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J. Christopher Callaghan J. Christopher Callaghan is the former Treasurer of Saratoga County, New York, and an unsuccessful candidate for New York State Comptroller in the 2006 statewide elections of the Republican and Conservative Parties.
J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat (Born 1970) is an American cultural anthropologist, and the author of Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti (University Press of Florida, 2006).
J. I. M. Stewart John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (September 30, 1906 Edinburgh–November 12, 1994 Coulsdon) was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well-known for the works of literary criticism and "straight" novels published under his real name and for the whodunits published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes.
J. I. Packer James Innell Packer (born July 22, 1926 in Gloucester, England) is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the Calvinistic Anglican tradition. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
J. Irwin Miller Joseph Irwin Miller (May 26 1909 — August 19 2004) was an American industrialist and patron of modern architecture. He was instrumental in the rise of the Cummins Engine Company and giving his hometown of Columbus, Indiana international stature with its buildings.
J. J. C. Smart John Jamieson Carswell Smart, AC or Jack Smart (born 1920) is a Scottish philosopher who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He works in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy.
J. J. Clancy (Sinn Féin) John Joseph Clancy (died January 1, 1932) was Sinn Féin member (Teachta Dála) of the First Dáil for County Sligo North, 1919-1921. In the general election of December 1918, he was elected as part of the Sinn Féin landslide, defeating the Nationalist Thomas Scanlan who had sat for the Sligo North seat since 1909, by 9,030 to 4,242.
J. J. Gibson James Jerome Gibson (1904–1979) was an American psychologist, considered one of the most important 20th century psychologists in the field of visual perception. In his classic work The Perception of the Visual World (1950) he rejected the fashionable behaviorism for a view based on his own experimental work, which pioneered the idea that animals 'sampled' information from the 'ambient' outside world.
J. Johnston Pettigrew James Johnston Pettigrew (July 4, 1828 – July 17, 1863) was an author, lawyer, linguist, diplomat, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was a major leader in the disastrous Pickett's Charge and was killed a few days after the Battle of Gettysburg during the Confederate retreat to Virginia.
J. Kevin Tumlinson James Kevin Tumlinson (born October 12, 1972, in Brazoria, Texas) is a prolific fiction and editorial writer. His work appears in publications such as the Houston Chronicle, Consumer Digest, ViewOnline Magazine and many more.
J. L. Austin John Langshaw Austin (March 28, 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory and terminology of speech acts. He was born in Lancaster and educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort Johannes Lijdius Catharinus Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829 – 1908) was a Dutch physician based in Nagasaki, Japan. In Nagasaki he taught medicine, chemistry and photography and established a medical school and hospital.
J. L. Wilkinson James Leslie Wilkinson (May 14 1878 - August 21 1964) was an American sports executive who founded the barnstorming All-Nations baseball club in 1912, and the Negro league baseball team Kansas City Monarchs in 1920.
J. Lawton Collins Joseph "Lightning Joe" Lawton Collins (1 May 1896 – 12 September 1987) was a general of the United States Army. During World War II, he served in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations.
J. Lloyd Williams John Lloyd Williams (July 10, 1854 - November 15, 1945), was a noted botanist, author and musician. He was one of the founders of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, established in 1906 to promote the collection and study of traditional Welsh folk songs, and became the first editor of the Society's Journal (see the Society's website: www.
J. Lowell Stoltzfus Lowell Stoltzfus (born July 15, 1949) is a Republican Minority Leader representing Maryland's 38th Legislative District, which covers parts of Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester. Stoltzfus is a graduate of the Salisbury University, B.
J. M. DeMatteis John Marc DeMatteis (born December 15 1953) is an American writer of comic books. A follower of the Indian guru Meher Baba, DeMatteis is known both for infusing superhero comics with spiritual concerns, and for his humorous touch.
J. M. Robertson John Mackinnon Robertson (14 November 1856 - 5 January 1933) was a prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918.
