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James Cleveland
James Cleveland (1932–1991) was an American gospel singer, pianist, and choir director known as the "King of Gospel", who founded the Gospel Music Workshop of America.
James Cleverly
James Cleverly, Conservative MP for Braintree since 2015, was UK Foreign Secretary (2022–2023), then Home Secretary (2023–2024) under Rishi Sunak, ran for Conservative leader in 2024, and later served in opposition shadow roles.
James Cobern
James W. Cobern, Alabama man executed September 4, 1964 in the electric chair for a Dallas County robbery and the killing of Mamie Belle Walker; not the Texas inmate James Colburn.
James Coburn
James Coburn (1928-2002) was an American actor of about 70-80 films and 100+ TV appearances, known for The Magnificent Seven, Our Man Flint, and his 1999 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Affliction.
James Coco
James Coco (James Emil Coco, 1930-1987), American character actor and New York stage veteran; three Obies, Drama Desk for Next, 1983 Emmy for St. Elsewhere, and Oscar nomination for Only When I Laugh.
James Coleman (Colorado politician)
James R. Coleman is an American Democratic politician serving as President of the Colorado Senate, representing Denver's District 33 after first joining the Colorado House in 2017.
James Collins (footballer, born 1983)
James Michael Collins (born 1983, Newport) is a Welsh retired centre-back; Cardiff, West Ham (two spells), Aston Villa, Ipswich; 51 Wales caps, 3 goals, Euro 2016 squad; retired 17 October 2020. Not the 1990-born Irish striker.
James Collins (nutritionist)
James Collins (James N. Collins), British sport and exercise nutritionist; Arsenal FC's first Head of Nutrition (2010, seven seasons), lead author of the UEFA Expert Group Statement on Nutrition in Elite Football, author of The Energy Plan, and founder of INTRA Performance Group.
James Collip
James Bertram Collip was a Canadian biochemist who purified insulin in January 1922 to a form safe for human injection, and later isolated parathormone and worked on ACTH.
James Comer
James Comer, born in 1972, is an American Republican politician who has represented Kentucky's 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2016, after serving as Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture.
James Comey
James Comey, American lawyer, seventh FBI director (2013-2017), former deputy attorney general known for the 2004 Stellar Wind surveillance showdown; fired by Trump, later twice indicted and twice dismissed.
James Conner (American football)
James Conner, NFL running back for the Arizona Cardinals, formerly Pittsburgh Steelers; 2017 third-round pick out of Pitt who overcame Hodgkin lymphoma, two-time Pro Bowler (2018, 2021), and first Cardinal with 1,000+ scrimmage yards in each of his first four seasons.
James Connolly
James Connolly (Séamas Ó Conghaile) was an Irish socialist revolutionary who founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party and was executed after the 1916 Easter Rising.
James Cook
James Cook (1728–1779), British naval officer and navigator, led three Pacific voyages, charted New Zealand and eastern Australia, disproved Terra Australis, and was killed at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii.
James Cook (running back)
James Cook III, Buffalo Bills NFL running back, Georgia product drafted 63rd overall in 2022; brother of Dalvin Cook; 2024 co-leader with 16 rushing TDs, 2025 NFL rushing champion with 1,621 yards, two-time Pro Bowler, signed four-year extension through 2029.
James Cook (Skins)
James Cook, called Cook, is a fictional character in the British teen drama Skins, played by Jack O'Connell. A Generation 2 anti-hero in Series 3–4 and protagonist of the 2013 finale Skins: Rise.
James Cooley
James Cooley (1926–2016) was an American applied mathematician who spent his career at IBM's Watson Research Center and co-invented the fast Fourier transform with John Tukey in 1965.
James Corden
James Corden (born 1978, Hillingdon, London) is an English actor, writer, and host known for Gavin & Stacey, One Man Two Guvnors (2012 Tony), and CBS's The Late Late Show with Carpool Karaoke, 2015-2023; now The Choir (2027) and Fox's World Cup After Hours.
James Cosmo
James Cosmo (born 1948, Clydebank, Scotland; birth name James Ronald Gordon Copeland) is a Scottish character actor known for Highlander, Braveheart, Troy, and Jeor Mormont in Game of Thrones; MBE 2018.
James Cousins
James Cousins (1873–1956) was an Irish poet, playwright, and critic of the Irish Literary Revival alongside Yeats, who moved to India in 1915 and coined the term "Indo-Anglian".
James Cracknell
James Cracknell (born 1972, Sutton, England), British rower, double Olympic gold medallist in the coxless four (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004), six world titles; oldest Boat Race competitor at 46, winning with Cambridge in 2019.
James Crafts
James Mason Crafts (1839–1917) was an American chemist who, with Charles Friedel, described the Friedel–Crafts reaction in 1877, and who served as president of MIT from 1897 to 1900.
James Craig Watson
James Craig Watson (1838–1880) was a Canadian-American astronomer who discovered 22 asteroids, directed the Detroit and Washburn observatories, and left a bequest funding the National Academy's Watson Medal.
James Crichton
James Crichton, called the Admirable Crichton, was a Scottish scholar and adventurer (1560–1582) famous across Europe for his command of languages, memory, and skill in arms.
James Crichton-Browne
Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938) was a British psychiatrist and neurologist who directed the West Riding Lunatic Asylum from 1866, corresponded with Darwin, and co-founded Brain in 1878.
James Cromwell
James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American character actor, son of director John Cromwell, Oscar-nominated for Babe (1995), Emmy winner for American Horror Story: Asylum, and a PETA-affiliated vegan activist.
James Cronin
James Watson Cronin (1931–2016) was an American particle physicist at the University of Chicago who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with Val Fitch for discovering CP violation in neutral K-meson decay.
James Curran (computer scientist)
James R. Curran, also published as J. R. Curran, is an Australian computer scientist at the University of Sydney known for CCG parsing and founding Grok Learning.
James D Shelton
James D Shelton is an American public-health scientist at USAID in Washington, DC, known for Lancet commentaries on condoms, family planning, and generalised HIV epidemics.
James D. Byerlee
James D. Byerlee is an experimental rock-mechanics geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey whose 1978 paper established Byerlee's law, the standard rule for rock fault friction.