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James W. Putney
James W. Putney is an American pharmacologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences known for proposing capacitative calcium entry, now called store-operated calcium entry.
James W. Valentine
James W. Valentine (1926–2023) was an American paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on the origin of animal phyla and the Cambrian explosion.
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel (J. W. Vaupel) was an American demographer and pioneer of biodemography who founded the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock.
James W. W. Birch
James W. W. Birch, or James Wheeler Woodford Birch (1826–1875), was a British colonial administrator and first British Resident of Perak, assassinated at Pasir Salak in 1875.
James W. Westwater
James W. Westwater (1919–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who filmed bubble growth through a microscope, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
James W. York
James W. York, also known as James Wesley York Jr., was an American mathematical physicist who reformulated Einstein's constraint equations and shared the 2003 Heineman Prize.
James Waddell Alexander II
James Waddell Alexander II (1888–1971) was an American topologist at Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study, best known for the Alexander polynomial in knot theory.
James Wade
James Wade, "The Machine" (born 1983, Ash, Surrey), English PDC darts player; 2007 World Matchplay youngest winner, ten or eleven major titles, four world semi-finals, bipolar/ADHD advocate.
James Wadsley
James Wadsley is a computational astrophysicist and professor at McMaster University, lead author of the GASOLINE simulation code used to study planet, star, and galaxy formation.
James Walker Dawson
James Walker Dawson (1870–1927) was a Scottish pathologist at the Royal College of Physicians' Laboratory in Edinburgh whose landmark 1916 monograph on multiple sclerosis gave medicine the Dawson's fingers MRI sign.
James Walkinshaw
James R. Walkinshaw (born 1982) is the Democratic U.S. Representative from Virginia's 11th District, won the September 2025 special election to succeed Gerry Connolly, former Connolly chief of staff and Fairfax County supervisor.
James Wan
James Wan (温子仁), born 1977 in Kuching, Malaysia, is a Malaysian-Australian director and producer who co-created Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring and directed Furious 7 and Aquaman.
James Warburg
James Warburg, also known as Paul James, was a German-born American banker who advised Roosevelt, served in the Office of War Information, and advocated world federation.
James Ward-Prowse
James Ward-Prowse, born 1994 in Portsmouth, English midfielder and free-kick specialist; Southampton academy graduate with 410 appearances and captain, later West Ham, Forest and Burnley loans; 11 England caps, 2 goals.
James Waterston
James Waterston (born 1969, New York City) is an American actor, son of Sam Waterston, known for Dead Poets Society, Little Sweetheart, Live from Baghdad, Red Oaks, the BBC's Oppenheimer, and extensive Off-Broadway and regional stage work.
James Watson (Nobel laureate)
James Watson was an American molecular biologist who, with Francis Crick, proposed the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
James Watt
James Watt (1736–1819) was a Scottish engineer and instrument maker whose separate condenser, patented in 1769, made steam power practical; with Matthew Boulton he commercialized the engine and introduced horsepower.
James Watt (entrepreneur)
James Watt is a Scottish entrepreneur who co-founded the brewer BrewDog with Martin Dickie, built it on Equity for Punks crowdfunding, and led it until 2024.
James Watt (tennis)
James Watt (tennis), New Zealand player born 2000, not the historical engineer; 2.06-2.08 m serve-volleyer, peak ATP singles 569, doubles 77, Davis Cup winner, Grand Slam doubles debut 2026.
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), formerly the Next Generation Space Telescope, is a NASA-led infrared space telescope launched on December 25, 2021 to observe the early universe from a point 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
James Welch (writer)
James Welch (1940–2003), Blackfeet-Gros Ventre novelist and poet of Browning, Montana; author of Winter in the Blood, Fools Crow, The Indian Lawyer, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk; forerunner of the Native American Renaissance.
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), American poet, lyricist, diplomat, lawyer, and NAACP leader; wrote 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' (1900), the Black National Anthem, and led the NAACP as its first Black executive secretary.
James Welling
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American photographer whose work since the mid-1970s moves between abstraction and figuration, exploring the materials and possibilities of photography.
James Wendell
James Wendell (James Isaac Wendell, 1890–1958), American hurdler; won silver in the 110 m hurdles at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in 15.2 behind Fred Kelly; later headmaster of The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
James West (acoustician)
James West is an American acoustics scientist who co-invented the foil electret microphone with Gerhard Sessler at Bell Labs in 1962, the basis of most microphones today.
James Westmoreland (actor)
James Westmoreland (1935–2016), also known as Rad Fulton, American film and TV actor; played Ruel Jaxon on The Monroes and soap roles on General Hospital and The Young and the Restless.
James Whale
James Whale (1889–1957) was an English film and theater director who spent his Hollywood career at Universal, directing Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
James Wharton (racing driver)
James Wharton (born 2006) is an Australian racing driver, ex-Ferrari Driver Academy, 2023 F4 UAE champion and 2024 FRECA runner-up with Prema; races FIA F3 for Prema in 2026 and joins Trident in F2 for 2027.
James Whelan (plant biologist)
James Whelan, also known as Jim Whelan, is an Australian plant biologist elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019 while at La Trobe University.
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