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J & J Snack Foods Corporation The J & J Snack Foods Corporation () is a food and beverage manufacturing and marketing conglomerate based in Pennsauken, New Jersey. Primarily involved with frozen beverages and "nutritious" snack foods, the group owns such well-known brands as ICEE, SuperPretzel, Uptown Bakeries and Readi-Bake.
J (programming language) The J programming language, developed in the early 1990s by Ken Iverson and Roger Hui, is a synthesis of APL (also by Iverson) and the FP and FL function-level languages created by John Backus (of FORTRAN, ALGOL, and BNF fame).
J (singer) Jung Jae Young, known as her stage name J, is a K-pop singer. A Korean-American born May 2, 1978, she was discovered in a beauty pageant for Koreans in Washington That allowed her to travel to Korea to become a singer, with her first album Gold/Blue coming out in 1998.
J 35 Draken The Saab J 35 Draken (the word 'Draken' here is referring to a Kite, but it's also the same as Dragon in Swedish) or Saab 35 is a Swedish fighter aircraft manufactured by Saab between 1955 and 1974. The Draken was built to replace the Saab J 29 Tunnan and, later, the fighter variant (J 32B) of the Saab Lansen.
J and Friends Sing and Chant for Amma J and Friends Sing And Chant For Amma is an album-length compact disc by American guitarist/singer/songwriter and Dinosaur Jr bandleader J Mascis. The CD consists of several devotional songs composed and/or adapted by Mascis and dedicated to Hindu religious leader Mata Amritanandamayi, or Ammachi, whom Mascis is a devoted follower of.
J Allard J Allard (his legal name; formerly James Allard) (born January 12 1969 in Glens Falls, New York) is a Corporate Vice President and the Chief XNA Architect at Microsoft. He also oversaw Microsoft's first foray into the video game industry, the Xbox.
J Bar W Ranch Family owned and operated, J Bar W is a small ranch located in Union Bridge, Maryland, United States. They raise nationally ranked bucking bulls and host a local rodeo every Saturday night in their show seasons.
J Burford Fields J Burford Fields (b December 26, 1953 Oberlin, Kansas), cited as the inventor of the electronic newsletter when, as editor of the Osborne Hawaii Users' (OHU) Newsletter, 1981-1984, he began uploading the monthly editions to the Source.
J Dilla James Dewitt Yancey (February 7 1974–February 10 2006), better known as J Dilla or Jay Dee, was an American hip hop producer and MC, who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip-hop scene in Detroit, Michigan. He began his career as "Jay Dee" but used the name "J Dilla" from 2001 on.
J Ernest Davey The Rev John Ernest Davey was an Irish Presbyterian minister, historian and theologian who was acquitted on charges of heresy in 1927 and elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland in 1951.
J Harlen Bretz J Harlen Bretz (1882 - 1981) was an American geologist, best known for his research that led to the acceptance of the Missoula Floods. He was born to Oliver Joseph Bretz and Rhoda Maria Howlett, farmers in Saranac, Michigan, as the oldest of five children.
J Church The J Church is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California mainly serving the Noe Valley and Balboa Park neighborhoods. It was one of San Francisco's streetcar lines in the early 20th century, and was converted to modern light rail operation with the creation of the Muni Metro system in the late 1970s.
J J Ebers Award The J J Ebers Award was established in 1971 with the intention to foster progress in electron devices and to commemorate the life activities of Jewell James Ebers, whose distinguished contributions, particularly in the transistor art, shaped the understanding and technology of electron devices. It is presented annually to honor an individual(s) who has made either a single or a series of contributions of recognized scientific, economic, or social significance in the broad field of electron devices.
J J Liston Stakes The J J Liston Stakes is a Group 2 Australian thoroughbred horse race held under weight for age conditions, for horses aged 3 years old and upwards, over a distance of 1400m. It is held at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne.
