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James Mason
James Mason (1909–1984) was an English actor from Huddersfield, Cambridge-trained in architecture, with a 50-year, 100-plus-film career; three Oscar nominations, no win; star of Odd Man Out, A Star Is Born, and Lolita.
James Mason (neo-Nazi)
James Mason (born 1952, Chillicothe, Ohio) is an American neo-Nazi accelerationist, author of Siege, ex-American Nazi Party and NSLF member, Universal Order founder with Charles Manson, and a 2021 Canadian-listed terrorist entity. Not the British actor.
James Massey
James Massey (1934–2013) was an American information theorist and cryptographer, a pioneer of digital communications known for the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm and the IDEA cipher, developed at ETH Zurich.
James Matthews (racing driver)
James Matthews (born 1975) is a British former racing driver, 1994 British Formula Renault and Eurocup Formula Renault champion, later British F3 racer, now CEO of Eden Rock Group and a Williams F1 board member; distinct from the 1950s American club racer of the same name.
James May
James May (born 1963), 'Captain Slow', English TV presenter and motoring journalist, co-hosted Top Gear (2003-2015) and The Grand Tour (2016-2024) with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, and hosts Our Man in... and Oh Cook.
James May: Oh Cook
James May: Oh Cook is a British Prime Video cooking series (2020-2023, 14 episodes) in which Top Gear's James May, who says he cannot cook, makes simple recipes with home economist Nikki Morgan, tied to his cookbook.
James May: Our Man in...
James May: Our Man in... is a Prime Video travel documentary series (2020–2024) hosted by James May, covering Japan, Italy, and India, made by Plum Pictures and directed by Tom Whitter.
James Maynard (Golden Corral co-founder)
James Maynard is an American restaurateur who co-founded the Golden Corral steakhouse and buffet chain with William Carl, opening the first restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.
James Maynard (mathematician)
James Maynard (born 1987) is a British analytic number theorist, Professor of Number Theory at Oxford, known for proving small and large gaps between primes and winning the 2022 Fields Medal.
James McArdle
James McArdle, born 1989 in Glasgow, is a Scottish actor trained at RADA. Known for Louis Ironson in Angels in America (Theatre World Award 2018), Ian Charleson Award for Platonov, and screen roles in Mare of Easttown, Mary Queen of Scots, and Sexy Beast.
James McAtee
James McAtee (James John McAtee), Salford-born English attacking midfielder; Manchester City academy graduate, Sheffield United loanee, £30m Nottingham Forest signing, England U21 Euro-winning captain.
James McAuley
James McAuley was an Australian poet, critic, and academic who co-created the Ern Malley hoax in 1944 and founded the literary journal Quadrant in 1956.
James McAvoy
James McAvoy (born 1979, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker, known for Shameless, The Last King of Scotland, Atonement, Filth, Split, and Professor X in the X-Men films; his directorial debut is California Schemin' (2026).
James McBride (writer)
James McBride (born 1957) is an American author, musician, and screenwriter from Brooklyn, known for The Color of Water, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
James McCarthy (footballer)
James Patrick McCarthy (born 1990, Glasgow) is a Scottish-born Irish central midfielder; Hamilton, Wigan, Everton (£13m record), Crystal Palace, Celtic; 43 Ireland caps, FA Cup 2013.
James McCartney
James McCartney (born 1977), British singer-songwriter and only son of Paul and Linda McCartney; EPs Available Light and Close at Hand, albums Me (2013), The Blackberry Train (2016), Beautiful Nothing (2024).
James McClean
James McClean (born 1989, Derry) is an Irish footballer with 103 Republic of Ireland caps, ex-Sunderland, Wigan, West Brom, Stoke, and Wrexham captain, known for refusing the Remembrance poppy.
James McClelland (cognitive psychologist)
James L. (Jay) McClelland is an American cognitive psychologist who co-founded parallel distributed processing with David Rumelhart, published its landmark 1986 volumes, and teaches at Stanford University.
James McCluskey
James McCluskey is an Australian immunologist and physician-scientist at the University of Melbourne known for work on HLA immunity and MR1 presentation to MAIT cells.
James McCoy (businessman)
James McCoy, known as Jim McCoy, is an American disk-drive executive who co-founded Quantum in 1980 and Maxtor in 1982, serving as Maxtor's president and later chairman.
James McFadden
James McFadden (born 1983, Glasgow), Scottish forward; Motherwell, Everton, Birmingham City, Sunderland, St Johnstone; 48 Scotland caps; famous 2007 winning goal v France in Paris; later Motherwell assistant manager and BBC pundit.
James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell (1860–1944) was an American psychologist who held the first professorship of psychology in the United States, coined "mental tests," and edited Science for nearly fifty years.
James McKernan
James McKernan, born in London in 1964, is a British algebraic geometer at UC San Diego known for proving the existence of flips in all dimensions.
James McLamore
James McLamore (1926–1996) was an American restaurateur who co-founded Burger King in Miami in 1954, created the Whopper, and sold the chain to Pillsbury in 1967.
James McMurdock
James McMurdock (born 1986) is the Independent MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock, elected 4 July 2024 for Reform UK by a 98-vote majority, who left the party on 5 July 2025 and now sits as an Independent.
James McMurtry
James McMurtry (born 1962, Fort Worth, Texas) is an Americana singer-songwriter, son of novelist Larry McMurtry, known for story-songs like "We Can't Make It Here" and albums from Too Long in the Wasteland (1989) to The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy (2025).
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American painter and printmaker who worked in London and Paris, led the Aesthetic movement's art for art's sake, and painted Whistler's Mother.
James McTeigue
James McTeigue (born 1967, Sydney) is an Australian director; first AD on The Matrix and Attack of the Clones, directorial debut V for Vendetta (2006), later Ninja Assassin, The Raven, Messiah, Matrix Resurrections producer.
James Melville Gilliss
James Melville Gilliss (1811–1865) was an American naval officer and astronomer who planned the first United States Naval Observatory and founded the observatory that became the Chilean National Observatory.
James Mercer (mathematician)
James Mercer (1883–1932) was an English mathematician at Cambridge, bracketed Senior Wrangler in 1907, whose 1909 memoir introduced positive definite kernels and proved Mercer's theorem, now central to kernel methods in machine learning.