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James Laurinaitis
James Laurinaitis, Ohio State three-time All-American linebacker, Rams all-time leading tackler (852 tackles, 2009–15), Saints 2016, now Ohio State linebackers coach and 2026 College Football Hall of Fame inductee.
James Lawder Gamble
James Lawder Gamble (1883–1959) was an American pediatrician and clinical physiologist at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital, Boston, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1945.
James Lawless
James Lawless is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science since 2025 and TD for Kildare North since 2016.
James Lawrence
James Lawrence (1781-1813), U.S. Navy captain of USS Chesapeake, mortally wounded by HMS Shannon off Boston on 1 June 1813; his dying command "Don't give up the ship" became Perry's Battle of Lake Erie battle flag.
James Learmonth Gowans
Sir James Learmonth Gowans (1924–2020) was a British immunologist who showed that small lymphocytes recirculate between blood and lymph, work that underpinned selective immunosuppression in organ transplantation.
James LeBeau
James LeBeau is an American materials scientist and professor at MIT who develops quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy methods, and received a 2017 PECASE award.
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke (born 1936, Houston) is an American crime novelist, creator of Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux (The Neon Rain, 1987) and the Holland family series; two-time Edgar winner, 2009 MWA Grand Master, 2024 CWA Diamond Dagger co-recipient.
James Leo Herlihy
James Leo Herlihy (1927-1993) was a Detroit-born American novelist, playwright, and actor; Blue Denim (1958) and Midnight Cowboy (1965) distinguished him from contemporaries, the latter becoming the only X-rated Best Picture Oscar winner.
James Leonard Brierley Smith
James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897–1968) was a South African chemist-turned-ichthyologist at Rhodes University who identified the first living coelacanth in 1938 and led the fourteen-year search that recovered a second specimen in 1952.
James Lesure
James Lesure, American television actor born 1970 in Los Angeles (some sources say 1975), known for Mike Cannon on Las Vegas, Mel Ellis on For Your Love, and Carter Hope on The Rookie: Feds.
James Letts
James Letts is an American-trained membrane protein biochemist and structural biologist who solved the first atomic-resolution structures of mammalian mitochondrial complex I, winning the 2025 PECASE.
James Levine
James Lawrence Levine (1943–2021) was an American conductor and pianist who served as the Metropolitan Opera's music director for over 40 years, conducting more than 2,500 performances.
James Liang
James Liang, also known as Liang Jianzhang (梁建章), is a Chinese entrepreneur and economist who co-founded Ctrip in 1999 and leads its successor, Trip.com Group.
James Lighthill
James Lighthill (1924–1998) was a British applied mathematician who founded aeroacoustics, the study of sound generated by fluid flow, and held the Lucasian chair at Cambridge.
James Lind
James Lind (1716–1794), Scottish naval surgeon, ran the 1747 HMS Salisbury trial of six scurvy treatments on 12 sailors, showed citrus cured scurvy, and published A Treatise of the Scurvy (1753).
James Lipton
James Lipton (1926–2020), American writer, actor, lyricist, and host, creator and host of Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo from 1994 to 2018, interviewing over 300 guests; also a Broadway lyricist and author of An Exaltation of Larks.
James Lofthouse
James Lofthouse (1841–1906) was an English pharmacist in Fleetwood, Lancashire, who in 1865 devised the liquorice and menthol remedy that became Fisherman's Friend, still made by his family firm five generations later.
James Lofton
James Lofton (born 1956), Stanford wide receiver and 1978 first-round Packers pick; NFL record 14,004 receiving yards on 764 catches, eight Pro Bowls, Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2003, later a Westwood One broadcaster.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet (1821–1904), Confederate lieutenant general commanding I Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee's "Old War Horse"; fought at Second Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga, then became a Republican during Reconstruction.
James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock (1919–2022), British independent scientist and inventor of the electron capture detector, originated the Gaia hypothesis that the biosphere self-regulates Earth's chemistry and climate, and co-developed the Daisyworld model with Andrew Watson.
James Lowe (rugby union)
James Lowe (born 1992, Nelson, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born rugby union winger for Leinster and Ireland, a former Maori All Black, 2025 British and Irish Lion, and Leinster record try scorer who left for Japan in 2026.
James Lu
James Lu is a genomics entrepreneur and physician-scientist who co-founded Helix, a population-genomics company spun out of Illumina in 2015, and has been its CEO since 2021.
James Lubitz
James Lubitz is a health services researcher at CMS and NCHS known for New England Journal of Medicine studies of Medicare spending in the last year of life.
James Lupton Hedrick
James Lupton Hedrick is a polymer chemist at IBM's Almaden Research Center and a Stanford visiting scholar, known for metal-free organocatalytic polymerization, biodegradable antimicrobial polymers, and recyclable thermosets.
James Lutz
James (Jimmy) Lutz, American compound archer from Montello, Wisconsin; 2019 world champion, 2024 World Cup Final winner, and 719/720 world-record qualifier at the 2026 Gator Cup.
James Lynn Hoard
James Lynn Hoard (1905–1993) was an American chemist and X-ray crystallographer, a Cornell professor and National Academy of Sciences member known for boron and metalloporphyrin structures.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen (1939–2022) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Washington who co-authored the 1973 four laws of black hole mechanics with Stephen Hawking.
James M. Berger
James M. Berger is an American structural biologist and biochemist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for determining the structures of type II DNA topoisomerases and helicases.
James M. Buchanan Jr.
James M. Buchanan Jr. (1919–2013) was an American economist who founded public choice theory, applying economic analysis to politics, and won the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
James M. Cox
James M. Cox (1870-1957), Ohio newspaper publisher, three-term governor, congressman, and 1920 Democratic presidential nominee with FDR as running mate; founder of Cox Enterprises.