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John D. Clemens
John D. Clemens is an American infectious disease epidemiologist whose Bangladesh field trials established oral cholera vaccines; he was founding Director General of the International Vaccine Institute and developed Shanchol.
John D. Corbett
John D. Corbett (1926–2013) was an American inorganic chemist, Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory scientist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
John D. Crawford
John D. Crawford (1920–2005) was an American pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who led its pediatric endocrine program for decades and was among the first to treat children with human growth hormone.
John D. E. Gabrieli
John D. E. Gabrieli, also known as John Gabrieli, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at MIT known for brain-imaging studies of memory, dyslexia, and psychiatric disease.
John D. Ferry
John D. Ferry (1912–2002) was a Canadian-born American polymer chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Williams-Landel-Ferry equation and viscoelasticity research.
John D. Grabenstein
John D. Grabenstein is an American vaccinologist, pharmacist, and epidemiologist who directed the Military Vaccine Agency, led medical affairs at Merck Vaccines, and won the 2020 Remington Honor Medal.
John D. Hainsworth
John D. Hainsworth is an American medical oncologist in Nashville who co-founded the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in 1993 and directs clinical research at Sarah Cannon Cancer Center.
John D. Helmann
John D. Helmann is an American microbiologist and professor at Cornell University since 1990, known for work on metalloregulation and peroxide sensing in Bacillus subtilis, including the PerR mechanism.
John D. Hoffman
John D. Hoffman (1922–2004) was an American polymer physicist who co-developed the Lauritzen–Hoffman theory of polymer crystallization, a standard model, during a career at the National Bureau of Standards.
John D. Joannopoulos
John D. Joannopoulos (1947–2025) was an MIT condensed-matter theoretical physicist who helped create photonic crystals, materials that control light the way semiconductors control electrons, and co-founded six startups.
John D. Keith
John D. Keith (1908–1989) was a Canadian pediatric cardiologist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children whose studies of congenital heart disease won the Gairdner International Award.
John D. Kraus
John D. Kraus (1910–2004) was an American radio astronomer and electrical engineer at Ohio State University who invented the helical antenna and built the Big Ear radio telescope.
John D. Lantos
John D. Lantos, also known as John Lantos, is an American pediatrician and bioethicist who moved to Kansas City in 2009 to create and direct the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center.
John D. Lee
John Doyle Lee (1812-1877), Mormon leader and militia major, only person executed for the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre; founder of Lees Ferry, Arizona; excommunicated 1870, reinstated 1961.
John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald (John Dann MacDonald, 1916–1986), American suspense writer, creator of the 21-book Travis McGee series and The Executioners (filmed as Cape Fear); 78 books, over 75 million copies, National Book Award 1980.
John D. Mackenzie
John D. Mackenzie was a materials scientist at UCLA who trained in London, pioneered glass and ceramics processing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
John D. Mathews
John D. Mathews is an Australian physician-epidemiologist known for his 1967 transmission model for kuru and as founding director of the Menzies School of Health Research.
John D. McConnell
John D. McConnell is an American urological surgeon-scientist who served as the inaugural CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center from 2008 to 2017 and studied prostate disease.
John D. McDonald
John D. McDonald is an American electric power engineer, a pioneer of grid automation and smart grid development elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
John D. McKinney
John D. McKinney is a microbiologist and professor at EPFL in Lausanne known for showing that the enzyme isocitrate lyase lets tuberculosis bacteria persist in the host.
John D. Michenfelder
John D. Michenfelder, born in 1931, is an American anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic who researched anesthetics' effects on cerebral metabolism and brain protection.
John D. Minna
John D. Minna is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who directs the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research at UT Southwestern in Dallas.
John D. O'Brien
John D. O'Brien was an American electrical engineer and USC professor known for photonic-crystal nanocavity lasers and the 1998 PECASE award; he died in 2017.
John D. Parker
John D. Parker is a Canadian cardiologist and cardiovascular clinical pharmacologist, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Toronto, known for research on nitrate therapy and nitrate tolerance.
John D. Pettigrew
John D. Pettigrew, known as Jack Pettigrew, was an Australian physiologist and neuroscientist who first showed that neurons in the striate cortex detect binocular disparity, the basis of depth perception.
John D. Rainey
John D. Rainey, born 1945, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Texas, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts (1918–2016) was an American physical organic chemist at Caltech who used carbon-14 tracers and NMR spectroscopy to work out how organic reactions proceed.
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) was an American industrialist who built Standard Oil into the dominant US oil refiner, was forced to dissolve it in 1911, and gave away over $500 million.
John D. Rockefeller III
John D. Rockefeller III (John Davison Rockefeller 3rd, 1906–1978) was an American philanthropist who founded the Population Council and the Asia Society and was Lincoln Center's first president.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874–1960) was an American financier and philanthropist who gave an estimated $537 million to charity, including $56 million to restore Colonial Williamsburg.