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- Mick Jackson, writer, best known for novel The Underground Man, lives in Brighton
- Edward James, poet and art collector, who lent many famous Surrealist works to Brighton Museum in the 1950s and 1960s
- Peter James, writer of detective stories featuring Roy Grace, was born in Brighton
- Samantha Janus, actress in EastEnders
- Konrad Jarnot, opera singer
- Michael Jayston, actor, lives in Hove
- Gwyneth Jones, novelist
- Jenny Jones, prominent member of the Green Party, grew up in Brighton
- Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Labour politician, lives in Brighton
- Petra Joy, German feminist and advocate/producer of erotic films for women, lives in Brighton
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