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James S. Wainscoat
James S. Wainscoat, also recorded as J.S. Wainscoat, is a consultant haematologist and Oxford professor known for DNA-based prenatal diagnosis of β-thalassaemia and fetal RhD genotyping.
James S. White
James S. White, also known as James Springer White, was an American Adventist minister and publisher who, with his wife Ellen G. White and Joseph Bates, co-founded Seventh-day Adventism.
James Saito
James Saito (James Tomio Saito, born 1955, Los Angeles) is an American actor of Japanese descent, the original Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Dr. Chen in Eli Stone, and a 2007 Obie winner for Durango.
James Salter
James Salter, born James Horowitz, was an American novelist and screenwriter who flew more than 100 combat missions in Korea before leaving the Air Force to write.
James Samuel Clark
James Samuel Clark is an American ecologist and statistician at Duke University known for work on forest biodiversity, hierarchical Bayesian methods, and election to the National Academy of Sciences.
James Samuel Coleman
James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995) was an American sociologist, a pioneer of mathematical sociology best known for the 1966 Coleman Report and the 1990 book Foundations of Social Theory.
James Sanders (New York politician)
James Sanders Jr. is an American Democratic politician who has represented the 10th district in Queens in the New York State Senate since 2012, after 12 years on the New York City Council.
James Sanford
James Sanford (James Alvin Sanford, born 1957) is an American sprinter, 1979 world number one at 100m and IAAF World Cup winner, holder of the indoor 50m world record 5.61 and the USC 4x200m relay world record 1:20.26.
James Sangma
James Sangma is an Indian politician of the National People's Party, its national working president, a two-time Meghalaya MLA, and a Rajya Sabha member from Meghalaya elected unopposed in 2026.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its Vice President of Technology until 1999, and pioneered the fabless chip model.
James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez
Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez, was a Guernsey-born Royal Navy officer famed for the two battles of Algeciras in 1801 and for commanding the British Baltic fleet.
James Scanlon (footballer)
James Robert Scanlon (born 2006, Leicester) is a winger or attacking midfielder for Arsenal and Gibraltar. Ex-Derby County and Manchester United youth, he debuted for Gibraltar in March 2024 and became its youngest-ever goalscorer.
James Schuyler
James Marcus Schuyler (1923–1991) was an American poet, novelist, and art critic, a central member of the New York School who won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
James Scott (criminal)
James Scott (James Robert Scott), Quincy, Illinois man convicted in 1993 under Missouri's 'causing a catastrophe' law for the West Quincy levee breach during the Great Flood of 1993; life sentence, maintains innocence, first parole hearing July 2026.
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch (1649–1685), illegitimate son of Charles II by Lucy Walter, Whig candidate for the succession, led the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion, was defeated at Sedgemoor and executed.
James Serrin
James Serrin (1926–2012) was an American applied mathematician at the University of Minnesota whose work shaped quasilinear elliptic regularity theory, Navier–Stokes uniqueness theory, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
James Sexton (attorney)
James J. Sexton, New York divorce trial attorney, founding partner of Law Offices of James J. Sexton, P.C. (New City and Manhattan), admitted 2001; author of If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late (2018).
James Shaffer
James "Munky" Shaffer, also known as James the Gorilla, is the American guitarist and founding member of nu metal band Korn, also of L.A.P.D. and the ambient project Venera. He introduced seven-string Ibanez guitars to mainstream metal and has signature APEX and K7YIN models.
James Sharpe
James Sharpe, alias Francis Pollard, was an English Jesuit priest trained at Valladolid who served the English mission in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Leicestershire from about 1606 until his death in 1630.
James Shaw (New Zealand politician)
James Shaw (born 1973) is a New Zealand Green Party politician, co-leader 2015-2024 and Minister of Climate Change 2017-2023, known for the bipartisan Zero Carbon Act; resigned from Parliament in May 2024.
James Shelby Thorp
James Shelby Thorp (1937–2018) was an American electrical engineer and a principal contributor to the phasor measurement unit, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.
James Shepherd (cardiovascular biochemist)
James Shepherd, known as J.B. Shepherd, was a Scottish cardiovascular biochemist (1944–2022) at the University of Glasgow who led the WOSCOPS and PROSPER statin trials that shaped cholesterol-lowering treatment.
James Shigeta
James Shigeta (1929-2014), Honolulu-born Japanese American singer and actor, Hollywood romantic lead in The Crimson Kimono, Flower Drum Song, and Bridge to the Sun, later Joseph Takagi in Die Hard and the voice of General Li in Mulan.
James Shirley
James Shirley (1596–1666) was an English playwright and poet, a leading Caroline dramatist who wrote for the Cockpit, Dublin's first public playhouse, and finally the King's Men at Blackfriars.
James Shorter
James Shorter is a molecular biologist and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania whose laboratory studies protein misfolding and phase transitions in ALS and frontotemporal dementia.
James Sinegal
James (Jim) Sinegal, born in 1936, is an American retail executive who began as a bagger at Sol Price's FedMart and co-founded Costco Wholesale in 1983, serving as its CEO until 2012.
James Skinner
James Skinner (1778–1841) was an Anglo-Indian cavalry officer, son of a Scottish father and Rajput mother, who raised Skinner's Horse and served the East India Company after 1803.
James Slavet
James Slavet is an American venture capital investor at Greylock Partners, known for growth-stage and consumer-internet investments including Groupon, Redfin, and Coupons.com, and Forbes Midas List appearances.
James Sligo Jameson
James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888), Scottish-born naturalist and Jameson whiskey heir, naturalist on Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition; eponym of three African birds, died of fever at Bangala, Congo, and linked to the Riba Riba slave-girl killing.
James Small-Edwards
James Tacuma Small-Edwards is a British Labour politician, London Assembly Member for West Central since May 2024, when he defeated Conservative incumbent Tony Devenish, becoming the constituency's first non-Conservative representative since the Assembly's 2000 creation; former Bayswater councillor and son of rugby coach Shaun Edwards.