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John N. Nkengasong
John N. Nkengasong is a Cameroonian-born virologist who served as the first Director of the Africa CDC from 2017 to 2022, then led PEPFAR as US Global AIDS Coordinator.
John N. Tsitsiklis
John N. Tsitsiklis (Greek: Γιάννης Ν. Τσιτσικλής), born 1958 in Thessaloniki, is a Greek MIT professor known for work on optimization and reinforcement learning theory.
John N. Vournakis
John N. Vournakis (1939–2018) was an American physical biochemist who studied messenger RNA at MIT, Harvard, and Syracuse, helped clone the first mammalian gene, and co-founded biotech companies.
John N. Weinstein
John N. Weinstein is a physician-scientist in cancer systems biology who spent over 30 years at the National Cancer Institute before joining MD Anderson in 2008.
John N. Whitaker
John N. Whitaker was an American neurologist and immunologist who chaired neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1985 until his death in 2001.
John Naber
John Phillips Naber, American backstroke swimmer, won four golds in world-record time plus a silver at Montreal 1976, set six world records, won 10 NCAA titles for USC, and took the 1977 Sullivan Award.
John Nagel
John Nagel is an American politician and retired Minnesota State Patrol lieutenant who is the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Minnesota's 5th District, facing Ilhan Omar.
John Nance Garner
John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner (1868–1967), Texas Democrat, 32nd U.S. vice president 1933–41 under FDR, former House Speaker, New Deal liaison who later opposed Roosevelt and ran against him in 1940.
John Napier
John Napier of Merchiston (1550–1617) was a Scottish mathematician and theologian who invented logarithms, published the first table of them in 1614, and devised the calculating rods known as Napier's bones.
John Nathaniel Couch
John Nathaniel Couch (1896–1986) was an American mycologist and professor of botany at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for his monograph on Septobasidium and his discovery of Actinoplanes.
John Neff (investor)
John Neff (1931–2019) was an American value investor who managed Vanguard's Windsor Fund from 1964 to 1995, beating the S&P 500 in 23 of 31 years.
John Negroponte
John Negroponte (born 1939, London) is an American diplomat, five-time ambassador (Honduras, Mexico, Philippines, UN, Iraq), first Director of National Intelligence 2005–2007, and Deputy Secretary of State 2007–2009.
John Nelson
John Nelson (John Maurer Nelson, born 1948, Chicago) is an American freestyle swimmer, Yale class of 1970, with three Olympic medals: 1964 silver 1500 m freestyle, 1968 bronze 200 m freestyle, and 1968 gold 4x200 m relay; he held the 400 m freestyle world record (4:11.8) for one day in 1966.
John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby (1800–1882) was a Church of Ireland clergyman who became a principal leader of the Plymouth Brethren, whose dispensational theology, including the pre-tribulation rapture, spread widely among evangelicals.
John Nettles
John Nettles, full name John Vivian Drummond Nettles, is an English actor and author known for playing Jim Bergerac in Bergerac and DCI Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders.
John Neumann
John Neumann, born John Nepomucene Neumann, was a Bohemian-born Redemptorist missionary and fourth Bishop of Philadelphia from 1852, canonized in 1977 as the first male US saint.
John Neville (actor)
John Reginald Neville (1925-2011), British-born Canadian actor and stage director; Old Vic Shakespearean lead, artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse, Citadel, Neptune, and Stratford Festival, and the Well-Manicured Man in The X-Files.
John Newcombe
John Newcombe, 'Newk,' is an Australian former tennis player who captured 26 Grand Slam titles across singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. He was the last Wimbledon champion of the amateur era.
John Newman (singer)
John Newman (born 1990) is an English soul-pop singer from Settle, Yorkshire, known for Love Me Again, Rudimental's Feel the Love, and Calvin Harris's Blame; albums Tribute and Revolve, later a dance-music and DJ career.
John Newport Langley
John Newport Langley (1852–1925) was a British physiologist at Cambridge who mapped the autonomic nervous system, coined "autonomic" and "parasympathetic", and proposed the receptive substance concept.
John Newsom–Davis
John Newsom-Davis was a British neurologist and clinical scientist who established the autoimmune basis of myasthenia gravis, traced its antibodies to the thymus, and died in 2007.
John Newton
John Newton (1725–1807) was an English sailor, slave-ship captain, and Anglican clergyman who wrote "Amazing Grace" at Olney and mentored William Wilberforce in abolishing the slave trade.
John Newton (scientist)
John Newton (1822–1895) was an American civil engineer and Union Army general who blasted the Hell Gate reefs from New York Harbor and served as Chief of Engineers from 1884 to 1886.
John Ngai
John Ngai is an American neuroscientist who studies the olfactory system and has directed the NIH BRAIN Initiative since 2020, after 27 years on the UC Berkeley faculty.
John Ngugi
John Ngugi (John Ngugi Kamau), Kenyan distance runner born 1962; five-time World Cross Country champion (1986-89, 1992) and 1988 Seoul Olympic 5000m gold medallist; banned 1993, reinstated 1995.
John Nicholson
John Nicholson (जॉन निकोल्सन) was an East India Company soldier and Punjab administrator who led the recapture of Delhi in 1857, dying of wounds nine days later.
John Niederhauser
John Niederhauser was an American plant pathologist known as "Mr. Potato" who bred late blight resistance into potato varieties and won the 1990 World Food Prize.
John Noakes
John Noakes (1934-2017), English TV presenter and actor, longest-serving Blue Peter host (1965-1978), famous for daredevil stunts, Shep the collie, and the catchphrase "Get down, Shep!" Distinct from Prof Tim Noakes, the nutritionist.
John Noble
John Noble, born 1948 in Port Pirie, Australia, is an actor and theatre director known as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings and Walter Bishop in Fringe; not the Noble Corporation oil driller or the Scottish electrical engineer of the same name.
John Noel
John Noel: two 1924 Olympic gold medalists, John Hopkins Noel (1888-1939), Nashville trapshooter, US team gold, Paris; and John Baptist Lucius Noel (1890-1989), British Everest photographer, alpinism gold, Chamonix.