List of Famous people named Jon

Often it's a shorthand for Jonathan, John. Similar names: Jonathan, John, John, Johnny, Jonny, Jonah, Johnnie, Joni, Jona, Johny, Jhon, Jone, Jonna, Jonnie, Joon, Jono, Jonni, Jhoon, Jonne, Johnne. Here are some famous Jons:

Jón Axel Guðmundsson

Jón Axel Guðmundsson is an Icelandic professional basketball player for Fraport Skyliners of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). He played college basketball for the Davidson Wildcats. He won two national championships with Grindavík in 2012 and 2013 and the Icelandic Basketball Cup in 2014.

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Jon Oringer

First Name Jon
Last Name Oringer
Born on May 2, 1974 (age 51)

Jon Oringer is an American programmer, photographer, and billionaire businessman, best known as the founder and CEO of Shutterstock, a stock media company headquartered in New York City. Oringer started his career while a college student in the 1990s, when he created "one of the Web's first pop-up blockers." He went on to found about ten small startups that used a subscription method to sell "personal firewalls, accounting software, cookie blockers, trademark managers," and other small programs.

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Jon McBride

First Name Jon
Last Name McBride
Born on August 14, 1943 (age 82)

Jon Andrew McBride, is a retired American naval officer.

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Jon Carter

First Name Jon
Last Name Carter

Jon Carter is an English electronic musician. He initially rose to prominence in the 1990s as a big beat DJ. However, as his career progressed both his productions and his DJ sets became known for including a variety of musical styles. From 2004 onwards, he began to scale back his DJing due to tinnitus, but simultaneously launched a second career as a businessman, co-founding a company that runs a chain of live music pubs across London.

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Jon Cassar

First Name Jon
Last Name Cassar
Born on April 27, 1958 (age 67)
Born in Malta

John Francis "Jon" Cassar is a Maltese-Canadian television director and producer, known for his work on the first seven seasons of 24. In 2006, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for his work on the episode "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.". In 2011, he produced and directed all episodes of the Canadian-American miniseries The Kennedys, for which he won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie.

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Jon Lee Anderson

First Name Jon
Last Name Anderson

Jon Lee Anderson is an American biographer, author, investigative reporter, war correspondent and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Palestine, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East as well as during Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts with K38 Water Safety as documented in the New Yorker article Leaving Desire. Anderson has also written for The New York Times, Harper's, Life, and The Nation. Anderson has profiled political leaders such as Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Augusto Pinochet.

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Jon Aberasturi

Jon Aberasturi Izaga
First Name Jon
Last Name Aberasturi
Born on March 28, 1989 (age 37)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Jon Aberasturi Izaga is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Caja Rural–Seguros RGA. In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España.

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Jon Trickett

Jon Hedley Trickett
First Name Jon
Last Name Trickett
Born on July 2, 1950 (age 75)

Jon Hedley Trickett is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemsworth in West Yorkshire since a 1996 by-election. He was Shadow Lord President of the Council from 2016 to 2020 and served as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2011 to 2013 and 2017 to 2020. He was the Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to 2017.

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Jon Juaristi

First Name Jon
Last Name Juaristi
Born on March 6, 1951 (age 75)

Jon Juaristi Linacero is a Spanish poet, essayist and translator in Spanish and Basque, as well as a self-confessed former ETA militant. He lives in Madrid.

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Jon Hopkins

Jonathan Julian Hopkins
First Name Jon
Last Name Hopkins
Born on August 15, 1979 (age 46)

Jonathan Julian Hopkins is an English musician and producer who writes and performs electronic music. He began his career playing keyboard for Imogen Heap, and has produced or contributed to albums by Brian Eno, Coldplay, David Holmes and others.

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