American Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a professional wrestling valet and wrestler best known as "Sweet" Sapphire in the World Wrestlin

Was a professional wrestling valet and wrestler best known as "Sweet" Sapphire in the World Wrestling Federation where she managed Dusty Rhodes in 1989 and 1990. She also wrestled on the independent circuit as Princess Dark Cloud. Wright debuted in 1989 a

Was a Maine statesman and U.S. Senator.He was an adherent of the Jacksonian Democratic Party, and, o

Was a Maine statesman and U.S. Senator.He was an adherent of the Jacksonian Democratic Party, and, on the resignation of Ether Shepley, was appointed U.S. Senator, serving from 21 December 1836 until 3 March 1837, when a successor was elected and qualifie

Apatow was born in Syosset, New York to a Jewish family.[1] His sense of humor provided access to fr

Apatow was born in Syosset, New York to a Jewish family.[1] His sense of humor provided access to friends while growing up.[2] Obsessed with comedy, Apatow's childhood hero was Steve Martin.[2] He has an older brother Robert and a younger sister Mia;[2] h

Nelson was born in Portland, Maine, the son of Merle (née Royte), a court mediator and former membe

Nelson was born in Portland, Maine, the son of Merle (née Royte), a court mediator and former member of the Maine state legislature, and Leonard Nelson, a corporate lawyer who was the first Jewish president of the Portland Symphony Orchestra.[1][2][3] He

Is an American Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning actor, widely known for playing the character A

Is an American Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning actor, widely known for playing the character Alex Reiger on the acclaimed television comedy series Taxi.For his performance in Taxi, in 1981 and again in 1983,[3] Judd Hirsch won the Emmy Award for Lead Actor In a Comedy Series. Hirsch went on to play the title character on the modestly successful sitcom Dear John and in 1989 won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series in a Comedy or Musical for this role.[4] He later teamed with Bob Newhart in the short-lived comedy George and Leo. He had also previously starred for one season in the series Delvecchio, playing a police detective (1976-1977).

Is a Republican party politician in Tennessee, representing the 47th District as State Representativ

Is a Republican party politician in Tennessee, representing the 47th District as State Representative.His district includes all or parts of Coffee, Warren counties.He is a member of the Chambers of Commerce of Tullahoma, Manchester, and McMinnville.[1] He

Is a chess player best known for playing against all comers in the New Orleans Gazebo while wearing

Is a chess player best known for playing against all comers in the New Orleans Gazebo while wearing a red beret. He claims to have been the first chess master born in Louisiana since Paul Morphy.

Was an American judge for the City of Baltimore's orphan's court, (today referred to as a probate co

Was an American judge for the City of Baltimore's orphan's court, (today referred to as a probate court). He was initially appointed to the court by Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll in 1878 and elected to the position in November 1879. He held on to the

Reinhold was born Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr. in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of a trial lawyer. Hi

Reinhold was born Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr. in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of a trial lawyer. His nickname, "Judge", was given to him when he was young by his father. He was raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia until his family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida prior to his junior year in high school.

Is an American ice dancer. With partner Kent Weigle, she is the 1977 U.S. national champion. They re

Is an American ice dancer. With partner Kent Weigle, she is the 1977 U.S. national champion. They represented the United States at the 1976 Winter Olympics where they placed 15th.

Was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth

Was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First! campaigns against logging in the ancient redwood forests of Northern California in the 1980s and '90.

Is an American pair skater. With brother Jerry Fotheringill, she is the 1963 and 1964 U.S. national

Is an American pair skater. With brother Jerry Fotheringill, she is the 1963 and 1964 U.S. national champion. They represented the United States at the 1964 Winter Olympics where they placed 7th. The Fotheringills were originally from Tacoma, Washington b

Is a former field hockey player from the United States, who was a member of the Women's National Tea

Is a former field hockey player from the United States, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Is an American former ice dancer. She and Michael Seibert won the 1981-1985 U.S. Figure Skating Cham

Is an American former ice dancer. She and Michael Seibert won the 1981-1985 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and the 1983-1985 World bronze medalist. They placed 7th at the 1980 Winter Olympics and 4th at the 1984 Olympics. They are the 1988 World Profe

Was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Chall

Was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger during the launch of mission STS-51-L..Resnik was born in Akron, Ohio and attended Hebrew school. Judith A. Resnik has one brother, Charles, four yea

Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, and her dissertation was subse

Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, and her dissertation was subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s, between different teaching/research appointments (such as at the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University), she was involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism

A Canadian mezzo-soprano.Forst made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on September 19, 1968 at the

A Canadian mezzo-soprano.Forst made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on September 19, 1968 at the age of 24 in the small role of the Page in Rigoletto. Other Met roles include (in chronological order) Tebaldo in Verdi's Don Carlo, Stéphano in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Mercédès in Bizet's Carmen, Teresa in Bellini's La sonnambula, Siebel in Gounod's Faust, Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Bersi in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Estrella in Offenbach's La Périchole, Preziosilla in La forza del destino, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Flora in La traviata, Giulietta in Les contes d'Hoffman, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mère Marie in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Kabanicha in Janácek's Káta Kabanová, Adelaide in Arabella, The Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, and Kostelnicka in Jenufa.

Is a contemporary American bluegrass/folk musician and the daughter of the winner of the 1972 Nobel

Is a contemporary American bluegrass/folk musician and the daughter of the winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Medicine Gerald Edelman. She graduated from Swarthmore College, then pursued a career in Third World development in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ke

An American actress. She is best known for her role as Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, a

An American actress. She is best known for her role as Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, and is now starring as Claire Meade on ABC's Ugly Betty.She first found television fame after being recast in the role of Karen Wolek on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. (The Karen Wolek role had previously been portrayed by actresses Kathryn Breech and Julia Duffy). This role was quite lucrative for Light and spawned one of the show's most-remembered storylines; Light's character became a prostitute after she became bored with her life as a housewife. On trial, Karen saved her friend Viki Lord from being convicted of killing her pimp by admitting that she had been a prostitute to the entire town, including her faithful husband. Light won Daytime Emmy Awards in 1980 and 1981.

Is a former Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Nickel Belt in the Canadian House of

Is a former Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Nickel Belt in the Canadian House of Commons from 1980 to 1984. She was a member of the Liberal Party.

Was an American woman who was reputed to be the mistress of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia

Was an American woman who was reputed to be the mistress of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli. She was also known as Judith Campbell Exner.

Is a pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United State

Is a pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. She goes formally as Judith G. Hall and informally as Judy Hall.

A pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States a

A pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. She goes formally as Judith G. Hall and informally as Judy Hall.She went to medical school in Seattle at the University of Washington (UW) from which she received an MD degree in 1966. The same year she was also awarded an MS degree in Genetics from UW for coursework and research done with Dr. Arno Motulsky in medical genetics.Dr. Hall then went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where she did postdoctoral fellowships in Medical Genetics with Dr. Victor McKusick and in Pediatric Endocrinology with Dr. Robert Blizzard. She then trained in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1969 to 1971.

Is an American folk and standards singer and songwriter, known for the stunning purity of her sopran

Is an American folk and standards singer and songwriter, known for the stunning purity of her soprano; for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk, showtunes, pop, and rock and roll); and for her social activism.

Was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was inspired

Was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the seventies sexual liberation movement. Though Looking for Mr. Goodbar remained Rossner's best known and best selling work, she continued to write. Her most successful post-Goodbar novel was 1983's August, about the relationship between a woman and her psychoanalyst, who has more emotional troubles than her patient. Rossner died in 2005, from complications of diabetes at the age of 70.