J Majik J Majik (real name Jamie Spratling) hails from Northwood, England and has been a drum and bass DJ since his early teens in the early 1990s, releasing his first track as early as 1992(as DJ Dextrous ) on the Planet Earth record label. By 1994 he had changed his stage name to the current moniker (due to the fact that there was already another DJ Dextrous within the scene with a huge following recording with Suburban Base Records - http://www.
J Mascis J Mascis (born Joseph Mascis December 10 1965) is an American musician, probably best-known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter for Dinosaur Jr, though he also has been an occasional producer and film composer.
J Mays J Mays (born October 15, 1954 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, USA) is currently the Group Vice President of Design and Chief Creative Officer at Ford Motor Company. His name is simply "J", named after his grandfather S J Mays.
J Preston Limited J Preston Limited is a company of laboratory equipment and chemicals suppliers based in Sheffield, England whose origins could be traced back to the early 1830's. The company went through many changes over the years.
J Remy J Remy (pronounced Jay Rim-e) is a crossover hip-hop artist from Picayune, Mississippi. J Remy is often thought of as a contemporary Christian music artist based on the fact that he has professed the Christian faith in many of his interviews.
J S Battye Library The J S Battye Library is an arm of the State Library of Western Australia and stores much of the States historical records and original publications including books, newspapers, periodicals, maps, ephemera, as well as oral history tapes, photographs and artworks, films and video, and non-government records which are kept in the library's Private Archives collection.
J Sharp The J# (pronounced 'J-sharp') programming language is a transitional language for programmers of Sun's Java and Microsoft's J++ languages, so they may use their existing knowledge, and applications on Microsoft's .NET platform.
J Strother Moore J Strother Moore is a computer scientist, and is co-developer of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm and the Boyer-Moore automated theorem prover, NQTHM. A good example of the workings of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm is given in his website along with the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm.
J with stroke J with stroke (majuscule , minuscule ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from J with the addition of a bar through the letter. It is used in Arhuaco to represent a sound similar to the j in English just.
J Wess Presents Tha LP J Wess Presents Tha LP is the debut album for Australian urban musician J-Wess released in April 2004. The album has made the top twenty of the Australian album charts and three songs from the album "Bang This", "What Chu Want" and "Luv Ya" have been hits in Australia.
J'attendrai J'attendrai was the French version by Rina Ketty in 1939 of the Italian song Tornerai by Dino Olivieri in 1933. The version by Dalida was the first disco song in Europe and made Dalida the first French disco star.
J'Aime La Vie J'aime La Vie (English translation: "I Love Life") was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, performed for Belgium by Sandra Kim. Belgium had finished the 1985 Contest in last place, and thus achieved the rare turnaround from last to first in the space of one year.
J'naii The J'naii are a fictional race introduced in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Outcast." The episode aired during the fifth season of the television series and had Commander Riker falling in love with a visiting J'naii diplomat, and thus violates the alien races prohibition on expressing any sort of gender identity.
J'ouvert J'ouvert - a contraction of the French jour ouvert, or day open (morning) - is a large street party during carnival in the eastern Caribbean region. J'ouvert is celebrated on many islands, including Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Grenada, St.
J'un Oeil J'un Oeil is the title of a 1975 album by the Fusion band Sloche. Highly regarded by prog fanatics as one of the top albums from Quebec, Canada in the 1970s alongside with Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison by Harmonium and Les Porches by Maneige.
J-13 The J-13 is a possible heavy-weight version of the J-10 air superiority fighter being devoloped by Chengdu Aerospace to compete with the J-XX by Shengyang Aerospace. The fighter is similar to design to the J-10 and is very similar to the Mikoyan Project 1.
J-card A j-card is the paper card inserted in the plastic storage case of most pre-recorded audio cassette releases, as well as cassettes of bootleg or copied concerts of the jam band scene. The j-card usually contains an image of the album cover, a track listing, credits, and copyright information.
J-class yacht During the 1930's J-class yachts were built to race in the America's Cup. Only 10 were ever built, or converted to J-class, as they were extremely expensive to build and maintain, especially in the post war years after the Cup resumed in 1958.
