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John Peel
Name at birth: John RavenscroftJohn Peel was a disc jockey on BBC's Radio 1 whose 37 years of broadcasting out-of-the-mainstream acts helped popularize reggae, punk and hip-hop in Britain. Peel got…John the Baptist
John the Baptist is a key figure in the Biblical stories of Jesus of Nazareth. According to the Gospels, John's role was to announce the coming of Jesus: in John 1:23 he tells interrogators, "I am…John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was one of the best-known American novelists of the mid-20th century. His frequent topic, in books like The Grapes of Wrath, was the plight of the misfits, the homeless and the…John Walker
Name at birth: John Philip Walker LindhRaised in suburban Washington, D. C. and central California, John Walker was captured in Afghanistan in November of 2001, calling himself Abdul Hamid and…John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (sometimes Wyclif) was a scholar at Oxford who wrote on philosophy and theology. In the 1370s he was condemned for errors and heresies by Popes Gregory XI and Urban VI, but his…John Woo
John Woo made his reputation as an action film director in Hong Kong during the 1980s, but since 1992 has worked in Hollywood directing big-budget thrillers such as Face/Off (1997, with John Travolta…John Lewis
John Lewis was beaten nearly to death in Selma, Alabama while marching for voting rights in 1965, and went on to become one of America's most prominent civil rights leaders and a member of the U.S.…John Prine
Singer and songwriter John Prine won Grammys and praise from every corner for his simple, honest way of expressing complex emotions, from his debut album in 1971 until his death in 2020 from the…John McEnroe
Name at birth: John Patrick McEnroe, Jr.John McEnroe became one of the world's top tennis players in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and his tendency to argue with umpires was a cause celébré that…John Bardeen
John BardeenBorn: 1908Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin Transistor—Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of the transistor. The transistor replaced…Trending
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