J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (April 23 1775 (exact date disputed) – December 19 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter and watercolourist, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism.
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill John Michael Wallace-Hadrill CBE (29 September 1916–3 November 1985) was Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of Manchester (1955-61), a Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford (1961-74), Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford (1974-83) and a Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (1974-85). He was elected to a fellowship in the British Academy in 1969.
J. Mark G. Williams Mark Williams, PhD, is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Wales, Bangor. Where he began the University's Institute of Medical and Social research and the Center for Mindfulness Research practice.
J. Marshall Craig Canadian-born J. Marshall Craig is best known for his critically acclaimed work as writer for Eric Burdon's Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and The Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell's Between Rock and a Home Place.
J. Martin Klotsche J. Martin Klotsche November 28 1907-4 February, 1995, an American professor of history and academic administrator, oversaw the growth of what was then Milwaukee State Teachers College into the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as its president, provost and chancellor from 1946 until he stepped down in 1973.
J. McVicker Hunt (1906-1991), a prominent educational psychologist and author, promoted and researched pioneering concepts related to the malleable nature of child intelligence (also promulgated by Benjamin Bloom) that eventual led to the theory of learning centered on the concept an information-processing system.
J. Meade Falkner John Meade Falkner (8 May, 1858 - 22 July, 1932) was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 swashbuckler, Moonfleet. Surprisingly for a successful novelist, he was also an extremely successful businessman, becoming chairman of the arms manufacturer Amstrong Whitworth during World War I.
J. Melville Broughton Joseph Melville Broughton (born 17 November 1888 Raleigh, North Carolina - died 6 March 1949 Bethesda, Maryland) was the Democratic governor of the state of North Carolina from 1941 to 1945. A lawyer by training (and a graduate of Harvard Law School), Broughton worked as a school principal and journalist before actively entering the legal profession.
J. Michael Davis J. Michael Davis, EVP, CTO, and CGO (Chief Game Officer), co-founder of Versaly Entertainment, was the VP of R&D and Editing at Wizards of the Coast, joined Wizards in 1995 and grew his department from 5 to 15 designers.
J. Michael Fay J. Michael Fay (born September 1956, Plainfield, New Jersey) is an American ecologist and conservationist notable for, among other things, the MegaTransect, in which he spent 455 days walking 2000 km across Africa and the MegaFlyover in which he and pilot Peter Ragg spent months flying 70,000 miles in a small plane at low altitude, taking photographs every twenty seconds.
J. Michael Miller The Most Reverend John Michael Miller (born July 9, 1946 in Ottawa, Canada), commonly referred to as J. Michael Miller, is the current Roman Catholic archbishop of Vertara and the Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education for the Roman Catholic Church.
J. Michael Straczynski Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is also a playwright, journalist and author of a well-regarded tome on scriptwriting.
J. Millard Tawes John Millard Tawes (May 8, 1894 – June 25, 1979), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 54th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1959 to 1967. He remains the only Marylander to be elected to the three positions of State Treasurer, Comptroller, and Governor.
J. Milton Hayes John Milton Hayes (1884 - 1940), better known as J. Milton Hayes, was an English actor and poet, best known for his 1911 dramatic monologue The Green Eye of the Yellow God, much parodied by his contemporary Stanley Holloway and later by The Goon Show.
J. Minos Simon Joseph Minos Simon (February 27, 1922 -- March 11, 2004) was a "Cajun" legal legend known in Louisiana and within his adopted Lafayette Parish for his courtroom theatrics -- wit, anecdotes, and stern, determined demeanor. Simon could wear down his opponents by his erudition, attention to detail, and a sprinkling of Cajun common sense.
J. N. L. Myres Dr. John Nowell Linton Myres CBE (27 December 1902 - 25 September1989) was a British archaeologist and Bodley Librarian at the Bodleian Library in Oxford from 1947 to 1965; and librarian of Christ Church College before then.
