American Famous Names Starting with Letter J

A Canadian singer-songwriter known for such hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More C

A Canadian singer-songwriter known for such hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels".Her music has drawn from a wide variety of styles, ranging from new wave rock on her earlier albums to a reflective pop style influenced by jazz, folk, gospel, classical and liturgical music in her later work.Siberry was studying music and microbiology at the University of Guelph when she released her debut album, Jane Siberry in 1981 (see 1981 in music). The album was relatively successful for an independent release, but the follow-up, No Borders Here was critically acclaimed and included the underground hit "Mimi on the Beach".

Is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb o

Is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B. at Vassar College, then earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa

Is an American ice dancer. She competes with Todd Gilles, with whom she teamed up in 2007.

Is an American ice dancer. She competes with Todd Gilles, with whom she teamed up in 2007.

Is an Emmy Award-winning American actress and comedienne. She starred in such hits, as The Coneheads

Is an Emmy Award-winning American actress and comedienne. She starred in such hits, as The Coneheads and more recently The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines. Curtin was also an actor and cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Is a Canadian author.Urquhart has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memori

Is a Canadian author.Urquhart has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the presidential writer-in-residence fellowship at the University of Toronto.

Was a three-time Emmy-winning American actress perhaps best known for her role as the housewife and

Was a three-time Emmy-winning American actress perhaps best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the television series Father Knows Best and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television show, "Star Trek".

Was an American golfer.

Was an American golfer.

Was an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress. Her most prolific

Was an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress. Her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best known film roles in Johnny Belinda, for which she won an Oscar, and Magnificent Obse

Is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer, and former co-host on Air Ame

Is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer, and former co-host on Air America Radio's The Majority Report. On August 20, 2007, it was announced that she will join the FOX Network television series 24 in its seventh season. Garof

Is a Bermudian cricketer, who captained the Bermudian cricket team in their first ever One Day Inter

Is a Bermudian cricketer, who captained the Bermudian cricket team in their first ever One Day International when they played Canada on 17 May 2006; Tucker took 2-29 off nine overs and scored 17 as Bermuda won the game by three wickets under the Duckworth

Is an American professional wrestler and manager, known by her ringname Alere Little Feather, who co

Is an American professional wrestler and manager, known by her ringname Alere Little Feather, who competes in North American independent promotions including CHIKARA, MXW Pro Wrestling, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Jersey All-Pro Wrestling, the National

Is an American actress, singer, Broadway performer, songwriter and pianist. She is best known for pl

Is an American actress, singer, Broadway performer, songwriter and pianist. She is best known for playing Jade in the 2007 film Bratz: The Movie.

Is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley

Is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Her teammates in that race were Beth Barr (backstroke), Tracey McFarlane (breaststroke), and Mary Wayte (freestyle).

Pierzina was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota to parents Kevin Pierzina and Ann Pierzina-Killian. Pie

Pierzina was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota to parents Kevin Pierzina and Ann Pierzina-Killian. Pierzina graduated from Grand Rapids High School in 1998, and attended the University of Minnesota Duluth, but did not graduate. Prior to Big Brother, Pierzina was an actress, a model, and a waitress. She also appeared under the name Elle Brenna.Pierzina modeled for Playboy Inc. twice and did an extended interview for Xposed magazine. She was also named as an SBK World Superbike Calendar Girl by FastDates.com. Pierzina also filmed a pilot episode for a travel series called Nautical Angels, but the series was not picked up for broadcast. The show featured three women,

Is a former Canadian politician. She was first elected as a Member of Parliament under the Reform Pa

Is a former Canadian politician. She was first elected as a Member of Parliament under the Reform Party of Canada ticket in the Alberta riding of Calgary Southeast in the 1993 federal election.Before entering politics, Brown was a schoolteacher and then agribusiness executive.

(born on March 10, 1956) is an American golfer.

(born on March 10, 1956) is an American golfer.

Was an American film and television actress.Instead, she took the lead role of Nellie Forbush in a p

Was an American film and television actress.Instead, she took the lead role of Nellie Forbush in a production of the stage musical South Pacific, making more than 1,200 performances in three years. " never missed a performance", she noted proudly. During the tour, she also got married to second husband, producer-director Nick Mayo, and they became parents of Amanda and Andrew.

A Canadian installation artist. Born in Brussels, Ontario in 1957 Cardiff studied at Queen's Univers

A Canadian installation artist. Born in Brussels, Ontario in 1957 Cardiff studied at Queen's University (BFA) where she graduated in 1980. She also studied at the University of Alberta (MVA)and graduated in 1983. She works in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff and Miller currently live and work in Berlin. Janet Cardiff first gained international notoriety for her audio walks in 1995,Cardiff's installations and walking pieces are often audio-based. She has been included in exhibitions such as: Present Tense, Nine Artists in the Nineties, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, NowHere, Louisiana Museum, Denmark, The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie International '99/00, the Tate Modern Opening Exhibition as well as a project commissioned by Artangel in London. This project ("The Missing Voice (Case Study B)") was commissioned in 1999 and continues to run

Is a former American journalist who became infamous when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated s

Is a former American journalist who became infamous when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story that she wrote for The Washington Post.

An American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the

An American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers.Davison attended the academically challenging junior high school in New Jersey and became especially interested in science. In 1940, aged 15, she was granted a scholarship to study in an advanced placement program at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools where she finished high school and the first two years of college, followed by completion of her degree at the University of Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1944, a bachelor of science degree in 1946, and doctor of medicine degree in 1948, aged 23. She married Donald Adams Rowley, also a physician, the day after graduating from medical school. Rowley balanced family life with her career by working part-time as she raised four sons. She began full-time research when the youngest was 12 years old.

She won three gold medals. In the games, she set a new world record in the 400-meter freestyle event

She won three gold medals. In the games, she set a new world record in the 400-meter freestyle event; this record would hold for 18 years until Laure Manaudou broke it in May 2006. Until June 2007, Evans held the 1,500-meter freestyle record (set in March

Is a retired female diver from the United States, who twice represented her native country at the Su

Is a retired female diver from the United States, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1972 and 1976. In 1975 she claimed the world title in the Women's 10m Platform competition.

Was an American operatic singer.A soprano, she made occasional performances with the Chicago Symphon

Was an American operatic singer.A soprano, she made occasional performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Opera, the Grant Park Orchestra, and the San Carlo Opera Company. She was also a patron of contemporary music, and provided encour

Is the original lead singer of the all-female hard rock band, Vixen.She joined the band in 1983 and

Is the original lead singer of the all-female hard rock band, Vixen.She joined the band in 1983 and stayed until calling it quits in 1991. She returned to Vixen when they reunited in 1997, but the reunion ended in 2001. When Jan Kuehnemund decided to refo

Was an American actress who, in 1928, became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress

Was an American actress who, in 1928, became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her three most prominent films: Sunrise (1927), Seventh Heaven (1927), and Street Angel (1928). Gaynor is best known today as the lead in the original