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James van Riemsdyk
James van Riemsdyk (JVR), born 1989 in Middletown, NJ, American NHL left winger drafted second overall by Philadelphia in 2007; played for Flyers, Maple Leafs, Bruins, Blue Jackets, Red Wings; 696 points in 1,154 games; 2014 Olympian; record eight outdoor games.
James Vanderbilt
James Platten Vanderbilt (born 1975, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American screenwriter and producer of Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man, the Scream reboots, Murder Mystery, and writer-director of Truth (2015) and Nuremberg (2025).
James Vaughan (footballer, born 1988)
James Vaughan (born 1988, Birmingham), English striker; Everton debut goal 10 April 2005 made him the Premier League's youngest goalscorer at 16 years 270 days, a record held until Max Dowman in 2026; retired 2021.
James Veitch (comedian)
James Veitch is a British comedian, musician, and writer known for technology-themed comedy, notably replying to email scammers and turning the correspondence into stand-up shows, a TED Talk, and the book Dot Con.
James Versalovic
James Versalovic is an American physician-scientist in medical microbiology and pathology, known for human gut microbiome and probiotic research, who leads pathology at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
James VI and I
James VI and I (1566–1625), king of Scotland from 1567 and of England and Ireland from 1603, first monarch of the Union of the Crowns; Divine Right theorist, King James Bible commissioner, died 27 March 1625.
James Vick
James "The Texecutioner" Vick (born 1987) is a retired American MMA fighter, TUF 15 semifinalist, and 9-5 UFC lightweight who headlined against Justin Gaethje in 2018 before retiring in 2021.
James W. Brush, M.D
James W. Brush, known as Jamie Brush, is an American physician and venture investor who co-leads Frazier Life Sciences' public biotech strategy and serves on the boards of Amunix Pharmaceuticals and Maze Therapeutics.
James W. Byrd
James W. Byrd is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Wyoming in 2026, having served in the Wyoming House from 2009 to 2019.
James W. Curran
James W. Curran is an American physician-epidemiologist who coordinated the CDC task force that investigated the first reported AIDS cases in 1981, then led the federal HIV/AIDS program for 15 years.
James W. Dennis
James W. Dennis is a Canadian cancer biologist and glycobiologist, Senior Investigator Emeritus at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, known for pioneering work on N-glycan branching and metastatic spread.
James W. Elkins
James W. Elkins is an atmospheric scientist at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado, known for measurements of ozone-depleting gases and the 2018 Nature paper on rising CFC-11 emissions.
James W. Fawcett
James W. Fawcett, born in 1950, is a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge known for work on CNS axon regeneration, chondroitinase ABC, and perineuronal nets.
James W. Fowler
James W. Fowler, also known as James William Fowler III, was an American theologian at Emory University whose 1981 book Stages of Faith proposed a six-stage model of faith development.
James W. Haviland
James W. Haviland (1911–2007) was an American internist and medical educator in Seattle who led the creation of the world's first community-supported outpatient kidney dialysis program in 1962.
James W. Head
James W. Head is an American planetary geologist at Brown University who worked on Apollo landing-site selection and missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
James W. Hendrix
James Wesley Hendrix is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Texas since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
James W. Hurrell
James W. Hurrell is an American climate scientist at Colorado State University and former director of NCAR, known for the North Atlantic Oscillation index bearing his name.
James W. Jorgenson
James W. Jorgenson, born in 1952, is an American analytical chemist who invented capillary zone electrophoresis, a method whose use in DNA sequencing enabled the Human Genome Project.
James W. Kazura
James W. Kazura is an American physician-scientist at Case Western Reserve University whose field studies in Papua New Guinea and Kenya advanced malaria and lymphatic filariasis research.
James W. Kirchner
James W. Kirchner is a hydrologist and earth scientist who taught at Berkeley and ETH Zurich and led Nature studies of groundwater decline, streamflow loss to aquifers, and catchment hydrology.
James W. Lewis
James W. Lewis (James William Lewis), American tax consultant convicted of extorting $1 million from Johnson & Johnson after the 1982 Chicago Tylenol cyanide murders that killed seven; lifelong prime suspect, never charged with murder, died 2023.
James W. Linman
James W. Linman is an American hematologist at Northwestern University and the Veterans Administration Research Hospital in Chicago, known for his 1968 study of chronic idiopathic neutropenia.
James W. Mar
James W. Mar (1920–2017) was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as Chief Scientist of the US Air Force from 1970 to 1972.
James W. Mayer
James W. Mayer (1930–2013) was an American physicist who pioneered ion implantation and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry for semiconductors, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.
James W. Nye
James Warren Nye (1815–1876), "Old Grey Eagle," was the only governor of Nevada Territory (1861–1864), briefly acting state governor, and one of Nevada's first two U.S. senators; Nye County is named for him.
James W. Pennebaker
James W. Pennebaker is an American social and health psychologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for expressive writing research and creating the LIWC text-analysis program.
James W. Plummer
James W. Plummer (1920–2013) was an American aerospace engineer who managed Lockheed's Corona reconnaissance satellite program and served as Director of the National Reconnaissance Office from 1973 to 1976.
James W. Poirot
James W. Poirot (1931–2011) was an American civil engineer who chaired the engineering firm CH2M Hill for a decade and led an industry-wide quality-management initiative in the 1980s.
James W. Posakony
James W. Posakony is an American developmental geneticist, emeritus professor at UC San Diego since 1985, known for elucidating the Notch signaling pathway in the fruit fly Drosophila.