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Jixun Foo

Jixun Foo is a Singaporean venture capitalist and senior managing partner at Granite Asia, known for early investments in Baidu, Grab, and Xpeng Motors and for the Youku-Tudou merger.

Jiya Shankar

Jiya Shankar, Indian actress born 1995 in Mumbai; known for Meri Hanikarak Biwi, Kaatelal & Sons, the Marathi hit Ved, and as a Bigg Boss OTT 2 contestant; Tamil lead debut Kadhal Reset Repeat (2026).

Jiyang Shale Oil Field

The Jiyang Shale Oil Field is a continental shale oil field in the Jiyang Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Shandong, China, developed by Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield.

Jiyoye

Jiyoye (Jijoye, P-2003, P3J) is a human EBV-positive Burkitt lymphoma B-cell line established in 1965, accession CVCL_1317, ATCC CCL-87, parent of P3HR-1, TP53-mutant, doubling time 30-60 hours.

Jiyuan

Jiyuan (济源市), a province-administered city in northwestern Henan, China, named for the source of the Ji River; county founded 596 AD, city status 1988, provincial administration 1997, about 720,000 people.

Jiyuan Oil Field

The Jiyuan Oil Field (姬塬油田) is a large one-billion-tonnage oil field in the central Ordos Basin of north-central China, operated by PetroChina's Changqing Oilfield Company.

Jiyun

Jiyun (集韻, "Collected Rhymes") is a ten-volume Chinese rime dictionary compiled under the Northern Song dynasty and completed in 1039, traditionally attributed to Ding Du and colleagues.

Jiyūtō

Jiyūtō (自由党, Liberal Party) was Japan's first nationwide political party, founded by Itagaki Taisuke in 1881 to lead the Freedom and People's Rights Movement; it dissolved in 1884.

Jizamurai

Jizamurai (地侍, "samurai of the soil") were landowning village warriors of late medieval Japan, counted as peasants for tax purposes yet bearing arms and surnames.

Jizan IGCC power plant

The Jizan IGCC power plant, also written Jazan IGCC, is an integrated gasification combined cycle complex in Jazan Economic City, southwest Saudi Arabia, generating up to 3.8 GW.

Jizhong Zhou

Jizhong (Joe) Zhou is a Chinese-American microbial ecologist at the University of Oklahoma who studies microbial climate feedbacks and metagenomics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Jizhou

Jizhou (冀州): ancient Chinese province, first of the Nine Provinces in the Tribute of Yu, source of Hebei's abbreviation Ji; also Jizhou District of Hengshui, Hebei, and a separate Jizhou District (蓟州区) in Tianjin.

Jizi's migration to Gojoseon

Jizi's migration to Gojoseon (기자의 조선 입국) is the traditional account that the Shang minister Jizi fled to Korea and civilized its people, now largely rejected by historians.

Jizya (جِزْيَة)

Jizya, also spelled Jiziah or Jaziya, is the poll tax that Islamic law levied on non-Muslim subjects under Muslim rule, in return for protection; it was abolished in the Ottoman Empire in the 1850s.

Jizya under the Delhi Sultanate

Jizya (جزیہ) was a poll tax on non-Muslim adult males under Islamic rule, levied intermittently in India; Firuz Shah Tughlaq extended it to Brahmans, whom earlier rulers had exempted.

Jizz

Jizz, also called GISS (General Impression of Size and Shape), is the birdwatching term for a bird's overall impression of size, shape, behavior, and habitat; coined by T. A. Coward in 1921, not derived from WWII aircraft recognition.

Jizz in My Pants

Jizz in My Pants: 2008 comedy song by The Lonely Island (Samberg, Taccone, Schaffer), premiered as an SNL Digital Short on December 6, 2008; first single from Incredibad, with Timberlake, Sims, and Sigler cameos.

Jizzakh Region

Jizzakh Region (Jizzax viloyati) is an administrative region of Uzbekistan, established 29 December 1973, capital Jizzakh city; area 21,200 km², population about 1.57 million, borders Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, industrial and tourism growth region.

Jizzakh Uprising of 1916

The Jizzakh Uprising of 1916 (Джизакское восстание 1916) was an armed revolt by the local Muslim population against Russian imperial labor conscription in Jizzakh uyezd, Turkestan, crushed within about two weeks.

Jizzax

Jizzax (Жиззах, Jizzakh) is a city in central Uzbekistan, capital of Jizzakh Region, on the Sangzar river between Tashkent and Samarkand; population about 188,000, ancient Ustrushana caravan city, regional industrial and transport hub.

Jizzle James

Jizzle James (Edgerrin James Jr.), son of NFL Hall of Famer Edgerrin James, is a college basketball guard from Orlando who played for Cincinnati, led the Bearcats in scoring in 2024-25, and later transferred to Charlotte.

JJ (singer)

JJ, stage name of Austrian-Filipino singer Johannes Pietsch (born 2001, Vienna; raised in Dubai), is a countertenor-sopranoist who won Eurovision 2025 for Austria with "Wasted Love" (436 points) and released the EP Into the Unknown in 2026.

JJ Buchanan

JJ Buchanan is an American college football wide receiver for the Michigan Wolverines, formerly a Utah Utes tight end (2025: 26 catches, 427 yards, 5 TDs). Coronado HS, Henderson, Nevada; four-star recruit who followed Kyle Whittingham to Michigan.

JJ Cale

JJ Cale, born John Weldon Cale (1938–2013), was an American singer-songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who created the Tulsa Sound and wrote hits for Eric Clapton.

JJ Chalmers

John-James 'JJ' Chalmers (born 1987) is a Scottish TV presenter and former Royal Marine wounded in a 2011 Afghanistan IED blast, an Invictus Games gold medallist, Help for Heroes patron, Strictly 2020 contestant, and first disabled presenter across both the Olympics and Paralympics.

JJ Crawford

JJ Crawford, born 2010 and also named Jayen Crawford, is a high school basketball guard at Rainier Beach in Seattle, ranked the No. 1 player in the 2029 class.

JJ Feild

JJ Feild (John Joseph Feild), British-American actor born 1978 in Boulder, Colorado, raised in London; known for Northanger Abbey, Captain America: The First Avenger, Austenland, Turn: Washington's Spies, and The Peripheral.

JJ Lin

JJ Lin (林俊傑, Wayne Lim, born 1981, Singapore) is a Mandopop singer-songwriter whose 2003 debut 樂行者 led to Golden Melody Best New Artist and Best Composer wins, 15 studio albums, hits like 江南 and 曹操, plus fashion, esports, racing and coffee ventures.

JJ Niemann

JJ Niemann is an American Broadway actor and TikTok creator, a Book of Mormon swing, original Back to the Future ensemble member and Marty McFly cover, Hamilton's Charles Lee, and the 'King of Theatre TikTok' with over 2.1 million followers.

JJ Redick

JJ Redick (born 1984) is the Los Angeles Lakers head coach, hired June 2024 with no prior coaching experience; former Duke scoring great and 15-year NBA sharpshooter.