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James Briscoe
James Briscoe is a British developmental biologist and Deputy Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for his work on how Sonic hedgehog patterns the vertebrate neural tube.
James Bristow
James Bristow is a physician-scientist in pediatric cardiology and human genetics, a UCSF professor who showed that tenascin-X deficiency causes a recessive form of Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.
James Brockermeyer
James Brockermeyer, American football center from Fort Worth, Texas; played at Alabama, TCU, and Miami (first-team All-American 2025); undrafted 2026, now on the Philadelphia Eagles practice squad.
James Broderick
James Broderick (1927–1982), American actor, father on TV's Family and in Alice's Restaurant, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, and Dog Day Afternoon; father of Matthew Broderick.
James Brokenshire
James Brokenshire (James Peter Brokenshire, 1968-2021) was a British Conservative MP and minister: Northern Ireland Secretary 2016-2018, Housing Secretary 2018-2019, and Security Minister, dying of lung cancer while in office.
James Brolin
James Brolin (born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin, 1940) is an American actor known for Marcus Welby, M.D., Hotel, Westworld, The Amityville Horror, Lightyear, and Ransom Canyon, husband of Barbra Streisand and father of actor Josh Brolin.
James Brooke
James Brooke, known as Rajah Brooke, was an English soldier who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in 1842, founding a dynasty that ruled until 1946.
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812–1860), British Governor-General of India 1848–1856; annexed Punjab, Lower Burma, and princely states via the Doctrine of Lapse; introduced railways, telegraph, and postal reform; blamed for the 1857 revolt.
James Brown
James Brown (1933-2006), the Godfather of Soul, was an American singer and bandleader who created funk with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and "Cold Sweat," scored civil-rights anthem "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud," and was a 1986 charter Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
James Brown (sportscaster)
James "JB" Brown (born 1951), Washington, D.C.-born Harvard-educated sportscaster, host of CBS's The NFL Today since 2006 and formerly Fox NFL Sunday; three-time Emmy winner, record Super Bowl host, 2024 Sports Emmy Lifetime Achievement honoree. Not the soul singer or NFL running back Jim Brown.
James Brown discography
James Brown discography: the recorded catalog of the Godfather of Soul (1933–2006), spanning Federal, King, Smash, and Polydor releases from "Please, Please, Please" (1956) to Live at the Apollo, The Payback, and the Star Time box set.
James Brown Fisk
James Brown Fisk (1910–1981) was an American physicist who helped develop the microwave magnetron for wartime radar and served as president of Bell Laboratories from 1959 to 1973.
James Brown Scott
James Brown Scott (1866–1943) was a Canadian-born American jurist and legal educator who advised seven presidents, founded the American Society of International Law, and helped establish the Hague Academy and the Permanent Court of International Justice.
James Browne (Fianna Fáil politician)
James Browne is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, TD for Wexford since 2016, who has served as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage since 2025.
James Bruce
James Bruce (1730-1794), Scottish explorer of Ethiopia and the Sudan, reached the Blue Nile source at Lake Tana in 1770 and wrote Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790), first derided then vindicated.
James Bruce Bussel
James Bruce Bussel, also known as James B. Bussel, is an American pediatric hematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who defined the modern treatment of fetal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), British lieutenant-general, colonel of the 11th Hussars, commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava 1854; also tried by the House of Lords over the 1840 Black Bottle duel.
James Brugarolas
James Brugarolas is a kidney cancer physician-scientist and professor at UT Southwestern whose work on HIF-2 led to belzutifan, first FDA-approved HIF-2 inhibitor for kidney cancer.
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant was an American organic chemist and president of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953 who organized US scientific research during World War II.
James Buchanan
James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th U.S. president (1857–1861), Pennsylvania Democrat, lifelong bachelor; failed to stop Southern secession and consistently ranks last among presidents.
James Buchanan Duke
James Buchanan Duke, known as Buck Duke, was an American industrialist who built the American Tobacco Company into a monopoly, founded Duke Power, and endowed Duke University.
James Buchanan Eads
James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887) was a self-taught American civil engineer best known for the Eads Bridge at St. Louis and for jetties that opened the Mississippi's mouth to oceangoing ships.
James Buckley (actor)
James Patrick Buckley (born 1987, Croydon) is an English actor known as Jay Cartwright in The Inbetweeners (2008-2010) and its films; also a prolific Cameo creator and Twitch, YouTube personality.
James Bumgardner Murphy
James Bumgardner Murphy (1884–1950) was an American cancer researcher who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute, established the lymphocyte's role in graft rejection, and developed the first technique for growing tumor viruses in hens' eggs.
James Bunten
James Clark Bunten (1875-1935) was a Scottish mechanical engineer and sailor of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club who won Olympic gold in the 12-metre class aboard Hera at the 1908 London Games, distinct from the modern MMA fighter of the same name.
James Burgum
James Burgum is an American venture capital and agribusiness executive who co-founded Arthur Ventures, a firm investing in B2B software outside Silicon Valley, and leads The Arthur Companies.
James Burke (gangster)
James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke (born James Conway, 1931–1996) was an Irish-American Lucchese crime family associate, suspected mastermind of the 1978 $5.8 million Lufthansa heist at JFK Airport, and inspiration for Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas; he died in prison for an unrelated murder.
James Burke (science historian)
James Burke is a British science historian and broadcaster best known for the 1978 BBC series Connections, which traces how inventions link in unpredictable chains.
James Burleigh Thompson
James Burleigh Thompson (1921–2011) was an American metamorphic petrologist and mineralogist at Harvard University who applied chemical thermodynamics to rocks and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1967.
James Burrows
James Burrows (1940-2026), American television director and Cheers co-creator; directed over 1,000 sitcom episodes including all of Will & Grace, won 11 Emmys, pioneered four-camera sitcom directing.