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James C. Zachos
James C. Zachos is an American paleoceanographer and geochemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, known for the global deep-sea isotope record and the PETM.
James Caan
James Edmund Caan (1940–2022), American actor known as Jimmy Caan; Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (Oscar nomination), Brian's Song, Misery, Elf; Meisner-trained, Bronx-born, five-decade career with a 1982–1987 hiatus.
James Cagney
James Cagney (1899-1986), American actor and dancer, screen gangster of The Public Enemy (1931) and White Heat (1950), Oscar winner for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), independent producer with brother William.
James Callaghan
James Callaghan (1912–2005), Labour Prime Minister 1976–79, the only Briton to hold all four great offices of state. His premiership saw the 1976 IMF loan, the Lib-Lab Pact, and the Winter of Discontent strikes, ending in a one-vote 1979 confidence defeat and Thatcher's rise.
James Callis
James Callis (born 1971, London) is an English actor known as Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica, Tom in Bridget Jones, the voice of Alucard in Castlevania, and Claude Whelan in Slow Horses.
James Calvert
James Calvert (1813–1892) was an English Wesleyan Methodist missionary who worked in Fiji from 1838 to 1866, edited the Fijian New Testament, and helped produce the first complete Fijian Bible.
James Cameron
James Cameron (born 1954, Kapuskasing, Ontario) is a Canadian director of The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic, and Avatar, two of the three highest-grossing films ever, and a deep-sea explorer who descended 11 kilometers.
James Cameron filmography
James Cameron filmography: the directed, written, and produced films of Canadian director James Cameron (born 1954), from Piranha II (1982) and The Terminator through Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), with dated sequels for 2029 and 2031.
James Canty III
James Canty III (born 1992) is an American FIDE Master, streamer, coach, and commentator from Detroit; peak FIDE 2353, Millionaire Chess runner-up, and Super Heavyweight Chessboxing World Champion.
James Carlini
James Carlini is a defense systems engineer at Leidos, elected to the National Academy of Engineering's Class of 2026, who founded and directed DARPA's Special Projects Office.
James Carpinello
James Anthony Carpinello (born 1975, Albany, New York) is an American stage, film, and TV actor and producer: Tony Manero in Broadway's Saturday Night Fever, Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages, and lead producer of The Lost Boys musical; married to Amy Acker.
James Carr (singer)
James Carr (1942–2001) was an American Southern soul singer on Memphis's Goldwax label, known for the original 'The Dark End of the Street' and nine 1966–1969 R&B hits; mental illness curtailed a career admired by connoisseurs.
James Carroll
James Carroll, known in Māori as Timi Kara, was a New Zealand politician who became the first Māori to hold a general parliamentary seat and to serve as Native Minister.
James Cartlidge
James Cartlidge is a British Conservative politician who has been MP for South Suffolk since 2015 and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence since July 2024.
James Cartwright (actor)
James Lewis Cartwright (born 1984) is an English actor, son of playwright Jim Cartwright. Known as PC Harrison Burns in The Archers, Theo Silverton in Coronation Street, RTS Award winner for Johnny Shakespeare, and Fringe First winner for Raz.
James Carville
James Carville (born 1944, Carville, Louisiana), the "Ragin' Cajun," is the Democratic strategist who ran Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign with "It's the economy, stupid" and the War Room, later a commentator and podcast host.
James Cash Penney
James Cash Penney (1875–1971) was an American retail businessman who founded the J. C. Penney chain, growing one Wyoming store into America's first nationwide department store chain.
James Cassin
James Cassin, also recorded as Jim Cassin, was an American quarter-miler who ran for the University of Southern California in the mid-1930s, finishing sixth in the 400 meters at the 1935 and 1936 NCAA championships.
James Chadwick
James Chadwick (1891–1974) was a British physicist who discovered the neutron in 1932, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics, and later led the British Mission to the Manhattan Project.
James Chalmers (Scottish respiratory physician)
James D. Chalmers is a Scottish respiratory physician and clinical scientist known for bronchiectasis research, leading the brensocatib development program, and chairing the European Bronchiectasis Registry since 2014.
James Chaney
James Earl Chaney (1943–1964), Meridian, Mississippi CORE civil rights worker murdered with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman during Freedom Summer in Neshoba County; 1967 federal conspiracy convictions, 2005 Killen manslaughter conviction, 2014 posthumous Medal of Freedom.
James Chapple
James Henry George Chapple (1865–1947) was a New Zealand clergyman and pacifist who served as a Salvation Army officer, Presbyterian minister, and Unitarian minister, and was imprisoned for sedition in 1918 for anti-war speeches.
James Charles
James Charles, full name James Charles Dickinson, is an American beauty influencer and makeup artist who became CoverGirl's first male ambassador at 17 in 2016.
James Charles Phillips
James Charles Phillips is a condensed matter physicist known for his work on glass physics, who led research at Bell Laboratories and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
James Chester
James Grant Chester (born 1989) is a Welsh retired defender; 35 Wales caps, Euro 2016 semi-finalist, Hull City FA Cup finalist, Aston Villa captain in the 2019 promotion play-off final; retired 13 February 2025.
James Chiu
James Chiu is a quantitative trader and the founder and CEO of Vatic Investments, a New York systematic trading firm he started in 2014 after leaving Jump Trading.
James Clapper
James Robert Clapper Jr. (born 1941), retired USAF lieutenant general, was the fourth U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2010–2017) under Obama, after leading the Defense Intelligence Agency, NIMA/NGA, and serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
James Clavell
James Clavell (1924-1994), Australian-born British novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, author of the Asian Saga (King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shogun, Noble House, Whirlwind, Gai-Jin); a Changi POW whose 1975 novel Shogun sold millions and inspired 1980 and 2024 miniseries.
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) was a Scottish physicist who unified electricity, magnetism, and light in his 1865 theory, and also pioneered color photography and the kinetic theory of gases.
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is a 15-meter radio telescope near the summit of Maunakea, Hawaii, and the world's largest telescope built for submillimetre astronomy.