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Jim Neidhart
Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart (James Henry Neidhart, 1955 to 2018) was an American professional wrestler, a two-time WWF Tag Team Champion in The Hart Foundation with Bret Hart.
Jim Norton (comedian)
Jim Norton (born 1968, Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American stand-up comedian, author, and radio host of Opie & Anthony, UFC Unfiltered, and The Anthony and Jim Show, known for explicit self-deprecating comedy.
Jim Norton (Irish actor)
Jim Norton (Irish actor), born James Norton, January 4, 1938, Dublin; stage and screen character actor, Bishop Brennan in Father Ted, Olivier 2007 and Tony 2008 for The Seafarer; distinct from the American comedian and English actor of the same name.
Jim O’Callaghan
Jim O'Callaghan is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration since 2025, and is TD for Dublin Bay South.
Jim O'Heir
Jim O'Heir (born 1962, Chicago) is an American character actor, co-founder of the White Noise sketch troupe, best known as Jerry/Garry/Larry/Terry Gergich on Parks and Recreation (2009-2015) after auditioning for Ron Swanson, and author of Welcome to Pawnee.
Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley
Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley, is a British economist who served as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, chaired the Antimicrobial Resistance Review, and created the BRIC concept.
Jim O'Rourke (musician)
Jim O'Rourke (born 1969, Chicago) is a Tokyo-based American composer, guitarist, and producer of Gastr del Sol, Sonic Youth, and Loose Fur; Grammy winner for Wilco's A Ghost Is Born; Drag City solo albums include Bad Timing, Eureka, and Insignificance.
Jim Oberweis
Jim Oberweis (James D. Oberweis), Illinois Republican, chaired Oberweis Dairy and Oberweis Asset Management, served as 25th District state senator 2013-2021, lost races for Senate 2002/2004/2014, governor 2006, and House 2008/2020, and is a 2026 candidate in Florida's 19th District.
Jim Otto
Jim Otto (1938-2024), 'Mr. Raider' or 'The Original Raider,' Hall of Fame center for the Oakland Raiders 1960-1974; started 210 consecutive games, 12 Pro Bowls, 10 All-Pro, 1967 AFL champion, enshrined 1980.
Jim Ovia
Jim Ovia is a Nigerian banker who founded Zenith Bank in Lagos in 1990, led it for 20 years as CEO, and returned as chairman from 2014 to 2026.
Jim Palmer
Jim Palmer (James Alvin Palmer, born 1945), Hall of Fame pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles 1965-1984; three-time AL Cy Young winner, 268-152 with 2.86 ERA, never allowed a grand slam, elected 1990 first ballot.
Jim Parrack
Jim Parrack, born 1981 in Allen, Texas, is an American actor known as Hoyt Fortenberry on True Blood (2008–2014) and Judd Ryder on 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020–2025), plus Broadway's Of Mice and Men and films Fury and Suicide Squad.
Jim Parsons
Jim Parsons, born 1973 in Houston, Texas, is an American actor famous as Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, a role that won four Emmys; also a Broadway actor (The Normal Heart, Mother Play, Titanique) and producer of Young Sheldon.
Jim Patterson
Jim Patterson is an American restaurateur from Louisville, Kentucky, who co-founded Long John Silver's in 1969, served as its first president, and sold his stake for $20 million in 1975.
Jim Pattison
Jim Pattison, born James Allen Pattison in 1928, is a Canadian entrepreneur who founded the Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group, one of Canada's largest private companies.
Jim Peacock
Jim Peacock was an Australian plant molecular biologist who led CSIRO's Division of Plant Industry from 1978 to 2003 and served as Australia's Chief Scientist from 2006 to 2008.
Jim Peebles
Jim Peebles, born Phillip James Edwin Peebles in 1935, is a Canadian-born American cosmologist at Princeton who won half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Jim Peterik
Jim Peterik (born 1950, Berwyn, Illinois) is an American rock songwriter and founding member of the Ides of March and Survivor, co-writer of the Grammy-winning 1982 Rocky III theme "Eye of the Tiger" and hits for .38 Special and the Beach Boys.
Jim Peters
Jim Peters (1918-1999), British marathon runner and optician, set four marathon world bests from 2:20:42.2 to 2:17:39.4 (1952-1954) and is famous for his near-fatal collapse in the 1954 Vancouver Empire Games marathon.
Jim Pillen
Jim Pillen is an American Republican politician and veterinarian serving as the 41st Governor of Nebraska since 2023, after serving on the Nebraska Board of Regents from 2013 to 2023.
Jim Piper
Jim Alan Piper, Australian breaststroke swimmer born 1981 in Campbelltown; 2002 short-course world 200 m breaststroke champion, 3:28.12 medley relay world record, Athens 2004 Olympian.
Jim Pitman
Jim Pitman, born 1949 in Tasmania, is a probability theorist and Berkeley professor emeritus known for the Pitman transform, the Pitman–Yor process, and random partitions.
Jim Plunkett
Jim Plunkett, born 1947, is a Mexican-American quarterback, 1970 Heisman winner at Stanford, first pick of the 1971 NFL Draft, and two-time Super Bowl champion (XV MVP, XVIII) with the Raiders, still not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer
Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer (Jim Queen à la recherche de la Chloroqueer) is a 2026 French-Belgian adult animated musical comedy by Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané, Bobbypills' first feature, about a virus turning gay men straight; it premiered at Cannes 2026 Midnight Screenings.
Jim R. Hughes
Jim R. Hughes, also published as Jim Hughes, is a molecular biologist who is Professor of Gene Regulation at the University of Oxford, known for developing the Capture-C family of genomics methods.
Jim Rafferty
Jim Rafferty is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded C-Cube Microsystems, the Milpitas, California, semiconductor company that pioneered MPEG encoder and decoder silicon before its 2001 acquisition by LSI Logic.
Jim Rash
Jim Rash (born 1971, Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director: Dean Pelton on Community, 2012 Oscar winner for The Descendants adapted screenplay, co-director of The Way, Way Back, host of The Writers' Room.
Jim Ratcliffe
Jim Ratcliffe, also known as Sir James Arthur Ratcliffe, is a British billionaire industrialist who founded and majority-owns Ineos and controls Manchester United's football operations.
Jim Reeves
Jim Reeves (James Travis Reeves, 1923-1964), American country singer and "Gentleman Jim" of the Nashville Sound, known for "He'll Have to Go" and the posthumous UK #1 "Distant Drums."
Jim Rhodes
James Allen Rhodes (1909–2001), Republican, four-term governor of Ohio (1963–71, 1975–83), longest tenure in state history; "Jobs and Progress" builder, but career shadowed by the 1970 Kent State shootings.