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James E. Meade
James E. Meade, also known as James Meade, was a British economist who shared the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for the theory of international trade.
James E. Muller
James E. Muller, also known as James Muller, is an American cardiologist who showed heart attacks peak in the morning and co-founded IPPNW, which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
James E. Rogers Energy Complex
The James E. Rogers Energy Complex, formerly Cliffside Steam Station, is a coal- and natural-gas-fired power station in Mooresboro, North Carolina, operated by Duke Energy Carolinas.
James E. Rothman
James E. Rothman, born in 1950, is an American cell biologist and Yale professor who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering the machinery of vesicle transport in cells.
James E. Simmons, Jr.
James E. Simmons, Jr. (born 1979) is an American judge serving on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California since 2023.
James E. Solomon
James E. Solomon (born 1936) is an American analog integrated-circuit engineer who founded SDA in 1983, which merged with ECAD in 1988 to form Cadence Design Systems.
James E. Stowers
James E. Stowers Jr., a Kansas City businessman (1924–2014), founded Twentieth Century mutual funds and co-founded the Stowers Institute for Medical Research using an earnings-driven investment method.
James E. Strain
James E. Strain (1923–2020) was a Denver pediatrician and the only person to serve the American Academy of Pediatrics as both president and executive director.
James E. Udelson
James E. Udelson is an American cardiologist who has led the Division of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center since 2008 and researches cardiac imaging and heart failure.
James E. Webb
James E. Webb (1906–1992), NASA's second administrator (1961–1968), Truman Budget Director and Under Secretary of State, led Project Apollo and systems management; namesake of the James Webb Space Telescope.
James E. Womack
James E. Womack (1941–2023) was an American animal geneticist at Texas A&M University who developed the first comparative map of cattle genes against human and mouse genomes.
James Earl Carter Sr.
James Earl Carter Sr. was an American farmer, businessman, and Democratic politician from Plains, Georgia, best known as the father of President Jimmy Carter; he served in the Georgia House before dying in 1953.
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (1931–2024), American actor and EGOT winner; voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa; first Black Tony Best Actor winner for The Great White Hope; Cort Theatre renamed in his honor in 2022.
James Earl King Hildreth
James Earl King Hildreth, born 1956 in Camden, Arkansas, is an American virologist and immunologist serving since 2015 as the 12th president of Meharry Medical College.
James Earl Ray
James Earl Ray (1928-1998), American armed robber and prison escapee who pleaded guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, 1968, was captured at Heathrow, sentenced to 99 years, then recanted; also known as Eric Galt, 'the Mole.'
James Earl Smay
James Earl Smay is an American materials scientist and engineer at Oklahoma State University, a 2005 PECASE recipient known for direct ink writing of colloidal inks.
James Earp
James Cooksey Earp (1841-1926), eldest Earp brother of Tombstone fame; Union Civil War veteran wounded at Fredericktown, saloon keeper in Tombstone, absent from the O.K. Corral gunfight, died in Los Angeles.
James Eastland
James Eastland (Big Jim), Mississippi Democratic senator 1943–1978, longtime Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and segregationist who blocked civil rights bills, signed the Southern Manifesto, and served as president pro tempore.
James Eberwine
James H. Eberwine is an American molecular pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose laboratory developed the nucleic acid amplification methods that enabled single-cell transcriptomics.
James Economy
James Economy (1929–2021) was an American polymer chemist known for liquid crystalline aromatic copolyesters and boron nitride composites, who led the University of Illinois materials science department.
James Edward Keeler
James Edward Keeler (1857–1900) was an American astronomer and astrophysicist who proved Saturn's rings are countless orbiting particles and photographed hundreds of spiral nebulae at Lick Observatory.
James Edward Quigley
James Edward Quigley was a Canadian-born Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Buffalo from 1897 and Archbishop of Chicago from 1903 until 1915.
James Edward Rekoske
James Edward Rekoske is an American chemical engineer and R&D executive elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023, cited for petrochemical, renewable fuel, and water conservation technologies.
James Edwin Barger
James Edwin Barger is an American acoustician, Chief Scientist at BBN in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led forensic analyses of the JFK, Watergate, and Kent State recordings.
James Ellroy
James Ellroy, born Lee Earle Ellroy in Los Angeles in 1948, is the American crime novelist of the L.A. Quartet and Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy; his latest novel is Red Sheet (2026).
James Ellsworth (wrestler)
James Ellsworth (James Ellsworth Morris, born 1984), American professional wrestler from Baltimore; 2016 WWE underdog who beat AJ Styles three times, won a SmackDown contract, and managed Carmella.
James Ensor
James Sidney Ensor, also known as Edouard Ensor, was a Belgian painter and printmaker and founding member of Les XX, known for his grotesque art and monumental work.
James Eric Gouaux Jr.
Eric Gouaux (James Eric Gouaux Jr.) is a structural neuroscientist at Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute known for structures of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters.
James Ernest Hitchcock
James Ernest Hitchcock (born 1956) was a Florida prisoner executed April 30, 2026 for the 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter, Cynthia Driggers; his case produced Hitchcock v. Dugger (1987) and four death sentences.
James Eugene Broadwell
James Eugene Broadwell, known as Gene Broadwell, was an American aeronautical engineer at Caltech, Stanford, and TRW, namesake of the Broadwell model of shock waves.