Jaime de Mora y Aragon
Jaime de Mora y Aragon, a flamboyant Spanish aristocrat whose amiable antics made him the toast of the Costa del Sol.
Johann Rettenberger
In the 1980s the bank robber Johann Rettenberger was the most wanted criminal in Austria. Known as Pumpgun Ronnie due to his weapon and the Ronald Reagan mask he wore for his robberies, he sometimes robbed two or three banks on the same day. Unusually for a bank robber, he was also a keen amateur marathon runner and had won several races. He jumped out of a window during questioning and escaped by running into the Vienna Woods. He only seemed to feel truly alive, truly himself, truly free when he was running.
James Hunt
James Hunt was a British racing driver from England who won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. Hunt was notorious for his unconventional behaviour on and off the track. Having been part of Formula One when the series was consolidating, and when it was conquering the attention of the motor sport press, Hunt became the epitome of unruly, playboy drivers and was celebrated for his English eccentricity (which included dining with his Alsatian, Oscar, at Mayfair restaurants).
Jieldé
Hand-made in France since 1950, Jieldé lamps are some of the most rigid working lamps in the world.
Javan Rhino
Javan rhinoceros, also called lesser one-horned rhinoceros, one of three Asian species of rhinoceroses, found only on the island of Java in Indonesia. It is the rarest living rhinoceros and one of the world’s most endangered mammals.
Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright of Derby was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution.
Jean Bedel Bokassa
Jean Bedel Bokassa was the military ruler of the Central African Republic from 1 January 1966 and the Emperor of the Central African Empire from 4 December 1976 until he was overthrown on 20 September 1979. Bokassa had been sentenced to death in absentia in December 1980 for the murder of numerous political rivals. However he returned from exile in France on 24 October 1986. He was arrested and tried for treason, murder, cannibalism and embezzlement. At the end of his life he proclaimed himself the 13th Apostle and claimed to have secret meetings with the Pope. He died of a heart attack on 3 November 1996 in Bangui, at the age of 75. He had 17 wives and a reported 50 children.
Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University is the oldest of higher education in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in Europe.
Jan Grzebski
Jan Grzebski was a Polish man who woke up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no longer rationed.
James Eads How
James Eads Howwas an American organizer of the hobo community in the early 20th century. He was heir of a wealthy St. Louis family, but chose to live as a hobo and to help the homeless migrant workers. The newspapers often referred to him as the "Millionaire Hobo".