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| K. (Kaarle Kustaa) Jaakkola | 1853–1932 | 1 |
| William J. (William James) Jackman | born 1850 | 1 |
| Andrew Jackson | 1767–1845 | 1 |
| Charles Tenney Jackson | 1874–1955 | — |
| Chevalier Jackson | 1865–1958 | 1 |
| Emilie Jackson | 1873–1963 | 1 |
| Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson | born 1861 | 3 |
| George Jackson | 1864–1945 | 1 |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | 1830–1885 | 7 |
| Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson | 1865–1945 | 1 |
| Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson | 1881–1958 | 1 |
| Wallace Jackson | born 1930 | 1 |
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| Philip Whittington Jacob | 1805–1889 | 1 |
| Violet Jacob | 1863–1946 | 1 |
| Carl Jacobi | 1908–1997 | 1 |
| Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette) Jacobs | 1854–1929 | 4 |
| Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs | 1835–1916 | 2 |
| Caroline Emilia Jacobs | 1872–1909 | 2 |
| Charles M. (Charles Mattathias) Jacobs | 1850–1919 | 1 |
| Emilie Van Beil Jacobs | born 1875 | 1 |
| Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs | 1813–1897 | 1 |
| Joseph Jacobs | 1854–1916 | 9 |
| W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs | 1863–1943 | 110 |
| J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen | 1847–1885 | 1 |
| Bettina Jacobson | 1841–1922 | — |
| Jacobus, de Cessolis, active | 1288–1322 | 1 |
| Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart | 1837–1880 | 1 |
| Mainwaring George Jacson | 1859–1915 | 1 |
| Fedor Jagor | 1816–1900 | 1 |
| Otto Jahn | 1813–1869 | 1 |
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| Antti Jalava | 1846–1909 | 2 |
| Edmond Jaloux | 1878–1949 | 1 |
| King of England James I | 1566–1625 | 2 |
| Bartlett Burleigh James | 1867–1953 | 1 |
| George Wharton James | 1858–1923 | 5 |
| H. R. (Henry Rosher) James | 1862–1931 | 1 |
| Helen M. (Helen Mary) James | 1863–1900 | 1 |
| Henry James | 1843–1916 | 68 |
| James Alton James | 1864–1962 | 1 |
| Juliet Helena Lumbard James | born 1864 | 2 |
| Lionel James | 1871–1955 | 1 |
| M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James | 1862–1936 | 5 |
| Rajah of Sarawak James | 1803–1868 | 1 |
| William James | 1842–1910 | 6 |
| William Dobein James | 1764–1830 | 1 |
| Helen Follett Jameson | born 1873 | 1 |
| J. Franklin (John Franklin) Jameson | 1859–1937 | 4 |
| Mrs. (Anna) Jameson | 1794–1860 | 3 |
| Jami | 1414–1492 | 1 |
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| Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp | 1839–1905 | 3 |
| Émile Jaques-Dalcroze | 1865–1950 | 1 |
| Gabriel Louis Jaray | 1878–1954 | 1 |
| Frank Lascelles Jardine | 1841–1919 | 1 |
| Bede Jarrett | 1881–1934 | 1 |
| Jarro | 1849–1915 | 1 |
| Alfred Jarry | 1873–1907 | 1 |
| Joseph Jastrow | 1863–1944 | 1 |
| Morris Jastrow | 1861–1921 | 2 |
| John Jay | 1745–1829 | 2 |
| Jean Paul | 1763–1825 | 1 |
| J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans | 1846–1913 | 1 |
| Richard Jefferies | 1848–1887 | 11 |
| B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis | born 1851 | 2 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1743–1826 | 10 |
| Walter Jeffery | 1861–1922 | 1 |
| John Jellicoe | 1842–1914 | 1 |
| John Rushworth Jellicoe | 1859–1935 | 1 |
| Edward Jenkins | 1838–1910 | 1 |
| Herbert George Jenkins | 1876–1923 | 1 |
| John Jenkins | 1821–1896 | 1 |
| Albert Ernest Jenks | 1869–1953 | 1 |
| Jeremiah Whipple Jenks | 1856–1929 | 1 |
| Theodora R. (Theodora Robinson) Jenness | born 1847 | 1 |
| James Jennings | 1772–1833 | 1 |
| Robert Jennings | 1824–1893 | 1 |
| William Jennings | 1847–1927 | — |
| Edgar Jepson | 1863–1938 | 5 |
| Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir | 1842–1914 | 1 |
| Chauncey Jerome | 1793–1868 | 1 |
| Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome | 1859–1927 | 31 |
| Blanchard Jerrold | 1826–1884 | 2 |
| Douglas William Jerrold | 1803–1857 | 1 |
| Walter Jerrold | 1865–1929 | 1 |
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| John Jewel | 1522–1571 | 1 |
