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James Rainwater
Leo James Rainwater (1917–1986) was an American nuclear physicist at Columbia University who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the structure of atomic nuclei.
James Ralph Scapa
James Ralph Scapa is an American mechanical engineer who co-founded Altair Engineering in Troy, Michigan, in 1985 and led it as chairman and CEO until Siemens agreed to acquire it for about $10.6 billion.
James Ramos
James C. Ramos is a Democratic California State Assembly member representing the 45th district since 2018, the state's first Native American lawmaker and a former San Bernardino County supervisor.
James Ramsay Hunt
James Ramsay Hunt was an American neurologist and Columbia University professor who described Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, herpes zoster oticus with facial paralysis, and died in 1937.
James Randi
James Randi (Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, 1928–2020), also The Amazing Randi, Canadian-American magician and escape artist who exposed psychics such as Uri Geller and Peter Popoff, co-founded CSICOP, founded JREF, and offered the unclaimed $1,000,000 One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.
James Ransone
James Ransone (James Finley Ransone III, 1979–2025) was an American character actor from Baltimore, known as Ziggy Sobotka in The Wire, Cpl. Josh Ray Person in Generation Kill, and adult Eddie Kaspbrak in It Chapter Two; he died by suicide at 46.
James Rant
James William Rant (1936-2003) was a British judge and Old Bailey circuit judge who served as Judge Advocate General of the British Army from 1 February 1991, warned the MoD about ECHR non-compliance, wrote Rant on the Court Martial, and issued the 2002 Morant pardon-rejection opinion.
James Read
James Read (James Christopher Read, born 1953) is an American actor known for George Hazard in North and South, Murphy Michaels in Remington Steele, Victor Bennett in Charmed, and Clyde Weston on Days of Our Lives.
James Read Chadwick
James Read Chadwick (1844–1905) was an American gynecologist in Boston who founded the American Gynecological Society in 1876 and established the Boston Medical Library in 1875.
James Rebhorn
James Rebhorn (1948-2014), American character actor of stage and screen, appeared in over 100 productions; known for Scent of a Woman, Independence Day, Meet the Parents, Homeland, and the Seinfeld finale.
James Redford (filmmaker)
James Redford (1962–2020), also known as Jamie Redford, was an American documentary filmmaker, son of Robert Redford, who co-founded The Redford Center and directed Resilience, Paper Tigers, and Happening.
James Reeb
James Reeb (1927–1965) was a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston beaten to death in Selma, Alabama, on March 9–11, 1965; his killers were acquitted, and his death spurred the Voting Rights Act.
James Reed (software engineer)
James Reed is an American software engineer who co-founded Fireworks AI in October 2022 after working on PyTorch at Meta, leading the company's multimedia inference work.
James Reid (actor)
James Reid (Robert James Reid, born 1993, Sydney) is a Filipino-Australian actor-singer, Big Winner of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010, half of the JaDine love team with Nadine Lustre, founder of Careless Music, and star of Someone, Someday.
James Reilly (French pathologist)
James Reilly (1887–1974) was a French physician and experimental pathologist known for the "irritation syndrome," who worked at the Pasteur Institute and Hôpital Claude-Bernard in Paris and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
James Remar
James Remar (William James Remar, born 1953, Boston) is an American character actor known as Ajax in The Warriors, Albert Ganz in 48 Hrs., Richard Wright in Sex and the City, and Harry Morgan in the Dexter franchise.
James Renwick Jr.
James Renwick Jr. (1818–1895) was an American architect whose Gothic Revival works include the Smithsonian Castle, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, and the Renwick Gallery, the first US building designed as an art museum.
James Rhodes (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
James "Rhodey" Rhodes, also War Machine and briefly Iron Patriot, is the MCU's Air Force officer and Tony Stark's best friend, played by Terrence Howard in Iron Man (2008) and Don Cheadle from Iron Man 2 (2010) onward, paralyzed in Civil War and revealed as a Skrull replacement in Secret Invasion.
James Rickards
James Rickards, also known as Jim Rickards, is an American lawyer and author who negotiated the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management rescue and writes on monetary collapse.
James Righton
James Righton (James Nicholas Righton), English musician born 1983 in Stratford-upon-Avon; Klaxons keyboardist and co-vocalist, 2007 Mercury Prize winner, later Shock Machine, solo albums, ABBA Voyage musical director, and film and TV composer.
James Riley (immunologist)
James Riley is a University of Pennsylvania immunologist whose laboratory spans adoptive T cell therapy and HIV gene therapy, and who co-founded Tmunity Therapeutics, acquired by Kite Pharma in 2023.
James River
James River: Virginia's largest watershed and longest river, renamed from the Powhatan Flu for King James I; site of Jamestown (1607), Richmond at the fall line, and the state's largest drinking water source serving 2.7 million people.
James Robert Conroy
James Robert Conroy (1892–1987), also known as Robert Conroy, was a US Army corporal of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, in WWI, Purple Heart recipient, Georgetown law graduate, and owner-handler of the war dog Sergeant Stubby.
James Robert Hamilton
James Robert Hamilton is a Senior Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon who works on AWS infrastructure and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice (1907 or 1905 to 2 July 1975), English-born character actor famous as Sir Lancelot Spratt in the Doctor films; falconer, Edinburgh University rector, self-claimed Scot.
James Robinson (running back)
James Robinson (born 1998) is an American football running back who went undrafted in 2020, then set the NFL rookie record with 1,414 scrimmage yards for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
James Roday Rodriguez
James Roday Rodriguez (born James David Rodriguez, 1976) is an American actor, director, and writer known for playing Shawn Spencer on Psych (2006–2014) and Gary Mendez on A Million Little Things; he reclaimed his birth name Rodriguez in 2020.
James Rodríguez
James Rodríguez (James David Rodríguez Rubio, born 1991, Cúcuta) is a Colombian attacking midfielder, 2014 World Cup Golden Boot and Puskás winner, ex-Real Madrid and Bayern, Colombia's most-capped player (131 caps, 31 goals), now at Atlético Nacional.
James Rolfe
James Rolfe (born 1980, Philadelphia) is an American filmmaker and YouTuber, creator and star of Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) on Cinemassacre since 2004, also known for Monster Madness, Board James, and the 2014 fan-funded AVGN movie.
James Rollins
James Rollins, pen name of James Paul Czajkowski (born 1961), American thriller author and former Sacramento veterinarian; creator of the 18-book Sigma Force series, also writes fantasy as James Clemens.