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James, brother of Jesus
James, brother of Jesus, known as James the Just, led the early Jerusalem church for about thirty years and was stoned to death as a martyr around 62 CE.
James, Earl of Wessex
James, Earl of Wessex (James Alexander Philip Theo Mountbatten-Windsor), born 2007, is the son of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, formerly Viscount Severn, heir apparent to the earldoms of Wessex and Forfar, and from 2026 a rural land management student at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester.
James, Lord Beauclerk
James, Lord Beauclerk, was the illegitimate son of King Charles II and Nell Gwynne. He was styled Lord Beauclerk in 1676/77 and died in Paris, France, around 1680.
James, son of Alphaeus (άκωβος)
James, son of Alphaeus, also known as James the Less, is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, listed ninth in all four New Testament lists of the Twelve.
Jameson Irish Whiskey
Jameson Irish Whiskey: triple-distilled blended Irish whiskey from malted and unmalted barley, founded by John Jameson in Dublin in 1780, made at Midleton, County Cork, and owned by Pernod Ricard via Irish Distillers.
Jameson Land
Jameson Land, a peninsula in eastern Greenland north of Scoresby Sound, hosts the Jameson Land Basin, an undrilled ~10,000 km2 sedimentary basin explored by ARCO (1984–1990) and now licensed to White Flame Energy/80 Mile with Greenland Energy planning first drilling.
Jameson Parker
Jameson Parker (Francis Jameson Parker Jr., born 1947, Baltimore) is the American actor who played A.J. Simon on CBS's Simon & Simon (1981–1988); later an outdoor writer, author of An Accidental Cowboy.
Jameson Raid
The Jameson Raid was a failed British incursion into the Transvaal led by Leander Starr Jameson from December 1895 to January 1896, seeking to overthrow President Paul Kruger.
Jameson Williams
Jameson Williams, born 2001, is a Detroit Lions wide receiver, 12th overall pick in 2022 from Alabama, a 1,000-yard deep threat (2024, 2025) suspended in 2023 for gambling and 2024 for PEDs.
Jamestown (TV series)
Jamestown (2017-2019) is a three-series Sky1 historical drama from Carnival Films, written by Bill Gallagher, about Alice, Verity, and Jocelyn, women sent in 1619 to marry Virginia colonists, with mixed reviews over historical accuracy.
Jamestown Settlement
Jamestown Settlement is a living-history museum near Williamsburg, Virginia, run by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; opened 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park, renamed 1990, it re-creates the 1607 Jamestown colony's Paspahegh town, three ships, and fort.
Jamestown, New York
Jamestown, New York: the Pearl City, largest city of Chautauqua County in the Southern Tier; founded 1806 by James Prendergast, furniture-manufacturing past, 28,712 residents (2020), municipal BPU utilities, National Comedy Center.
Jamestown, Saint Helena
Jamestown is the capital and historic port of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, founded after 1659 English settlement, built around preserved East India Company Georgian buildings, Jacob's Ladder, and the Wharf used until 2025.
Jamestown, Virginia
Jamestown, Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America, founded May 13, 1607 by the Virginia Company on Jamestown Island; capital of Virginia until 1699, site of the Starving Time, 1619 assembly, and James Fort archaeology.
Jamesway (incubation company)
Jamesway Incubator Company is a Canadian manufacturer of poultry incubation and hatchery ventilation equipment, tracing its roots to a 1912 Wisconsin firm and supplying hatcheries in more than 150 countries.
Jamesy Boy
Jamesy Boy is a 2014 American prison drama, Trevor White's directorial debut, based on the real James Burns, starring Spencer Lofranco, Ving Rhames, Mary-Louise Parker, and James Woods; released January 2014, poorly reviewed by critics.
Jamey D. Marth
Jamey D. Marth is an American molecular and cellular biologist who studies protein glycosylation and its links to diabetes, sepsis, and autoimmunity, and is a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.
Jamey Johnson
Jamey Johnson, Alabama-born former Marine and Grand Ole Opry country singer-songwriter; "In Color" and That Lonesome Song (2008) defined his outlaw-country breakthrough, ten-time Grammy nominee, returned with Midnight Gasoline (2024).
Jamey Sheridan
Jamey Sheridan (James Patrick Sheridan, born 1951, Pasadena) is an American actor known for Captain James Deakins on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Randall Flagg in The Stand, Homeland's William Walden, and a 1987 Tony nomination for All My Sons.
Jamf Holding Corp.
Jamf Holding Corp. is a Minneapolis, Minnesota software company founded in 2002 that develops device management and security products for Apple devices in businesses, schools, and healthcare.
Jamgon Kongtrul
Jamgon Kongtrul, also known as Jamgön Kongtrül the Great and born Yonten Gyatso, was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and treasure revealer who co-founded the Rimé movement and compiled the Five Great Treasuries.
Jami
Jami (جامی), honorifically Nur al-Din, was a Persian poet, mystic, and scholar who lived in Herat until his death in 1492 and is regarded as the last great classical Persian poet.
Jami Gertz
Jami Gertz, American actress born 1965 in Chicago, star of Sixteen Candles, The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero, and Twister; married investor Tony Ressler in 1989 and is a principal owner of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.
Jami' al-Sa'adat
Jami' al-Sa'adat (جامع السعادات, "The Collector of Felicities") is an Arabic treatise on Islamic ethics by the Shia jurist Mulla Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi, completed in 1193 AH in Kashan.
Jami' al-Tawarikh
Jami' al-Tawarikh (جامع التواریخ, "Compendium of Chronicles") is a world history written 1300–10 by Rashid al-Din, vizier to the Il-khans Ghazan and Oljeitu; its illustrated copies are seminal for Persian art.
Jamia Millia Islamia
Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in New Delhi founded at Aligarh in 1920, moved to Delhi in 1925 and became a central university in 1988; NAAC A++, NIRF university rank 3 in 2022-2024.
Jamia Nagar Mound
Jogabai Mound (Joga Bai), Jamia Nagar, South East Delhi: a centrally protected ASI archaeological mound, linked to Qaiqabad Palace, lost under Zakir Nagar and Batla House colonies and listed as untraceable.
Jamia Salafia, Varanasi
Jamia Salafia, officially Al-Jamia-tus-Salafiah (Markazi Darul-Uloom), is a Salafi Ahl al-Hadith madrasa in Varanasi, India, founded in 1963, teaching from primary level through postgraduate Shariat College.
Jamiat Ahle Hadith (Pakistan)
Jamiat Ahle Hadith (جمعیت اہل حدیث پاکستان) is the name shared by two rival Pakistani Ahl-e-Hadith organizations, a Sunni school taking the Quran and authentic hadith as decisive authority.
Jamiat Ahle Hadith Jammu and Kashmir (جمیعت اہل حدیث جموں و کشمیر)
Jamiat Ahle Hadith Jammu and Kashmir is a Salafi Islamic organization headquartered in Srinagar, registered in 1958, which runs hundreds of schools and publishes the monthly Muslim.