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James Fleet
James Fleet (born 1952, Bilston, Staffordshire) is an English actor trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, known for Tom in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hugo Horton in The Vicar of Dibley, and King George III in Queen Charlotte.
James Flynn (academic)
James Robert Flynn (1934-2020), American-born New Zealand moral philosopher and Otago politics professor, documented worldwide generational IQ gains known as the Flynn effect, debated Arthur Jensen on race and IQ, and wrote on philosophy, politics, and free speech.
James Foley (director)
James Foley (director) (1953–2025), American film and TV director, not the journalist James Foley nor the Australian author. Directed Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Madonna's music videos, House of Cards episodes, and the two Fifty Shades sequels.
James Foley (journalist)
James Wright Foley (1973-2014), American freelance conflict journalist for GlobalPost and AFP, captured in Libya in 2011, abducted in Idlib, Syria in November 2012, and murdered by ISIS on August 19, 2014; his case drove U.S. hostage-policy reform and the Foley Legacy Foundation.
James Ford (musician)
James Ellis Ford (born 1978, Leek, England), also James Ford, is an English producer, Simian Mobile Disco and Last Shadow Puppets member, and Arctic Monkeys producer; his 2026 solo album Lost in Another World was recorded from a hospital bed during leukemia treatment.
James Ford Bell
James Ford Bell (1879–1961) was an American businessman who created General Mills in Minneapolis in 1928, building it from the Washburn Crosby flour company he led.
James Forrestal
James Vincent Forrestal (1892-1949), investment banker, Under Secretary and Secretary of the Navy 1940-1947, and first U.S. Secretary of Defense 1947-1949; died by suicide at Bethesda Naval Hospital in May 1949.
James Fox
James Fox is the name of several figures, chiefly an American documentary filmmaker known for UFO films such as The Phenomenon and The Program, and an English actor born 1939, BAFTA winner for The Servant.
James Fox (filmmaker)
James Fox is a documentary filmmaker specializing in UFO/UAP films: UFOs: 50 Years of Denial, Out of the Blue, I Know What I Saw, The Phenomenon (2020), Moment of Contact (2022), and The Program (2024). Not the British actor or art historian of the same name.
James Francis Driscoll
James Francis Driscoll (1859–1922) was an American Sulpician priest and theologian from Vermont who served as rector of St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers and founded the New York Review.
James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), the Old Pretender, James III and VIII, exiled Catholic son of James II and Mary of Modena; failed 1708 and 1715 Jacobite attempts, court in Rome, died at the Palazzo Muti 1766.
James Franciscus
James Grover Franciscus (1934–1991), American actor of Naked City, Mr. Novak, Longstreet, and Doc Elliot; also Beneath the Planet of the Apes; producer of classic TV adaptations; died of emphysema at 57.
James Franck
James Franck (1882–1964) was a German-born physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics for the Franck–Hertz experiment, the first direct evidence for discrete atomic energy states.
James Franco
James Franco (born 1978) is an American actor known for Freaks and Geeks, the Spider-Man trilogy, 127 Hours, and The Disaster Artist, also a writer and teacher whose career was derailed by Studio 4 sexual-misconduct lawsuits settled for $2.2 million in 2021.
James Franco filmography
The James Franco filmography covers the screen credits of American actor and filmmaker James Franco, known for Freaks and Geeks, the Spider-Man films, and 127 Hours.
James Frank
James Frank is an American politician, a Republican Texas House member from District 69 in Wichita Falls since 2012 who chaired Human Services and ran for speaker in 2024.
James Franklin (American football coach)
James Franklin (born Feb. 2, 1972), American football head coach at Vanderbilt (2011-13), Penn State (2014-25, 2016 Big Ten title, fired Oct. 2025), and Virginia Tech since Nov. 17, 2025; career 133-62.
James Franklin Rose
James Franklin Rose, Florida death-row inmate convicted of the 1976 kidnapping-murder of 8-year-old Lisa Berry (Broward County) and the 1975 murder of Jean Savage; thrice sentenced to death, housed at Union Correctional Institution.
James Frecheville
James Aitken Frecheville (born 1991, Melbourne) is an Australian actor known for his debut as J in Animal Kingdom (2010), Jack Nelson in Peaky Blinders, and Maj. Bill Veal in Masters of the Air.
James Frederick McCurdy
James Frederick McCurdy (1847–1935) was a Canadian Presbyterian Semitist and Assyriologist who taught Oriental languages at the University of Toronto and is called the father of biblical studies in Canada.
James Freeman Gilbert
James Freeman Gilbert (1931–2014) was an American geophysicist and National Academy of Sciences member at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for the Backus–Gilbert inversion method and Earth's free oscillations.
James Frey
James Frey, American author born 1969 in Cleveland; wrote A Million Little Pieces (2003), a memoir exposed as largely fabricated by The Smoking Gun in 2006 and disowned by Oprah Winfrey; later reinvented as a novelist with Bright Shiny Morning and as creator of the Pittacus Lore Lorien Legacies series.
James Furman Kemp
James Furman Kemp (1859–1926) was an American geologist and Columbia University professor known for applying petrography to economic geology and the origin of ore deposits.
James G. Anderson
James G. Anderson is an American atmospheric chemist at Harvard whose measurements of chlorine radicals from CFCs helped establish their link to Antarctic ozone depletion.
James G. Blaine
James Gillespie Blaine (1830–1893), 'Plumed Knight' of the Republican Party, was a Maine congressman, Speaker of the House, senator, twice secretary of state, and the 1884 Republican presidential nominee defeated by Cleveland.
James G. Carr
James G. Carr, born 1940, is an American jurist appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994 to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
James G. Fox
James G. Fox is a veterinary comparative-medicine scientist who founded MIT's Division of Comparative Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2004.
James G. Fujimoto
James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor at MIT and co-inventor of optical coherence tomography, the laser-based eye imaging method used in tens of millions of procedures yearly.
James G. Herman
James G. Herman is an American physician-scientist in cancer epigenetics who developed methylation-specific PCR, the method that made promoter DNA methylation detectable in routine clinical samples.
James G. Hirsch
James G. Hirsch (1922–1987) was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who pioneered the study of phagocytosis, discovered the bacteria-killing substance phagocytin in 1956, and helped launch cellular immunology.