Joachim In Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy tradition, Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of the Mary, the mother of Jesus, and therefore is ascribed the title of "forebearer of God." The Biblical canonical Gospel accounts in the New Testament do not explicitly name either of Mary's parents, but some argue that the genealogy in Gospel of Luke 3 is that of Mary rather than Joseph, thereby naming her father as Eli.
	Joan Crawford Joan Crawford was an acclaimed Academy Awards winning United States Actor. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars, ranking at No. 10.
	Joan Didion Joan Didion is an United States writer, known as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. With her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, she collaborated on several screenplays. She lives in New York, New York.
	Joan Miró Joan Mir i Ferr was a Catalan painting, sculpture and Ceramics born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan and Spanish pride.
	Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne d'Arc, was a national heroine of France and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from England domination late in the Hundred Years' War.
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	João Pessoa gcolor=003298| |} Joo Pessoa, sometimes called the city where the sun comes first, is located at the easternmost point of the Americas at 34 47' 38" west longitude and 7 9' 28" south latitude. Local residents call this easternmost point Ponta do Seixas. Joo Pessoa is the capital of Paraba, a state in the northeast region of Brazil and home of some of the most noted Brazilian poets and writers: Augusto dos Anjos, Jos Amrico de Almeida and Jos Lins do Rego.
	Job's Tears Job's Tears, Coixseed, adlay, or adlai, is a tall grain-bearing tropical plant of the family Poaceae native to East Asia and Malaya but elsewhere cultivated in gardens as an Annual plant. It has been naturalized in the southern United States and the New World tropics.
	Jockey In sports, a jockey is one who rides horses in thoroughbred horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession.
	Jockstrap A jockstrap, also known as a jock or athletic supporter, is a type of men's undergarment designed for use in sports or other activities, such as during the recovery from a vasectomy. They are also worn by some people as general, everyday underwear. A typical jockstrap consists of a wide elastomer waistband with a support pouch and two straps extending from the base of the pouch around the buttocks to attach to the waistband.
	Jodhpur Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, also known as Marwar. Jodhpur is a popular tourist destination, featuring many beautiful palaces, forts and temples, apart from a stark, scenic desert landscape.
	Joe Clark Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Alberta Order of Excellence, Master of Arts , Doctor of Laws was the sixteenth prime minister of Canada from June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980. He was a prominent Canadian politician until his retirement in 2004.
	Joe DiMaggio Joseph Paul DiMaggio, born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr. , nicknamed Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper, was a Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire MLB career for the New York Yankees. He was the brother of Vince DiMaggio and Dom DiMaggio.
	Joe Louis Joseph Louis Barrow, better known in the boxing world as Joe Louis and nicknamed The Brown Bomber, was a native of LaFayette, Alabama. He is widely regarded to be the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. At a turbulent time in history, just before the war, he became a popular and national hero, along with Jesse Owens, for both black and white America.
	Joe-Pye weed Joe-Pye Weed or Trumpetweed is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern North America, in southeast Canada and throughout the eastern and central United States. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.5-3 m tall, found in moist, rich soil alongside ditches and marshes, or in wet forests.
	Johann Bernoulli Johann Bernoulli was a Switzerland mathematician. He was the brother of Jakob Bernoulli, and the father of Daniel Bernoulli and Nicolaus II Bernoulli. He is also known as Jean or John Bernoulli. He educated the great mathematician Leonhard Euler in his youth.
	Johann Eck Johann Eck was a 16th century theology and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck who argued that the beliefs of Martin Luther and Jan Hus were similar.
	Johann Friedrich Herbart Johann Friedrich Herbart, was a German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Herbart is now remembered amongst the post-Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest contrast to Hegel; this in particular in relation to aesthetics. That does not take into account his thought on education.
	Johann Joachim Winckelmann Johann Joachim Winckelmann was Germany art historian and archaeologist. He is famous for founding the "Greek revival", an art movement based on Greek art that influence the rise of the neoclassical movement during the late 18th century. Winckelmann was also one of the founders of modern scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art.
	Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific Germany composer and Organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music genre and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust counterpoint technique, a control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from a
	Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms was a Germany composer of the Romantic music, who lived mostly in Vienna, Austria.
	Johannes Diderik van der Waals Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a The Netherlands scientist famous "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids", for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1910. Van der Waals was the first to realize the necessity of taking into account the volumes of molecules and the intermolecular forces in establishing the relationship between the pressure, volume and temperature of gases and liquids.