J-coupling J-coupling (also called indirect dipole dipole coupling) is the coupling between two nuclear spins due to the influence of bonding electrons on the magnetic field running between the two nuclei. J-coupling contains information about dihedral angles which can be estimated using Karplus equation.
J-Crown The J-Crown (also known as J-Crown Championship) was formed originally by New Japan Pro Wrestling as a way of unifying eight non-heavyweight titles from several different organizations. The J-Crown tournament was held over four nights, from August 2nd to August 5th 1996.
J-ENT J-ENT is an abbreviation of Japanese entertainment. It refers to popular forms of Japanese entertainment but more specifically a shortened term to encompass popular dramas, variety shows and music shows from Japan.
J-Horror J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to horror fiction in popular culture. Whereas American modern day horror films tend to rely heavily on special effects and a multitude of sub-genres (i.
J-invariant In mathematics, Klein's j-invariant, regarded as a function of a complex variable Ď„, is a modular function defined on the upper half-plane of complex numbers. We can express it in terms of Jacobi's theta functions, in which form it can very rapidly be computed.
J-Men Forever J-Men Forever is a 1979 film by Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theatre. Using film clips from Republic serials, it tells the story of the Lightning Bug (played by various villains from the various serials; his changing appearance is explained as rapid costume changes) and his attempt to take over the world.
J-Mojyamon J-Mojyamon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion level Rare Animal Digimon that looks like Mojyamon except for his brown-colored hair. The "J" in J-Mojyamon stands for Jungle.
J-pole antenna The J-pole antenna is an end-fed omnidirectional dipole that is matched to the feedline by a quarter wave stub. Since this is a half-wave antenna, it will exhibit some gain over a quarter-wave ground-plane antenna.
J-Rize J-Rize is the stage name of Justin Cadieux (born June 13, 1984 in Windsor, Ontario), a Canadian rapper. Rize started rapping with fellow rapper Hush, who showed him the ropes of rapping and helped him get to where he is today.
J-ska Japanese ska or J-ska is ska or ska punk music made in Japan by Japanese artists with lyrics in the Japanese language or in English. It is, along with its counterparts elsewhere in the world, part of what has been called the "third wave of ska [..
J-SOX J-SOX is the nickname of Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, which was promulgated on June 14th, 2006. Inspired by corporate scandals such as the Kanebo, Livedoor, and Murakami Fund episodes, the law has been dubbed "the Japanese version of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," hence J-SOX.
J-Swift J-Swift is an infamous American producer responsible for songs with groups on the Delicious Vinyl Label, most notably the Hip-Hop group The Pharcyde. He is currently the subject of a documentary called 1 more hit.
J-Tex Corporation J-Tex Corporation was a professional wrestling stable in World Championship Wrestling. The heel group was managed by Gary Hart and consisted of several popular wrestlers including Terry Funk, Dick Slater, Keiji Mutoh, The Dragonmaster and Buzz Sawyer.
J-Walk Blog The J-Walk Blog is a weblog, or blog, created and maintained by John Walkenbach of Tucson, Arizona, USA. Mainly a daily-updated list of links to strange, interesting, or wacky things found on the internets, it has a loyal and vocal cadre of regular visitors and its comment section is a lively and active forum for debate on a wide array of topics.
J-Wess J-Wess is an Australian urban musician who has had a top twenty album in Australia in 2004 with J-Wess Presents Tha LP producing three singles "Bang This", "Luv Ya" and the top 10 single "What Chu Want" .
J, K and N class destroyer The J, K and N class was a class of 24 destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1938. They were a return to a smaller vessel, with a heavier torpedo armament, after the Tribal class that emphasised guns over torpedoes.
J. A. O. Preus Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus (August 28, 1883 – May 24, 1961) was an American politician, born in Columbia County, Wisconsin. He served as the state auditor for Minnesota from January 5, 1915 to January 5, 1921 and as the 20th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1921 to January 6, 1925.
