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Jack Dunphy
Jack Dunphy (1914-1992), American novelist, playwright, and former Broadway dancer in Oklahoma!; author of John Fury (1946) and Dear Genius (1987); Truman Capote's companion for about thirty-five years and heir.
Jack Whitehall
Jack Whitehall, born in 1988, is an English comedian, actor, and presenter known for Fresh Meat, Bad Education, Netflix's Travels with My Father, and hosting the BRIT Awards.
Jackie Curtis
Jackie Curtis (John Holder Jr., 1947-1985), American Warhol superstar, playwright, poet, and gender-fluid performer of New York's downtown counterculture, author of Vain Victory and Glamour, Glory and Gold, immortalized in Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side'.
Jackie Hoffman
Jackie Hoffman (born 1960) is an American actress, singer, and comedian, a Second City Chicago alumna known for Broadway roles in Hairspray, Xanadu, and The Addams Family, her Emmy-nominated Mamacita in Feud, and solo kvetching shows at Joe's Pub.
Jackie Martling
Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling (born 1948) is an American stand-up comedian and comedy writer, Howard Stern Show head writer 1986-2001, mechanical engineering graduate of Michigan State, creator of the (516) 922-WINE dirty joke line.
Jackie Mason
Jackie Mason (Yacov Moshe Maza), American stand-up comedian and actor, 1928-2021; rabbi-turned-comic from the Borscht Belt, Broadway's The World According to Me!, Special Tony, two Emmys, Simpsons voice role.
Jacques d'Amboise (dancer)
Jacques d'Amboise (1934-2021), American ballet dancer and educator, NYCB principal 1953-1984, Balanchine's most-favored male dancer, Apollo interpreter, and founder of the National Dance Institute in 1976.
Jacques de Falaise
Jacques de Falaise, stage name of Jacques Simon (1754-1825), French performer billed as Le polyphage who swallowed objects and live animals, hired by Louis Comte in 1816, distinct from other Falaise namesakes.
Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq was a French actor, director, and pedagogue who founded in Paris in 1956 the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, a movement-based school of actor training.
Jagged Little Pill (musical)
Jagged Little Pill, a jukebox musical by Diablo Cody with Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard's music, opened on Broadway December 5, 2019, earned 15 Tony nominations and a Best Book Tony, and closed December 17, 2021.
Jak Malone
Jak Malone is an English stage actor from the Wirral, Merseyside, a LIPA graduate who created Hester Leggatt in Operation Mincemeat, winning the 2024 Olivier Award and 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
Jamel Debbouze
Jamel Debbouze (born 1975, Paris) is a French-Moroccan actor, comedian, and producer from Trappes, star of the sitcom H, Amélie, and Astérix, Cannes best-actor winner for Indigènes, and founder of the Jamel Comedy Club.
James Acaster
James Acaster is an English stand-up comedian from Kettering, known for his Netflix series Repertoire, the podcast Off Menu, and a record five consecutive Edinburgh Comedy Award nominations.
James Adomian
James Adomian (born 1980) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and impressionist known for Trump vs. Bernie, his viral Bernie Sanders impression, The Underculture podcast, voice roles in Harley Quinn and Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, and his 2024 special Path of Most Resistance.
James Anthony Bailey
James Anthony Bailey (1847-1906), born James Anthony McGinnis, American circus owner and business manager; partner then sole proprietor of Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, the railroad-circus pioneer who died in 1906.
James Jordan (dancer)
James Jordan (born 1978) is an English ballroom and Latin dancer best known as a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing from 2006 to 2013.
James Lapine
James Lapine (born 1949), American stage director, playwright, and librettist; wrote and directed Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Passion; three Tonys for Best Book, Pulitzer Prize 1985.
James Monroe Iglehart
James Monroe Iglehart (born 1974, Hayward, California) is an American actor and singer who won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as the Genie in Broadway's Aladdin, later appearing in Hamilton, Spamalot, and A Wonderful World.
James Murray (comedian)
James "Murr" Murray (born 1976, per IMDb), Staten Island comedian, Tenderloins member, Impractical Jokers star, author of the Awakened trilogy, and president of Impractical Productions.
James Ortiz
James Ortiz is an American puppet designer, puppeteer, actor, and director based in New York City, winner of the 2016 Obie for The Woodsman and the 2022 Drama Desk Award for The Skin of Our Teeth, and the puppeteer and voice of Rocky in Project Hail Mary (2026).
James Randi
James Randi (Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, 1928–2020), also The Amazing Randi, Canadian-American magician and escape artist who exposed psychics such as Uri Geller and Peter Popoff, co-founded CSICOP, founded JREF, and offered the unclaimed $1,000,000 One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.
James Shirley
James Shirley (1596–1666) was an English playwright and poet, a leading Caroline dramatist who wrote for the Cockpit, Dublin's first public playhouse, and finally the King's Men at Blackfriars.
James Tom
James Tom (formerly Jes Tom, born 1990/1991) is an American comedian, actor, and writer in New York City, known for the Off-Broadway show Less Lonely, Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda on Netflix, and Our Flag Means Death.
James Veitch (comedian)
James Veitch is a British comedian, musician, and writer known for technology-themed comedy, notably replying to email scammers and turning the correspondence into stand-up shows, a TED Talk, and the book Dot Con.
Jan Ravnik
Jan Ravnik (born 1995, Bohinj, Slovenia) is a Slovenian dancer and choreographer, an Eras Tour backup dancer for Taylor Swift, and a Dancing with the Stars pro in Seasons 34 (with Jen Affleck, ninth place) and 35 (with Tatyana Ali).
Jan Tříska
Jan Tříska (1936-2017), Czech stage and film actor; National Theatre and Divadlo za branou star, emigrated after Charter 77 in 1977, played Igor Hnízdo in The Elementary School and King Lear, died after a Charles Bridge fall.
Jan Werich
Jan Werich (1905–1980), Czech actor, playwright and writer; with Jiří Voskovec formed the V+W clown duo at Prague's Osvobozené divadlo, wrote satirical plays with Jaroslav Ježek's music, exiled in the USA 1939–1946, later led Divadlo ABC.
Jana Natya Manch (जन नाट्य मंच)
Jana Natya Manch (जन नाट्य मंच), usually shortened to Janam, is an Indian political street theater collective founded in 1973 that performs short plays for working-class audiences.
Jane Attenborough
Jane Mary Attenborough (1955-2004), English arts administrator, elder daughter of Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim; founding director of Dance UK, creator of the Healthier Dancer Programme, Paul Hamlyn Foundation arts manager; died in the 2004 Khao Lak tsunami.
Jane Avril
Jane Avril, born Jeanne Louise Beaudon (1868-1943), French Belle Époque can-can dancer and Moulin Rouge star, nicknamed La Melinite, immortalized by Toulouse-Lautrec.