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Joost van VollenhovenPersonJoost van Vollenhoven was a Dutch-born French colonial administrator who became governor-general of French West Africa in 1917.- JordanesPersonJordanes was a 6th-century Roman historian of Gothic descent writing in Constantinople.
- Jörg ZürnPersonJörg Zürn was a German sculptor of the early Baroque from Waldsee in Upper Swabia.
Jorge AmadoPersonJorge Amado was a Brazilian novelist from the cacao region of southern Bahia and one of the most widely read writers of Latin America.
Jorge B. VargasPersonJorge B.- Jorge de Figueiredo CorreiaPersonJorge de Figueiredo Correia was a Portuguese royal official and treasury scribe to whom King John III granted the Captaincy of Ilhéus in Brazil in 1534.
Jorge Eliécer GaitánPersonJorge Eliécer Gaitán was a Colombian lawyer and populist leader of the Liberal Party, mayor of Bogotá in 1936 and the favourite for the next presidential election.
Jorge IcazaPersonJorge Icaza was an Ecuadorian novelist and playwright, a leading writer of the indigenista movement in Latin American literature.
Jorge Luis BorgesPersonJorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer whose short-story collections Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949), with their labyrinths, mirrors and imaginary books, made…
Jorge Rafael VidelaPersonJorge Rafael Videla was an Argentine general who led the military coup of 24 March 1976 and served as de facto president until 1981.
Jorge Serrano ElíasPersonJorge Serrano Elías (born 1945) is a Guatemalan politician who was elected president in 1991, succeeding Vinicio Cerezo in the first transfer of power between elected…
Jorge Tadeo LozanoPersonJorge Tadeo Lozano was a New Granadan naturalist and politician who became the first president of the Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca in 1811.
Jorge UbicoPersonJorge Ubico (1878–1946) was a Guatemalan general who ruled as president from 1931 to 1944.
JorhatPlaceJorhat is a city in Upper Assam, north-east India, near the south bank of the Brahmaputra and the headquarters of Jorhat district.
Jos PlateauPlaceThe Jos Plateau is an upland region in central Nigeria, rising to over 1,200 metres, with the city of Jos at its centre.
Joscelin I, Count of EdessaPersonJoscelin I of Courtenay was count of Edessa from 1118 to 1131, after holding Turbessel as a vassal of his cousin Baldwin II.
Joscelin II of EdessaPersonJoscelin II was the last count of Edessa, succeeding his father Joscelin I in 1131.
José Antonio AbreuPersonJosé Antonio Abreu was a Venezuelan economist, musician and politician who in 1975 founded El Sistema, a state-funded programme of youth orchestras and choirs for…- José Antonio AguirrePersonJosé Antonio Aguirre was a Basque Nationalist Party politician and former footballer who became the first lehendakari, or president, of the autonomous Basque government.
José Antonio Manso de VelascoPersonJosé Antonio Manso de Velasco, 1st Count of Superunda, was a Spanish soldier and colonial official who served as governor of Chile from 1737 to 1744 and viceroy of Peru…
José Antonio PáezPersonJosé Antonio Páez was a cattle-plains leader whose llanero cavalry fought for Venezuelan independence under Simón Bolívar, winning at Las Queseras del Medio in 1819 and…
José BalliviánPersonJosé Ballivián was a Bolivian general and president from 1841 to 1847.
José Basco y VargasPersonJosé Basco y Vargas was a Spanish naval officer who served as governor-general of the Philippines from 1778 to 1787.
José Batlle y OrdóñezPersonJosé Batlle y Ordóñez was a Uruguayan journalist and Colorado Party politician, president in 1903–1907 and 1911–1915.
José Carlos MariáteguiPersonJosé Carlos Mariátegui was a Peruvian journalist and political thinker, regarded as one of the founders of Latin American Marxism.
José Cecilio del VallePersonJosé Cecilio del Valle (1780–1834) was a Honduran lawyer, journalist and politician who is credited with drafting the Central American declaration of independence of 15…
José Celestino da SilvaPersonJosé Celestino da Silva was a Portuguese army officer who governed Portuguese Timor from 1894 to 1908.
José Clemente OrozcoPersonJosé Clemente Orozco was a Mexican painter, one of the three leading artists of the Mexican mural movement.
José Cuero y CaicedoPersonJosé Cuero y Caicedo was a churchman born in Cali who became bishop of Quito at the start of the 19th century.
José de AlencarPersonJosé de Alencar was a Brazilian novelist, playwright and politician, a leading figure of Brazilian Romanticism.
José de AnchietaPersonJosé de Anchieta was a Spanish-born Jesuit missionary from Tenerife who worked in Brazil from 1553.- José de Antequera y CastroPersonJosé de Antequera y Castro was a Panamanian-born judge of the Audiencia of Charcas sent to investigate the governor of Paraguay in 1721.