J. A. O. Preus II Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus II (January 8 1920 – August 13 1994) was a Lutheran pastor, professor, author, and church president. He served as the president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod from 1969-1981.
J. Alden Weir Julian Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 - December 8, 1919) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically-unified group.
J. Anthony Lukas Jay Anthony Lukas (April 25, 1933–June 5, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families—one upper middle-class white, one working class white and one African-American.
J. Arthur Ross James Arthur Ross (December 8, 1893-April 1, 1958) was a Manitoba politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons for thirteen years, and was a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 1953.
J. B. Black John Bennett Black (1883-1964) was a Scottish historian whose primary topic of study was of Elizabethan England. He was Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen where a prize is awarded each year in his name.
J. B. Danquah Joseph Kwame Kyeretwi Boakye Danquah (December 1895 – 4 February 1965), Ghanaian statesman, was one of the primary opposition leaders to Ghanaian president and independence leader Kwame Nkrumah. He was known as Nana Kwame Kyeretwie to close friends and associates.
J. B. Long James Baxter Long was born December 25 (Christmas day), 1903, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. When Long was three years old, his family moved to Hickory, North Carolina, where he lived until he moved to eastern North Carolina circa 1926.
J. Baird Callicott Baird Callicott is Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies in the Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of North Texas. He was Vice President and then President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics from 1994 to 2000.
J. Blaine Blayton James Blaine "Jim" Blayton, MD, (August 13, 1905 - December 15, 2002) was a prominent African American physician in the Williamsburg, Virginia area who lived in the Grove Community in adjacent James City County. He practiced medicine for over 50 years, and was also a civic leader.
J. Brant Arseneau Joseph Brant Arseneau (born 3 September 1967) is known for developing the first software reverse engineering tools in 1992 that used computational intelligence for the method of general computationals . At the University of Aberdeen he developed, SORT, an application written in C++ that used Kohonen self-organizing feature map neural networks to identify objects in procedural code for the European Space Agency.
J. Bruce Ismay Joseph Bruce Ismay (December 12, 1862 - October 15, 1937) was a British businessman who served as Managing Director of the White Star Line of steamships. He travelled on (and survived) the doomed maiden voyage of his company's marquee ocean liner, the RMS Titanic.
J. C. Bonnin Juan Carlos Bonnin (born February 2, 1968 in Okinawa, Japan) was a popular Filipino matinee idol in the 1980s. He is best remembered for his roles in the movies Bagets, Ninja Kids, and Kamagong (with Lito Lapid).
J. C. Brandy Justine Chelsea Brandy (born November 15, 1975 in Chelsea, England) is an English actress. Among her roles she has appeared in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Strong Medicine, What Lies Beneath (2000), Silk Stalkings and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
J. C. D. Clark Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark (born 28 February, 1951) is a British historian of British history and American history. He currently serves as the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas.
J. C. Leyendecker Joseph Christian Leyendecker (23 March 1874–25 July 1951) was a popular American illustrator. Of Dutch ancestry, born in Germany, he emigrated to the United States at the age of eight in 1882 from Montabaur, Germany, with his parents, Peter Leyendecker and Elizabeth née Oreseifen, his sister, Augusta, and two brothers, Francis Xavier "Frank" Leyendecker, and Adolph Leyendecker.
J. C. Mardrus Joseph Charles Mardrus (1868-1949), born in Cairo, was a French physician and a noted translator. Today he is best known for his translation of the Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into French, which was published from 1898 to 1904, and was in turn rendered into English by Powys Mathers.
J. C. Squire Sir John Squire (John Collings Squire) (April 2, 1884 – December 20, 1958) was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. He also moved in society circles.
J. Caleb Boggs James Caleb "Cale" Boggs (May 15 1909 – March 26 1993) was an American lawyer and politician from Claymont, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War II, and a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U.
J. Carrington Smith Jack Carrington Smith, Australian artist from Tasmania who won the Archibald Prize in 1963 with a portrait of Professor James McAuley, who was then the chair of the University of Tasmania. Also a tutor who taught other artists.
