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John Boyega

John Boyega is the rising young actor who was cast as one of the heroes of the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. John Boyega was born to Nigerian parents in the Peckham neighborhood of London,…

John McPhee

John McPhee wrote non-fiction essays for The New Yorker and published books on a variety of subjects, from oranges and rivers to tennis and nuclear engineering. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for…

John Conyers

John Conyers, Jr. was a long-serving United States Congressman from the 13th District of Michigan, an area that includes metropolitan Detroit. He resigned in December of 2017 after being accused of…

Prester John

In medieval Christendom's struggle against Islam, the possible existence of a Christian priest-king named Prester John helped fuel European exploration of Africa and India. The legend of Prester…

John Young

John Young was the first astronaut to fly into space six times, the ninth man to walk on the moon, and the pilot of the first American space shuttle mission. NASA called him "in every way the…

Elton John

Name at birth: Reginald Kenneth DwightA prolific songwriter and a flamboyant performer, Elton John had 30 different hits on the top 40 charts between 1970 and 1982. His super-theatrical stage…

John Adams

Author:David McCullough Publisher:Simon & Schuster For those readers who prefer to remain grounded in nonfiction even when escapism is beckoning, John Adams, by Pulitzer Prize-winning…

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns is an artist known for moving beyond Abstract Expressionism with the use of iconographic images such as flags, targets, letters and numbers. He grew up in South Carolina and headed to…

John Adams

John Adams followed George Washington as president of the United States, becoming the country's second chief executive. An early colonist agitator against the Stamp Act of 1765, John Adams helped…

John Birch

John Birch's name is more famous than the man, thanks to the anti-communist fringe group that named themselves after him. Born in India and raised in Macon, Georgia, John Morrison Birch was a…