José de EscandónPersonJosé de Escandón was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator commissioned by the viceroy of New Spain in 1746 to colonise the Gulf coast north of Tampico.
José de GálvezPersonJosé de Gálvez was a Spanish official who, as visitor-general of New Spain from 1765 to 1771, drove the Bourbon reforms there: a tobacco monopoly, tighter tax…
José de IturrigarayPersonJosé de Iturrigaray was a Spanish army officer and Viceroy of New Spain from 1803 to 1808.
José de la SernaPersonJosé de la Serna was a Spanish general and the last viceroy of Peru, from 1821 to 1824.
José de San MartínPersonJosé de San Martín was an Argentine general who led the liberation of southern South America from Spain.
José Félix UriburuPersonJosé Félix Uriburu was an Argentine general who overthrew President Hipólito Yrigoyen on 6 September 1930 and ruled as de facto president until February 1932.
José Fernando de AbascalPersonJosé Fernando de Abascal was a Spanish officer who served as viceroy of Peru from 1806 to 1816.
José Figueres FerrerPersonJosé Figueres Ferrer was a Costa Rican politician who led the victorious side in the civil war of 1948 and then headed a governing junta for eighteen months.
José Gaspar Rodríguez de FranciaPersonJosé Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was a lawyer and theologian who led Paraguay after independence.
José Gervasio ArtigasPersonJosé Gervasio Artigas led the rising of the Banda Oriental against Spanish Montevideo in 1811 and became leader of the Eastern Province.
José Gregorio MonagasPersonJosé Gregorio Monagas was a Venezuelan general of the War of Independence and president from 1851 to 1855, succeeding his brother José Tadeo Monagas during the decade…
José Hilario LópezPersonJosé Hilario López was a Colombian general and Liberal politician who served as president of the Republic of New Granada from 1849 to 1853.
José Joaquín de OlmedoPersonJosé Joaquín de Olmedo was an Ecuadorian poet and statesman who wrote the ode La victoria de Junín in honour of Simón Bolívar.
José Joaquín PérezPersonJosé Joaquín Pérez was president of Chile from 1861 to 1871, the last of the four presidents who each served two consecutive five-year terms.
José López PortilloPersonJosé López Portillo was president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
José MalcampoPersonJosé Malcampo was a Spanish naval officer and politician, briefly Prime Minister of Spain in 1871.- José Manuel BalmacedaPersonJosé Manuel Balmaceda was president of Chile from 1886 to 1891.
José María ArguedasPersonJosé María Arguedas was a Peruvian novelist, poet and anthropologist who, raised among Quechua-speaking communities in the Andes, became the leading writer of…- José María BarreraPersonJosé María Barrera was a Maya rebel leader in the Caste War of Yucatán.
José María Castro MadrizPersonJosé María Castro Madriz (1818–1892) was a Costa Rican lawyer and statesman who as president proclaimed the Republic of Costa Rica on 31 August 1848, and is honoured as…- José María ChacónPersonJosé María Chacón was a Spanish naval officer and the last Spanish governor of Trinidad, appointed in the 1780s.
José María CórdovaPersonJosé María Córdova was a general of the wars of independence from Antioquia in New Granada.
José María MorelosPersonJosé María Morelos was a Mexican priest and the leading commander of the War of Independence after the death of Miguel Hidalgo.
José María OrellanaPersonJosé María Orellana was a Guatemalan general who came to power in a coup in December 1921 and was then elected president of Guatemala, serving until his death in 1926.
José María PazPersonJosé María Paz was an Argentine general of the wars of independence and a leading commander of the Unitarian party in the civil wars.
José María VargasPersonJosé María Vargas was a Venezuelan physician, scientist and university reformer who became the country's first civilian president in 1835.
José María Velasco IbarraPersonJosé María Velasco Ibarra was the dominant figure in Ecuadorian politics for four decades, who held the presidency five times between 1934 and 1972 but completed only…
José MartíPersonJosé Martí was a Cuban poet, journalist and revolutionary, the national hero of Cuba.
José Matías DelgadoPersonJosé Matías Delgado (1767–1832) was a Salvadoran priest and politician honoured as the father of the nation of El Salvador.
José Miguel CarreraPersonJosé Miguel Carrera was a Chilean independence leader who seized power in a series of coups from 1811.
José Miguel GómezPersonJosé Miguel Gómez was a Cuban general of the War of Independence and leader of the Liberal Party who served as president of Cuba from 1909 to 1913.
José MujicaPersonJosé Mujica was a former Tupamaro guerrilla, imprisoned for some thirteen years under military rule, who became president of Uruguay for the Frente Amplio from 2010 to…
José Napoleón DuartePersonJosé Napoleón Duarte was a Salvadoran engineer and a founder of the Christian Democratic Party, three times mayor of San Salvador.