J. Cleaveland Cady J(osiah) Cleaveland Cady (Providence, Rhode Island, 1837 - April 17 1919) was a New York-based architect whose most familiar surviving building is the south range of the American Museum of Natural History on New York's Upper West Side. He worked in partnership from 1870 with Milton See (1854 - October 27 1920) in the firm of Cady, Bird and See.
J. Clifford Baxter John Clifford Baxter (September 27, 1958 – January 25, 2002) was a former Enron Corporation executive who resigned in May 2001. He sold a large quantity of Enron stock during the months prior to Enron bankruptcy.
J. D. Beresford John Davys Beresford (17 March 1873 - 1 February 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and some short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. His Hampdenshire Wonder was a major influence on Olaf Stapledon.
J. D. Durbin Joseph Adam Durbin (born February 24, 1982 in Portland, Oregon) is a Major League Baseball pitcher, currently on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins. He now plays for the Twins' AAA affiliate Rochester Red Wings.
J. D. Jackson John David Jackson (born 1925) is a Canadian-American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a senior staff physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well-known for his publication of the most widely used graduate textbook on electrodynamics.
J. Donald Pollock Sir John Donald Pollock (1868-1962) was Rector of Edinburgh University from 1939 to 1945 and gifted land to the University to build halls of residence. Pollock Halls of Residence were built on the site, and were named for him.
J. Dover Wilson John Dover Wilson CH (July 13, 1881-January 15, 1969) was a professor and scholar of Renaissance drama, focusing particularly on the work of William Shakespeare. He attended Cambridge University and taught at King's College London before becoming Regius Professor of English literature at the University of Edinburgh.
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, CB, CMG, DSO, PC, TD (May 31, 1868 – November 7, 1947), was a British soldier and Liberal politician, chiefly known for his tenure as Secretary of State for War during the years leading up to the First World War.
J. E. Casely Hayford Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford or Ekra-Agiman (1866–1930) was a Fante journalist, author, lawyer, educator, and politician who supported pan-African nationalism. He was born on September 29, 1866 in Cape Coast, in the British Gold Coast colony, now Ghana.
J. E. R. Staddon John Eric Rayner Staddon (born 19 March 1937) is an American behavioral psychologist known for research on interval timing, "superstition," and behavioral optimality in rats, pigeons, and fish. He is also known for his critiques of Skinnerian behaviorism and the proposal of a controversial "New Behaviorism.
J. Edwin Seegmiller J(arvis) Edwin Seegmiller, or Jay Seegmiller, (June 22, 1920 - May 31, 2006) was an American physician and biochemical geneticist best known for his role in discovering the biochemical basis of the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. He was a rheumatologist and a pioneer in research on arthritic diseases and on aging.
J. Elfreth Watkins John Elfreth Watkins (1852–1903) was a civil engineer working for American railroads of the 19th century. He played a key role in the preservation of the John Bull steam locomotive and its subsequent public displays by the Smithsonian Institution.
J. Emile Verret J. Emile Verret (1886 - February 9, 1965) was the Democratic lieutenant governor of Louisiana from 1944-1948, having served under James Houston "Jimmie" Davis in the first of Davis' two nonconsecutive terms in the state's highest constitutional office.
J. Eric S. Thompson Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (31 December, 1898 – 9 September, 1975) was an English archeologist and Mayanist epigrapher, regarded as the pre-eminent mid-20th century scholar of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. He was generally known as J.
J. Erik Jonsson John Erik Jonsson (6 September, 1901 - 31 August, 1995) was a co-founder and former president of Texas Instruments Incorporated. A skillful businessman, he became mayor of Dallas and a philanthropist in later years.
J. F. A. McManus Joseph Forde Anthony McManus, (July 13, 1911 – March 4, 1980) was a Canadian Pathologist who is best known for his formulation of one of the most frequently used stains in Histopathology; the McManus Periodic acid-Schiff stain. Joe McManus was a pioneer in the field of Histochemistry during its period of expanding growth and application in the 1940s and 1950s.