J. Neil Alexander The Right Reverend John Neil Alexander is the 9th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, being elected to that office March 31, 2001. On July 7, 2001, Bishop Alexander was installed as bishop in a service at the Cathedral of St.
J. Neil Schulman Joseph Neil Schulman (born April 16, 1953 in Forest Hills, New York, USA) is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, radio personality, a filmmaker and actor. His works include the novels Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza, both of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel, and the anthology Nasty, Brutish, And Short Stories.
J. O. Bailey James Osler Bailey (1903-1979) was a professor of literature who taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He wrote on a wide slate of topics ranging from the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Hardy to science fiction and utopian literature.
J. O. M. Roberts James Owen Merion Roberts (1916-1997) was one of the greatest Himalayan mountaineer-explorers of the twentieth century, a highly decorated Army officer who achieved his greatest renown as "the father of trekking" in Nepal. His exploratory activities are comparable to those of Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman.
J. Ogden Armour Jonathan Ogden Armour (1863-1927) was a Chicago meat-packing magnate of Armour and Company in the early 1900s, taking over for father Philip Danforth Armour. He also served as the treasurer of the Illinois State Council of Defense.
J. P. Den Hartog Jacob Pieter Den Hartog (born: July 23, 1901 in Java — died: March 17, 1989) was professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1945 where he taught dynamics and strength of materials.
J. P. Manoux Jean-Paul Manoux (born June 8 1969) is an American actor. He plays surgical resident Dustin Crenshaw on ER, but is perhaps best known for his recurring roles as both Curtis the Caveman and Vice Principal Neil Hackett on Disney Channel's Phil of the Future.
J. P. Morgan John Pierpont Morgan I (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1891 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houson Electric Company to form General Electric.
J. P. R. Williams John Peter Rhys Williams (born 2 March 1949 in Cardiff), known universally as JPR Williams, played rugby union for Wales between 1969 and 1981. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest fullbacks of all time.
J. Peters Josef Peters or Joseph Peters also Joszef Peter, more commonly known as J. Peters, best known for his work for the NKVD's Inostrannyi Otdel (special operations) section and the secret apparatus of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) underground in the 1930s and '40s.
J. R. Miller James Russell Miller (March 20, 1840–July 2, 1912) was a popular Christian author, Editorial Superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, and pastor of several churches in Pennsylvania and Illinois.
J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE () (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor who is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as many other works. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and English language and literature (1945 to 1959).
J. Rayburn Bertrand J. Rayburn “Ray” Bertrand (October 1, 1918 - March 6, 2005) was a businessman, civic leader, and decorated World War II veteran who served as the Democratic mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana, from 1960 to 1972.
J. Rendel Harris James Rendel Harris (Plymouth, Devon, January 27, 1852 – March 1, 1941) was an English biblical scholar and curator of manuscripts, who was instrumental in bringing back to light many Syriac Scriptures and other early documents. His contacts at the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai enabled Agnes Smith Lewis and her sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson to discover there the Sinaitic Palimpsest, the oldest New Testament document in existence.
J. samuel cook Jared Samuel Cook(born November 12th, 1983 in Toledo, OH) is a career coach, journalist, and author of Silent Rage: The Struggle of Black Men in America. He is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
J. S. Mathews Major James Skitt Mathews was the City of Vancouver's first archivist and an early historian and chronicler of the city; Major Mathews also refers to a building named in his honour in Vanier Park, Vancouver, Canada.
J. S. Sirén Johan Sigfrid Sirén (May 27 1889, Ylihärmä – March 5 1961, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect. He graduated as an architect in 1931 and is best known for Eduskuntatalo, which is where the Parliament of Finland meets.
J. Sargeant Reynolds Julian Sargeant Reynolds (June 30, 1936-June 13, 1971) of Richmond, Virginia was a teacher, businessman, and politician. He served in both the House and Senate of the Virginia General Assembly and served as Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
J. Sidlow Baxter J. Sidlow Baxter (born in Australia, 1903; died 1999) was a pastor and theologian who authored as many as thirty books(depending on how anthologies and collections of sermons are to be counted) analysing the Bible] and advocating a fundamentalist Christian theological perspective.
