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James P. Whitlock
James P. Whitlock (1942–2023) was a physician and Stanford professor of molecular pharmacology known for showing how dioxin, the toxic contaminant in Agent Orange, acts on cells.
James Packer
James Douglas Packer is an Australian billionaire who inherited his family's media and gambling empire in 2005, built Crown Resorts into casinos, and sold his stake in 2022.
James Pankow
James Carter Pankow (born 1947, St. Louis) is an American trombonist, composer, and horn arranger, founding member of rock band Chicago; wrote "Make Me Smile", "Colour My World", "Just You 'N' Me", and the suite "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon".
James Papez
James Wenceslas Papez (1883–1958) was an American neuroanatomist at Cornell University who proposed in 1937 that a loop of brain structures, the Papez circuit, forms the anatomic basis of emotion.
James Pappas
James Pappas was an American sprinter who ran the anchor leg for the Newark Athletic Club relay that set a 41.0-second world record at Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1927.
James Patrick Stuart
James Patrick Stuart, American character and voice actor born 1968 in Encino, California; known for Will Cortlandt on All My Children, Keith on Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Private on The Penguins of Madagascar, and Valentin Cassadine on General Hospital since 2016.
James Patterson
James Patterson (born 1947, Newburgh, New York) is the American author of the Alex Cross thrillers and the world's best-selling living novelist, with 400 million-plus copies sold, a Guinness record for most #1 New York Times bestsellers, and a co-author outline system.
James Patterson bibliography
James Patterson bibliography: roughly 400 titles since The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), including Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Private, and Maximum Ride series, plus co-authored books with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Viola Davis, and Michael Crichton.
James Paxton (baseball)
James Paxton, "Big Maple," Canadian left-handed pitcher (born 1988, Ladner, BC) who pitched 2013-2024 for Seattle, Yankees, Boston, and Dodgers, threw a 2018 no-hitter, and returned with Canada in 2026.
James Pearson (footballer, born 1993)
James Pearson (born 1993, Sheffield) is an English former defender, son of manager Nigel Pearson. Leicester City academy product sacked in 2015 after the Thailand video scandal; later Barnet, Coventry, Kidderminster, Macclesfield; retired.
James Peebles (cosmologist)
James Peebles is a Canadian-born American cosmologist at Princeton who won half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
James Peoples (American football)
James Peoples is an American college football running back from San Antonio, Texas; a four-star 2024 recruit who played two seasons at Ohio State (541 rushing yards) before transferring to Penn State in January 2026.
James Pericola
James Pericola is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Florida's 11th congressional district in the 2026 election, running for the seat opened by Daniel Webster's retirement.
James Perrin Smith
James Perrin Smith (1864–1931) was an American geologist and paleontologist, professor at Stanford from 1892 to 1930, best known for studying western Mesozoic formations and ammonites.
James Peter Hill
James Peter Hill (1873–1954) was a British embryologist at University College London who became the leading authority on the early development of marsupial and monotreme mammals.
James Pickens Jr.
James Pickens Jr. (born 1954, Cleveland) is an American actor, Dr. Richard Webber on Grey's Anatomy since 2005 and Alvin Kersh on The X-Files; SAG and NAACP Image Award winner, prostate cancer awareness advocate.
James Poulet
James F.A. Poulet is a British systems neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, studying how internal brain states shape sensory perception.
James Power Gordon
James Power Gordon (1928–2013) was an American physicist who built the first maser as a doctoral student at Columbia University, then worked on optical communication at Bell Labs.
James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule (1818–1889) was an English physicist who established that heat is a form of energy, measured the mechanical equivalent of heat, and formulated Joule's law.
James Priess
James Priess is an American developmental biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle known for his genetic analysis of embryogenesis in the roundworm C. elegans.
James Prince
James "J. Prince" Prince (born 1964 or 1965) is a Houston hip-hop executive, founder and CEO of Rap-A-Lot Records (1986), home of the Geto Boys, and a boxing manager who handled Floyd Mayweather and later managed Drake's early career through son Jas.
James Purefoy
James Purefoy (James Brian Mark Purefoy), English actor born 1964 in Taunton, Somerset; RSC-trained; known as Mark Antony in Rome, Joe Carroll in The Following, and King Randor in Masters of the Universe (2026).
James Q. Crowe
James Quell Crowe (1949–2023) was an American engineer and telecommunications builder who co-founded MFS Communications and Level 3 Communications, leading construction of two national fiber optic networks.
James Q. Miller
James Quinter Miller (1926–2005) was an American neurologist at the University of Virginia whose 1963 description of lissencephaly in two siblings gave his name to Miller–Dieker syndrome, and who won record teaching awards.
James Quincey
James Quincey is a British business executive who served as chief executive of The Coca-Cola Company from 2017 until March 31, 2026, and then became its Executive Chairman.
James R. Arnold
James R. Arnold (1923–2012) was an American nuclear chemist and cosmochemist who helped develop radiocarbon dating, discovered beryllium-10, and founded UC San Diego's chemistry department.
James R. Asay
James R. Asay is an American shock physicist who spent 32 years at Sandia National Laboratories and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
James R. Biard
James R. Biard, known as Bob Biard, was an American electrical engineer at Texas Instruments who invented the first GaAs infrared LED, the optical isolator, and the MOS read-only memory.
James R. Broach
James R. Broach is an American molecular biologist who defined how the yeast 2μm plasmid replicates and maintains high copy number, and now leads biochemistry at Penn State.
James R. Chelikowsky
James R. Chelikowsky is a computational materials scientist who held the Moncrief Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and introduced the finite-difference pseudopotential method in 1994.