American Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is an American journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Revi

Is an American journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. In a 1979 New York Times review of Didion's collection The White Album, critic Michiko Kakutani noted, "Novelist and poet James Dickey has called Didion 'the finest woman prose stylist writing in English today.'"[1]

Was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range.Diener met her futur

Was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range.Diener met her future husband, theatre director Albert Marre, when she won the role of Lalume, the seductive wife of the Wazir, in Kismet, winning a Theatre World Award for he

Was an American film and television actress in the 1950s. She is known for her role in the film noir

Was an American film and television actress in the 1950s. She is known for her role in the film noir, Roadblock (1951).Dixon's career, while under contract at RKO Pictures, was in the hands of Howard Hughes. He attempted but failed to make her into the st

An American biologist.Roughgarden received a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Arts i

An American biologist.Roughgarden received a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from University of Rochester in 1968 and a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1971. She is the author of 5 books and over 120 articles.Roughgarden has taught at Stanford University since 1972. She founded and directed the Earth Systems Program at Stanford and has received awards for service to undergraduate education. Roughgarden's current research links ecology with economic theory.In addition to a seminal ecology textbook written with Paul R. Ehrlich, Roughgarden published a 2004 challenge to certain tenets of sexual selection titled Evolution's Rainbow (2004): this is not an attack on the central idea of natural selection; it is a proposed correction to Darwin's explanation of the mechanism of selection. Roughgarden rejects Darwin's sexual selection theory based on instances in which animals do not follow traditional sex roles where the male attempts to impress the female,

Is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission

Is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist.Higginbotham started her career at the Kennedy Space Center in 1987, and worked mainly as a payload specialist in the Spac

Was an Emmy-nominated American actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 7

Was an Emmy-nominated American actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies through the advent of the talkies. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in

Was an American actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.Hackett debuted with the

Was an American actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.Hackett debuted with the role of Gail Prentiss in the TV series Young Doctor Malone in 1959. She had a leading role in The Twilight Zone episode "A Piano in the House" (1962). She had one of the starring roles in the 1966 Sidney Lumet film The Group along with Candice Bergen, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Pettet, and others.

Is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota Senate, representing the 23rd dist

Is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota Senate, representing the 23rd district since 2007.

Is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.

Is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.

She began her career in New York City as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading ed

She began her career in New York City as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading edge territory: mixing performance with props and mediated images, situated outside in natural and/or industrial environments. In her early works, such as Wind (1968), Jonas filmed performers stiffly passing through the field of view against a wind that lent the choreography a psychological mystique. Songdelay (1973), filmed with both telephoto and wide angle lenses (which produce opposing extremes in depth of field) drew on Jonas' travels in Japan, where she saw groups of Noh performers clapping wood blocks and making angular movements.

Is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of

Is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of Helen Boatwright. She has worked with her husband Morton Subotnick since 1979, as well with many other contemporary composers such as John Cage, Morton Fel

Is an rower from United States of America.She competed for United States of America in the 1976 Summ

Is an rower from United States of America.She competed for United States of America in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the single sculls event where she finished in second place. She qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics which were b

Is an American broadcaster, most recently the host of the CBS reality series Wickedly Perfect, and w

Is an American broadcaster, most recently the host of the CBS reality series Wickedly Perfect, and was a popular co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 through 1997. As the longest running morning news host, Lunden became one of the most visible

Is a nurse, teacher and former political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. She represented New Maryla

Is a nurse, teacher and former political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. She represented New Maryland in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a Liberal member from 1995 to 1999.She was president of the Nurses Association of New Brunswick and an instructor at the University of New Brunswick. Kingston served in the province's Executive Council as Minister of the Environment and Minister of Labour. She was defeated in the 1999 general election.

Jett has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Her musical and song-writing approach is heavily influenced by

Jett has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Her musical and song-writing approach is heavily influenced by the hard-edged, hard beat-driven rhythms common to many rock bands of her native Philadelphia, often featuring lyrics surrounding themes of lost love, cri

Is a Canadian breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 she was eliminat

Is a Canadian breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 she was eliminated in the first round of the 200 metre breaststroke event.

Was an American film actress. Marsh was the daughter of Charles Rosser, the favorite cinematographer

Was an American film actress. Marsh was the daughter of Charles Rosser, the favorite cinematographer of silent film actress Mary Pickford. Joan was born in Porterville, California and was only nine months old when she appeared in the Universal Pictures fi

Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family.[1][2] Her mother, Nancy, is a

Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family.[1][2] Her mother, Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist. Her father, Dick Cusack (1925-2003), as well as her siblings Ann, Bill, John and Susie, have also been

She is a Canadian curler who played second on the team of Sandra Schmirler at the provincial, nation

She is a Canadian curler who played second on the team of Sandra Schmirler at the provincial, national and international level. As part of the Schmirler rink, McCusker won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Her sisters Cathy Trowel and Nancy Inglis

Was an American backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 she finished fi

Was an American backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 she finished fifth in the 100 metre backstroke event.

Is an American director.Her early low budget film Hester Street received Best Actress Oscar nominati

Is an American director.Her early low budget film Hester Street received Best Actress Oscar nomination for actress Carol Kane. She is also known for the film Crossing Delancey which was released in 1988 and stars Amy Irving. Also conceived A... My Name Is Alice with Julianne Boyd.

Was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan

Was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings and editioned prints can be seen in major museums and collections across America and Europe.She studied at Smith College, Massachusetts, The Art Institute of Chicago, and at Columbia University, New York.[1] She also studied at Hans Hofmann’s school in New York and traveled in France, Spain, and Italy. By the early 1950s, she was regarded as a leading artist in the New York School. In her early years as a painter, she was influenced by Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, and later by the work of Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, among others.

Is an American poet. She graduated from Hunter College and later earned an M.A. from New York Univer

Is an American poet. She graduated from Hunter College and later earned an M.A. from New York University. She has been the poet in residence at the New York State Writer's Institute as well as spending time at Yaddo, an artist's colony in upstate New York

An American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her song "One of Us," and for her work with mem

An American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her song "One of Us," and for her work with members of The Grateful Dead.Originally from the Louisville suburb of Anchorage, Kentucky, Osborne moved to New York City in the late 1980s, where she formed

Is a Jazz and Blues singer, composer, author and educator. She has toured five continents and 15 cou

Is a Jazz and Blues singer, composer, author and educator. She has toured five continents and 15 countries including the United States, eight European countries, Brazil, Mexico, Ghana, Gambia, South Africa, the People's Republic of China and Japan, with h