known for the recognition theorem for iterated loop spaces, the little-cubes operads, and influential textbooks.
J. Peter Neary
J. Peter Neary, born James Peter Neary (1950–2021), was an Irish trade economist and Oxford professor known for the Dutch disease model and trade restrictiveness indexes.
J. Philippe Rushton
J. Philippe Rushton (1943-2012), British-Canadian psychologist at the University of Western Ontario, applied r/K selection theory to racial differences in intelligence and behavior; his work was widely criticized, partly retracted, and disavowed by his department.
J. R. D. Tata
J. R. D. Tata (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata) was a French-born Indian aviator and industrialist who flew India's first flight in 1932 and chaired the Tata group from 1938 to 1991.
J. R. Ewing
J.R. Ewing (John Ross Ewing Jr.) is the villainous oil-baron central character of the CBS soap Dallas (1978–1991), played by Larry Hagman; famous for the 1980 'Who Shot J.R.?' cliffhanger, watched by an estimated 350 million viewers.
J. R. Greer
J. R. Greer, also known as J. Ronnie Greer, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
J. R. Jayewardene (ජුනියස් රිචඩ් ජයවර්ධන)
Junius Richard Jayewardene was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as the country's first Executive President from 1978 to 1989, leading the United National Party.
J. R. Moehringer
J. R. Moehringer (born 1964, New York City) is an American journalist, memoirist, and celebrity ghostwriter; he won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his Los Angeles Times story on Gee's Bend, wrote The Tender Bar, and ghostwrote Agassi's Open and Prince Harry's Spare.
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), English philologist and Oxford professor, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, creator of Middle-earth and invented languages, and founding figure of modern fantasy literature.
J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography
The J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography records Tolkien's published books, essays, poems, letters, and posthumous works edited by Christopher Tolkien, from The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) to The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth, with Hammond's 1993 Descriptive Bibliography as the standard reference.
J. R. Richard
J.R. Richard (James Rodney Richard, 1950-2021), Houston Astros pitcher 1971-1980; 1979 NL ERA title and 313 strikeouts; career ended by a July 30, 1980 stroke; Astros Hall of Fame 2019.