J. Stuart Blackton James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 - August 13, 1941), usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation.
J. T. Walsh James Thomas Patrick Walsh (September 28, 1943 – February 27, 1998) was an American actor best known for his roles as "quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs" (quote from Leonard Maltin) in numerous feature films and "everybody's favorite scumbag" from Playboy Magazine.
J. Thomas Heflin James Thomas Heflin, (April 9 1869–April 22 1951), nicknamed "Cotton Tom," was a colorful United States Senator from Alabama. Born in Louina, Alabama, he was the grandson of the Alabama politician Robert Stell Heflin.
J. Tinling James Collingwood Burdett Tinling (24 March 1900 - 1983)was an ex-RAF officer who joined with Rolf Dudley-Williams and Frank Whittle in 1936 to set up Power Jets Ltd, which manufactured the world's first working jet engine.
J. Tobias Anderson J Tobias Anderson (born 1971 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish videoartist, experimenting with found footage and animation. He is best known for the short films "879" (1998), "My Name Is Grant" (1999), "879 Colour" (2002) and "Prairie Stop, Highway 41" (2004) - all referring to works by Alfred Hitchcock.
J. Val Klump Jeffrey Val Klump (born December 17, 1948) is an American limnologist. He was the first person to reach the deepest spot in Lake Superior, a depth of 1333 feet (733 feet below sea level), which is also the deepest point in the United States.
J. W. Alexander James Waddell Alexander II (September 19, 1888 – September 23, 1971) was an important topologist of the pre-WWII era and part of an influential Princeton topology elite, which included Oswald Veblen, Solomon Lefschetz, and others. He was one of the first members of the Institute for Advanced Study (1933–1951), and also a professor at Princeton University (1920–1951).
J. W. N. Sullivan John William Navin Sullivan (1886-1937), was a popular science writer and literary journalist, and the author of a study of Beethoven. He wrote some of the earliest non-technical accounts of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and was known personally to many important writers in London in the 1920s, including Aldous Huxley, John Middleton Murry, Wyndham Lewis and T.
J. Walter Christie John Walter Christie (May 6, 1865 - January 11, 1944) was an American engineer and inventor. He is best known for developing the Christie suspension system used in a number of World War II-era tank designs, most notably the Soviet BT and T-34 series, and the British Covenanter and Crusader Cruiser tanks, as well as the Comet heavy tank.
J. Wiley Edmands John Wiley Edmands was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., March 1, 1809; completed preparatory studies, and was graduated from the English High School at Boston; interested in woolen mills in Dedham, Mass.
J. Willard Marriott John Willard Marriott (September 17, 1900 - August 13, 1985) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of Marriott International, the parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains and food services company.
J. William Fulbright James William Fulbright (April 9 1905–February 9 1995) was a well-known member of the United States Senate representing Arkansas. Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist, supported racial segregation, supported the creation of the United Nations and opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee.
J.C. Romero Juan Carlos Romero (born June 6, 1976 in Rio Pedras, Puerto Rico) is a Major League Baseball left-handed specialist with the Boston Red Sox. He most has played for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2006) and the Minnesota Twins (1999-2005).
J.D. Closser Jeffrey Darrin Closser (born January 15, 1980 in Beech Grove, Indiana) is a catcher in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Milwaukee Brewers. Closser and his wife, Holley, have two daughters, Isabelle and Callie McKenna.
J.E. Preston Muddock James Edward Preston Muddock also known as "Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock" and "Dick Donovan" (May 28, 1842 – January 23, 1934), was a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle.
