Joey Cheek — William Joseph Cheek was born on June 22, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is an American speed skater and former inline speed skater. He specializes in the short and middle distances. Accomplishments Cheek’s breakthrough was in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he won the bronze medal in the 1,000 meters and just …

Joe Kohl — Many cartoonists include humorous illustration as one element of a multi-faceted career. Joe Kohl creates gag cartoons for magazines, does color illustrations for many different publications and advertising agencies, creates comic designs for T-shirts and beer mugs, writes and draws greeting cards, and is the author of two cartoon collections, Marital Bliss and Other Oxymorons and Unspeakably …

Jimmy Wales — Jimmy Donal Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, in the U.S. on August 7, 1966. He attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school, then earned bachelor’s degree in Finance from Auburn University. Wales then entered the Ph.D. finance program at the University of Alabama before leaving with a master’s degree to enter the Ph.D. finance program at Indiana …

Jim Sinegal — James D. Sinegal is co-founder and CEO of Costco, an international low-price membership retail chain and the largest U.S. wholesale club, headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, U.S. He was born January 1, 1936 into a Catholic working-class family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Helix High School in La Mesa, California. He earned an AA at San Diego City …

King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, great-grandson of Bhutan’s first hereditary monarch and once the world’s youngest King (when he came to power in 1972), rules his people more in the spirit of Buddha than of more worldly princes. To this day there is not a traffic light in the Himalayan kingdom, by law everyone must wear traditional 14th century clothing and …

Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman — Written by Jerry Scott and drawn by Rick Kirkman, Baby Blues is one of the most popular strips from Creators Syndicate. Jerry and Rick both grew up dreaming about becoming successful cartoonists and were eventually introduced to each other as the result of a friendship between their wives. After several unsuccessful collaborations, Baby Blues …

Jermain Defoe has made a habit of coming off the bench and scoring ever since Fabio Capello took over as England coach, showing himself to be one of the country’s finest finishers. The diminutive forward was omitted from Sven-Goran Eriksson’s final squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany but has been a regular face in the England ranks …

बहुत वर्ष पहले एक छोटे – से गाँव में एक गरीब, मगर भला ब्राह्मण रहता था। वह देवी का परम भक्त था और नित्य ही दुर्गा का नाम 108 बार लिखे बिना अन्न – जल कुछ भी ग्रहण नही करता था। सम्पन्न परिवारों में शादी – ब्याह या फिर अंतिम संस्कार करवाना ही उसकी जीविका का एकमात्र साधन था। परन्तु रोज …

Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12th 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His family had acquired a 250,000 acre ranch in Cotulla, where Bezos spent most of his childhood summers working with his grandfather. At a young age Bezos started displaying his interests when he converted his parents’ garage into a laboratory for his science projects. The Bezos family …

Jeff Skoll (Jeffrey Skoll) Order of Canada (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian born engineer and internet entrepreneur who lives in Los Angeles, California. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.2 billion (as of March 2011), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 347th in the world. He was the first employee and also …