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Jamtara

Jamtara (झारखंड district) is a district in north-eastern Jharkhand, India, created 26 April 2001 from Dumka; headquarters Jamtara town; 1,811 sq km, 791,042 people (2011), six blocks, agrarian economy on the Howrah–Delhi rail main line.

Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega

Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega is an Indian Hindi Netflix crime drama (2020, season 2 in 2022) by Soumendra Padhi, dramatizing the real voice-phishing scams run from Jamtara, Jharkhand, India's phishing hub.

Jamukha

Jamukha (Жамуха; also Jamuqa) was a 12th-century leader of the Jadaran clan on the Mongolian steppe and the sworn blood brother, later chief rival, of Genghis Khan.

Jamuna (actress)

Jamuna, born Jana Bai (1936–2023), was an Indian actress who starred opposite N. T. Rama Rao in Telugu classics like Missamma and won a Filmfare Award for Milan (1967).

Jamuna Amusement Park

Jamuna Amusement Park is the amusement park of the Jamuna Future Park (যমুনা ফিউচার পার্ক) complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with rides like the pirate ship, flying disco, magic windmill, and tower challenger; Tk 50 entry, closed Wednesdays.

Jamuna Bridge

Jamuna Bridge, formally the Bangabandhu Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge, is a 4.8 km combined road and railway bridge over the Jamuna River in Bangladesh, opened in 1998.

Jāmuria

Jamuria (জামুরিয়া) is a city and former municipality in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, India, merged into Asansol Municipal Corporation in 2015. 2011 population 145,276; coal-mining town in the Raniganj coalfield with subsidence and coal-fire issues.

Jamy D. Ard

Jamy D. Ard is an American physician-scientist in obesity medicine and clinical nutrition, vice dean at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and co-director of its Weight Management Center.

JaMychal Green

JaMychal Green, born 1990 in Montgomery, Alabama, is an American forward-center, undrafted 2012 out of Alabama; nine NBA seasons (2015-2023) with Spurs, Grizzlies, Clippers, Nuggets, Warriors, averaging 7.7 points and 5.5 rebounds.

Jan A. Burger

Jan A. Burger is a German-trained hematologist and professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center who studies chronic lymphocytic leukemia and led the RESONATE-2 trial of ibrutinib.

Jan A. Rajchman

Jan A. Rajchman (1911–1989) was an electronics engineer who spent his career at RCA, known for the Selectron tube, magnetic-core memory, and the first read-only memory.

Jan A. Staessen

Jan A. Staessen is a Belgian hypertension researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Leuven who led the Syst-Eur trial and pioneered home blood pressure measurement.

Jan A. Veltrop

Jan A. Veltrop (1922–2007) was a Dutch-American engineer who developed design technology for thin, double-curved concrete arch dams and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Jan Ambjørn

Jan Ambjørn is a Danish theoretical physicist, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, best known as co-creator of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, a lattice formulation of quantum gravity.

Jan and Antonina Żabiński

Jan and Antonina Żabiński, Polish couple who ran the Warsaw Zoo (director from 1929) and sheltered about 300 Jews there during the Holocaust, honored as Righteous Among the Nations in 1965.

Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean: Los Angeles vocal duo of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence, pioneers of vocal surf and hot-rod pop with "Surf City" (1963); their hit run ended with Berry's near-fatal 1966 car crash.

Jan and Dean discography

Jan and Dean discography: singles and albums by Jan Berry and Dean Torrence, also recorded as Jan & Arnie, from "Jennie Lee" (1958) and "Surf City" (1963) through the Liberty-era LPs and the 2010 release of Carnival of Sound.

Jan Andrew

Jan Andrew (Janice Andrew, later Thornett), Australian swimmer born 1943 in Lindfield, NSW; won 100m butterfly bronze and medley relay silver at Rome 1960, and held the 100m butterfly world record (1:08.9, Tokyo, April 1961).

Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693) was a Polish Baroque poet and diplomat, Grand Treasurer of the Crown, often considered the best poet of the Polish Baroque, and a paid agent of Louis XIV.

Jan Andsberg

Jan Andsberg (Jan Gunnar Andsberg, born 1934) is a Swedish former swimmer for SK Poseidon, Lund, and in 1953 became Sweden's first 400 m medley world-record swimmer at 5:31.0; also a national freestyle and backstroke finalist.

Jan Antonín Baťa

Jan Antonín Baťa (1898–1965) was a Czech shoe manufacturer, half-brother of founder Tomáš Baťa, who led the Baťa company in Zlín from 1932 to 1939 and spent his final years in Brazil founding towns.

Jan Arnoldus Schouten

Jan Arnoldus Schouten (1883–1971) was a Dutch mathematician who systematized tensor analysis in Ricci-Calculus, independently discovered the Levi-Civita connection, and named the Schouten tensor and Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket.

Jan Assmann

Jan Assmann (1938–2024) was a German Egyptologist and cultural theorist who held the Heidelberg chair from 1976 to 2003 and developed the theory of cultural memory.

Jan Axel Blomberg

Jan Axel Blomberg, known as Hellhammer, is a Norwegian heavy metal drummer best known as the longtime drummer of black metal band Mayhem, which he joined in 1988.

Jan B. Vermorken

Jan B. Vermorken is a Dutch medical oncologist who led medical oncology at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, known for the EXTREME and TAX 323 trials.

Jan Baalsrud

Jan Baalsrud (1917–1988), Norwegian Kompani Linge resistance fighter and instrument maker, sole survivor of Operation Martin Red (1943); escaped 63 days across Troms to Sweden, aided by over 70 civilians, subject of Ni liv (1957) and Den 12. mann (2017).

Jan Baptist van Helmont

Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644) was a Flemish physician and alchemist who coined the word "gas," studied carbon dioxide, and helped end Galenic medicine's dominance.

Jan Behrendt

Jan Behrendt (born 1967, Ilmenau) is a German doubles luge racer who with Stefan Krauße won Olympic gold in 1992 and 1998, silver 1988, bronze 1994, plus four world titles, retiring after Nagano 1998.

Jan Berger

Jan Berger (born 1955, Prague) is a Czech left midfielder, uncle of Patrik Berger, who won football gold for Czechoslovakia at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Euro 1980 bronze, and was 1984 Czechoslovak Footballer of the Year.

Jan Betker

Jan Betker (born 1960, Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler, third on Team Schmirler, winner of the 1993, 1994, and 1997 world titles, the 1998 Nagano Olympic gold, and later the team's skip.