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Jeff Koons (English: Jeff Koons, /kuːnz/, January 21, 1955 -) is an American artist. His works are often made of extremely monotonous things - such as stainless steel skeletons and mirror-finished balloon beasts, often dyed with bright colors. Koons's works are sold around the world, holding at least one auction price record for a work by a living artist. Critics tend to have two opinions about him. Some believe that his works are avant-garde and have important art historical value. Some think it's kitsch - sensationalism, based on purely self-serving self-promotion. Koons claims that his works contain no hidden meanings.

Jeffrey Hawkins (June 7, 1957 -), nicknamed Jeff, was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York, United States. He is an American inventor, computer scientist and neuroscientist. He led the development of Palm and Treo, and was the founder of Palm Company and Handspring Company.

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (English: Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis, July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994), nee Bouvier, was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963. In 1953, she married John F. Kennedy, who was still a federal congressman at the time. After the marriage, she had 4 children, but only one daughter, Caroline, and son John Jr. grew up healthily.

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (English: John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, born February 11, 1953), an American Republican politician, the 43rd governor of Florida, and the first Republican governor to be re-elected as the governor of the state. He lost the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Bush was born in Midland, Texas, and grew up in Houston. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida to work in real estate development. In 1987, Bush became Florida's Secretary of Commerce and served until 1988. Then he joined his father's presidential campaign team and was eventually elected. In 1994, Bush ran for office for the first time and lost to then-Governor Lawton Chiles by less than two percentage points. In 1998, Bush ran again and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy McKay with 55% of the vote. Chiles died in office, only 23 days before his scheduled retirement, and Bush eventually took over as governor. In 2002, Bush ran for re-election and won with 56% of the vote, becoming the first Republican governor in Florida history to be elected for two consecutive terms. During his eight years as governor, Bush promoted an ambitious Everglades conservation plan, supported caps on malpractice lawsuits, launched a Medicaid privatization pilot program and made changes to the state education system, including issuing vouchers and promoting school choice. Bush announced his candidacy for president on June 15, 2015. On February 20, 2016, shortly after the South Carolina primary, he announced that he was suspending his campaign. Among the 17 candidates, he ranked sixth in both delegate and popular vote counts. On March 23, 2016, he publicly endorsed Senator Ted Cruz and was critical of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and throughout Trump's administration.

Geoffrey Everest Hinton, FRS (English: Geoffrey Everest Hinton, December 6, 1947 -), also translated as Geoffrey Hinton, is a British-born Canadian computer scientist and psychologist, and a professor at the University of Toronto. Known for his contributions to neural networks. Hinton is one of the inventors of the backpropagation algorithm and the contrastive divergence algorithm (Contrastive Divergence). He is also an active promoter of deep learning and is known as the "Godfather of Deep Learning." Hinton won the 2018 Turing Award together with Joshua Bengio and Yang Likun for their contributions to deep learning. In 2024, Hinton and John Hopfield will jointly win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Gerald David, European Dutch painter of the Renaissance. He worked mainly in Bruges and Antwerp. He specialized in depicting scenes of Christ's domestic life, a popular theme imitated by many of his contemporaries.

Gerald Jay Sussman (English: Gerald Jay Sussman, February 8, 1947 -), born in the United States, is a famous computer scientist and is currently a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is one of the founding fathers of the Free Software Foundation and is currently a director.

Shawn Corey Carter (English: Shawn Corey Carter, December 4, 1969 -), whose stage name is Jay-Z, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, songwriter and music producer. He is one of the best-selling music artists in the world and one of the most critically acclaimed rappers of all time. He was the former CEO of two music production companies, Def Jam and Roc-a-Fella, and held shares in 40/40 Club Bar and the Brooklyn Nets. He is one of the most financially successful hip-hop artists and entrepreneurs in the United States, having sold more than 26 million records domestically. His highly acclaimed album Blueprint took just two days to create. After he announced his retirement from music production in 2003, he returned to the production of the album "Return of the King" in late 2006. The album sold 680,000 copies in the first week, making it JAY Z's highest-selling album in the first week of release. MTV named him "Number One" in its list of "Best MCs of All Time". The New York Times announced in April 2008 that JAY Z would begin a $150 million partnership with ROC Nation - one of the most expensive contracts ever awarded to a musician. Jay Z married Beyoncé on April 4, 2008.

Jason Statham (English: Jason Statham, /ˈsteɪθəm/ STAY-thəm, July 26, 1967 -), British actor, producer and former model. He first became famous through director Guy Ritchie's crime films "Two Barrels" (1998) and "Snatch" (2000). Since then, Statham has been active in American films, such as "The Pursuit" (2001), "The Express" (2002), "The Last Day" (2003), "The Last Day" (2006), "Quick" (2011) and the "Fast and Furious" series of films.

