Famous People with Name Joan

Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham: 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

Joan Louise Lind            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Louise Lind: 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

Joan Argetsinger Steitz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Argetsinger Steitz: is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights such as that ribosomes interact with mRNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by snRNPs, small nuclear ribonucl

Joan Archibald            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Archibald: was a Canadian Olympic fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Joan Ann Alderson-Rosazza            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Ann Alderson-Rosazza: was an American swimmer. Alderson-Rosazza won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and a silver medal in the same event four years later in Melbourne.

Saint Joan Of Arc            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Saint Joan Of Arc: is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation

Léo Joannon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Léo Joannon: was a French writer and film director. Born in Aix-en-Provence,[1] Joannon was originally a law student who became a novelist and journalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman.[2] Joannon first attracted international attention in early 1939 during the production of S.O.S. Mediterranean, when his attempts to include shots of a German naval ship docked in the port of Tangier created a diplomatic incident between the pre-World War II French and German governments. The film later won the Grand Prix du Cinema Français.[3]

Johnny S. Joannou            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Johnny S. Joannou: is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1976–1983, the Senate of Virginia 1984–1991, and has been in the House again since 1998. He currently represents the 79th district, made up of parts of t

Joseph Joanovici            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Joseph Joanovici: was a Jewish-French iron supplier, who supplied both Nazi Germany and the French Resistance. He may also have been an agent of the Soviet Comintern. His activities made him a millionaire, but he was found guilty of collaboration and died in prison after an escape attempt and extradition request by Israel.