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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Freedom Rider, Parchman Penitentiary inmate, and first white student at Tougaloo College, subject of An Ordinary Hero.
John Alexander Dowie
John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907), Scottish-born faith healer and Congregational minister, founded the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion and built Zion City, Illinois, a theocratic planned community, before his 1906 deposition.
John Bartholomew Gough
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) was an English-born American temperance lecturer who rose from destitute drunkard to international celebrity, delivering thousands of testimony lectures across the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
John Froines
John Froines (1939–2022) was an American chemist and Chicago Seven defendant, acquitted of all charges in the 1969–70 trial, later OSHA Director of Toxic Substances and a UCLA public health professor.
John Humphrey Noyes
John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886), Vermont-born Perfectionist minister, founded the Putney and Oneida Communities; his Bible Communist utopia practiced complex marriage, male continence, and stirpiculture before becoming Oneida Ltd. silverware.
John Jacob Astor VI
John Jacob Astor VI (1912–1992), "Jakey", the Titanic Baby, was the posthumous son of John Jacob Astor IV and Madeleine Force; born August 14, 1912, he was half-brother to Vincent Astor, married four times, and died in Miami Beach.
John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (1940–2020), American civil rights leader and Georgia congressman: SNCC chairman, original Freedom Rider, Bloody Sunday marcher, 33-year House member known as the conscience of Congress.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (1947-2018), Wyoming rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist, and EFF co-founder, wrote the 1996 Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, the defining cyberlibertarian manifesto against government control of the internet.
John Pierre Burr
John Pierre Burr (1792-1864) was an African-American Philadelphia barber, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad conductor, son of Vice President Aaron Burr and Mary Emmons of Calcutta; recognized by the Burr family in 2018-2019.
John Saul (prostitute)
John (Jack) Saul, c.1857–c.1904, Irish-born Victorian London male prostitute, attributed author of The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881) and star witness in the 1889 Cleveland Street scandal and Euston libel trial.
John Stoltenberg
John Stoltenberg, American radical feminist author of Refusing to be a Man (1989) and The End of Manhood (1993), co-founder of Men Against Pornography, and Andrea Dworkin's widower.
John Trudell
Santee Dakota activist, poet, and actor (1946–2015); spokesman for the 1969–1971 Alcatraz occupation, national chairman of the American Indian Movement 1973–1979, and spoken-word artist with more than a dozen albums.
Jonathan Daniels
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (1939-1965), New Hampshire-born Episcopal seminarian and VMI valedictorian, joined the Selma voting rights campaign, was jailed in Hayneville, and was killed August 20, 1965 shielding Ruby Sales from deputy Tom Coleman's shotgun; later named an Episcopal Church martyr.
Jordon Hudson
Jordon Hudson (born 2001) is an American entrepreneur, pageant contestant, and former cheerleader, known as the girlfriend of football coach Bill Belichick; she manages his personal brand, holds about $8 million in real estate, and drew attention for interrupting his 2025 CBS interview.
Josefa Llanes Escoda
Josefa Llanes Escoda was a social worker who founded the Girl Scouts of the Philippines in 1940, and aided women's rights and prisoners during World War II.
Joseph Zen
Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, cardinal and retired Bishop of Hong Kong (2002–2009), Salesian priest, critic of the 2018 Vatican–China bishops agreement, democracy advocate, convicted 2022 over the 612 fund registration.
Josephine Bracken
Josephine Bracken, full name Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken, was the Hong Kong-born companion of José Rizal during his exile in Dapitan, dying in Hong Kong in 1902.
Joshua Caleb Sutter
Joshua Caleb Sutter, also known as Wulfran Hall, is an American neo-Nazi and Satanist who served as a paid FBI informant from 2003 to 2021.
Joyce Vincent
Joyce Carol Vincent, English woman found dead in January 2006 in her Wood Green, north London bedsit, nearly three years after dying in early 2003; subject of Carol Morley's 2011 documentary Dreams of a Life.
Judith Exner
Judith Exner, born Judith Immoor (1934-1999), an American socialite also known as Judith Campbell, claimed an affair with JFK from 1960 and, from 1988, a courier role between Kennedy and Mafia bosses Sam Giancana and Johnny Rosselli.
Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill (Julia Lorraine Hill, born 1974) is an American environmentalist who lived 738 days, December 1997 to December 1999, in the 180-foot-high canopy of Luna, a 1,000-year-old redwood near Stafford, California, saving it from Pacific Lumber in exchange for a $50,000 payment and buffer zone.
Julia Rausing
Julia Rausing (died April 2024, aged 63) was a British philanthropist, former Christie's art expert, and wife of Hans Rausing; she co-founded the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust in 2014, commemorated by the Julia Rausing Trust giving £100m yearly to UK causes.
Julie Bindel
Julie Bindel (born 1962) is a British radical feminist journalist and author, co-founder of Justice for Women, known for abolitionist views on prostitution, anti-pornography campaigning, and gender-critical activism.
Julien Blanc
Julien Blanc, also known as JulienHimself, is an American pickup artist and former Real Social Dynamics instructor whose 2014 seminars sparked a global deplatforming campaign; Australia, the UK, and Singapore denied him visas, and he now coaches personal transformation.
June 1976 protests
The June 1976 protests (Polish: Czerwiec 1976) were a wave of strikes by Polish workers against drastic food price increases announced by Edward Gierek's government in June 1976.
Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax
The Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax: the 2019 staged racist, homophobic attack the Empire actor reported in Chicago, leading to dropped charges, a special prosecutor, a 2021 conviction, and a 2024 Illinois Supreme Court reversal.
Just Say No
Just Say No: 1980s U.S. anti-drug campaign popularized by First Lady Nancy Reagan, telling children to refuse drugs by saying no. Related to D.A.R.E. Evaluations found negligible effects on youth drug use.
Jyotirao Phule (जोतिराव फुले)
Jyotirao Phule (जोतिराव फुले), Mahatma Phule, 1827–1890, Maharashtrian anti-caste reformer from the Mali community; opened Pune girls' schools from 1848 with Savitribai, wrote Gulamgiri (1873), founded Satyashodhak Samaj 1873.
Kailash Satyarthi (कैलाश सत्यार्थी)
Kailash Satyarthi (कैलाश सत्यार्थी), born 1954 in Vidisha, India, is a children's rights activist who shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai for the fight against child labor, founding Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980.
Kālīnātha Rāya
Kālīnātha Rāya, recorded as Kalinath Munshi (कालीनाथ मुंशी), was a 19th-century collaborator of Rammohan Roy who helped decide that Roy's religious association should take permanent form.