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James Mercer (musician)
James Russell Mercer is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, frontman of indie rock band The Shins (formed 1996, Albuquerque) and half of Broken Bells with Danger Mouse; known for Garden State's "New Slang" and Wincing the Night Away.
James Meredith
James Howard Meredith, born in 1933, is an American civil rights activist who became the first African American student admitted to the University of Mississippi.
James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill (1926–1995) was an American poet who won two National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, best known for the Ouija-inspired epic The Changing Light at Sandover.
James Mi
Miao Qun (宓群), also known as James Mi, is a Chinese venture capitalist and founding partner of Lightspeed China Partners, an early investor in Meituan and Pinduoduo.
James Michael McAdoo
James Michael McAdoo, born 1993 in Norfolk, Virginia, is an American forward, UNC Tar Heel 2011-14, undrafted 2014, 111 NBA games with Golden State, two-time NBA champion, related to Bob McAdoo.
James Michael Tyler
James Michael Tyler (1962–2021), American actor, played Gunther the Central Perk barista on NBC's Friends in 150 episodes; cast as an extra for his cappuccino skills; died of prostate cancer.
James Mill
James Mill (1773–1836), born James Milne, Scottish utilitarian philosopher, historian of British India, economist, and father of John Stuart Mill; Bentham's chief ally, author of Essay on Government and Elements of Political Economy.
James Milner
James Milner, English midfielder (born 1986), retired June 2026 as the Premier League's all-time appearance leader with 658 games for Leeds, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Man City, Liverpool, and Brighton; three league titles, 61 England caps.
James Mitchell (actor)
James Mitchell (1920–2010), American actor and dancer, Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children 1979–2010, leading dancer for Agnes de Mille, Broadway Brigadoon, films The Band Wagon and Oklahoma!.
James Mitchum
James Mitchum (James Robin Spence Mitchum, 1941–2025), American actor, eldest son of Robert Mitchum; debuted in Thunder Road (1958) as Robin Doolin, appeared in over 30 films including In Harm's Way and Two-Lane Blacktop.
James Monroe
James Monroe (1758–1831), fifth U.S. president (1817–1825), Democratic-Republican, last of the Virginia Dynasty; issued the Monroe Doctrine, won the nearly unanimous 1820 election, presided over the Era of Good Feelings and Missouri Compromise.
James Monroe Iglehart
James Monroe Iglehart (born 1974, Hayward, California) is an American actor and singer who won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as the Genie in Broadway's Aladdin, later appearing in Hamilton, Spamalot, and A Wonderful World.
James Morison
James Morison (1816–1893) was a Scottish Secession minister and theologian deposed in 1841 for teaching that Christ died for all people rather than the elect alone, founding the Evangelical Union.
James Morley Anderson
James Morley Anderson is an American biomaterials scientist and emeritus professor at Case Western Reserve University who established the mechanistic framework for the foreign body reaction to implants.
James Morrison (singer)
James Morrison (James Morrison Catchpole, born 1984) is an English soul-pop singer-songwriter from Rugby, known for "You Give Me Something", the No 1 album Undiscovered (2006), the 2007 Brit Award, and the duet Broken Strings with Nelly Furtado.
James Mourilyan Tanner
James Mourilyan Tanner (1920–2010) was a British pediatrician at the Institute of Child Health in London who created the Tanner stages of puberty and the Tanner–Whitehouse bone age method.
James Moylan
James C. Moylan, born 1962, is an American Republican politician and Guam native serving as the nonvoting delegate to the U.S. House from Guam since January 2023, after serving in the Guam Legislature.
James Murdoch
James Rupert Murdoch (born 1972) is a British-born media executive, younger son of Rupert Murdoch; former CEO of STAR, Sky plc, and 21st Century Fox; left the News Corp board in 2020 over editorial content and founded Lupa Systems, which agreed in 2026 to acquire New York magazine and Vox assets.
James Murphy (electronic musician)
James Murphy (born 1970, Princeton Junction, New Jersey) is the American electronic musician behind LCD Soundsystem and co-founder of DFA Records, creator of "Losing My Edge" and the Grammy-nominated 2005 debut album.
James Murray (comedian)
James "Murr" Murray (born 1976, per IMDb), Staten Island comedian, Tenderloins member, Impractical Jokers star, author of the Awakened trilogy, and president of Impractical Productions.
James Murray (English actor)
James Murray (Jim Murray), born 1975 in Manchester, is an English actor known for Stephen Hart in Primeval, Prince Andrew in The Crown seasons 5-6, Col. Chick Harding in Masters of the Air, the Murray Parish Trust with Sarah Parish, and river conservation work; distinct from Impractical Jokers' Murr.
James Murray (lexicographer)
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837–1915), Scottish lexicographer and philologist, first chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 to 1915; edited about half of OED1 from a garden Scriptorium at 78 Banbury Road, Oxford; knighted 1908.
James Muscutt Hodgson
James Muscutt Hodgson (1841–1923) was a Congregationalist minister and professor of apologetics who led the Theological Hall of the Congregational Churches of Scotland in Edinburgh.
James Mwangi
James Mwangi, born 1962, is a Kenyan banker and Group CEO of Equity Group Holdings, which he led from a failing building society to a major African bank.
James N. Ihle
James N. Ihle is an American biochemist who spent most of his career at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, discovered interleukin-3 in 1981, and defined the JAK-STAT cytokine signaling pathway.
James N. Kochenderfer
James N. Kochenderfer is an American physician-scientist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, whose laboratory develops CAR T-cell immunotherapies for lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma.
James N. Krebs
James N. Krebs, full name James Norton Krebs, was an American aerospace engineer who spent his 39-year General Electric career planning jet engines including the J79, TF39, CF6, and CFM56.
James N. Morgan
James N. Morgan (1918–2018) was an American economist at the University of Michigan, best known as creator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the world's longest-running household panel survey.
James N. Perry Jr.
James N. Perry Jr. is an American private equity investor in Chicago who co-founded Madison Dearborn Partners in 1992 and led its telecom and media investing.
James N. Pitts
James N. Pitts was an American atmospheric chemist who established the photochemistry of urban smog, co-founded UC Riverside's air pollution research center, and shaped California's clean-air rules.