Jason Kent Bateman (English: Jason Kent Bateman, January 14, 1969 -), American actor, director and producer. He began starring in TV series in 1982. His main works include "Arrested Development", and he has won a Golden Globe Award and two Satellite Awards. After 2000, he also began to star in movies. The famous movies he has starred in include "Juno", "Superman", "The Flight Diary", "The Boss Isn't a Human", "The World of Alienation", "Identity Thief" and "Kill the Evil One" etc. In 2016, he voiced Hunik in the Disney animated film "Animal City" and received critical acclaim.

Jared Joseph Leto (English: Jared Joseph Leto, December 26, 1971 -), American actor, director, producer and singer. Born in Bossier City, Louisiana, United States. He studied painting at the American Art University and later transferred to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York, to study film and audio-visual production. His first performance was in the TV series "My So-Called Life" in 1994. Later he appeared in movies such as "Red Alert" (1998), "Fight Club" (1999) and "American Psycho" (2000). In 2000, he played the role in "Requiem for a Dream" The Junkie was well received by film critics and brought him more acting opportunities, such as director David Fincher's "Fear Room" (2002), Oliver Stone's "Alexander the Great" (2004) and Andrew Nicol's "Lord of War" (2005). Jared won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 86th Academy Awards for his role as a transgender AIDS patient in "The Pill Club". In addition to performing, Jared formed the rock band "30 Seconds to Mars" with his brother "Shannon Leto" and two other friends in 1998, and released his first album of the same name "30 Seconds To Mars" in October 2004. In 2005, the second album "A Beautiful Lie" was released. The third album "This Is War" was released in December 2009. Jared has also directed several music videos under the name Bartholomew Cubbins, and was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for his work on "The Kill" (2006), "Kings and Queens" (2009) and "Hurricane" (2010).

James "Jamie" Dimon (English: James "Jamie" Dimon, born March 13, 1956), American billionaire, banker and business executive, currently Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase (since 2006). As of November 2024, Forbes estimates his net worth at $2.6 billion. Dimon began his career as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. In 1982, after receiving his MBA from Harvard Business School, he joined American Express and worked under the guidance of Sandy Weill. In 1986, at the age of 30, Dimon was appointed chief financial officer (CFO) of Primerica and later became the company's president. From 1990 to 1998, he served as chief operating officer (COO) of Travelers Insurance Company and Citigroup Smith Barney. In 1998, he became president of Citigroup. In 2000, Dimon was appointed CEO of Chicago Bank One, where he ran the company until its merger with JPMorgan Chase in 2004. After the merger, Dimon became JPMorgan Chase's chief operating officer and became CEO in 2006. Dimon served on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the late 2010s. Since then, he has served on the boards of the Business Roundtable, the Bank Policy Institute and Harvard Business School. Dimon was named to Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011.

Jamie McGregor Reid (January 16, 1947 - August 8, 2023) was a British visual artist. His best-known works include the record cover of his Sex Pistols single "God Save the Queen", which is known as "the most iconic pattern of the punk era".

Sir Demis Hassabis, CBE, FREng, FRSA (English: Sir Demis Hassabis, July 27, 1976 -), British artificial intelligence researcher. In 2024, he and John Jungper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the field of protein structure prediction.

Jerome David Salinger (English: Jerome David Salinger, /ˈsælɪndʒər/, January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010), referred to as J.D. Salinger, was an American writer best known for his book Catcher in the Rye. Salinger grew up in Manhattan, New York, and began writing short stories in high school. Several of them were published in Story magazine in the early 1940s, just before Salinger entered active duty with the outbreak of World War II. In 1948, he published his critically acclaimed novel "A Best Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker magazine, which has since become the publication site for most of Salinger's works. Salinger died of natural causes at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" was an enthusiastic hit upon its publication. The book features the lost boy Holden Caulfield as the protagonist, and this character has a profound impact on young readers. The book was the subject of much controversy, and its success drew public attention to its author, Salinger. But Salinger didn't like this kind of attention, so he became reclusive and published less. After Catcher in the Rye in 1951, Salinger published a collection of short stories, Nine Stories (1953); Franny and Zooey (1961), which contained a novella and a short story; Raise the Roof Beams, Carpenters; Seymour: A Biography (1963), which contained two novellas. Salinger's last published work was "Hapworth 16, 1924," which was published in The New Yorker magazine on June 19, 1965. Salinger hated prying eyes on his private life. He filed a lawsuit against biographer Ian Hamilton in the 1980s. In the late 1990s, two people close to Salinger (ex-girlfriend Joyce Menager and daughter Margaret Salinger) published memoirs about Salinger.

