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James J. Jeffries
James J. Jeffries, known as James Jackson Jeffries, was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight championship from 1899 and retired undefeated in 1905.
James J. Markowsky
James J. Markowsky is an American power engineer who led American Electric Power's 21,000 MW coal fleet and served as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy from 2009.
James J. McCarthy
James J. McCarthy (1944–2019) was an American biological oceanographer and Alexander Agassiz Professor at Harvard, known for plankton and nitrogen cycling research and co-chairing the IPCC's 2001 impacts assessment.
James J. Mikulski
James J. Mikulski is an American electrical engineer who led development of Motorola's DynaTAC hand-held cellular telephone system and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
James J. Mongan
James J. Mongan was an American physician-executive and health policy leader. He served as CEO of Partners HealthCare System and was a professor at Harvard Medical School.
James J. Moon
James J. Moon is an immunoengineer who chairs Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Michigan, develops nanomaterial-based vaccines and immunotherapies, and co-founded EVOQ Therapeutics and Saros Therapeutics.
James J. Morgan
James J. Morgan (1932–2020) was an American environmental engineer and aquatic chemist at Caltech who coauthored Aquatic Chemistry, the field's standard reference, and won the 1999 Stockholm Water Prize.
James J. Nora
James J. Nora, full name James Jackson Nora, was an American physician who proposed the multifactorial inheritance hypothesis of congenital heart disease and did early heart transplantation work.
James J. Padilla
James J. Padilla, known as Jim Padilla, is an American manufacturing engineer who spent four decades at Ford Motor Company, retiring as its president and chief operating officer.
James J. Rahal
James J. Rahal was an American infectious-disease physician who directed the Infectious Disease Section at New York Hospital Queens from 1988 until his death in 2011.
James J. Solberg
James J. Solberg is an American industrial engineer and Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for his work on manufacturing systems.
James J. Stoker
James J. Stoker was an American applied mathematician and engineer who directed the Courant Institute at New York University from 1958 to 1966 and studied water waves.
James J. Watkins
James J. Watkins is an American materials chemist and polymer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for supercritical-fluid processing and block-copolymer self-assembly as nanoscale templates.
James J. Wynne
James J. Wynne is an American physicist at IBM Research, born in Brooklyn, New York, best known as co-discoverer of excimer laser surgery, which underlies LASIK and PRK refractive procedures.
James Jackson (earth scientist)
James Jackson is a British earth scientist and Emeritus Professor of Active Tectonics at the University of Cambridge, known for combining earthquake seismology, geomorphology, and space geodesy to study continental deformation.
James Jamerson
James Jamerson (1936 or 1938–1983), Motown session bassist and anchor of the Funk Brothers, played on Motown's biggest hits uncredited until 1971; Rock Hall 2000, Rolling Stone's top bassist.
James Januzzi
James Januzzi, also known as James L. Januzzi, is an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for research on cardiac biomarkers and heart failure.
James Jeans
Sir James Jeans was an English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for the Rayleigh-Jeans law and the Jeans instability, and for popular books like The Mysterious Universe.
James Jebbia
James Jebbia, British-American founder of Supreme, the New York streetwear brand started as a 1994 Lafayette Street skate shop; pioneered Thursday drops, won the 2018 CFDA menswear award, and sold the company through Carlyle, VF, and EssilorLuxottica.
James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton (1917–1987), chief of CIA counterintelligence 1954–1974, led the mole hunt after Golitsyn's defection, secured Khrushchev's secret speech, and was dismissed by Colby in 1974.
James Jett
James Jett (born 1970), American sprinter and wide receiver; 1992 Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist and ten-season Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders player (1993-2002), 256 catches, 4,417 yards, 30 touchdowns, NFL Fastest Man 1996.
James Johnson (basketball, born 1987)
James Johnson (born 1987) is an NBA forward drafted 16th overall in 2009; a 16-year veteran of ten teams with a 7-0 MMA record and second-degree black belt.
James Jones
James Harry Jones (Jonah), 1873-1955, English goalkeeper for Upton Park FC; won gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics, keeping a clean sheet in the inaugural Olympic soccer final, a 4-0 win over France; distinct from Canadian shooter James Malcolm Jones.
James Jones (wide receiver)
James Jones (born 1984, San Jose, California) is a former NFL wide receiver, Packers 2007 third-round pick out of San Jose State, Super Bowl XLV champion, 2012 NFL touchdown-catch leader (14), later an NFL Network analyst.
James Jordan (actor)
James Jordan (born 1979, Houston, Texas) is an American character actor, Taylor Sheridan's most frequent collaborator, playing Two Cups in Lioness, Dale Bradley in Landman, Steve Hendon in Yellowstone, and Cookie in 1883.
James Jordan (dancer)
James Jordan (born 1978) is an English ballroom and Latin dancer best known as a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing from 2006 to 2013.
James Joseph Dresnok
James Joseph Dresnok, 'Comrade Joe', US Army Private First Class who defected across the Korean DMZ on August 15, 1962; last surviving of four American defectors in North Korea, propaganda film star in Nameless Heroes, subject of documentary Crossing the Line.
James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897) was a British mathematician who, with Arthur Cayley, cofounded invariant theory, worked on matrix theory and number theory, and coined algebraic terms including "matrix."
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist novelist, short story writer, and poet; author of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939); lived in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris; Ulysses banned until the 1933 Woolsey decision.
James Jude Courtney
James Jude Courtney is an American actor and stuntman from Columbia, South Carolina, who played Michael Myers in Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022), the only actor to do so in three consecutive films.