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James Baldwin
James Baldwin (1924–1987), Harlem-born American novelist and essayist of Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and The Fire Next Time; civil rights witness, Cambridge Union debater, and subject of I Am Not Your Negro.
James Baldwin Carrell
James Baldwin Carrell is a mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia whose research centers on algebraic transformation groups, algebraic geometry, and Lie theory.
James Barber (biochemist)
James Barber (1940–2020) was a British biochemist at Imperial College London, latterly Ernst Chain Professor, known for structural work on Photosystem II and for artificial photosynthesis.
James Barnor
James Barnor, born 1929 in Accra, is a Ghanaian photographer who documented Ghana's independence, shot for DRUM magazine in London, and pioneered color photography in Ghana.
James Barry (surgeon)
James Barry, born Margaret Ann Bulkley, was a British Army surgeon who served 46 years across the Empire and in 1826 performed one of the first successful caesarean sections.
James Bartley
James Bartley is the central figure of an 1891 legend in which a British sailor survived inside a sperm whale's stomach near the Falkland Islands, debunked by later investigation.
James Baskett
James Baskett (1904-1948), American actor and Amos 'n' Andy radio performer, played Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South and in 1948 became the first Black male actor to receive an Oscar, an honorary Academy Award.
James Bay
James Bay (Baie James) is the southern arm of Hudson Bay between Quebec and Ontario, site of Henry Hudson's 1610-11 wintering, the 16,527 MW James Bay hydroelectric project, and the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.
James Bay (singer)
James Bay (ジェイムズ・ベイ), English singer-songwriter born 1990 in Hitchin; debut Chaos and the Calm hit UK No. 1 with "Hold Back the River" and "Let It Go", earning Brit and Grammy nominations.
James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA, Convention de la Baie-James et du Nord québécois), signed November 11, 1975, is Canada's first modern treaty, settling Cree and Inuit claims over 1,165,286 km² of northern Quebec for compensation, land categories, and environmental and harvesting guarantees.
James Bay Project
The James Bay Project, also known as the James Bay Hydroelectric Project, is a group of hydroelectric developments in northern Quebec, Canada, begun in 1971 with its core being the La Grande complex.
James Beacham
James Beacham is a particle physicist on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, affiliated with Duke University, and a science communicator with a widely viewed TED talk.
James Beard
James Beard (1903–1985), "Dean of American cookery," was an American cookbook author, cooking teacher, and the first television food personality (1946); his townhouse became the James Beard Foundation, home of the James Beard Awards.
James Beard Foundation
The James Beard Foundation, founded 1985 by Peter Kump, Julia Child, and Jacques Pepin, is a New York nonprofit honoring chef James Beard; it runs the James Beard Awards, chef training programs, and food-system advocacy.
James Beard Foundation Award
The James Beard Foundation Award is an annual American culinary honor established in 1990, recognizing chefs, restaurateurs, authors, and journalists, and widely described as among the nation's most prestigious.
James Beattie (footballer)
James Beattie (James Scott Beattie, born 1978, Lancaster) is an English former striker, Southampton and Everton forward with 91 Premier League goals and four England caps, now Reading forward coach.
James Beck
James Beck (Stanley James Carroll Beck, 1929-1973), English actor who played Cockney spiv Private Joe Walker in 60 episodes of BBC's Dad's Army (1968-1973) and Bert Jones in Romany Jones; died aged 44 of pancreatitis during series six.
James Beckwourth
James Pierson Beckwourth (c. 1798-1866) was an African American mountain man, Crow war leader, and scout who discovered Beckwourth Pass, the lowest Sierra Nevada pass, and dictated the 1856 autobiography The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth.
James Bedford
James Hiram Bedford (1893–1967), retired psychology professor, first human cryonically preserved, January 12, 1967, by the Cryonics Society of California; still stored in liquid nitrogen at Alcor, Scottsdale, Arizona.
James Benjamin Parker
James Benjamin Parker (1857–1907), "Big Ben," African American waiter who struck Leon Czolgosz and stopped a third shot after McKinley was shot at Buffalo's 1901 Pan American Exposition, then was discredited at trial.
James Bennett Griffin
James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) was an American archaeologist who reshaped the study of prehistoric eastern North America and directed the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology.
James Benning (film director)
James Benning (born 1942, Milwaukee) is an American experimental filmmaker of structuralist, long-take landscape films, known for 11 x 14, Deseret, the California Trilogy, 13 Lakes, and The United States of America.
James Berger (statistician)
James Berger is an American statistician known for pioneering work in Bayesian analysis, decision theory, and uncertainty quantification, a National Academy of Sciences member and Duke professor.
James Best
James Best (Jewel Franklin Guy, 1926–2015) was an American character actor and acting teacher, famous as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1985); over 80 films and 600 TV shows.
James Beveridge Thomson
Tun Sir James Beveridge Thomson (1902–1983), Scottish jurist, first Lord President of Malaysia's Federal Court (1963–1966) and Chief Justice of Malaya (1957); earlier Chief Justice of Fiji and Tonga.
James Biden
James (Jim) Biden, Joe Biden's younger brother, is an American businessman whose ventures, including CEFC China Energy and Americore Health deals, drew congressional impeachment-inquiry scrutiny; he testified Joe Biden had no involvement or financial interest in his businesses.
James Binney
James Binney is a British theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Oxford known for work on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and for the standard textbooks Galactic Dynamics and Galactic Astronomy.
James Bjorken
James "BJ" Bjorken (1934–2024) was an American theoretical physicist at SLAC and Fermilab known for Bjorken scaling, his 1968 proposal that made quarks inside the proton visible in electron scattering.
James Blair (political advisor)
James Blair (Michael James Blair), American political consultant; Tampa-based Rapid Loop Consulting founder, DeSantis deputy chief of staff, 2024 Trump campaign and RNC political director, and White House deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs 2025-2026.
James Blake (musician)
James Blake (James Blake Litherland, born 1988, Enfield, London) is an English singer-producer of post-dubstep; Mercury Prize 2013 for Overgrown, Ivor Novello for Retrograde, seventh album Trying Times (2026). Not the Belfast TV presenter of the same name.