J.F.R. Jacob Lieutenant General JFR Jacob (Jacob-Farj-Rafael Jacob) is a former governor of the Indian states of Punjab and Goa and Lieutenant General (Retired) of the Indian Army. He is widely known in India as one of the military masterminds behind India's successful liberation of Bangladesh in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
J.G. Devlin James Gerard Devlin (born October 8 1907 in Belfast; died October 17 1991 in Belfast) was a Northern Irish actor. In a career spanning nearly fifty years, he played parts in productions such as Z Cars, Dads Army, The New Avengers and Bread.
J.H. Binford Peay III James Henry Binford "Binnie" Peay III (born May 10, 1940, in Richmond, Virginia) is a retired four-star general from the United States Army and is currently the 14th Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute.
J.J. Birden LaJourdain J Birden (born June 16, 1965 in Portland, Oregon), was a former American professional football player who was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the 8th round of the 1988 NFL Draft. A 5'9", 160 lbs.
J.J. Daigneault Jean-Jacques Daigneault (born October 12 1965 in Montreal, Quebec) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. He is currently an assistant coach for the American Hockey League's Hartford Wolf Pack.
J.J. Furmaniak Jason Joseph Furmaniak (Born July 31, 1979 in Naperville, Illinois) is a Major League Baseball player. Primarily an outfielder and a second baseman, Furmaniak is currently a member of the Oakland Athletics association.
J.J. Kelso Newspaper reporter and social crusader John Joseph Kelso immigrated to Canada from Ireland with his family in 1874 when he was ten years old. They suffered hardships of hunger and cold in their early years in Toronto and, throughout his life, this motivated Kelso's compassion towards the poor and unfortunate.
J.J. Stevenson (geologist) John James Stevenson (1841-1924) was an American geologist, born in New York City. He graduated at New York University in 1863, became professor of chemistry at West Virginia University for two years (1869-71), then served as professor of geology at New York University until 1909.
J.M. Langtry Langtry, James MacKay (1894-1971) was a British Technical Advisor who was seconded by the engineering firm Vickers Armstrong to the Spanish naval shipbuilder Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN), of which it owned a part. He arrived in Ferrol, Spain, in 1919.
J.S. Wilson Colonel John Skinner "Belge" Wilson was a Scottish Scouting luminary and friend and contemporary of Lord Baden-Powell, recruited by him to head the International Bureau, later to become the World Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
J.T. Edson John Thomas Edson was born in 1928 near the border of the County of Derbyshire, England, in a small mining village. He was obsessed with Westerns from an early age and often "rewrote" cowboy movies that he had seen at the cinema.
J.T. O'Sullivan John Thomas O'Sullivan (born August 25, 1979 in Burbank, California) is an American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) and is currently on the Carolina Panthers. He has also played for the New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers, New England Patriots and Minnesota Vikings.
J/Z (New York City Subway service) The J Nassau Street Express and Z Nassau Street Express are two services of the New York City Subway. They are colored brown on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map, since they run on the BMT Nassau Street Line in Manhattan.
J002E3 J002E3 is the designation given to an asteroid discovered by amateur astronomer Bill Yeung on September 3, 2002 that may be the S-IVB third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket (though there is currently no positive proof of the object's identity).
J2 (comics) J2 (Zane Yama) is a fictional comic book mutant superhero in the Marvel Universe. He exists in MC2, a possible future timeline of the main Marvel continuity and is the son of the former supervillain Juggernaut.
J2 Global Communications j2 Global Communications (Nasdaq:JCOM) is a company based in Hollywood, California that offers messaging and communications services. Its most popular service is called "eFax", which allows users to send and receive faxes via the Internet.
J2O J2O is an exotic still soft drink made from fruit juices, manufactured by Britvic and sold in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1998, J2O is available in six flavour combinations; orange and passion fruit, apple and mango, apple and melon, orange and cranberry, apple and raspberry and, on 17 October 2006, the limited edition orange and pomegranate..
