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Jamee Decio
Jamee Decio is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Indiana's 2nd District in 2026, facing incumbent Republican Rudy Yakym in November.
Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil (born 1986) is a British actress, presenter, podcaster, and activist; T4 and BBC Radio 1 host, Tahani on The Good Place, Titania in She-Hulk, and founder of the I Weigh movement.
Jameer Nelson
Jameer Nelson, born 1982 in Chester, Pennsylvania, is a former NBA point guard (Orlando Magic 2004-14, 2009 All-Star, Magic assists leader) and Saint Joseph's consensus 2004 National Player of the Year, now a 76ers executive.
Jameh Mosque of Isfahan
Masjed-e Jāmé (Jameh/Atiq Mosque) of Isfahan, Iran's oldest Friday mosque, begun 841, prototype of the four-iwan plan and double-shell ribbed domes, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012.
Jameis Winston
Jameis Winston, born 1994, American quarterback; 2013 Heisman winner and national champion at Florida State; first overall 2015 NFL Draft pick by Tampa Bay; later Saints, Browns, Giants.
Jamel Chelly
Jamel Chelly, full name Jameleddine Chelly, is a French human geneticist and CNRS research director at Institut Cochin in Paris known for identifying genes behind X-linked intellectual disability and brain malformations.
Jamel Debbouze
Jamel Debbouze (born 1975, Paris) is a French-Moroccan actor, comedian, and producer from Trappes, star of the sitcom H, Amélie, and Astérix, Cannes best-actor winner for Indigènes, and founder of the Jamel Comedy Club.
Jamel K. Semper
Jamel K. Semper, also known as Jamel Ken Semper, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey since 2023.
Jamelia
Jamelia, born Jamelia Niela Davis in 1981, is a British singer-songwriter from Birmingham whose hits "Superstar" and "Money" made her a leading 2000s UK R&B artist.
Jamelle Bouie
Jamelle Bouie, New York Times opinion columnist since 2019 based in Charlottesville, former Slate chief political correspondent, writes on history, constitutionalism, and democracy; Hillman Prize winner and Unclear and Present Danger podcast co-host.
James
James, an English masculine given name from Hebrew Ya'akov via Latin Iacomus, a doublet of Jacob; borne by New Testament apostles and Scottish kings, never out of the US top 20 since 1880.
James "J.T." Taylor
James "J.T." Taylor (James Warren Taylor), born 1953 in Laurens, South Carolina, is the American R&B singer who fronted Kool & the Gang 1979-1988 on hits like "Celebration" and "Ladies' Night," then went solo.
James "Radio" Kennedy
James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (1946-2019) was a South Carolina man with an intellectual disability who became a fixture at T.L. Hanna High School and inspired the 2003 film Radio with Cuba Gooding Jr.
James "Sawyer" Ford
James "Sawyer" Ford is a fictional con man on ABC's Lost (2004-2010), played by Josh Holloway. Real name James Ford, he took his alias from the con man who destroyed his family, became DHARMA head LaFleur in 1974, and evolved from audience-testing liability to fan favorite.
James (band)
James: English rock band from Manchester, formed early 1980s, fronted by Tim Booth with Jim Glennie; known for "Sit Down" and "Laid"; Brian Eno collaborations; first UK No 1 album Yummy (2024); distinct from James Gang and James Tonic.
James (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople)
James (Greek Ιάκωβος) was a 17th-century clergyman from Chios who served three non-consecutive terms as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople between 1679 and 1688, twice deposed by Dionysios IV.
James (novel)
James (2024) is Percival Everett's twenty-fourth novel, a retelling of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn narrated by the enslaved Jim, who calls himself James, code-switches between dialect and standard English, and secretly writes his own story; winner of the 2024 National Book Award and 2025 Pulitzer Prize.
James (ফারুক মাহফুজ আনাম জেমস) (musician)
Faruq Mahfuz Anam James (ফারুক মাহফুজ আনাম জেমস), known as James or Guru, is a Bangladeshi rock singer-guitarist, frontman of Nagar Baul (formerly Feelings), Bollywood singer of "Bheegi Bheegi", and two-time National Film Award winner.
James (ಜೇಮ್ಸ್) (2022 film)
James (ಜೇಮ್ಸ್) is a 2022 Kannada action film directed by Chethan Kumar, the posthumous final film of Puneeth Rajkumar, released on his birth anniversary, 2022, with Shivarajkumar dubbing his voice and a record ₹100 crore four-day run.
James A. Berkley
James A. Berkley is a pediatric infectious-diseases physician and Oxford professor based at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, since 1997, known for research on bacteremia and severe malnutrition in children.
James A. Birchler
James A. Birchler (born 1950) is an American plant geneticist and Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri, known for gene dosage effects and synthetic maize chromosomes.
James A. Brierley
James A. Brierley, also known as Jim Brierley, is a biohydrometallurgist and U.S. National Academy of Engineering member. He pioneered commercial bioleaching technologies for copper and gold recovery.
James A. Clifton
James A. Clifton, III (1923–2014) was an American gastroenterologist who led internal medicine at the University of Iowa and whose 1963 research helped create oral rehydration therapy.
James A. de Lemos
James A. de Lemos, also published as James de Lemos, is an American cardiologist at UT Southwestern known for biomarker research and the Dallas Heart Study.
James A. DeCaprio
James A. DeCaprio is an American physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who showed that SV40 large tumor antigen binds the retinoblastoma protein and identified the DREAM complex.
James A. Dumesic
James A. Dumesic is an American chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for microkinetic analysis of catalysis and catalytic conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals.
James A. Estes
James A. Estes (1945–2025) was an American marine ecologist whose five decades studying sea otters in Alaska's Aleutian Islands made the otter–urchin–kelp system a classic example of a trophic cascade.
James A. Evans
James A. Evans is an American sociologist and computational social scientist at the University of Chicago, known for a 2019 Nature study showing small teams disrupt science while large teams develop it.
James A. Fagin
James A. Fagin is an Argentine-born American physician-scientist who studies and treats thyroid cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for restoring radioiodine uptake in refractory tumors.
James A. Fay
James A. Fay, also known as James Alan Fay, was an American MIT mechanical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for combustion research.