| Johannes Kepler |
a German astronomer and mathematician (b.1571--d.1630). |
| Johann Goethe |
a German author (b.1749--d.1832). |
| Johann Gutenberg |
a German printer considered to be the inventor of the system of printing with movable type (b.1400?--d.1468?). |
| Johann Sebastian Bach |
a German composer and organist (b.1685--d.1750). |
| John |
according to the New Testament, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, one of the four evangelists, and the probable author of the fourth Gospel, the Book of Revelation, and three Epistles. [5 definitions] |
| John Adams |
the second President of the United States (1797-1801), who had been a strong advocate of American independence from Great Britain as well as one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. President Adams was also the first U.S. Vice President under his predecessor George Washington (b.1735--d.1826). |
| John Barleycorn |
the personification of any intoxicating liquor. |
| johnboat |
a flat-bottomed boat with a square bow and stern, used on inland waters. |
| John Bull |
a typical Englishman or a personification of the English government or people, after the main character in the eighteenth-century allegory History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot. |
| John Calvin |
a French theologian and leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland (b.1509--d.1564). |
| John Doe |
the name used in legal proceedings to indicate a fictitious or unknown man. |
| John F. Kennedy |
the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), who pursued a foreign policy of anti-Communism, established the Peace Corps, and worked for civil rights in the United States. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 (b.1917--d.1963). |
| John Hancock |
a prominent merchant and statesman who took part in the American Revolution and was a signer of the United States Constitution (b. 1737--d. 1793). [2 definitions] |
| John James Audubon |
a U.S. ornithologist and painter (b.1785--d.1851). |
| John Lewis |
American civil rights activist and U.S. Congress member from Georgia, who led, among other marches and demonstrations, the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which galvanized the nation and quickened the passage of the Voting Rights Act (b. 1940--d. 2020). |
| John Maynard Keynes |
an English economist and writer (b.1883--d.1946). |
| John Milton |
an English poet (b.1608--d.1674). |
| johnnycake |
an unleavened bread made from corn meal. |
| Johnny Carson |
popular comedian and, from 1962 to 1992, host of a late-night talk show; born John William Carson (b.1925--d.2005). |
| Johnny-come-lately |
a latecomer to a certain place, viewpoint, or fashion. |
| Johnny-on-the-spot |
(informal) a person who is prepared to act whenever necessary, or who arrives immediately. |