	Johannes Gutenberg Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a Holy Roman Empire goldsmith and inventor who achieved fame for his invention of the technology of printing with movable types during 1447. This technology included a Punchcutting alloy and oil-based inks, a mould for casting type accurately, and a new kind of printing press based on presses used in wine-making in the Rhineland.
	Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler , a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German people mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and an early writer of science fiction stories. He is best known for his Kepler's laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi and the textbook Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.
	Johannesburg Johannesburg, also known as eGoli, is the most populous city in South Africa. The city is affectionately known as "Jo'burg", "Jozi" and "JHB" by South Africans. Johannesburg is the province capital of Gauteng Province, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and the site of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
	John Adams John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States and Politics of the United States who served as the first Vice President of the United States , and the second President of the United States . He was defeated for reelection in 1800 by Thomas Jefferson.
	John Addington Symonds John Addington Symonds was the name of a father and son, both England writers.
	John Bardeen John Bardeen was an United States physicist. He is the only person to have won two Nobel Prize: in 1956 for the transistor, along with William Shockley and Walter Brattain, and in 1972 for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity together with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer, now called BCS theory.
	John Barleycorn John Barleycorn is a folksong from Britain. The character "John Barleycorn" in the song is a personification of the important cereal crop barley, and of the alcoholic beverages made from it, beer and whisky. In the song, John Barleycorn is represented as suffering attacks, death, and indignities that correspond to the various stages such as reaping and malting.
	John Barrymore John Sidney Blyth Barrymore , was an American actor. He gained fame as a William Shakespeare, lauded for his Hamlet and for his Richard III , and was frequently regarded as the greatest actor of his generation. He was the grandfather of Drew Barrymore and brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore.
	John Bull John Bull is a national personification of the United Kingdom created by Dr. John Arbuthnot in 1712, and popularized first by British print makers and then overseas by illustrators and writers such as American cartoonist Thomas Nast and Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, author of John Bull's Other Island.
	John Bunyan John Bunyan , a Christianity writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden , in the Parish of Elstow, England. He wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, arguably the most famous published Christian allegory.
	John Burgoyne John Burgoyne was a Kingdom of Great Britain general and playwright. During the American Revolutionary War, on October 17, 1777, at Battle of Saratoga he surrendered his Convention Army.
	John C. Frémont John Charles Frmont, born John Charles Fremon, was an United States military Commissioned officer, List of explorers, the first candidate of the History of United States Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery.
	John Cabot Giovanni Caboto , known in English language as John Cabot, was an Italy navigator and exploration commonly credited as the first early modern European to discover the North American mainland, in 1497, notwithstanding Leif Ericson's landing .
	John Cage John Milton Cage was an United States experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. He is most widely known for his 1952 composition 4'33", whose three movements are performed without playing a single note. Cage was an early composer of what he called "chance music" —music where some elements are left to be decided by chance; he is also well known for his extended technique and his pioneering exploration of electronic music.
	John Calvin John Calvin was a France Christianity theology during the Protestant Reformation and was the originator of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism. He was born Jean Chauvin in Noyon, Picardie, France, to Grard Cauvin and Jeanne Lefranc.
	John Chrysostom John Chrysostom was a notable Christianity bishop and preacher from the 4th century and 5th century centuries in Syria and Constantinople. He is famous for eloquence in public speaking and his denunciation of abuse of authority in the Church and in the Roman Empire of the time.
	John Constable John Constable was an England Romanticism painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of the area surrounding his home - the area of Dedham Vale is now known as "Constable Country". His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821.
	John D. Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. was an United States industrialist who played a prominent role in the early oil industry with the founding of Standard Oil. Over a forty-year period, Rockefeller built Standard Oil into the largest and most profitable company in the world, and was for a time the List of America's richest people in the world.
	John Dalton John Dalton was an England chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland, England. He is most well known for his advocacy of the atomic theory.
	John Deere John Deere was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company—one of the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont, the son of William Deere. After his father disappeared en route to England, Deere was raised by his mother in Middlebury, Vermont, where he received an elementary-school education.
	John Dewey John Dewey was an United States philosopher, psychologist, and school reform, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
	John Donne John Donne was a Literature in English#Jacobean literature poet and preacher, the representative of the so-called metaphysical poets of the period, though the term itself came after his death. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegy, songs, and sermons.
	John Dory John Dory, also known as St Pierre, refers to fish of the genus Zeus, especially Zeus faber, of widespread distribution. It is an edible deep-sea fish with a laterally compressed olive-yellow body which has a large dark spot, and long spines on the dorsal fin. The dark spot is used to flash an if danger approaches the John Dory.
