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James L. Flanagan
James L. Flanagan was an American electrical engineer who led speech and acoustics research at Bell Laboratories for 33 years, winning the 1996 National Medal of Science.
James L. Gould
James L. Gould (born 1945) is an American biologist who spent his career at Princeton University, known for work on honey bee dance communication and navigation.
James L. Graham
James L. Graham, born 1939 in Columbus, Ohio, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Ohio, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
James L. Hedrick
James L. Hedrick is an American polymer chemist and Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center, known for pioneering metal-free organic catalysts for ring-opening polymerization.
James L. Jones
James L. Jones, born 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, is a retired US Marine Corps general: 32nd Marine Corps Commandant (1999-2003), first Marine SACEUR (2003-2007), 22nd National Security Advisor (2009-2010).
James L. Kinsey
James L. Kinsey (1934–2014) was an American physical chemist who co-invented stimulated emission pumping with Robert W. Field, taught at MIT, and served as dean at Rice University.
James L. Kirtley Jr.
James L. Kirtley Jr. is an American electrical engineer and MIT professor specializing in electric machinery and power systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
James L. Kraft
James L. Kraft was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who founded the Kraft cheese business in Chicago in 1903 with $65 and was the first to patent processed cheese.
James L. Lammie
James L. Lammie, also known as James Louis Lammie (1931–2022), was an American civil engineer, a West Point graduate and Army colonel who led Parsons Brinckerhoff and oversaw Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel project.
James L. Maller
James L. Maller (1946–2018) was an American biochemist and University of Colorado pharmacology professor who purified maturation-promoting factor, the complex of Cdc2 and cyclin B that drives cell division.
James L. Manley
James L. Manley is a Columbia University molecular biologist known for discovering the first alternative splicing factor and for characterizing the factors that polyadenylate messenger RNA precursors.
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland is an American cognitive scientist, Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford, known for the Parallel Distributed Processing framework and complementary learning systems theory of memory.
James L. McGaugh
James L. McGaugh, born 1931, is an American neuroscientist who spent his career at UC Irvine showing that stress hormones acting on the amygdala strengthen memory consolidation.
James L. Mills
James L. Mills is an American perinatal epidemiologist and Senior Investigator in the Epidemiology Branch of NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD, known for research on folic acid in preventing neural-tube defects.
James L. Ryan
James L. Ryan, full name James Leo Ryan (born 1932), is an American jurist appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1985.
James L. Salzer
James L. Salzer is an American cellular neuroscientist and professor of neuroscience and neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for studies of myelination, Schwann cells, and remyelination.
James L. Skinner
James L. Skinner is an American theoretical chemist known for his theory of vibrational spectroscopy and line shapes in liquids, especially water, and in solids.
James L. Tullis
James Lyman Tullis (1914–1996) was an American physician and blood researcher at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston who identified leukocyte and platelet antibodies behind transfusion reactions and purpura.
James L. Waters
James L. Waters (1925–2021) was an American instrument maker who founded Waters Associates in 1958 and built it into the leading maker of liquid chromatography equipment.
James L.M. Ferrara
James L.M. Ferrara is an American physician-scientist and Ward-Coleman Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for research on graft-versus-host disease, the major complication of bone marrow transplantation.
James LaBrie
James LaBrie (Kevin James LaBrie, born 1963, Penetanguishene, Ontario) is the Canadian lead vocalist of progressive metal band Dream Theater since 1991, first on Images and Words (1992); a 1994 vocal injury changed his singing, and he also leads a solo career, most recently Beautiful Shade of Grey (2022).
James Laderchi
James Laderchi (Giacomo Laderchi) was an Italian Oratorian priest and ecclesiastical historian, born about 1678 at Faenza, who continued the Annales Ecclesiastici through 1566 to 1571.
James Lafferty
James Lafferty (born 1985, Hemet, California) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer, star of One Tree Hill as Nathan Scott and co-creator of Everyone Is Doing Great with Stephen Colletti.
James Lambert (businessman)
James Scott Lambert is a British businessman who co-founded Richmond Ice Cream in Yorkshire in 1985, building it into R&R Ice Cream, Europe's largest own-label maker, sold in 2013.
James Lance
James Lance (James Frederick Grenville Lance, born 1975) is an English actor, Emmy-nominated as Trent Crimm in Ted Lasso, known for Teachers, Bronson, Marie Antoinette, and The Famous Five.
James Lankford
James Paul Lankford, Republican U.S. senator from Oklahoma since 2015 and former House member for the Fifth District, ex-Baptist youth ministry director, negotiator of the failed 2024 border bill.
James Lapine
James Lapine (born 1949), American stage director, playwright, and librettist; wrote and directed Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Passion; three Tonys for Best Book, Pulitzer Prize 1985.
James Larkin
James (Big Jim) Larkin (1874–1947), Liverpool-born Irish trade union leader who founded the ITGWU, led the 1913 Dublin Lockout, was jailed in the US for criminal anarchy, and later led the Workers' Union of Ireland.
James Larkin White
James Larkin "Jim" White (1882–1946), American cowboy and cave explorer, first credited explorer of Carlsbad Cavern in 1898, later the park's first chief ranger.
James Last
James Last (Hans Last, 1929-2015), German bandleader, composer, and arranger, creator of the 'Happy Sound' and the Non Stop Dancing series; over 190 albums, tens of millions sold, Gentleman of Music nickname.