J. F. Lawton Jonathan Fredrick Lawton is a screenwriter and director. Screen credits include Pretty Woman, Mistress, Blankman, Under Siege, and under the assumed name, JD Athens, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death and Pizza Man starring Bill Maher.
J. Frank Allee James Frank Allee (December 2 1857 – October 12 1938) was an American merchant and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.
J. Frank Dobie James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888–September 18,1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. As a public figure, he was known in his lifetime for his outspoken liberal views against Texas state politics, and for his long personal war against what he saw as bragging Texans, religious prejudice, restraints on individual liberty, and the assault of the mechanized world on the human spirit.
J. Frank Norris John Franklin Norris, (born September 18, 1877, Dadeville, Alabama, died August 20, 1952, Jacksonville, Florida, USA) was a firebrand fundamentalist preacher and popular Baptist leader. He was one of the most controversial and flamboyant figures in the history of fundamentalism.
J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers The Cavaliers formed around 1955 with leader/guitarist Sid Holmes, bassist Lewis Elliott, saxophonist Rob Zeller, drummer Ray Smith and vocalist Alton Baird. Baird was drafted shortly after the group formed; the band brought in J.
J. Franklin Jameson John Franklin Jameson (September 19, 1859 – September 28, 1937) was an American historian, author, and journal editor who played a major role in the professional activities of American historians in the early 20th century. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, the son of John Jameson, a schoolteacher, lawyer, and postmaster, and Mariette Thompson.
J. Fraser McLuskey The Very Rev James Fraser McLuskey MC DD was an Edinburgh born Padre who fought with the Special Air Service in World War II. He later went on to become the minister of St Columba's, the larger of the Church of Scotland’s two congregations in London, and Moderator of the General Assembly in 1983-84.
J. G. Thirlwell James George Thirlwell (born January 29 1960), aka Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka Jim Foetus, is a vocalist, composer and producer whose work can be broadly categorised in the No Wave and Electronic music genres.
J. Geils Band The J. Geils Band was an American music group, formed in 1967 in Worcester, Massachusetts, that had a successful blues-rock/R&B-influenced sound in the 1970s, before moving towards a more pop-influenced sound in the 1980s, which brought them MTV airplay and their 1982 international hit single "Centerfold".
J. Golden Kimball Jonathan Golden Kimball (June 9, 1853 - September 2, 1938) was a prominent and well known leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy from 1892 until his death in 1938. He is considered one of the most colorful and beloved of the Church's General Authorities during this (or any) period.
J. H. C. Whitehead John Henry Constantine Whitehead (11 November 1904–8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Madras (now known as Chennai) in India and died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1960.
J. H. Hobart Ward John Henry Hobart Ward (June 17, 1823 – July 24, 1903) was a career soldier in the United States Army and the New York state militia, as well as a Union general during the American Civil War. His troops played a prominent role during the Battle of Gettysburg, where they held the left flank of the Union III Corps line on Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge.
J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement is an 1884 short story by a then-young Arthur Conan Doyle, loosely based on the real mystery of the abandonment of the Mary Celeste, published anonymously in the respected Cornhill Magazine.
J. Hans D. Jensen Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (June 25, 1907 – February 11, 1973) was a German physicist who shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. (The remaining half of the prize was awarded to Eugene Wigner for unrelated work.
J. Hartley Manners John Hartley Manners was a British playwright who wrote Peg o' My Heart, which starred his wife, Laurette Taylor on Broadway in one of her greatest stage triumphs, although she did not appear in the film version that he wrote and produced. The film role went to Marion Davies.
J. Hugo Aronson John Hugo Aronson (September 1, 1891 - February 25, 1978), nicknamed "The Galloping Swede," was an American politician from the Republican Party. Born in Gällstad, Västergötland, Sweden, he served as a member of Montana House of Representatives in 1938 and the Montana Senate in 1944.

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