Jessie Alexandra Fleming (English: Jessie Alexandra Fleming; March 11, 1998 -) is a Canadian women's soccer player who plays as a midfielder. She currently plays for the Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League and the Canadian Women's National Soccer Team. In 2024, Fleming moved to the Portland Thorns for 250,000 euros, becoming the most expensive player in the history of the National Women's Soccer League.

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens, African-American track and field athlete and civil rights leader. One of the greatest athletes in modern Olympic history. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Nazi Germany and won an impressive 4 Olympic gold medals, namely the men's 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump and 4×100 meter relay.

Jesse Adam Eisenberg (English: Jesse Adam Eisenberg, October 5, 1983 -), American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is more famous for starring in the 2009 movie "Corpse Paradise", the 2010 movie "Social Network" and in the movie "Supernatural". He was nominated for the 2011 Oscar for Best Actor for "Social Network". Since 2016, he has played the role of Superman's archenemy Rex Luthor in the DC Extended Universe. Eisenberg has written for The New Yorker and McSweeney's website. His first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups: and Other Stories, is a collection of short stories published in September 2015.

Jessica Henwick (English: Jessica Henwick; August 30, 1992 -), whose Chinese name is Li Yu, is a British actress. She was the first East Asian actress to play a leading role in a British TV series, appearing in the children's drama Spirit Warriors (2009–2010). She is also known for her roles as Nymeria Sand in the HBO US television series Game of Thrones (2015–2017), X-wing pilot Jessika Pava in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Colin Wing in Iron Fist (2017–2018), The Defenders (2017) and Luke Cage (2018) Season 2.

Jessica Claire Biel (English: Jessica Claire Biel, March 3, 1982 -) is an American actress and former model. She is most familiar with her performances in the Hollywood movies "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Blade Runner 3", "Arcade", "Trollman" and "Intercept".

Jessica Marie Alba (English: Jessica Marie Alba, April 28, 1981 -) is an American actress, television and film actor, and entrepreneur. She began her acting career at the age of 13, appearing in the movie "Camp Nowhere" and the American TV series "The Secret World of Alex Mack" (1994). Alba first rose to prominence as a well-known actress in the American TV series "Dark Angel" (2000–2002), and later expanded her acting career to the big screen, mostly starring in action films and comedies. Recent films include "Honey" (2003), "Sin City" (2005), "Fantastic 4" (2005), "Into the Blue" (2005), "Fantastic 4" (2007) and "The Penultimate Boyfriend" (2007). Alba frequently appears in Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" column and was voted number one on AskMen.com's 2006 "99 Most Desirable Women" list. She was also named the 2007 "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM magazine. Playboy magazine published his photo on the cover without permission, and the matter sparked a legal dispute that was soon settled. Alba has won several awards for her performances, including the Teen Choice Awards for Best Actress in 2001 and 2008 and the 2001 Saturn Award for Best Television Actress for "Dark Angel."

Jerry Lewis (English: Jerry Lewis, March 16, 1926 - August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, singer, film producer, screenwriter and director. He is best known for his comedies in film, television, stage and radio. He originally partnered with Dean Martin in 1946 to form the comedy team Martin and Lewis. Jerry Lewis has won numerous awards, including the American Comedy Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle and the Venice Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2005, he received the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Governor's Award. On February 22, 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Jerry Lewis the Jane Hersolt Humanitarian Award.

Jeremy Bentham (English: Jeremy Bentham; February 15, 1748 - June 6, 1832), British philosopher, jurist and social reformer. He was one of the first supporters of utilitarianism and animal rights. He wrote a large number of manuscripts on the theme of legal reform from 1769 to 1832, established a large network of reformers, and influenced British legal thought during the Enlightenment. He is the author of "A Treatise on Government" (1776), in which he discusses the British Constitution. In his book "Principles of Morals and Legislation", the principle of utilitarianism was clearly expressed for the first time. Bentham was a radical social reformer in practice. He opposed monarchy and advocated universal suffrage. Bentham was also one of the most influential classical liberals, drawing influence not only from his writings but also from his disciples around the world, including John Stuart Mill and political leaders such as Robert Owen (a representative of utopian socialism).

Tony Hawk (English: Tony Hawk, real name Anthony Frank Hawk, English: Anthony Frank Hawk; May 12, 1968 -) is a skateboarder and actor.