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Jesse Vassallo

Jesse Vassallo (Jesus David Vassallo Anadón), Puerto Rican-born American swimmer, 1978 World Swimmer of the Year; set 200 and 400 IM world records, won 1978 Worlds golds, missed 1980 Olympics by boycott, 1997 ISHOF inductee.

Jessi Combs

Jessi Combs (1980–2019), American fabricator, racer, and TV host of Xtreme 4x4, MythBusters, and All Girls Garage; set the women's land speed record of 522.783 mph in 2019 and died in the crash.

Jéssica Andrade

Jéssica Andrade, "Bate Estaca," Brazilian UFC fighter, former women's strawweight champion who won the belt by slam-knocking out Rose Namajunas at UFC 237 in 2019; 26-15 record, fought at bantamweight, strawweight, and flyweight.

Jessica Borga

Jessica Borga, nicknamed "The Black Widow," is an American bare-knuckle boxer from Lakeland, Florida, and the inaugural BKFC Women's Featherweight Champion, winning the title in 2025.

Jessica Chobot

Jessica Chobot (Jessica Lynn Horn, born 1977) is an American host and writer known for IGN's Daily Fix, Nerdist News, Discovery's Expedition X, and voicing Diana Allers in Mass Effect 3.

Jessica Degenhardt

Jessica Degenhardt (Jessica Doreen Degenhardt, born 2002, Dresden) is a German luger, RRC Altenberg; with Cheyenne Rosenthal she was the first women's doubles luge world champion (2022) and won world titles in 2022, 2023, and 2025.

Jessica Dubé

Jessica Dubé (born 1987, Drummondville, Quebec) is a Canadian retired pair skater; with Bryce Davison she won 2008 Worlds bronze, three Canadian titles, and placed 10th and 6th at the 2006 and 2010 Olympics.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Jessica Ennis-Hill (born 1986, Sheffield) is a retired British heptathlete: 2012 Olympic champion (6,955 points), Rio 2016 silver, three-time world champion (2009, 2011, 2015), retired 13 October 2016.

Jessica Eye

Jessica "Evil" Eye, born in Akron, Ohio, is an American MMA fighter; former UFC women's flyweight title challenger (lost to Shevchenko, UFC 238), retired 2022 at 5-10 UFC, 15-11 pro, now signed to BKFC.

Jessica Fox (canoeist)

Jessica Esther "Jess" Fox, born 1994 in Marseille, is an Australian canoe slalom paddler with six Olympic medals (3 gold), ten world titles, and the record as Australia's most successful individual Olympic medallist.

Jessica Hardy

Jessica Hardy (Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry, born 1987) is a retired American swimmer, 2012 Olympic gold and bronze medalist, and former 50m and 100m breaststroke world record holder who missed the 2008 Olympics on a clenbuterol positive.

Jessica Korda

Jessica Korda, American LPGA Tour golfer (joined 2011), six-time tour winner whose titles include the 2012 Australian Open won in a six-player playoff and the 2018 Honda LPGA Thailand; older sister of Nelly Korda, returning part-time in 2026 after a back injury and maternity leave.

Jessica Long

Jessica Tatiana Long (born Tatiana Olegovna Kirillova, 1992, Bratsk, Russia) is an American S8 Paralympic swimmer, six-time Paralympian with 30 medals including 17 gold, adopted from a Russian orphanage and raised in Baltimore.

Jessica McCaskill

Jessica "CasKILLA" McCaskill, American pro boxer from St. Louis based in Chicago; undisputed welterweight champion after upsetting Cecilia Braekhus in 2020; former WBA/WBC super lightweight titlist; works as an investment-bank analyst.

Jessica Monroe

Jessica Monroe (Monroe-Gonin), born 1966 in Palo Alto, is a Canadian rower who won double gold in coxless fours and eights at Barcelona 1992 and eights silver at Atlanta 1996.

Jessica Pegula

Jessica Pegula (born 1994, Buffalo, NY) is an American tennis player, career-high world No. 3 in singles and No. 1 in doubles, 2024 US Open finalist, daughter of Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula.

Jessica Rossi

Jessica Rossi (born 1992, Cento, Italy), Italian trap shooter, Fiamme Oro police athlete. Won London 2012 Olympic trap gold with a world-record 99/100 after a perfect 75/75; world champion 2009, 2013, 2017; four Olympics; Tokyo 2020 flagbearer.

Jessica Springsteen

Jessica Springsteen (born 1991), American show jumper, daughter of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa; Tokyo 2020 Olympic team silver medalist riding Don Juan van de Donkhoeve; alternate 2012, absent 2016 and 2024.

Jessica Steffens

Jessica Steffens (born 1987, San Francisco) is an American water polo center defender, 2008 Olympic silver and 2012 Olympic gold medalist, 2009 world champion, 2019 USA Water Polo Hall of Famer, and older sister of Maggie Steffens.

Jessica Thornton

Jessica Thornton, Australian 400m sprinter born 1998 in Randwick, NSW; 2014 Youth Olympic Games 400m gold medallist (52.50) and Rio 2016 Olympian in the 4x400m relay; personal best 52.05.

Jessica von Bredow Werndl

Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, German dressage rider born 1986 in Rosenheim, four-time Olympic champion on TSF Dalera BB, winning individual and team gold at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, based at Aubenhausen.

Jessica Watson

Jessica Watson (born 1993), Australian sailor who completed a 210-day solo, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigation in Ella's Pink Lady, returning 15 May 2010 at 16; Young Australian of the Year 2011, OAM 2012.

Jessicka Havok

Jessicka Havok (Jessica Cricks, born 1986, Ohio) is an American powerhouse wrestler, former TNA Knockouts Champion and three-time Impact Knockouts Tag Champion, known for a gas-mask monster persona, the Jessicka repackaging, and 2024 AAA mixed tag title.

Jessie Diggins

Jessie Diggins (Jessica Diggins), American cross-country skier from Afton, Minnesota. Four Olympic medals including 2018 team sprint gold, seven Worlds medals, four overall Crystal Globes, 30 World Cup wins; retired March 2026.

Jessie Fleming

Jessie Fleming (born 1998, London, Ontario), Canadian midfielder and national-team captain for Portland Thorns; UCLA, Chelsea (three WSL titles), Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 and bronze Rio 2016, NWSL-record $320,000 transfer.

Jessie Godderz

Jessie Godderz, known as "Mr. PEC-Tacular", is an American professional wrestler and reality television personality who competed on Big Brother and wrestled in TNA/Impact Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling.

Jessie Holmes

Jessie Holmes, Alabama-born Alaska musher and former Life Below Zero cast member; won back-to-back Iditarods in 2025 and 2026, the sixth musher to repeat, racing from Brushkana, Alaska.

Jessie McKay

Jessie McKay (Jessica McKay, born 1989), Australian wrestler, WWE's Billie Kay of The IIconics; WWE Women's Tag Team Champion 2019, later The IInspiration with Cassie Lee, champion in Impact/TNA and AEW.

Jessie Tuggle

Jessie Tuggle, "The Hammer" (born 1965), undrafted Valdosta State linebacker who spent 1987-2000 with the Atlanta Falcons, made five Pro Bowls, holds the club tackle record of 2,065, and played in Super Bowl XXXIII.

Jessie Vargas

Jessie Vargas (born 1989), "The Pride of Las Vegas", American boxer; WBA regular light welterweight champion 2014-15 and WBO welterweight champion 2016, lost title to Manny Pacquiao; record 29-3-2, 11 KOs.