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James Olds
James Olds (1922–1976) was an American psychologist and behavioral biologist who, with Peter Milner, discovered in 1954 that rats will press a lever to stimulate their own brains.
James Olzmann
James Olzmann is a cell biologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on lipid droplets, lipotoxicity, and ferroptosis, and a 2017 PECASE recipient.
James Orr (philosopher)
James Tristan Ward Orr (born 1978) is a British philosopher of religion at the University of Cambridge, a national conservative organizer, and Reform UK's Head of Policy since 2025.
James Ortiz
James Ortiz is an American puppet designer, puppeteer, actor, and director based in New York City, winner of the 2016 Obie for The Woodsman and the 2022 Drama Desk Award for The Skin of Our Teeth, and the puppeteer and voice of Rocky in Project Hail Mary (2026).
James Outram
Sir James Outram (जेम्स आउट्रम), 1803 to 1863, was an East India Company general who annexed Oudh in 1856 and defended the Lucknow Residency during the 1857 rebellion.
James Overy
James Harrison Overy (born 2007, Perth) is an Australian right-back for Sydney FC; formerly Manchester United academy, Socceroos call-up November 2025 before any senior club appearance.
James P. Allison
James P. Allison, American immunologist born in Alice, Texas, discovered CTLA-4 is a T-cell brake; blocking it produced ipilimumab, the first checkpoint inhibitor, and the 2018 Nobel Prize shared with Tasuku Honjo.
James P. Bagian
James P. Bagian is an American physician, mechanical engineer, and former NASA astronaut who flew on two Shuttle missions, investigated the Challenger accident, and built the VA's patient-safety system.
James P. Brill
James P. Brill is an American petroleum engineer at the University of Tulsa, a National Academy of Engineering member known for research on multiphase flow in pipes.
James P. Cannon
James P. Cannon (1890–1974), American Trotskyist leader and labor organizer; founded US Trotskyism after his 1928 CPUSA expulsion, led the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike, the 1936 Socialist Party entry, and the Socialist Workers Party.
James P. Collman
James P. Collman, born 1932, is an American bioinorganic chemist, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for picket fence porphyrins that mimic hemoglobin's oxygen-binding site.
James P. Di Santo
James P. Di Santo is an immunologist who heads the Innate Immunity Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for research on innate lymphoid cells and humanized mouse models.
James P. Eisenstein
James P. Eisenstein, known as Jim Eisenstein, is an experimental condensed-matter physicist and emeritus professor at Caltech, known for the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state and bilayer exciton condensation.
James P. Ferris
James P. Ferris (1932–2016) was an American chemist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who worked on prebiotic chemistry, known for montmorillonite clay-catalyzed RNA oligomer synthesis and planetary photochemistry.
James P. Gorman
James P. Gorman is an Australian-born banker who led Morgan Stanley as chief executive from 2010 to 2023, remaking it around wealth management, and became chairman of Disney in 2025.
James P. Gould
James P. Gould was an American geotechnical engineer, a principal at Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers in New York and principal author of the Navy design manual NAVFAC DM-7.
James P. Hanlon
James P. Hanlon, born 1970, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Indiana since 2018, appointed by President Trump.
James P. Hoffa
James P. Hoffa, also known as James Hoffa Jr., is an American labor leader who served as General President of the Teamsters from 1999 to 2022, the son of Jimmy Hoffa.
James P. Hogan (writer)
James P. Hogan (James Patrick Hogan, 1941–2010) was a British hard science fiction author, author of Inherit the Stars and the Giants series, a two-time Prometheus and three-time Seiun Award winner, distinct from other writers named James Hogan.
James P. Isenhower III
James P. Isenhower III, U.S. Army lieutenant general, Combined Arms Command and Fort Leavenworth commanding general since 2025; former 1st Armored Division commander and 1st Multi-Domain Task Force leader; West Point 1992, Duke history PhD.
James P. Jones
James P. Jones, full name James Parker Jones, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Virginia since 1996.
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett, born 1940 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a marine geologist and paleoceanographer at UC Santa Barbara known as a founding figure of paleoceanography.
James P. Kushner
James P. Kushner is an American physician-scientist in hematology at the University of Utah, an internationally recognized authority on hereditary hemochromatosis and the porphyrias who retired in 2011.
James P. Morken
James P. Morken is an American synthetic organic chemist, professor at Boston College since 2006, known for enantioselective diboration and stereospecific cross-coupling of boronic esters.
James P. Noonan
James P. Noonan is a geneticist at Yale University who studies how gene regulation changed during human evolution, known for work on human accelerated regions and Neanderthal genomics.
James P. Oetken
James Paul Oetken, born 1965 in Louisville, Kentucky, is a United States district judge on the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Obama and confirmed in 2011.
James P. Quigley
James P. Quigley is a cancer biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for chick-embryo models of metastasis and research on tumor cell intravasation.
James P. Schmiedeler
James P. Schmiedeler is an American mechanical engineer who studies human movement to design legged robots, lower-limb prostheses, and rehabilitation devices, and received a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.
James P. Sethna
James P. Sethna is a condensed-matter and statistical physicist, Professor of Physics at Cornell University since 1995, known for crackling noise, hysteresis in disordered systems, and the sloppy models framework.
James P. Tam
James P. Tam is a peptide chemist and Lee Wee Nam Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for inventing peptide dendrimers as synthetic vaccines.