- John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian…
- John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author of 27 books,…
- John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil…
- John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer,…
- John W. Gardner
John William Gardner, (October 8, 1912 – February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)…
- John Waters
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian,…
- John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke,…
- John Wooden
John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and head coach…
- Johnny Depp
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has…
- Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and…
- Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He…
- Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best…
- Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert (7 May 1754 – 4 May 1824) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely…
- Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian-Soviet revolutionary, politician and political theorist.…
- Josh Billings
Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (April 21, 1818 – October…
- Joyce Diane Brothers
Joyce Diane Brothers (October 20, 1927 – May 13, 2013) was an American psychologist, television personality and columnist,…
- Jude Deveraux
Jude Deveraux (born September 20, 1947) is an American author who is well known for her historical romances.…
- Judy Garland
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian. She was…
- Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), known as Julius Caesar, was a…
- Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of…