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James T. Stull
James T. Stull is an American muscle physiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who earned his PhD from Emory University in 1971 and defined how myosin light chain kinase initiates smooth muscle contraction.
James T. Trimble, Jr.
James T. Trimble, Jr., or James Travis Trimble, Jr., is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Louisiana from 1991 to 2003.
James T. Willerson
James T. Willerson (1939–2020) was an American cardiologist who explained how unstable coronary plaques cause heart attacks, led early stem cell trials for heart failure, and edited Circulation.
James Tague
James Thomas Tague, a 27-year-old Dallas car salesman, was the third shooting victim of the Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963; a bullet striking a Dealey Plaza curb cut his cheek near the triple underpass.
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is a pair of annual £10,000 British literary awards for fiction and biography, judged by University of Edinburgh scholars since 1919.
James Talarico
James Talarico is a Texas Democratic state representative, former teacher, and 2026 U.S. Senate nominee facing Ken Paxton; known for progressive Christian faith messaging and insulin copay cap legislation.
James Tarkowski
James Tarkowski (born 1992, Manchester) is an English centre-back and Everton captain from 2026/27, formerly of Oldham, Brentford and Burnley; two England caps, 346 Premier League appearances, 13 goals.
James Tavernier
James Henry Tavernier (born 1991, Bradford) is an English right-back, Rangers captain 2018-2026, highest-scoring defender in British football history with 152 career goals, later Maccabi Tel Aviv.
James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born 1948, Boston) is the American singer-songwriter of "Fire and Rain" and "You've Got a Friend," a 1970s adult-contemporary figure with 50 million albums sold, a Diamond Greatest Hits, six Grammys-era honors, and the Medal of Freedom.
James Taylor (album)
James Taylor (album): self-titled 1968 debut by James Taylor, released December 1968 (UK) and February 1969 (US) on Apple Records, produced by Peter Asher; first non-Beatle Apple release, featuring "Carolina in My Mind" with Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
James Taylor (Arizona politician)
James Taylor is an American Republican politician who represents Arizona's 29th district in the state House, elected in 2024 as a write-in candidate after incumbent Austin Smith withdrew.
James Taylor discography
James Taylor discography: 19 studio albums by the American singer-songwriter, from James Taylor (1968, Apple) through Sweet Baby James, JT, Hourglass, Before This World, and American Standard (2020), across Apple, Warner Bros., and Columbia eras.
James Taylor Quartet
The James Taylor Quartet (JTQ) is a British jazz-funk band led by Hammond organist James Taylor, formed after The Prisoners split; known for 'Blow-Up', 'Theme From Starsky and Hutch', acid jazz, and In the Hand of the Inevitable.
James Tedesco
James Tedesco, nicknamed Teddy, Australian rugby league fullback and captain of the Sydney Roosters; NRL debut 2012 with Wests Tigers, two premierships 2018-2019, Dally M Medalist 2019, NSW Origin captain, 2022 World Cup-winning Kangaroos captain.
James the Great
James the Great (James son of Zebedee) was one of the Twelve Apostles and brother of John, beheaded under Herod Agrippa I around AD 44.
James the Less
James the Less (Ἰάκωβος ὁ μικρός) is a New Testament figure named once, in Mark 15:40, as a son of Mary who watched the crucifixion.
James Thompson
James Thompson (born 1986, Cape Town) is the South African rower who won 2012 Olympic gold in the lightweight coxless four and the 2014 world title in the lightweight double sculls; other namesakes include the 1928 swimmers Jimmy Thompson and Jim Thompson.
James Thompson (fighter)
James "The Colossus" Thompson (born 1978) is a retired English heavyweight MMA fighter (20-17-0, 1 NC) who fought PRIDE, EliteXC, KSW, and Bellator, famous for his ruptured ear against Kimbo Slice in 2008.
James Thompson Jr.
James Thompson Jr. (born 2002, Cincinnati) is an NFL defensive tackle, #96 for the San Francisco 49ers, an undrafted 2026 rookie who played college football at Wisconsin (2020-24) and Illinois (2025).
James Thomson (nuclear physicist)
James Thomson is a nuclear physicist and policy analyst who was the fourth president and CEO of the RAND Corporation from 1989 to 2011, the longest tenure in its history.
James Thornhill
James Thornhill (1675/1676–1734) was an English decorative history painter who executed the Painted Hall at Greenwich and scenes inside the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
James Thorson
James Thorson is an American quantitative fisheries ecologist at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, a 2013 PECASE recipient, and lead developer of the VAST spatio-temporal modeling software.
James Thurber
James Thurber (1894-1961), American humorist and New Yorker cartoonist, author of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"; lost one eye in childhood, went nearly blind, still drew and dictated.
James Till
James Edgar Till (1931–2025) was a Canadian biophysicist who, with Ernest McCulloch at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, discovered stem cells in 1961 through the spleen colony assay.
James Tillis
James "Quick" Tillis (James Theodore Tillis, born 1957), Tulsa, Oklahoma heavyweight boxer, "The Fighting Cowboy"; 42-22-1 (31 KOs), WBA title challenger vs. Weaver 1981, first man to go 10 rounds with Mike Tyson (1986).
James Tiptree Jr.
James Tiptree Jr., pen name of Alice B. Sheldon (1915–1987), American psychologist and feminist science fiction writer; male pseudonym revealed 1976; three Nebulas, two Hugos; namesake of the Otherwise Award.
James Tissot
James Tissot (Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1836–1902), French painter and etcher of Nantes, famed for Parisian and Victorian high-society genre scenes, his London exile after 1871, Kathleen Newton, and his late illustrated Life of Christ.
James Toback
James Toback (born 1944, New York) is an American screenwriter and director of The Gambler, Fingers, and the Oscar-nominated Bugsy screenplay, also director of Tyson and Seduced and Abandoned; a 2025 New York jury awarded $1.68 billion to 40 women accusing him of sexual abuse.
James Tobin
James Tobin (1918–2002) was an American economist at Yale University who won the unshared 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of financial markets.
James Tod
James Tod (जेम्स टॉड) was a British East India Company officer, first Political Agent to the Western Rajput States, and author of the Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han.