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James Todd
James Todd is the name of several athletes, including a Major League Baseball relief pitcher, a British masters runner, a Ball State football halfback, and a sprinter.
James Tolkan
James Stewart Tolkan (June 20, 1931 – March 26, 2026) was an American character actor, Vice Principal Gerald Strickland in Back to the Future and Commander 'Stinger' Jardian in Top Gun, also in Serpico and the original Broadway Glengarry Glen Ross.
James Tom
James Tom (formerly Jes Tom, born 1990/1991) is an American comedian, actor, and writer in New York City, known for the Off-Broadway show Less Lonely, Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda on Netflix, and Our Flag Means Death.
James Tomkins
James Tomkins (James Bruce Tomkins, born 1965), Australian sweep rower; six Olympics 1988–2008, three golds and a bronze; Oarsome Foursome member; only rower world champion in all five sweep events; Thomas Keller Medal 2010.
James Toney
James 'Lights Out' Toney (born 1968, Grand Rapids) is an American boxer, IBHOF class of 2022, who won IBF world titles at middleweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight, beat Nunn, Barkley, Jirov, and Holyfield, and lost to Roy Jones Jr. in 1994.
James Topper
James Topper is an American venture capitalist and physician-scientist who leads Frazier Healthcare Partners' life sciences practice, known for Acerta Pharma's 2015 sale to AstraZeneca and cofounding Calistoga Pharmaceuticals.
James Toseland
James Toseland, born 1980 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, is a British former motorcycle road racer who won the Superbike World Championship in 2004 and 2007, then became a rock singer.
James Tour
James M. Tour is an American synthetic organic chemist and nanotechnologist at Rice University, known for flash graphene and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
James Trafford
James Trafford, English goalkeeper born 2002, Leeds United and England; ex-Manchester City academy, Burnley clean-sheet records, 2023 U21 EURO winner, record British goalkeeper transfer fees.
James Traficant
James A. Traficant Jr., Ohio Democratic congressman 1985-2002, Mahoning County sheriff acquitted in 1983 bribery trial, convicted on 10 federal counts in 2002 and expelled from the House 420-1, the second expulsion since the Civil War; died 2014.
James Travis
James Travis (1935–2020) was a Canadian-born American biochemist at the University of Georgia who co-introduced the term serpin and showed how alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and smoking cause emphysema.
James Truman (insect neurobiologist)
James W. Truman is an American insect neurobiologist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, known for work on the hormonal control of insect metamorphosis and ecdysis.
James Tumlinson
James Homer Tumlinson III (1938–2022) was an American chemical ecologist and entomologist who identified the boll weevil's sex pheromone and won the 2008 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
James Tupper
James Tupper (James Howard Tupper), Canadian actor born 1965 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Concordia BFA 1992 and Rutgers MFA. Known for Jack Slattery in Men in Trees, Dr. Chris Sands in Mercy, David Clarke in Revenge, and Nathan Carlson in Big Little Lies.
James Turrell
James Turrell (born 1943, Los Angeles) is an American Light and Space artist working in light and perception, known for Skyspaces (over 100, including the 2026 ARoS Dome), Ganzfelds, and the unfinished Roden Crater observatory in Arizona.
James U Lemke
James U Lemke was an American engineer and physicist in magnetic recording, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, who later founded Achates Power.
James Urbaniak
James Urbaniak (born 1963, Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American character actor known as Simon Grim in Henry Fool, Robert Crumb in American Splendor, and the voice of Dr. Rusty Venture in The Venture Bros., with an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination for Thom Pain.
James Ussher
James Ussher, also known as Archbishop Ussher, was a Church of Ireland scholar and archbishop of Armagh (1625–1656) who wrote the 1615 Irish Articles and dated the Creation to 4004 BC.
James Uthmeier
James Uthmeier is Florida's attorney general, appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis and sworn in February 17, 2025 after serving as DeSantis' chief of staff. His tenure features the OpenAI lawsuit and the Hope Florida $10 million controversy.
James V of Scotland
James V (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542), Seumas V, King of Scots 1513–1542, son of James IV; a minority under regents, marriages to Madeleine de Valois and Mary of Guise, defeat at Solway Moss, and succession of Mary, Queen of Scots.
James V. Barnett II (Xilinx)
James V. Barnett II, known as Jim Barnett, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Xilinx in 1984, the company that created the field-programmable gate array.
James V. Donadío
James V. Donadio, also known as James V. Donadio Jr., was an American nephrologist at the Mayo Clinic known for controlled trials of fish oil in IgA nephropathy.
James V. Haxby
James V. Haxby is a cognitive neuroscientist and Dartmouth College professor known for face perception research, founding multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI, and developing hyperalignment.
James V. Lavery
James V. Lavery is a bioethicist and global health researcher who holds the inaugural Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics at Emory University, appointed in 2016.
James V. Neel
James V. Neel (1915–2000) was an American human geneticist at the University of Michigan who established sickle cell anemia as a recessive Mendelian disease and led the genetic study of the atomic-bomb survivors.
James V. Selna
James V. Selna, born 1945, is a senior United States district judge of the Central District of California, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.
James Valentine (musician)
James Valentine (born 1978, Lincoln, Nebraska) is the American lead guitarist of Maroon 5, joined in 2001 after his band Square won the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands; he also has Ernie Ball Music Man signature guitars.
James Van Der Beek
James David Van Der Beek (1977–2026) was an American actor, teen idol as Dawson Leery on Dawson's Creek (The WB, 1998–2003), also of Varsity Blues, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, and CSI: Cyber; died at 48 of colorectal cancer.
James Van Der Zee
James Van Der Zee (1886–1983), American portrait photographer of Harlem; ran Guarantee Photo Studio with wife Gaynella Greenlee; chronicled the Harlem Renaissance, photographed Garvey's UNIA, and was rediscovered by the Met's 1969 Harlem on My Mind show.
James Van Etten
James Van Etten is an American virologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who discovered PBCV-1, the first virus of algae, opening the study of giant algal viruses.