John McCain was born on August 29, 1936 at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, to naval officer John S. McCain Jr. and Roberta McCain. At that time, the Panama Canal was under U.S. control. His family, including his older sister Sandy and younger brother Joe, followed his father to various naval postings in the United …

John Jones — John Edward Jones III was born on June 13, 1955 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania and raised in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. Jones is a Lutheran of Welsh descent. He has 3 brothers David, Jeff and Jim. He has a share in a business operated by others in his family, Distinct Golf, which runs five golf courses in New Jersey and …

John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman. He began his academic career at a community college, College of San Mateo (California), after enlisting in the navy and serving a tour of duty during the Vietnam War. On returning, he received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 1972, and his Ph.D. in …

John Caldwell has been very busy as a cartoonist and humorous illustrator since the early 1970s. He has created many classic cartoons for The National Lampoon; his comic panels have been syndicated internationally by King Features Syndicate and turned into a cartoon-a-day desk calendar; his book of faxable cartoons and messages, Fax This Book, has been a great success and …

John Adams family had been in America for generations when he was born on October 30, 1735. His father was a farmer who had been Harvard educated. He taught his son to read before he entered school under Mrs. Belcher. He quickly moved into Joseph Cleverly’s Latin school and then studied under Joseph Marsh before becoming a student at Harvard …

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 …

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 …

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 …