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James Smith (boxer)
James "Bonecrusher" Smith (James Odell Smith, born 1953) is an American heavyweight boxer, WBA heavyweight champion December 1986 to March 1987, who won the title by first-round TKO of Tim Witherspoon and lost it to Mike Tyson.
James Smith Bush
James Smith Bush (1825–1889), American attorney, Episcopal priest, and religious writer; Yale 1844, first rector of Grace Church, Orange, New Jersey; great-grandfather of President George H. W. Bush.
James Snook
James Howard Snook (1879–1930), American sport shooter and Ohio State veterinary professor; won two pistol team golds at Antwerp 1920 and invented the Snook hook; executed in 1930 for the murder of Theora K. Hix.
James Solomon (politician)
James Slater Solomon, Jersey City politician, 50th mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey since January 15, 2026, former Ward E council member from 2017, who defeated former governor Jim McGreevey in the December 2025 runoff with 68% of the vote.
James Spader
James Spader (born 1960, Boston) is an American actor known for sex, lies, and videotape, Alan Shore on Boston Legal (3 Emmys), Reddington on The Blacklist, and Ultron in Age of Ultron and VisionQuest.
James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough
James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough, known as Jamie Blandford, is an English peer who inherited the title in 2014 and is a distant relative of Winston Churchill.
James Spigelman
James Jacob Spigelman AC, born 1946 in Sosnowiec, Poland, is an Australian jurist, 16th Chief Justice of New South Wales 1998-2011, former Whitlam adviser, author on judicial independence, and former Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal judge.
James St. James
James St. James (born James Clark, 1966) is an American writer, performer, and original NYC Club Kid; author of Disco Bloodbath (aka Party Monster) and Freak Show, subject of the 2003 Party Monster film, and a World of Wonder personality and Night Fever podcast co-host.
James Stacy
James Stacy (Maurice William Elias, 1936-2016), American actor, starred as Johnny Madrid Lancer in the TV western Lancer (1968-70), lost an arm and leg in a 1973 motorcycle accident, returned in Posse, earned two Emmy nominations, and was later convicted of child molestation.
James Steen
James J. Steen (1876-1949), American water polo player of the New York Athletic Club; won gold in men's water polo at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics; later an insurance broker in New York.
James Stegen
James C. Stegen is an American ecologist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory working on community ecology, microbiology, and organic matter biogeochemistry, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.
James Steven Ginsburg
James Steven Ginsburg (born 1965), son of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, founded Chicago's nonprofit classical label Cedille Records in 1989, won a 2021 Grammy producing Pacifica Quartet's Contemporary Voices, and has produced over 150 recordings.
James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (1908–1997), American actor and Air Force Reserve brigadier general; star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, and Vertigo; five Oscar nominations, one win, AFI Life Achievement Award 1980.
James Stewart (Australian actor)
James Stewart (born 1975) is an Australian actor, not the Hollywood star James Stewart, known for Justin Morgan on Home and Away since 2016, Jake Barton in Packed to the Rafters, the band George, and a Matilda Award for The Glass Menagerie.
James Stewart filmography
James Stewart filmography: career of American actor James Stewart (1908–1997), 116 AFI-listed titles from The Murder Man (1935) to An American Tail (1991), with an Oscar for The Philadelphia Story, Anthony Mann and Hitchcock collaborations, and five nominations.
James Stewart Jr.
James 'Bubba' Stewart Jr., American motocross/supercross racer, five-time AMA champion, 50 premier SX wins, perfect 24-0 2008 outdoor season, first Black AMA national champion, Bubba Scrub inventor, Hall of Fame 2022.
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531–1570), illegitimate son of James V and half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, was Regent of Scotland from 1567 and the first head of state assassinated by firearm, shot at Linlithgow on 23 January 1570.
James Stockdale
James Bond Stockdale (1923-2005) was a US Navy vice admiral, highest-ranking naval POW in Vietnam at the Hanoi Hilton, Medal of Honor recipient (1976), Hoover Institution Stoicism scholar, and Ross Perot's 1992 independent vice-presidential running mate.
James Storm
James Storm (James Allen Cox, born 1977), American pro wrestler, TNA original, member of America's Most Wanted and Beer Money with Robert Roode, 10 tag titles, brief 2015 NXT run, now on independents.
James Stuart-Smith
James Stuart-Smith, CB, QC (1919–2013), British judge and army officer; Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces 1984–91 after a 36-year military-legal career; also defended a Kray twin and led the International Society for Military Law.
James Sunderland (Silent Hill)
about 20 words: James Sunderland is the protagonist of Silent Hill 2 and its 2024 remake, a man whose story revolves around his wife and his guilt.
James Sweeney (filmmaker)
James Sweeney (born 1990, Sacramento) is an American writer-director-producer-actor raised in Alaska, a Chapman University graduate. His features Straight Up (2019) and Twinless (2025, Sundance Audience Award, with Dylan O'Brien) mark him from other namesakes.
James T. Farrell
James T. Farrell (1904–1979) was an American novelist and leading naturalist whose Studs Lonigan trilogy, drawn from his South Side Chicago childhood, became a modern classic.
James T. Hynes
James T. Hynes is an American theoretical chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for reaction rates and mechanisms in solution, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
James T. Kadonaga
James T. Kadonaga is an American biochemist at the University of California San Diego known for purifying transcription factor Sp1 and discovering chromatin assembly factors ACF and ASF1.
James T. Kirk
James Tiberius Kirk, fictional Starfleet captain in Star Trek, played by William Shatner in the original 1966-1969 series commanding the USS Enterprise; later Chris Pine and Paul Wesley. Created by Gene Roddenberry, modeled on Horatio Hornblower.
James T. Moody
James Tyne Moody, born 1938, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana since 1982.
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson is an American Earth system scientist at UC Irvine who studies the global carbon cycle and the role of fires, combining NASA satellite observations with climate models.
James T. Shotwell
James T. Shotwell (1874–1965) was a Canadian-born historian at Columbia University who helped found the International Labour Organization and shape the UN Charter at San Francisco in 1945.
James T. Stivers
James T. Stivers is an American biochemist and Professor of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins, known for research on uracil in DNA and DNA repair enzymes.