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1,666 profilesJohn Hume
18 January 1937 – 3 August 2020
John Hume was a politician from Derry, Northern Ireland, who co-founded the Social Democratic and Labour Party and led i...
John Hunter
13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793
John Hunter was a Scottish surgeon and anatomist, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day and a...
John Keats
31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821
John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet whose work, though largely unrecognized in his short lifetime, becam...
John Lennon
9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980
English musician, co-founder of the Beatles and one half of the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership, later a solo a...
John Lewis
21 February 1940 – 17 July 2020
John Lewis was an American civil rights leader and politician who served as U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congre...
John Locke
29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704
English philosopher and physician known as the father of liberalism, whose theories of natural rights and government by...
John Logie Baird
13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946
John Logie Baird (1888-1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor who demonstrated the world's first working television...
John Mauchly
30 August 1907 – 8 January 1980
John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, with J. Presper Eckert, co-invented ENIAC, the first general-purpose...
John Maynard Keynes
5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946
John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose ideas fundamentally reshaped macroeconomics and government economic po...
John McCarthy
4 September 1927 – 24 October 2011
John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who was one of the founders of the discipline o...
John Milton
9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674
John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant, best known for the epic poem Paradise Lost....
John Napier
1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617
John Napier (1550-1617) was a Scottish landowner, mathematician, and theologian, the 8th Laird of Merchiston, best known...
John Nash
13 June 1928 – 23 May 2015
John Forbes Nash Jr. was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geome...
John Smeaton
8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792
John Smeaton was an English engineer often called the father of civil engineering, the profession he was the first to de...
John Snow
15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858
John Snow was an English physician who is considered a founder of modern epidemiology. He traced an 1854 cholera outbrea...
John Steinbeck
27 February 1902 – 20 December 1968
John Steinbeck was an American writer, born in Salinas, California, in 1902. His novels, many set in the agricultural va...
John Stuart Mill
20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, and Member of Parliament, one of the most...
John von Neumann
28 December 1903 – 8 February 1957
John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and polymath who made major contributions to mathema...
John Wesley
28 June 1703 – 2 March 1791
John Wesley (1703-1791) was an English cleric, theologian and evangelist who, with his brother Charles, founded the Meth...
John Williams
8 February 1932 – present
John Williams is an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including Jaws, Star Wars, Close Enc...
John Wycliffe
c. 1328 – 31 December 1384
John Wycliffe (c. 1328-1384) was an English theologian, Oxford scholar, and church reformer whose criticisms of clerical...
Johnny Cash
26 February 1932 – 12 September 2003
Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter whose deep voice and songs about hardship, redemption, and morality made h...
Jomo Kenyatta
c. 1897 – 22 August 1978
Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its first prime minister and then...
Jonas Salk
28 October 1914 – 23 June 1995
American virologist who developed the first successful polio vaccine and founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studi...
Jonathan Swift
30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet, and Anglican cleric, widely regarded as the fore...
Joni Mitchell
7 November 1943 – present
Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter whose work moved from folk into pop, jazz and experimental sty...
Jony Ive
27 February 1967 – present
Sir Jonathan Ive is a British industrial designer who led design at Apple for more than two decades. Trained at Newcastl...
Jorge Luis Borges
24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, and poet, a key figure in Spanish-language and internat...
José de San Martín
25 February 1778 – 17 August 1850
José de San Martín was an Argentine general and one of the principal leaders of South America's independence from Spain....
José Martí
28 January 1853 – 19 May 1895
José Martí (1853-1895) was a Cuban poet, essayist, journalist, and revolutionary who became the foremost symbol of Cuba'...
José Rizal
19 June 1861 – 30 December 1896
José Rizal (1861-1896) was a Filipino nationalist, physician, and writer, regarded as the national hero of the Philippin...
Joseph Brant
c. 1743 – 24 November 1807
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea, 1743-1807) was a Mohawk military and political leader who allied with Great Britain during...
Joseph Fourier
21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the study of...
Joseph Haydn
31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809
Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, often called the 'Father of the Symphony' and the 'Father...
Joseph Lister
5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery. Building on Louis Pasteur's germ theory, he intro...
Joseph Priestley
24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, dissenting clergyman, and political theorist,...
Joseph Stalin
18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953
Joseph Stalin was a Georgian-born revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his dea...
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) was an Italian-born French mathematician and astronomer who made major contributions t...
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier was a French paper manufacturer and inventor who, with his younger brother Jacques-Étienne, in...
Josiah Wedgwood
12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795
Josiah Wedgwood was an English potter and entrepreneur who industrialized the manufacture of pottery and founded the Wed...
Josip Broz Tito
7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980
Josip Broz Tito was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman who led the Partisan resistance during World War II...
Josquin des Prez
c. 1450 – 27 August 1521
Josquin des Prez was a Franco-Flemish composer of the High Renaissance, regarded by his contemporaries and by later hist...
Juan Perón
8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974
Juan Perón was an Argentine army officer and politician who served three terms as president of Argentina. His political...
Juan Rulfo
16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986
Juan Rulfo was a Mexican writer and photographer whose reputation rests on two books: the short-story collection El Llan...
Juan Sebastián Elcano
c. 1487 – 4 August 1526
Juan Sebastián Elcano (c. 1487-1526) was a Spanish Basque navigator who completed the first circumnavigation of the Eart...
Jules Verne
8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist widely regarded as a founding father of science fiction. His Voyages extra...
Julian Schwinger
12 February 1918 – 16 July 1994
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was an American theoretical physicist and one of the principal architects of quantum electr...
Julio Cortázar
26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984
Julio Cortázar was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, a major figure of the Latin American Boom an...