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James Blake (tennis)
James Riley Blake (born 1979, Yonkers, NY), American tennis player, career-high world No. 4 in 2006; overcame a 2004 broken neck, shingles, and his father's death to win the 2007 Davis Cup; retired 2013, now ESPN analyst and Miami Open director.
James Blish
James Blish (1921-1975), American science fiction author of Cities in Flight and Hugo-winning A Case of Conscience, Futurians member, critic as William Atheling Jr., and adapter of Star Trek episodes for Bantam.
James Blood Ulmer
James Blood Ulmer (Willie James Ulmer, 1940 or 1942, St. Matthews, SC, to June 3, 2026) was an American free jazz, blues, and free funk guitarist who adapted Ornette Coleman's harmolodics to electric guitar, led Music Revelation Ensemble and Phalanx, and earned a 2001 Grammy nomination.
James Blunt
James Blunt (Hillier Blount) is a British singer-songwriter and former British Army officer, best known for his 2004 debut Back to Bedlam and the hit single "You're Beautiful".
James Boasberg
James Emanuel "Jeb" Boasberg (born 1963) is Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and a former FISA court presiding judge (2020-2021) whose 2025 order blocking Alien Enemies Act deportation flights made him a focal point of Trump administration-judiciary conflict.
James Bolam
James Bolam (born 16 June 1935, Sunderland) is an English actor known as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its 1973–74 sequel, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke trilogy, and Jack Halford in New Tricks (2003–2011).
James Bond
James Bond, Agent 007, is Ian Fleming's fictional MI6 spy, first appearing in Casino Royale (1953). 14 Fleming books, 25 Eon films with seven actors, and Amazon MGM control from 2025.
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a 2004 third-person action game by EA Redwood Shores for GameCube, PS2, and Xbox, starring Pierce Brosnan's likeness, with an original nanotechnology plot, co-op multiplayer, and an 83 Xbox Metascore.
James Bond 007: Nightfire
James Bond 007: NightFire (007: NightFire) is a 2002 Eurocom first-person shooter published by EA for PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA, and PC, with Metascores of 59-80 and bot-supported multiplayer.
James Bond family
James Bond family: entry number 007 in NASA's Nesvorny HCM asteroid family catalog, containing no members because "James Bond is not an asteroid"; asteroid (9007) James Bond belongs to the Vesta family instead.
James Bond III
James Bond III (born 1969) is an American actor, producer, director, and writer, a 1970s child actor on The Red Hand Gang who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the 1990 horror film Def by Temptation.
James Bond in video games
James Bond in video games: licensed 007 adaptations since 1982's Shaken but Not Stirred, transformed by GoldenEye 007 (N64, 1997, 8M+ sold), the EA and Activision eras, and 2026's 007 First Light by IO Interactive.
James Bond Jr.
James Bond Jr.: 1991 American animated series of 65 daily episodes by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, sanctioned by Danjaq, about Bond's teenage nephew fighting SCUM at Warfield Academy; never released on DVD.
James Bond music
James Bond music: the theme songs and scores of the 007 film series since Dr. No (1962), including the Monty Norman/John Barry James Bond Theme and hit title songs by Bassey, McCartney, Duran Duran, and Adele.
James Bond Theme
The James Bond Theme is the signature instrumental of the Eon Bond films, composed by Monty Norman, arranged by John Barry, with Vic Flick's guitar riff; first heard in Dr. No (1962) and confirmed as Norman's by a 2001 libel verdict.
James Booth
James Booth, born David Noel Geeves (1927 to 2005), was an English actor and screenwriter best known for Private Henry Hook in Zulu (1964) and Ernie Niles in Twin Peaks.
James Boswell
James Boswell (1740–1795), ninth laird of Auchinleck, Scottish lawyer and diarist, author of the Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785); his recovered journals were published by Yale from 1950.
James Bourne
James Elliot Bourne (born 1983), English songwriter from Busted (with Matt Willis, Charlie Simpson), wrote "Year 3000"; also Son of Dork, McBusted, Loserville, and solo albums Safe Journey Home and Sugar Beach.
James Bowen (author)
James Anthony Bowen (born 1979), English author of A Street Cat Named Bob; recovering heroin addict and busker whose 2007 rescue of stray cat Bob led to a memoir series sold over 8 million copies in 40-plus languages and two films.
James Bowie
James (Jim) Bowie, 1796-1836, American frontiersman, land speculator, and slave trader; co-commander at the Alamo and namesake of the Bowie knife after the 1827 Sandbar Fight near Natchez.
James Bowling Mozley
James Bowling Mozley (1813–1878) was an English Anglican theologian and journalist who took part in the Oxford Movement and served as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1871.
James Boyd (mining engineer)
James Boyd (1904–1987) was an Australian-born mining engineer and geologist who directed the United States Bureau of Mines from 1947 to 1951 and led Kennecott Copper's exploration.
James Bradberry
James Bradberry IV, NFL cornerback from Samford, drafted 62nd overall by Carolina in 2016; Pro Bowl 2021 with the Giants, second-team All-Pro 2022 with the Eagles; released by Philadelphia after a 2024 injury.
James Bradford DeLong
James Bradford DeLong, known as J. Bradford DeLong or Brad DeLong, is an American macroeconomist and economic historian, emeritus professor at Berkeley and a former Clinton Treasury official.
James Brady
James Scott Brady (1940-2014), Reagan's White House press secretary, was shot in the head in the 1981 Hinckley assassination attempt, kept his title through 1989, and lent his name to the 1994 Brady Law background checks.
James Braid (American political aide)
James Braid is an American Republican staffer who served as Assistant to the President and Director of Legislative Affairs in the White House until his 2026 departure.
James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), Richmond-born American fantasy and satire author of Jurgen (1919) and the 18-volume Biography of the Life of Manuel set in Poictesme; acquitted of obscenity in 1922.
James Bree (footballer)
James Patrick Bree, born 1997, is an English right-back for Southampton who began at Barnsley at 16 and has also played for Aston Villa and Luton Town.
James Brenton (oncologist)
James D. Brenton is a clinician-scientist and Professor of Ovarian Cancer Medicine at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, known for blood tests tracking tumor DNA in ovarian cancer.
James Brindley
James Brindley (1716–1772) was an English civil engineer, the leading canal engineer of the early Industrial Revolution, who built the Bridgewater Canal and about 350 miles of waterways.