J2STask In computers, J2STask is a software product that was developed by J2S to streamline the workflow of people who process digital raster graphics (or Encapsulated PostScript) files. It is designed to automatically complete repetitive operations on large numbers of image files stored on a local hard disk, or on an ftp server (J2S, n.
J8 The J8 Global Citizenship programme provides young people from around the world with opportunities to learn more about topical global issues, to debate and discuss these issues, and to take their solutions to world leaders at the G8 summit. J8 is a partnership between Morgan Stanley, UNICEF and the country with the presidency of the G8.
Ja još spavam u tvojoj majici Ja još spavam u tvojoj majici is Ceca's sixth album. This is the second time she has worked with Futa (Aleksandar Radulović) a rock/metal oriented composer, which results in rock/folk songs full of guitar riffs.
Ja Rule Jeffrey Atkins (born February 29 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper from Hollis, Queens,New York City, New York, United States. He rose to fame in the late 90s and early 2000's.
Ja'afar Touqan Ja'afar Touqan (Arabic: جعفر طوقان) is one of the pioneering Palestinian-Jordanian architects and one of the most famous as well. He designed the Municipality of Amman in Ras Il Ayn, and he belongs to several important committees including that of the National Gallery.
Ja'far al-Sadiq Ja'far al-Sadiq (Arabic: جعفر الصادق) (April 20, 702 – December 4, 765), in full Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn, is considered the sixth Shi'a imam by Ja’fari Shi'a Muslims & the fifth Shi'a imam by Shi'a Ismaili Muslims. He was a theologian and jurist.
Ja'far ibn Abu Talib Jafar ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: جعفر ابن أبي طالب) (AKA Jafar Tayyar) was the son of Abu Talib ibn 'Abdul Muttalib (the uncle of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed) and his uncle Abbas ibn 'Abdul Muttalib was the one who raised him, for his father was a poor man and had to support a big family. He was also the brother of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Shia Imam and fourth Sunni Caliph.
Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi born 10 August (787 and died 9 March 886), also known as Albumasar, Abu Ma'shar, Albumazar, al-Falaki and Balkhi, was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer from Balkh, in today's Afghanistan. He was a student of al-Kindi.
Ja'far ibn Yahya Ja'far bin Yahya Barmaki (, ja`far ben yaḥyā) (767-803) was the son of a Persian Vizier (Yahya ibn Khalid) of the Arab Abbasid Chaliph, Harun al-Rashid, from whom he inherited that position. He was a member of the influential Barmakids familiy.
Ja'net Du Bois Ja'net Du Bois (pronounced or Zha-NAY Doo-BWAH, born August 5, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film and television actress. on The IDMB Website, They mixed up the year, DuBois was born, saying she was born in 1945 (which would only make her 29 Years old).
Ja, Zoo Ja, Zoo is the third album by Japanese musician Hide and the first after his solo project had formally been re-titled "Hide with Spread Beaver". It was released on September 2, 1998, having been completed without Hide, due to his death in May 1998.
Ja1250 "Diana" JA 1250, also known as Diana, is a New Zealand JA class 4-8-2 steam tender locomotive locomotive owned by Phil Goldman. Currently she is operated by the Railway Enthusiasts Society and maintained by the Glenbrook Vintage Railway.
Jaafar Haji Muhammad Dato Jaafar Bin Haji Muhammad (born 1838, died 1919) was the first and longest serving Dato' Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Johor, an office he held until his death. He took office when Temenggung Abu Bakar made himself Sultan and formulated a new constitution and administrative framework for Johor in 1885.
Jaahil JAAHIL (singular) Juhla, Jahiloon or Jahileen (plural) literally refers to an ignorant person but is also a Qur’anic term referring to those who do not make an effort to understand the teachings of the Qur’an, and the Sunnah of the Prophet.
Jaakko Friman Jaakko Johannes Friman (born January 13, 1904) was an ice speed skater from Finland, who represented his native country at the 1928 Winter Olympics in Sankt Moritz, Switzerland. There he won the bronze medal in the men's 500 metres.

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