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James A. Yurko
James A. Yurko is an American materials engineer who leads Apple's alloy engineering work and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
James Acaster
James Acaster is an English stand-up comedian from Kettering, known for his Netflix series Repertoire, the podcast Off Menu, and a record five consecutive Edinburgh Comedy Award nominations.
James Achilles Kirkpatrick
James Achilles Kirkpatrick (1764 to 1805) was an East India Company officer and diplomat who served as Resident, effectively ambassador, at the court of Hyderabad from 1797 or 1798 to 1805.
James Adeche Momoh
James Adeche Momoh is a Nigerian-American electrical engineer and Howard University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for grid optimization and power grid policy in Africa.
James Adomian
James Adomian (born 1980) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and impressionist known for Trump vs. Bernie, his viral Bernie Sanders impression, The Underculture podcast, voice roles in Harley Quinn and Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, and his 2024 special Path of Most Resistance.
James Africanus Beale Horton
James Africanus Beale Horton (1835–1883) was a Sierra Leonean surgeon, British Army medical officer, and political writer who campaigned openly for self-government of the West African colonies.
James Agee
James Agee (1909–1955) was an American writer known for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Death in the Family.
James Aitken Wylie
James Aitken Wylie (1808–1890) was a Scottish minister and historian, first of the Original Secession Church and then the Free Church, best known for his three-volume History of Protestantism.
James Alexander Green
James Alexander Green, known as Sandy, was a British mathematician who introduced the equivalence relations on semigroups known as Green's relations and became a leading figure in the representation theory of finite groups.
James Alexander Hamilton
James Alexander Hamilton (1788–1878), son of Alexander Hamilton, was a New York lawyer, Acting Secretary of State in 1829, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and a crew member on the yacht America in the first America's Cup race of 1851.
James Alexander Thomson
James Alexander Thomson, also known as James A. Thomson, is an American developmental biologist who derived the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998.
James Alexandrou
James Alexandrou (James Alekos Alexandrou), British actor and filmmaker born 1985 in Islington, London; played Martin Fowler in EastEnders 1996-2007 before James Bye took over in 2014; now a London writer-director, NFTS graduate, founder of Actors East and Playhouse East.
James Alison
James Alison (born 1959) is an English Catholic theologian and priest known for bringing René Girard's thought to theology and for his arguments on gay people in the Catholic Church.
James Allison (motorsport)
James Allison (born 1968, Lincolnshire) is a British F1 aerodynamicist and Technical Director of Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 since 2017, formerly at Benetton, Ferrari, and Renault/Lotus, briefly CTO 2021-2023.
James Allison Brown
James Allison Brown (born 1934) is an American archaeologist at Northwestern University, known for studies of mortuary practices and pre-contact iconography in Eastern North America.
James Alm
James Alm is a public-finance economist and Professor Emeritus at Tulane University, best known for his research on tax compliance, tax evasion, and the marriage penalty.
James Alphonsus McMaster
James Alphonsus McMaster (1820–1886) was an American Catholic journalist and convert who edited the New York Freeman's Journal for nearly forty years and was arrested in 1861 for attacking the Lincoln administration.
James Altucher
James Altucher is an American entrepreneur, author, and former hedge fund manager at Formula Capital known for bestselling books and a podcast with over 70 million downloads.
James and Oliver Phelps
James and Oliver Phelps, English identical twin actors born 1986 in Sutton Coldfield, played Fred and George Weasley respectively in all eight Harry Potter films, and later hosted the podcast Normal Not Normal and Food Network's Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach is Roald Dahl's first successful children's novel (US 1961, UK 1967), about orphan James Henry Trotter sailing a giant peach with giant insects to New York; illustrated first by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, filmed by Henry Selick in 1996, and revised by Puffin in 2023.
James and the Giant Peach (film)
James and the Giant Peach (1996) is a Disney musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, adapting Roald Dahl's 1961 book with live action, stop-motion, and CGI; released April 12, 1996, 79 minutes, rated PG.
James Andersen (private equity investor)
James Andersen is an American private equity investor who co-founded Clearview Capital, a lower middle-market investment firm in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1999 and serves as its Managing Partner.
James Anderson (American economist)
James E. Anderson (born 1943) is an American economist, the Neenan Millennium Professor at Boston College, known for the gravity model of trade and trade restrictiveness measures.
James Anderson (cricketer)
James Anderson (Jimmy Anderson), born 1982, English right-arm fast bowler; 704 Test wickets in 188 Tests for England (2003-2024), most by a fast bowler; knighted 2025; Lancashire captain.
James Anderson Kelso
James Anderson Kelso (1873–1951) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and Semitic scholar who taught Hebrew and Old Testament literature at Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, serving as its president from 1909.
James Andreoni
James Andreoni (born 1959 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American economist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, best known for the theory of warm-glow giving, which explains charitable donations.
James Andrew Corcoran
James Andrew Corcoran (1820–1889) was an American Catholic theologian, editor, and Orientalist who served the American hierarchy at the First Vatican Council and edited the American Catholic Quarterly Review.
James Andrews (physician)
James R. Andrews (born 1942) is a retired American orthopedic surgeon, Tommy John surgery specialist, and sports medicine pioneer who co-founded ASMI and the Andrews Institute and treated stars like Michael Jordan and Roger Clemens.
James Andrews (syndicate editor)
James F. Andrews (1936–1980) was an American publishing executive who co-founded Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City in 1970, shaped Doonesbury from a Yale student strip, and died in 1980.
James Anthony Bailey
James Anthony Bailey (1847-1906), born James Anthony McGinnis, American circus owner and business manager; partner then sole proprietor of Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, the railroad-circus pioneer who died in 1906.