José Núñez de CáceresPersonJosé Núñez de Cáceres was a Dominican lawyer and official who, frustrated by Spanish neglect, led a bloodless coup in Santo Domingo on 1 December 1821.
José P. LaurelPersonJosé P.
José Prudencio PadillaPersonJosé Prudencio Padilla was an admiral of Gran Colombia, born in Riohacha of African and indigenous descent.
José RizalPersonJosé Rizal was a Filipino physician, writer and reformer, and the national hero of the Philippines.
José Santos ZelayaPersonJosé Santos Zelaya was a Liberal president of Nicaragua from 1893 to 1909.
José SarneyPersonJosé Sarney is a Brazilian politician and writer who was president of Brazil from 1985 to 1990, the first civilian president after the military dictatorship.
José Tadeo MonagasPersonJosé Tadeo Monagas was a Venezuelan general of the War of Independence who served as president from 1847 to 1851 and again from 1855 to 1858.
José Tomás BovesPersonJosé Tomás Boves was a Spanish-born royalist commander in the Venezuelan War of Independence.
José VasconcelosPersonJosé Vasconcelos was a Mexican philosopher, writer and politician who, as secretary of public education from 1921 to 1924, built schools and libraries, sent teachers…
Josef Friedrich MatthesPersonJosef Friedrich Matthes was a German journalist and Rhenish separatist who led the provisional government of the Rhenish Republic in Koblenz in 1923, alongside Hans…- Josef TerbovenPersonJosef Terboven was a Nazi Party official and Gauleiter of Essen whom Hitler appointed Reich Commissioner for Norway in April 1940.
Josef WegnerPersonJosef Wegner is an American Egyptologist at the University of Pennsylvania who has directed excavations at South Abydos, notably at the mortuary complex of Senusret III.
Joseph AounPersonJoseph Aoun is a Lebanese army general and politician who became president of Lebanon in January 2025.
Joseph BechPersonJoseph Bech was a Luxembourg Christian Social statesman who was prime minister from 1926 to 1937 and again from 1953 to 1958, and foreign minister for most of the years…
Joseph BoakaiPersonJoseph Boakai is a Liberian politician who was vice-president under Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from 2006 to 2018.
Joseph BonapartePersonJoseph Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Naples in 1806.
Joseph BrantPersonJoseph Brant, Thayendanegea, was a Mohawk military and political leader closely tied to the British through his sister Molly Brant and Sir William Johnson.
Joseph ChatoyerPersonJoseph Chatoyer was paramount chief of the Garifuna, or Black Caribs, of Saint Vincent.
Joseph ConradPersonJoseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who served for years as a merchant seaman before turning to writing in English.- Joseph de Saint-Ovide de BrouillanPersonJoseph de Saint-Ovide de Brouillan was a French officer who served in Acadia and Newfoundland before becoming governor of Île Royale, present-day Cape Breton Island…
Joseph DudleyPersonJoseph Dudley was a Massachusetts-born colonial official, son of Governor Thomas Dudley.
Joseph François DupleixPersonJoseph François Dupleix was governor-general of French India at Pondicherry from 1742 to 1754.
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarresPersonJoseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres was a Swiss-born military engineer and cartographer whose Atlantic Neptune charted the coasts of North America.- Joseph GablerPersonJoseph Gabler was a German organ builder from Ochsenhausen in upper Swabia.
Joseph GallieniPersonJoseph Gallieni was a French army officer and colonial administrator who commanded in the Upper Senegal and Niger region of French Sudan in the 1880s and served in…
Joseph GoebbelsPersonJoseph Goebbels was a Nazi politician and Hitler's Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
Joseph GörresPersonJoseph Görres was a German writer and journalist from Koblenz.
Joseph HaydnPersonJoseph Haydn was an Austrian composer, one of the founders of the Classical style.
Joseph HowePersonJoseph Howe was a Nova Scotian journalist and politician.
Joseph I, Holy Roman EmperorPersonJoseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, of the Habsburg dynasty, reigned from 1705 to 1711 during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Joseph II, Holy Roman EmperorPersonJoseph II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765, co-ruler with his mother Maria Theresa, and sole ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1780 to 1790.
Joseph Jenkins RobertsPersonJoseph Jenkins Roberts was a free-born African American merchant from Virginia who emigrated to Liberia in 1829.
Joseph KasavubuPersonJoseph Kasavubu was the first president of the Republic of the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), from independence in 1960 to 1965.- Joseph KonyPersonJoseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel movement he formed among the Acholi of northern Uganda in 1987.
Joseph LanePersonJoseph Lane was an American general of the Mexican–American War and the first governor of Oregon Territory, arriving in March 1849.