	John Dos Passos John Rodrigo Dos Passos was an important United States novelist and artist. ory:Portuguese-Americans|Dos Passos, John]] Category:American World War I people Category:American novelists Category:American painters Category:Modern painters
	John Drew John Drew was a United States of America actor. Drew made his first New York appearance in 1846. He played Ireland and light comedy parts with success in many American cities, and was the manager of the Arch Street Theatre. His wife, Louisa Lane Drew, and his children, John Drew, Jr. and Georgiana Drew, were also accomplished actors.
	John Dryden John Dryden was an influential England poet, literary critic and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
	John Endecott John Endecott, sometimes Endicott, was a colonial magistrate, soldier and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Endecott was most likely born before 1600. His origins, as of yet, have not been discovered—although there is a building named after him in the English town of Chagford, locally claimed to be his birthplace.
	John Ford John Ford was an United States film director famous for such westerns as Stagecoach and The Searchers, and for adaptations of such classic 20th century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. His style of film-making has been tremendously influential, leading colleagues such as Ingmar Bergman and Orson Welles to name him one of the greatest directors of all time.
	John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles was an United States statesman who served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world.
	John Galsworthy John Galsworthy Order of Merit was an England novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. Galsworthy was born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, the son of John and Blanche Galsworthy.
	John Glenn John Herschel Glenn Jr. is a former American astronaut, United States Marine Corps fighter pilot, ordained Presbyterian elder, corporate executive, and Politics of the United States. He was the fifth man and the third American to fly in space and the first American to orbit the earth.
	John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He was born to John and Abigail Whittier at the rural Whittier homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up on the farm in a household with his parents, a brother and two sisters, a maternal aunt and paternal uncle, and a constant flow of visitors and hired hands for the farm.
	John Haldane John Scott Haldane Order of the Companions of Honour was a Scotland physiologist.
	John Hancock Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican Party United States Senate from the United States state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. During his two terms as Senator, McCarthy gained notoriety for aggressively investigating claims of Communist party and Soviet Union operatives inside the Federal Government.
	John Hanning Speke Jacob Speight was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa. In 1844 he joined the British Indian Army where he served in the First Anglo-Sikh War under Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde. He spent his leave exploring the Himalaya Mountains and once crossed into Tibet.
	John Herschel Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet Royal Guelphic Order was an England mathematician and astronomer. He was the son of astronomer William Herschel. Herschel originated the use of the Julian day system in astronomy and made several important contributions to the improvement of photographic processes .
	John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin is a United States historian and past president of the American Historical Association. Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, he is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continuously updated. More than three million copies have been sold.
	John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an American film director and actor.
	John Irving John Winslow Irving is an United States novelist and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. Since achieving great critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978, all of Irving's novels, including well-known works The Cider House Rules and A Prayer For Owen Meany, have been bestseller.
	John Jacob Astor John Jacob ' Astor was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and real estate industries.
	John James Audubon John James Audubon was a France-United States ornithology, natural history, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America.
	John Keats John Keats was one of the principal poetry of the England Romanticism movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, though politics, rather than aesthetics, often dictated those opinions. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, audiences began to appreciate more fully the significance of the cultural change which his work both presaged and helped to form.
	John Keble John Keble was an England churchman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford. He was born in Fairford, Gloucestershire where his father, the Rev. John Keble, was vicar of Coln St. Aldwyns. He attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford and, after a brilliant academic performance there, became a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and was for some years a tutor and examiner in the University of Oxford.
	John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith was an influential Canada-United States economics of the 20th century. He was a Keynesian economics and an institutional economics, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and Progressivism in the United States.
	John Knox John Knox was a Scotland religious reformer who took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines. He is widely regarded as the List of people known as father or mother of something the Protestant Reformation in Scotland and of the Church of Scotland.
	John Lennon John Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire , was an iconic England 20th century composer and singer of popular music, best known as the founding member of The Beatles, in which he and Paul McCartney formed the massively successful Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership throughout the 1960s.
	John Locke John Locke was an influential England philosopher. In epistemology, Locke has often been classified as a British Empiricism, along with David Hume and George Berkeley. He is equally important as a social contract theorist, as he developed an alternative to the Thomas Hobbes state of nature and argued a government could only be Legitimacy if it received the consent of the governed through a social contract and protected the natural rights of life
	John Major Sir John Major, Knight of the Garter, Order of the Companions of Honour is an England politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997. He was also a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom of Margaret Thatcher as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Chancellor of the Exchequer.