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James Goldsmith

James Goldsmith, also known as Jimmy Goldsmith, was a Franco-British financier who made billions buying undervalued companies and selling their parts, then fought British EU membership.

James (Jimmy) Goldstein, American real estate investor and NBA superfan with Lakers and Clippers courtside season tickets, 100+ games a year; wealth from California mobile home parks and rent-control litigation; Sheats-Goldstein Residence bequeathed to LACMA.

Sep 19, 2026

James Goodnight

James Goodnight, born in 1943, is an American software executive and statistician who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976 and has served as its CEO ever since.

James Gosling

James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist, born in 1955, best known as the creator of the Java programming language, which he designed at Sun Microsystems.

James Gould Cozzens

James Gould Cozzens was an American novelist who wrote thirteen novels between 1924 and 1968 and won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Guard of Honor.

James Graham Martindale

James Graham Martindale was a British textile researcher at the Wool Industries Research Association who devised the cloth-wearing tester that became the Martindale abrasion tester in 1942.

Sep 19, 2026

James Grant (British DJ)

James Grant is a British DJ, producer, and label executive who co-founded the London electronic label Anjunadeep in 2005, manages Above & Beyond, and records with Jody Wisternoff.

Sep 23, 2026

James Grant Duff

James Grant Duff was a Scottish East India Company officer who served as Resident at Satara from 1818 and wrote A History of the Mahrattas.

James Gray (director)

James Gray (born 1969) is an American writer-director of New York-set dramas including Little Odessa (1994, Venice Silver Lion), The Immigrant, Ad Astra, and Armageddon Time; a Cannes regular appreciated especially in France.

James Gray (zoologist)

Sir James Gray (1891–1975) was an English zoologist who held the Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge and pioneered the experimental study of animal locomotion, including Gray's paradox about dolphin swimming speed.

James Gregory (actor)

James Gregory (1911–2002) was an American character actor with a deep, gravelly voice, known for Inspector Luger on Barney Miller and roles in The Manchurian Candidate.

James Gross

James J. Gross is an American psychologist and Stanford professor known for the process model of emotion regulation, honored with the 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology.

James Gunn

James Gunn, American filmmaker and Co-Chairman/CEO of DC Studios with Peter Safran; rose from Troma's Tromeo & Juliet to Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, and the 2025 DCU launch film Superman.

Oct 3, 2026

James Gunn's PG Porn

James Gunn's PG Porn is a 2008-2009 Spike.com comedy web series by James, Brian, and Sean Gunn: porn-film spoofs with no sex, tagline "For people who love everything about Porn...except the sex."

James Gustave Speth

James Gustave "Gus" Speth, born 1942, is an American environmental lawyer and author who co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, founded the World Resources Institute, and led the UN Development Programme.

Oct 21, 2026

James Guy

James Guy is a British competitive swimmer specializing in freestyle and butterfly who won three Olympic golds in relays and the 200 m freestyle title at the 2015 World Championships.

James H. Bramble

James H. Bramble (1930–2021) was an American numerical analyst who helped build the mathematical theory of finite element and multigrid methods, ending his career as a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

James H. Brown (American ecologist)

James H. Brown is an American ecologist at the University of New Mexico, known as the founder of macroecology and a co-developer of the metabolic theory of ecology.

James H. Chesebro

James H. Chesebro is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist known for randomized trials of dipyridamole plus aspirin after coronary-artery bypass surgery and a 1992 review of acute coronary syndromes.

James H. Clark

James H. Clark (born 1944 in Plainview, Texas) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who founded Silicon Graphics, co-founded Netscape with Marc Andreessen, and started Healtheon and MyCFO.

James H. Cone

James H. Cone (James Hal Cone, 1938–2018) was an American theologian at Union Theological Seminary who founded black liberation theology; his book The Cross and the Lynching Tree won the 2018 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

James H. Crocker

James H. Crocker is an American aerospace engineer and National Academy of Engineering member known for conceiving COSTAR, the corrective optics that restored the Hubble Space Telescope's vision.

James H. Fallon

James H. Fallon (1947–2023) was an American neuroscientist at UC Irvine who discovered his own brain scan matched the pattern he had described in psychopaths.

James H. Fowler

James H. Fowler is an American social scientist and professor of political science at UC San Diego, known for the 2007 New England Journal of Medicine study of obesity spreading through social networks and for genopolitics.

James H. Gear

James H. Gear, full name James Henderson Sutherland Gear, was a South African virologist who established Coxsackie B virus as a cause of newborn myocarditis.

Sep 20, 2026

James H. Hurley

James H. Hurley is an American structural cell biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley who spent 21 years at NIH and is known for the ESCRT membrane-severing machinery, autophagy, and HIV hijacking of membrane traffic.

Sep 20, 2026

James H. Jandl

James H. Jandl (1925–2006) was an American experimental hematologist who spent his career at Harvard in Boston, defining how red blood cells age and writing the textbook Blood: Textbook of Hematology.

James H. Madole

James H. Madole (James Hartung Madole) founded and led the National Renaissance Party, a small American neo-fascist group, from 1949 for about thirty years, and pioneered fusing national socialism with occultism, theosophy, Satanism, and science fiction.

James H. McKerrow

James McKerrow is an American physician-scientist known for protease-targeted drug discovery against Chagas disease, schistosomiasis, and sleeping sickness, and dean of UC San Diego's Skaggs pharmacy school from 2014 to 2022.