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Jennifer Matthews
Jennifer Lynne Matthews (1964–2009), CIA officer and one of the agency's top al-Qaeda experts, Alec Station targeting chief and Khost base chief, killed in the December 30, 2009 FOB Chapman suicide bombing.
Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe
Jeremiah Joseph "Jerry" O'Keefe (1923–2016), Marine VMF-323 ace in a day over Okinawa with seven victories and Navy Cross, later Biloxi funeral and insurance executive, state legislator, and mayor of Biloxi 1973–1981.
Jeromy B. Williams
Rear Admiral Jeromy B. Williams, U.S. Navy SEAL officer born in Las Vegas, Nevada; Naval Academy 1993; commands as Director of Operations J-3, U.S. Special Operations Command, after leading Special Operations Command Pacific; distinct from Medal of Honor recipient James E. Williams.
Jerry Shriver
Jerry Michael "Mad Dog" Shriver (1941-1969), MACV-SOG Special Forces sergeant from Sacramento, missing since 24 April 1969 COSVN raid in Cambodia; presumed dead 1974, remains unrecovered, DPAA Active Pursuit.
Jerry Whitworth
Jerry Alfred Whitworth, retired Navy senior chief radioman, sold cryptographic secrets to the Soviet Union via John Walker Jr. from 1975 to 1984, receiving $332,000; convicted 1986, sentenced to 365 years, affirmed on appeal in 1988.
Jessica Lynch
Jessica Lynch (born 1983) is a former U.S. Army supply specialist captured in the March 23, 2003 ambush of the 507th Maintenance Company at Nasiriyah and rescued April 1, 2003; the heroic account of her capture was later retracted.
Jez Bennett
Jez Bennett is a British Army Royal Artillery lieutenant general, Deputy Commander and from 2026 acting commander of NATO's Allied Land Command in İzmir, former ARRC Chief of Staff, Director Capability, CB and CBE.
Ji Cheong-cheon
Ji Cheong-cheon (지청천, 1888–1957) was a Korean soldier and independence activist, commander-in-chief of the Korean Independence Army and later of the Korea Liberation Army during the Japanese colonial period.
Jia Kui (Cao Wei general)
Jia Kui (賈逵), courtesy name Liangdao, 174–228, was a Cao Wei general and administrator remembered for his strict government of Yu Province and his irrigation works.
Jiang Ziya
Jiang Ziya (姜子牙), also Lü Shang or Jiang Taigong, is the Shang–Zhou era strategist who helped King Wu topple the Shang and founded Qi; pseudepigraphic Six Secret Teachings and Ming novel Fengshen Yanyi made him a legend.
Jim Almonds
Jim Almonds ("Gentleman Jim", John Edward Almonds, 1914–2005), a British SAS original and Coldstream Guardsman, member of the Tobruk Four, MM and Bar and Croix de Guerre winner, POW escapee, and later commander of B Squadron 1st SAS in Malaya, distinct from the almond crop and other namesakes.
Jim Mattis
Jim Mattis, retired Marine general and 26th U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017-2018) under Trump, former CENTCOM commander, nicknamed Mad Dog and Warrior Monk, author of Call Sign Chaos.
Jisaburō Ozawa
Jisaburō Ozawa (小沢治三郎, 1886-1966), Imperial Japanese Navy vice admiral, last Combined Fleet commander; led carriers at Philippine Sea and the Leyte decoy force.
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.
Joan Clarke
Joan Clarke, full name Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray (1917–1996), was an English mathematician who broke German naval Enigma codes at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Jock Lewes
Jock Lewes (John Steel Lewes, 1913-1941), British Army officer and co-founder of the SAS with David Stirling; its first training officer at Kabrit, inventor of the Lewes Bomb, killed in Libya 30 December 1941.
Jocko Willink
Jocko Willink, retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer, led SEAL Team Three's Task Unit Bruiser in the 2006 Battle of Ramadi, earned the Silver Star, and co-founded Echelon Front, co-authoring Extreme Ownership and hosting the Jocko Podcast.
Joe Arpaio
Joe Arpaio (Joseph M. Arpaio) is a retired American law enforcement officer who served six terms as Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, from 1993 until 2016.
Joe Cahill
Joe Cahill (Joseph Cahill, 1920–2004), Belfast republican and founding member of the Provisional IRA's Army Council; death-sentence survivor of 1942, IRA chief of staff 1972, and later Sinn Féin treasurer and peace process advocate.
Joe Darby
Joe Darby (Joseph M. Darby) is the Army Reserve specialist of the 372nd Military Police Company who in January 2004 turned over a CD of Abu Ghraib abuse photos to Army CID, exposing the scandal; he later received death threats, protective custody, and a Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Joe Kenda
Joe Kenda (born 1946) is a retired Colorado Springs Police Department homicide lieutenant, star of Investigation Discovery's Homicide Hunter (2011–2020), known for a claimed 92% solve rate across 387 cases and later series American Detective.
Joe Kieyoomia
Joe Lee Kieyoomia (1919–1997) was a Navajo U.S. Army sergeant of New Mexico's 200th Coast Artillery, captured in the Philippines in 1942. He survived the Bataan Death March, torture as a suspected Japanese-American, failed Japanese attempts to make him decode the Navajo code, and the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
Joe Remiro
Joe Remiro (code name Bo), American SLA member and Vietnam veteran convicted of the 1973 murder of Oakland schools superintendent Marcus Foster; sentenced to life in 1975, conviction affirmed on appeal, still imprisoned.
Johan Laidoner
Johan Laidoner was an Estonian general who led the army to victory in the 1918–1920 War of Independence and was deported by the Soviet Union in 1940.
Johan Pitka
Johan Pitka was an Estonian rear admiral who organized the Defence League and armored trains and commanded the Estonian Navy during the War of Independence of 1918 to 1920.
Johann Schwarzhuber
Johann Schwarzhuber (1904–1947), SS-Obersturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer of the Auschwitz-Birkenau men's camp and later Ravensbrück; trained typesetter from Tutzing, tried by a British military court and executed at Hameln in 1947.
Johann von Sporck
Johann von Sporck, also spelled Spork, was a Westphalian cavalry commander who served Bavaria and the Habsburg emperor from 1620 to 1675, rising from a farming family to Imperial Count.
Johann von Werth
Johann von Werth (Jan von Werth, Jean de Werth) was a German cavalry general of the Thirty Years' War, born a farmer's son in 1591 and made an imperial count.
Johannes Blaskowitz
Johannes Blaskowitz (1883–1948), German Generaloberst, led the 8th Army in Poland 1939, protested SS atrocities in memoranda, commanded 1st Army and Army Groups G and H in the West, and died by suicide at Nuremberg.
John A. Lejeune
John A. Lejeune (1867-1942), 13th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps (1920-1929), born Pointe Coupee, Louisiana; only Marine to command an Army division (2d Division, AEF, WWI); founded the Marine Corps birthday observance and modern amphibious doctrine.