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James Aren Duckett
James Aren Duckett, former Mascotte, Florida police officer convicted in 1988 of raping and drowning 11-year-old Teresa McAbee; executed July 28, 2026 after inconclusive DNA testing, distinguished from unrelated people named James Duckett.
James Argent
James David Thomas Argent (born 1987), known as Arg, English TV personality and singer, original cast member of The Only Way Is Essex (2010-2018), wedding singer since 2019.
James Arness
James Arness (James King Aurness, 1923–2011), American actor, Marshal Matt Dillon on CBS's Gunsmoke 1955–1975, ~635 episodes over 20 seasons; WWII Anzio wounded, The Thing (1951), brother of Peter Graves.
James Arthur
James Andrew Arthur (born 1988, Middlesbrough), English pop/R&B singer-songwriter, X Factor 2012 winner whose 'Impossible' sold 2.5 million; 'Say You Won't Let Go' hit 4 billion streams and RIAA Diamond; six albums including Bitter Sweet Love (2024).
James Arthur (scientist)
James Grieg Arthur, born 1944 in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto known for the Arthur–Selberg trace formula and the endoscopic classification of automorphic representations.
James Arthur Ray
James Arthur Ray, an American self-help author, was convicted of negligent homicide in 2011 after three participants died in a Sedona, Arizona, sweat lodge ceremony in 2009.
James Arthur Williams
James Arthur (Jim) Williams, Savannah antiques dealer and preservationist, restored over 50 historic buildings including Mercer House; known for the 1981 Danny Hansford shooting case and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
James Ashcroft
James Ashcroft is a New Zealand writer, director, and actor (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi), former Taki Rua Productions head, whose thrillers Coming Home in the Dark (Sundance 2021) and The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) brought him Hollywood projects.
James at 15
James at 15 (later James at 16) is a 1977-1978 NBC drama starring Lance Kerwin as James Hunter, created by Dan Wakefield, known for "The Gift" episode and its birth-control censorship dispute.
James Avery
James La Rue Avery (1945 or 1948-2013), American actor known as Uncle Phil (Philip Banks) on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (140+ episodes, NBC 1990-1996) and the voice of Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Shakespeare-trained stage actor, Navy veteran, died of open-heart surgery complications.
James Ax
James Ax, also known as Jim Ax, was an American mathematician and quantitative trader who won the 1967 Cole Prize in Number Theory and founded Axcom.
James B. Bassingthwaighte
James B. Bassingthwaighte was a Canadian-born cardiovascular physiologist and bioengineer at the University of Washington who modeled blood flow in organs and founded the Physiome Project in 1997.
James B. Connolly
James B. Connolly (1868-1957), American triple jumper and writer, first champion of the modern Olympic Games, winning the triple jump at Athens on 6 April 1896; also won 1896 high jump silver, long jump bronze, and 1900 triple jump silver.
James B. Coulter
James B. Coulter was an American sanitary engineer and Maryland's Secretary of Natural Resources from 1971 to 1983. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
James B. Donovan
James B. Donovan (1916–1970) was the New York lawyer who defended Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, negotiated Abel's 1962 Glienicke Bridge exchange for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and Frederic Pryor, and won the release of Bay of Pigs prisoners from Castro for $53 million in food and medicine.
James B. Elsner
James B. Elsner is an American atmospheric scientist and statistician, Professor Emeritus at Florida State University in Tallahassee, known for applying nonlinear dynamics and extreme-value statistics to hurricanes and tornadoes.
James B. Francis
James B. Francis (James Bicheno Francis, 1815–1892) was a British-born American hydraulic engineer who ran Lowell, Massachusetts's canal system and invented the Francis turbine, still the world's most used hydropower turbine.
James B. Hurley
James B. Hurley, also published as J. B. Hurley, is a biochemist and professor at the University of Washington known for research on the molecular machinery of vision.
James B. Loken
James B. Loken, born in 1940, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 1990.
James B. Macelwane
James B. Macelwane (1883–1956) was an American seismologist and Jesuit priest who established the first geophysics department in the western hemisphere at Saint Louis University in 1925.
James B. Meigs
James B. Meigs is an American physician-scientist and genetic epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital who studies the cause and prevention of type 2 diabetes.
James B. Pollack
James B. Pollack (1938–1994) was an American astrophysicist at NASA's Ames Research Center, a leading authority on planetary atmospheres who worked on missions from Mariner 9 to Cassini.
James B. Rawlings
James B. Rawlings is an American chemical engineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for developing the theory of model predictive control for chemical processes.
James B. Reswick
James B. Reswick (born 1922) is an American bioengineer who helped found rehabilitation engineering in the United States and served as the first president of RESNA.
James B. Rowe
James B. Rowe is a British neurologist, Professor of Cognitive Neurology at the University of Cambridge, and consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital who studies Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and PSP.
James B. Seward
James B. Seward is an American cardiologist and echocardiographer who directed Mayo Clinic's Echocardiography Laboratory in Rochester, Minnesota, and helped develop the Tei index and AcuNav catheter.
James B. Sumner
James B. Sumner, also known as James Batcheller Sumner, was an American biochemist at Cornell University who in 1926 crystallized urease, the first enzyme ever crystallized.
James Baddiley
Sir James Baddiley (1918–2008) was a British biochemist who made the first chemical synthesis of ATP, helped determine coenzyme A's structure, and discovered teichoic acids.
James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale (James Badgett Dale, born 1978, New York City) is an American actor, son of Anita Morris and Grover Dale, known for 24, The Pacific, Rubicon, The Departed, 13 Hours, Iron Man 3, and Hightown.
James Baker
James Addison Baker III (b. 1930), Houston attorney and Republican statesman: Reagan's Chief of Staff (1981-85) and Treasury Secretary (1985-88, Plaza Accord, 1986 tax reform), then George H.W. Bush's Secretary of State (1989-92), Gulf War coalition and 1991 Madrid peace conference.