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| Allen Johnson | 1870–1931 | 19 |
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| Clarence Edgar Johnson | 1906–1994 | 1 |
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| Douglas Wilson Johnson | 1878–1944 | 1 |
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| E. Pauline Johnson | 1861–1913 | 4 |
| Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson | 1860–1944 | 1 |
| Frank Tenney Johnson | 1874–1939 | 4 |
| Helen Kendrick Johnson | 1844–1917 | 1 |
| Helen M. (Helen Mar) Johnson | 1834–1863 | 1 |
| J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson | 1848–1904 | 1 |
| James Weldon Johnson | 1871–1938 | 3 |
| Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) Johnson | 1908–1973 | 1 |
| Owen Johnson | 1878–1952 | 3 |
| R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley) Johnson | 1867–1932 | 1 |
| Richard Johnson | 1755–1827 | 1 |
| Rossiter Johnson | 1840–1931 | 15 |
| Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson | 1877–1967 | 1 |
| Samuel Johnson | 1709–1784 | 24 |
| Samuel W. (Samuel William) Johnson | 1830–1909 | 1 |
| William Henry Johnson | 1845–1907 | 1 |
| William Savage Johnson | 1877–1942 | 1 |
| Alexander Johnston | 1849–1889 | 5 |
| Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston | 1863–1931 | 19 |
| Charles Johnston | 1867–1931 | 2 |
| George Johnston | 1829–1891 | 1 |
| Harry Johnston | 1858–1927 | 2 |
| Henry Phelps Johnston | 1842–1923 | 1 |
| J. P. (James Perry) Johnston | born 1852 | 1 |
| Mary Johnston | 1870–1936 | 9 |
| Mary G. Johnston | born 1872 | 1 |
| R. M. (Robert Matteson) Johnston | 1867–1920 | 1 |
| Richard Malcolm Johnston | 1822–1898 | — |
| William Johnston | 1871–1929 | 1 |
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| James Johonnot | 1823–1888 | 1 |
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| H. Bencraft Joly | 1857–1898 | 2 |
| John Joly | 1857–1933 | 1 |
| Maurice Joly | 1831–1878 | 1 |
| Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de | 1779–1869 | 1 |
| Abel J. (Abel John) Jones | 1878–1949 | 1 |
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| Edmund O. (Edmund Osborne) Jones | 1858–1931 | 1 |
| Edward Smyth Jones | born 1881 | 2 |
| Erasmus W. Jones | 1817–1909 | 1 |
| Henry Festing Jones | 1851–1928 | 6 |
| Jones, Henry, Sir | 1852–1922 | 1 |
| J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones | 1810–1866 | 1 |
| James Athearn Jones | 1791–1854 | 3 |
| Owen Jones | 1809–1874 | 1 |
| Paul Jones | 1880–1941 | 1 |
| Raymond F. Jones | 1915–1994 | 2 |
| Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones | 1863–1948 | 2 |
| Samuel Maurice Jones | 1853–1932 | 1 |
| Steven E. Jones | born 1949 | 1 |
| W. Tudor (William Tudor) Jones | 1865–1946 | 1 |
| K. H. E. de (Karel Hendrik Eduard) Jong | 1872–1960 | 1 |
| David Starr Jordan | 1851–1931 | 6 |
| Elizabeth Garver Jordan | 1867–1947 | 3 |
| William George Jordan | 1864–1928 | 1 |
| Philip E. B. (Philip Edward Bertrand) Jourdain | 1879–1919 | 1 |
| Prosper Jourdan | 1840–1866 | 1 |
| Benjamin Jowett | 1817–1893 | 28 |
| John Henry Jowett | 1864–1923 | 1 |
| James Richard Joy | 1863–1957 | 1 |
| James Joyce | 1882–1941 | 4 |
| John A. (John Alexander) Joyce | 1842–1915 | 1 |
| Mary Catherine Judd | 1852–1937 | 1 |
| Clara Ingram Judson | 1879–1960 | 2 |
| Katharine Berry Judson | 1866–1929 | 2 |
| Clément Juglar | 1819–1905 | 1 |
| Julia de Fontenelle (Jean-Sébastien-Eugène) | 1790–1842 | 1 |
| George Washington Julian | 1817–1899 | 1 |
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| Nico Jungmann | 1872–1935 | 1 |
| Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro | 1850–1923 | 7 |
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| Martin Justice | 1869–1961 | 3 |
| Valter Juva | 1865–1922 | 7 |
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| Arvid Järnefelt | 1861–1932 | 14 |
| Kaapro Jääskeläinen | 1862–1932 | 4 |
| Mór Jókai | 1825–1904 | 13 |
| Jón Hjaltason | 1839–1883 | 1 |
| Jón Stefánsson | born 1862 | 1 |
| Jón Ólafsson | 1850–1916 | 1 |
| Jónína Sigríður Jónsdóttir | 1884–1963 | 1 |