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James Rondinelli

James Rondinelli is a computational materials scientist who is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and received a PECASE award in 2016.

James Roosevelt

James Roosevelt (1907-1991), FDR's eldest son, a Boston insurance executive, White House secretary 1937-38, decorated Marine colonel in the Pacific, and six-term Democratic congressman from California's 26th district (1955-1965).

James Roosevelt Bayley

James Roosevelt Bayley was an American Catholic bishop, first Bishop of Newark from 1853 and eighth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1872 until his death in 1877.

James Roosevelt I

James Roosevelt I (1828–1900) was an American investor and railroad director, squire of Springwood in Hyde Park, New York, and father of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

James Rosemond

James Rosemond, known as "Jimmy Henchman," is a former hip-hop manager and Czar Entertainment founder serving multiple life sentences for leading a cocaine trafficking organization and for the murder-for-hire of Lowell Fletcher.

James Ross Island (landform)

James Ross Island is a large, partly ice-covered island off the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula, named for explorer James Clark Ross. It hosts a Cretaceous sedimentary basin beneath the Neogene James Ross Island Volcanic Group, rich fossil deposits including a titanosaur, and retreating glaciers.

James Ross MacDonald

James Ross MacDonald, born 1923 in Savannah, Georgia, is an American physicist who shaped impedance spectroscopy, led research at Texas Instruments, and won the IEEE Edison Medal.

James Rothschild

James Rothschild is a financier, son of Amschel Mayor James Rothschild and husband of Nicky Hilton, who co-leads the New York investment firm Tru Arrow Partners.

James Rowland Angell

James Rowland Angell (1869–1949) was an American psychologist who led the Chicago school of functionalism and later served as the fourteenth president of Yale University, from 1921 to 1937.

James Rubin

James P. Rubin (born 1960), American diplomat and commentator; State Department spokesman under Albright 1997-2000, Kosovo negotiator, and Global Engagement Center envoy 2022-2024. Not Michael Rubin or Eric Rubin.

James Rudkin

James Rudkin (James Alexander Rudkin, born 1994) is a British rower, 198 cm, who won gold in the men's eight at Paris 2024, bronze at Tokyo 2020, and two world and four European titles.

James Rufus McDonald

James Rufus McDonald, known as Jim McDonald, is a Scottish electrical power engineer who has served as Principal of the University of Strathclyde since 2009.

James Ruse Agricultural High School

James Ruse Agricultural High School is a selective public school in Carlingford, New South Wales. It is known for its academic success and compulsory agriculture for all students.

James Ruskin

James Ruskin is a British techno producer and DJ, born in Croydon, London in 1972, who co-founded the Blueprint label in 1996 and released albums on Tresor.

James Russell (Arkansas politician)

James Russell is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Arkansas's 4th District in 2026, facing Republican incumbent Bruce Westerman; he previously ran for governor in 2022.

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American poet, critic, and diplomat, a Fireside Poet from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly.

James Russo

James Vincent Russo (born 1953, Queens, New York) is an American character actor known for villain and gangster roles in Once Upon a Time in America, Beverly Hills Cop, Extremities, Donnie Brasco, and Django Unchained.

James Rutherford Morison

James Rutherford Morison (1853–1939) was a British surgeon of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and professor of surgery at Durham who described the peritoneal space known as Morison's pouch.

James S. A. Corey

James S. A. Corey is the joint pen name of science fiction writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, best known for The Expanse series and its successful television adaptation.

James S. C. Chao (赵锡成)

James S. C. Chao, also known as James Si-Cheng Chao, is a Chinese-American shipping executive who founded the Foremost Group in New York in 1964 and is the father of Elaine Chao.

James S. Duncan

James S. Duncan is a Yale medical image analysis researcher, Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor and Biomedical Engineering chair, known for deformable-model segmentation, a 2000 survey, and BrainGNN.

James S. Dunlop

James S. Dunlop, also published as J. S. Dunlop, is a Scottish observational cosmologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies the first galaxies using the largest telescopes.

James S. Forrester (cardiologist)

James S. Forrester, also known as James Forrester (died 2026), was an American cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai and UCLA known for the Forrester hemodynamic subsets and coronary angioscopy.

James S. Goodwin

James S. Goodwin is an American geriatrician and health services researcher, a University of Texas Medical Branch professor since 1992 who founded its Sealy Center on Aging in 1995.

James S. Gwin

James S. Gwin, born in Canton, Ohio in 1954, is a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Ohio, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.

James S. Langer

James S. Langer is an American theoretical condensed-matter physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for work on nonequilibrium phenomena, including dendritic crystal growth, fracture, and earthquake dynamics.

James S. Marks

James S. Marks is an American physician and epidemiologist who directed the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and later led the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's grantmaking.

James S. Moody, Jr.

James S. Moody, Jr. (born 1947) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

James S. Nowick

James S. Nowick is a chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for chemical models of amyloid oligomers in Alzheimer's disease and teixobactin-based antibiotic design.

James S. Trimmer

James S. Trimmer, known as Jim Trimmer, is an American molecular neurobiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis who studies how neurons regulate voltage-sensitive ion channels.