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James N. Topper, M.D., Ph.D
James N. Topper, known as Jamie Topper, is an American physician-scientist and venture capitalist who has been a Managing Partner of Frazier Life Sciences since 2003.
James N. Weinstein
James N. Weinstein is an orthopedic surgeon and health services researcher known for the SPORT back-surgery trials, who led Dartmouth-Hitchcock from 2011 to 2017 and then joined Microsoft.
James N. Weiss
James N. Weiss is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular scientist at UCLA known for his 1992 Science paper showing chaos theory can control cardiac arrhythmias.
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey (born 1948) is an American photojournalist who has documented wars and famines since 1981. A Time contract photographer, he has won the Robert Capa Gold Medal five times.
James Naismith
James Naismith (1861–1939), Canadian-born physical educator, invented basketball in December 1891 at Springfield College, wrote its 13 original rules, and became the University of Kansas' first basketball coach.
James Naughton
James Naughton, American actor and director born 1945 in Connecticut, two-time Tony winner for musicals City of Angels (1990) and Chicago (1997), brother of David Naughton, Yale School of Drama graduate.
James Neal (ice hockey)
James Neal (born 1987, Whitby, Ontario) is a Canadian former NHL left wing, drafted 33rd overall by Dallas in 2005; a 30-40 goal scorer with Pittsburgh and Nashville, 2017 Cup Finalist, taken by Vegas in the 2017 Expansion Draft.
James Nelson-Joyce
James Nelson-Joyce, also styled James Nelson Joyce, is an English actor born 1989 in Orrell Park, Liverpool, trained at Italia Conti, known for Little Boy Blue, Time, A Thousand Blows, and BAFTA-nominated This City Is Ours.
James Nesbitt
James Nesbitt (born 1965) is a Northern Irish actor from Ballymena known for Cold Feet, Bloody Sunday, Murphy's Law, Jekyll, Bofur in The Hobbit, The Missing, Bloodlands, and Netflix's Run Away; Wave patron, University of Ulster chancellor.
James Neuberger
James Max Neuberger, born 1949, is a British hepatologist and transplant physician at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, who led NHS Blood and Transplant and chairs SaBTO.
James Neville Galloway
James N. Galloway is a University of Virginia biogeochemist elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020, known for acid rain research and the nitrogen cascade concept.
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard (born 1951, Los Angeles) is an American film composer, nine-time Oscar nominee, and Emmy and Grammy winner known for The Fugitive, The Sixth Sense, The Hunger Games, and his Elton John session years.
James Norman Hall
James Norman Hall (1887–1951), American author and Lafayette Escadrille aviator from Colfax, Iowa; co-author with Charles Nordhoff of Mutiny on the Bounty and the Bounty trilogy; settled in Tahiti.
James North-Hearn
James North-Hearn is a British video game industry businessman who co-founded Sumo Digital in Sheffield in 2003, was its chief executive, and later led Foundation 9 Entertainment.
James Norton (actor)
James Norton (born 1985, London) is an English actor known for Happy Valley, Grantchester, War & Peace, and McMafia, an Olivier- and BAFTA-nominated stage and screen performer, and co-founder of Rabbit Track Pictures.
James Nunn
James Nunn (born 1985, Sutton, Surrey) is a British action and genre film director, distinct from theatre director Trevor Nunn. Known for Tower Block, the One Shot single-take trilogy with Scott Adkins, and the 2026 hippo horror Hungry.
James O McNamara
James O McNamara, also known as J O McNamara, is a Duke University neurologist and neuroscientist who studies how a normal brain becomes epileptic, a process called epileptogenesis.
Jamés O. Armitage
James O. Armitage is a hematology-oncology physician and Joe Shapiro Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who founded its blood and bone marrow transplant program in 1982.
James O. Davis
James O. Davis was an American physiologist at the University of Missouri who studied renin release and blood pressure control, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.
James O. Jirsa
James O. Jirsa is an American structural engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
James O. Kahn
James O. Kahn is an American HIV clinical researcher, now emeritus faculty at Stanford, who led the largest 1990s HIV randomized trial and fought to publish its negative findings.
James O. Malley
James O. Malley is an American structural engineer specializing in seismic design and retrofitting of steel buildings, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
James O'Barr
James O'Barr, born in Detroit in 1960, is an American comics writer and artist best known for creating The Crow, a gothic graphic novel adapted into a 1994 film.
James O'Brien (broadcaster)
James O'Brien (born 1972) is a British LBC weekday phone-in host since 2003, author of How to Be Right and How They Broke Britain, Full Disclosure podcast host, and a prominent liberal critic of Brexit and Boris Johnson.
James O'Keefe
James O'Keefe, American conservative activist, founder of Project Veritas (2010) and O'Keefe Media Group; known for ACORN and NPR hidden-camera stings, a 2010 misdemeanor conviction, civil judgments, and his 2023 removal from Veritas.
James O'Kelly
James O'Kelly (c. 1735–1826) was an Irish-American Methodist preacher who led a secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1792, founding the Christian Church in the South.
James of Edessa
James of Edessa (ܝܥܩܘܒ ܕܐܘܪܗܝ; c. 633 or 640 to 708) was a Syrian Orthodox bishop of Edessa whose Bible revision, grammar, chronicle, and canons shaped the West Syriac tradition.
James Ogilvy
James Ogilvy (James Robert Bruce Ogilvy, b. 1964, Thatched House Lodge) is a British landscape designer, photographer, and founder of Luxury Briefing; eldest child of Princess Alexandra and Sir Angus Ogilvy, untitled, 58th in line of succession, married to Julia Rawlinson since 1988.
James Oglethorpe
James Edward Oglethorpe (1696–1785), English soldier, parliamentarian, and prison reformer, founded the Georgia colony in 1733, led its defense against Spain at Bloody Marsh, and opposed slavery there.
James Ohrenschall
James Ohrenschall is an American Democratic politician and juvenile public defender who represents District 21 in the Nevada Senate, covering parts of East Las Vegas and Henderson.