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John Thomas Duckworth
Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1st Baronet (1748–1817), was a British Royal Navy admiral known for the Battle of San Domingo in 1806 and the 1807 Dardanelles expedition.
John Togo
John Togo, also known as John Ipoko, was the Nigerian militant leader of the Niger-Delta Liberation Force in Delta State; he accepted the 2009 amnesty, returned to fighting, and died in 2011 of wounds from a JTF airstrike.
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886-1946), British field marshal nicknamed Tiger, Victoria Cross winner at Canal du Nord, commanded the BEF in 1939-1940 and ordered the Dunkirk withdrawal, later Governor of Gibraltar and Malta.
John W. Raymond
John W. "Jay" Raymond, U.S. Space Force general, first Chief of Space Operations (2019–2022) and first commander of re-established U.S. Space Command; built the sixth U.S. military branch, succeeded by B. Chance Saltzman.
John W. Troxell
John Wayne Troxell, retired U.S. Army command sergeant major from Davenport, Iowa, was the third Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2015-2019), the senior NCO of the U.S. Armed Forces, with five combat tours.
John Walker Lindh
John Walker Lindh, the 'American Taliban': California-born convert to Islam who fought with the Taliban in 2001, pleaded guilty in 2002 to supplying services to the Taliban, served 17 years, and was released in May 2019.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth, also known as J. Wilkes Booth, was an American stage actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
John William Vessey Jr.
John William Vessey Jr. (1922–2016), American Army general and tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1982–1985) under Reagan; last WWII combat veteran chairman, later US envoy to Vietnam for POW/MIA affairs.
Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer, born 1915)
Johnnie Johnson (James Edgar Johnson, 1915–2001), Britain's top-scoring Second World War fighter ace, flew Spitfires in over 1,000 missions, later rose to Air Vice-Marshal and wrote Wing Leader.
Johnny Adair
Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair (John James Adair, b. 1963), Shankill Road UFF 'C Company' commander, first person jailed for directing terrorism (1995), expelled by the UDA in 2003 after the Gregg murder feud, now reportedly living in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Johnny Behan
John Harris "Johnny" Behan (1844/1845–1912) was the first sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona Territory (February 1881–November 1882), the prosecution's key witness after the O.K. Corral gunfight, and Wyatt Earp's political and romantic rival, later Yuma prison superintendent and Tucson Citizen manager.
Johnny Cooper (British Army officer)
Johnny Cooper (John Murdoch Cooper, 6 June 1922 – 12 July 2002), British Army officer and founding member of the Special Air Service, one of 'The Originals'; DCM 1942, escaped after Stirling's 1943 capture, served Malaya, Jebel Akhdar, and Oman's Muscat Regiment.
Johnny Micheal Spann
Johnny Micheal "Mike" Spann (1969–2001) was a CIA paramilitary officer and former Marine captain, first American killed in combat in Afghanistan, at the Qala-i-Jangi prison uprising near Mazar-e Sharif on November 25, 2001.
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi (1924–1966), Nigerian Igbo general, first military head of state, UN Congo commander, GOC 1965, ruled January–July 1966, killed in July countercoup, succeeded by Gowon.
Jon Burge
Jon Burge was a Chicago Police Department detective and commander who led the torture of more than 100 suspects into false confessions from 1972 to 1991.
Jonas Savimbi
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (1934–2002), Angolan founder and leader of UNITA from 1966, fought Portuguese rule and then the MPLA in a Cold War-backed civil war, lost the 1992 election, returned to war, and was killed in 2002.
Jonas Žemaitis
Jonas Žemaitis-Vytautas was a Lithuanian army officer and anti-Soviet partisan commander who chaired the LLKS presidium and was posthumously recognized by the Seimas as Lithuania's fourth president.
Jonathan Conricus
Jonathan Conricus, Swedish-Israeli retired IDF lieutenant colonel, International Spokesperson 2017-2021; combat commander in Lebanon and Gaza, first IDF officer at UN HQ, later senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Jonathan Idema
Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema (1956–2012), American ex-Special Forces soldier and convicted fraudster who ran a private jail in Kabul, was sentenced to 10 years by an Afghan court in 2004, pardoned by Karzai in 2007, and died in Mexico in 2012.
Jonathan M. Wainwright (general)
Jonathan M. Wainwright was an American Army general who surrendered Corregidor to the Japanese in 1942, spent over three years as a prisoner of war, and received the Medal of Honor.
Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Jay Pollard, American Navy intelligence analyst who spied for Israel from 1984, was sentenced to life in 1987, released on parole in 2015 after 30 years, and moved to Israel in 2020.
Jorge Rafael Videla
Jorge Rafael Videla (1925–2013), Argentine general and de facto president 1976–1981, led the 1976 junta dictatorship, was convicted in the 1985 Juntas trial and the 2012 stolen-babies case, and died in prison.
José Adolfo Macías Villamar
José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias 'Fito' (born 1979), Ecuadorian leader of Los Choneros prison gang; escaped prison twice (2013, 2024), recaptured in Manta in June 2025 and extradited to the US on drug and weapons charges.
José Antonio Aponte
José Antonio Aponte (José Antonio Aponte y Ulabarra) was a free Black Cuban carpenter, sculptor, and militia veteran who led the 1812 Aponte Rebellion against slavery.
José Antonio Echeverría
José Antonio Echeverría (1932 to 1957) was a Cuban architecture student who led the university student federation against Fulgencio Batista and founded the Revolutionary Directorate.
José de Canterac
José de Canterac was a French-born Spanish general, chief of staff and commander in chief of the royalist army in Peru during the Spanish American wars of independence.
José de San Martín
José de San Martín (1778–1850), Argentine general and Liberator with Bolívar of Argentina, Chile, and Peru; led the 1817 Andes crossing, won Chacabuco and Maipú, served as Protector of Peru, resigned after Guayaquil, died in exile in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
José Dolores Estrada
José Dolores Estrada (1792–1869) was a Nicaraguan soldier who rose from private to General of Division and won the 1856 Battle of San Jacinto against William Walker's filibusters.
José Félix Ribas
José Félix Ribas (1775–1815) was a Venezuelan independence general who led a force of students and seminarians to victory at La Victoria in 1814, an action commemorated as Venezuela's Day of Youth.
José Joaquín Puello
José Joaquín Puello was a Dominican general and statesman who helped lead the 27 February 1844 revolt that founded the Dominican Republic and was executed under President Pedro Santana in 1847.