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James Jung
James Jung is a structural biologist using cryo-EM to determine virus and protein–RNA structures, known for the 2019 discovery that human norovirus shells form multiple particle sizes.
James Justin
James Michael Justin (born 1998, Luton) is an English defender for Leeds United, formerly Luton Town and Leicester City, with one England cap from June 2022.
James K. Baxter
James K. Baxter (James Keir Baxter, 1926–1972) was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and religious commentator, pre-eminent poet of his generation, who founded a commune at Jerusalem in 1969.
James K. Bredar
James K. Bredar is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Maryland, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010.
James K. Gimzewski
James K. Gimzewski is a physical chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA who pioneered use of the scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate single molecules and discovered single-molecule rotors.
James K. Liao
James K. Liao is an American cardiologist and vascular biologist known for the pleiotropic effects of statins; he became chair of medicine at the University of Arizona in 2023.
James K. McCusker
James K. McCusker, born in 1965, is a physical-inorganic chemist at Michigan State University whose work on excited-state dynamics of first-row transition metal complexes underpins solar fuels and photoredox catalysis.
James K. McDougall
James K. McDougall was a viral oncology researcher and epidemiologist who, working at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, made critical discoveries linking human papillomaviruses to cervical and other cancers.
James K. Mitchell
James Kenneth Mitchell (1930–2023) was an American geotechnical engineer who led NASA's Apollo lunar soil mechanics investigations, advanced the study of soil behavior, and taught at Berkeley and Virginia Tech.
James K. Polk
James K. Polk (1795–1849), 11th U.S. president and only former House Speaker to hold the office, achieved his four goals in one term: Walker Tariff, independent treasury, Oregon at the 49th parallel, and California via the Mexican–American War.
James Karen
James Karen (Jacob Karnofsky, 1923-2018), American character actor of Broadway, film, and TV; Mr. Teague in Poltergeist, Frank in The Return of the Living Dead, and Pathmark's 'Mr. Pathmark' pitchman.
James Keach
James Keach (born 1947) is an American actor, director, and producer, the younger brother of actor Stacy Keach, known for The Long Riders and producing Walk the Line.
James Keck
James L. Keck is an American structural biologist and biochemist, Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on bacterial replication restart.
James Kendall (chemist)
James Pickering Kendall was a British physical chemist, professor at the University of Edinburgh from 1928 to 1959, known for work on heats of vaporization.
James Kenneth Mitchell
James Kenneth Mitchell (1930–2023) was an American geotechnical engineer who led NASA's Apollo lunar soil mechanics studies, taught at UC Berkeley and Virginia Tech, and wrote Fundamentals of Soil Behavior.
James Ker-Lindsay
James Ker-Lindsay is a British scholar of conflict and security in Southeast Europe, known for his work on secession and the recognition of contested states.
James Kim
James Kim (1971–2006) was a Korean-American technology journalist and senior editor at CNET who died of hypothermia in December 2006 after leaving his snowbound family in Oregon to seek help on foot.
James Kiplagat Magut
James Kiplagat Magut, also written James Kiplangat Magut, Kenyan 1500m runner born 1990; 2014 Commonwealth Games champion, 2010 silver medallist, and member of Kenya's 14:22.22 world-record 4x1500m relay team.
James Knierim
James J. Knierim is a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who studies memory in the hippocampus, known for work on CA3, CA1, and path integration.
James Kottak
James Kottak (1962–2024), American hard rock drummer, founding member of Kingdom Come and Scorpions drummer 1996–2016, longest-serving in the band's history; also led the pop-punk band Kottak.
James Krause (fighter)
James "The James Krause" Krause (born 1986) is an American retired MMA welterweight (28-8, UFC 9-4), Glory MMA & Fitness head coach in Lee's Summit, Missouri, suspended in a 2022 UFC betting scandal.
James L. Abbruzzese
James L. Abbruzzese is an American medical oncologist known for pancreatic cancer treatment, who chaired gastrointestinal oncology at MD Anderson for 17 years before joining Duke.
James L. Boyer
James L. Boyer is an American hepatologist, the Ensign Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, known for research on bile formation and cholestatic liver disease.
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (born 1940, Brooklyn) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter who co-created The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Simpsons and won three Oscars for Terms of Endearment.
James L. Buckley
James L. Buckley (1923-2023), Conservative Party U.S. senator from New York 1971-1977, Reagan State Department official, Radio Free Europe president, D.C. Circuit judge, and lead plaintiff in Buckley v. Valeo (1976), distinct from his brother William F. Buckley Jr.
James L. Cox
James L. Cox (born 1942) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, creator of the Cox maze procedure, the first surgical cure for atrial fibrillation, first performed in 1987 at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis; 2020 Jacobson Innovation Award recipient.
James L. Dennis
James L. Dennis, born 1936 in Monroe, Louisiana, is an American jurist who served on the Louisiana Supreme Court before Bill Clinton appointed him to the Fifth Circuit in 1995.
James L. Dolan
James L. Dolan, American media executive, son of Charles Dolan; leads MSG Entertainment, Sphere Entertainment, MSG Sports, and chairs AMC Networks; former Cablevision CEO 1995-2016.
James L. Dye
James L. Dye (1927–2021) was an American inorganic chemist at Michigan State University who discovered alkalides and electrides, compounds with alkali metals or electrons as anions.
James L. Edmondson
James Larry Edmondson, born 1947, is an American jurist on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986.