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Dr. John (1941-2019) was a musician who combined blues, jazz, funk, and R&B. He recorded thirty studio albums and nine live albums, and performed a theatrical show inspired by voodoo.
John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmacist and Confederate veteran who invented Coca-Cola in 1886. He sold the rights to his formula to Asa Griggs Candler in 1888, after suffering from morphine addiction and financial troubles.
Learn about the life and career of John Henry Holliday, better known as Doc Holliday, a friend and associate of Wyatt Earp. He was a dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who participated in the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Earp Vendetta Ride.
Dr. Watson is a fictional character and Holmes's friend in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Learn about his biography, military service, marriage, and role in the stories.
Samuel Mudd was a doctor and tobacco farmer who was imprisoned for his role in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He treated John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, after the crime and was convicted of conspiracy, but later pardoned by President Johnson.
John Forbes Nash Jr. was an American mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics and the Abel Prize in Mathematics, and was the subject of the biographical film A Beautiful Mind.
John Eastman is an American lawyer and academic who tried to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election and keep Trump in office. He has been indicted, disbarred, and recommended for disbarment for his role in the conspiracy and has appeared on Fox News to declare his innocence.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus of medicine and the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is known for his work on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a secular technique that combines meditation and yoga to cope with stress, pain, and illness.