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James DeBello
James DeBello (born 1980, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actor known as Trip in Detroit Rock City (1999), Bert in Cabin Fever, and roles in American Pie and Scary Movie 2.
James Deen
James Deen (Bryan Matthew Sevilla), American pornographic actor and director named after James Dean; youngest AVN Male Performer of the Year winner at 22; starred in The Canyons; dropped by major studios after 2015 rape allegations he denies.
James DeGale
James DeGale, British boxer, 2008 Beijing Olympic middleweight gold medallist and two-time IBF super middleweight champion; first Briton with both Olympic gold and a pro world title; retired 25-3-1 in 2019.
James DeGregori
James V. DeGregori is an American molecular biologist and cancer researcher at the University of Colorado, known for the adaptive oncogenesis framework and 2025 work on viruses awakening dormant cancer cells.
James Demmel
James Demmel is an American computer scientist and mathematician at UC Berkeley, a career numerical linear algebra researcher known for the LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, and SuperLU libraries and for communication-avoiding algorithms.
James Denton
James Denton (James Thomas Denton Jr., born 1963, Nashville) is an American actor known as Mike Delfino on Desperate Housewives (2004-2012) and Dr. Sam Radford on Hallmark's Good Witch, also Mr. Lyle in The Pretender and a University of Tennessee advertising graduate.
James DePaiva
James DePaiva (born 1957, Livermore, California) is an American actor known as Max Holden on One Life to Live (1987-2007) and Dr. David Bensch on General Hospital; husband of actress Kassie DePaiva.
James Detweiler
James Detweiler is a General Partner at Felicis, a San Francisco venture capital firm, known for building its AI portfolio with investments including RunwayML, Skild AI, and Mercor.
James Devereux
James Devereux, fully James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, was a Marine Corps brigadier general who commanded the defense of Wake Island in December 1941, later a Maryland congressman.
James Dewar
Sir James Dewar (1842–1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist, professor at the Royal Institution in London, who first liquefied hydrogen in 1898 and invented the vacuum flask.
James Dickey
James Lafayette Dickey (1923–1997), American poet, novelist, and critic; National Book Award winner for Buckdancer's Choice, Library of Congress poetry consultant, and author of the best-selling novel Deliverance.
James Ding
James Ding, also known as Jian Ding (丁健), is a Chinese-American venture capitalist at GSR Ventures who co-founded AsiaInfo, the first Chinese company on NASDAQ.
James Doakes
James Doakes is a fictional Miami Metro homicide sergeant in Showtime's Dexter and Jeff Lindsay's novels, played by Erik King. The only character to suspect Dexter Morgan, he is killed by Lila in the Season 2 finale and framed as the Bay Harbor Butcher; the book version, Albert Doakes, survives mutilation by Dr. Danco.
James Dobson
James Dobson, born James Clayton Dobson Jr. (1936–2025), was an American child psychologist and author who founded Focus on the Family in 1977 and advised five presidents.
James Donald
James Donald (James Robert MacGeorge Donald, 1917–1993) was a Scottish actor known for Major Clipton in The Bridge on the River Kwai, Group Captain Ramsey in The Great Escape, and Theo van Gogh in Lust for Life; distinct from the American actor James Wayne Donald Jr. (born 1964).
James Donaldson
Sir James Donaldson (1831–1915) was a Scottish classical and patristic scholar who co-edited the Ante-Nicene Christian Library and was Principal of the University of St Andrews from 1890 to 1915.
James Donato
James Donato, born 1960 in Pasadena, California, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Northern California since 2014, known for presiding over high-profile antitrust and social media cases.
James Doohan
James Montgomery Doohan (1920-2005), Canadian actor and WWII veteran who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in Star Trek (1966-69) and seven films; also devised early Klingon and co-wrote the Flight Engineer novels.
James Dougherty (police officer)
James Edward "Jimmy" Dougherty (1921–2005), Los Angeles Police Department detective for 25 years who trained its first SWAT group; first husband (1942–1946) of Norma Jeane Baker, later Marilyn Monroe; later a Maine county commissioner and 1997 memoirist.
James Douglas Engel
James Douglas Engel, also known as James Engel, is an American molecular biologist known for his work on globin gene regulation and GATA transcription factors.
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
Sir James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (c.1286–1330), the Good Sir James to Scots and the Black Douglas to the English, was Robert the Bruce's chief lieutenant in the Scottish Wars of Independence, victor of the Douglas Larder, knight of Bannockburn, and died at Teba, Spain, in 1330 carrying Bruce's heart on crusade.
James Drake (engineer)
Sir James Drake (1907–1989) was a British civil engineer who, as Lancashire's County Surveyor and Bridgemaster, delivered the Preston Bypass, Britain's first motorway, opened in 1958.
James Dreyfus
James Dreyfus (James Louis de Zogheb Dreyfus, born 1968) is an English actor known as P.C. Goody in The Thin Blue Line, Tom in Gimme Gimme Gimme, Notting Hill, and his 1998 Olivier Award for Lady in the Dark.
James Drury
James Drury (James Child Drury Jr., 1934–2020), American actor, star of NBC's first 90-minute color western The Virginian (1962–1971, 249 episodes); also Forbidden Planet, Ride the High Country; Hall of Great Western Performers inductee.
James Duane
James Duane (1733–1797), New York lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, signatory of the Articles of Confederation, mayor of New York City 1784–1789, and first U.S. District Court judge for the District of New York.
James Duane Livingston
James Duane Livingston III (1930–2019) was an American physicist and metallurgist who spent 33 years at General Electric research and later taught materials science at MIT, studying how metals' microstructure controls their properties.
James Duderstadt
James Duderstadt (1942–2024) was an American nuclear engineer who rose from Michigan professor to its 11th president, 1988 to 1996, and co-authored the leading textbook Nuclear Reactor Analysis.
James Duff (writer)
James Duff (born 1955, New Orleans) is an American TV writer and producer, creator of The Closer and Major Crimes, playwright of Home Front, and executive producer of Star Trek: Picard and Sherlock & Daughter.
James Duffie
James Duffie is an American politician and the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Georgia's 4th District in 2026, running against incumbent Hank Johnson.
James Dugundji
James Dugundji (1919–1985) was a mathematician who spent his career at the University of Southern California, known for the 1951 Dugundji extension theorem and his 1966 textbook Topology.