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James H. Pikul
James H. Pikul, also published as James Pikul, is an American mechanical engineer and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for camouflaging skins, microbatteries, and metallic nanolattices.
James H. Pomerene
James H. Pomerene (1920–2008) was an American computer engineer who designed the arithmetic and memory hardware of the IAS machine and led IBM's HARVEST supercomputer for the NSA.
James H. Schwartz
James H. Schwartz (1932–2006) was an American neurobiologist at Columbia University who helped establish the molecular study of learning and memory in the sea slug Aplysia.
James H. Stock
James H. Stock, also known as James Stock, is an American econometrician at Harvard known for work on cointegration and the social cost of carbon.
James H. Stratton
James H. Stratton was an American civil engineer and U.S. Army brigadier general, a named principal of the firm TAMS that consulted on Tarbela Dam in Pakistan.
James H. Thomas
James H. Thomas is an American geneticist at the University of Washington known for research on dauer formation, aging, and gene family evolution in C. elegans.
James H. Ware
James H. Ware (1941–2016) was an American biostatistician at Harvard who coauthored the Six Cities Study linking fine-particle air pollution to mortality, work that shaped the Clean Air Act.
James H. Wilkinson
James H. Wilkinson, also known as James Hardy Wilkinson, was an English numerical analyst who developed backward error analysis, guided eigenvalue algorithm development, and won the 1970 Turing Award.
James H. Wilkinson III
James Harvie Wilkinson III is an American jurist serving as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 1984, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
James Hadley (philologist)
James Hadley (1821–1872) was an American classical scholar and philologist, professor of Greek at Yale from 1851, known for his Greek grammar and work on Greek and Roman law.
James Hagens
James Hagens (born 2006), American center from Hauppauge, New York; drafted 7th overall in 2025 by the Boston Bruins after Boston College and USNTDP; 2025 World Juniors gold, 2024 U-18 MVP.
James Hall (American geologist)
James Hall (1811–1898) was an American geologist and paleontologist, New York State Paleontologist and first director of its state museum, whose Paleontology of New York founded American invertebrate paleontology.
James Hamilton
James Hamilton, born 1954, is an American macroeconomist at the University of California, San Diego, known for finding that oil price increases preceded nearly every postwar U.S. recession.
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (James Albert Edward Hamilton, 1869-1953), British unionist politician, MP for Derry City 1900-1913, and first Governor of Northern Ireland from 1922 until 1945, knight of the Garter in 1928.
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn (b. 1934), British peer, courtier, and Ulster Unionist MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1964–1970; succeeded 1979, Knight of the Garter 1999, Lord-Lieutenant of Tyrone, married Alexandra Phillips 1966.
James Hammond Trumbull
James Hammond Trumbull (1821–1897) was an American philologist in Hartford, Connecticut, a leading scholar of Algonquian languages and Connecticut's Secretary of State from 1861 to 1866.
James Hampton (actor)
James Wade Hampton (July 9, 1936 – April 7, 2021), American character actor; not the visionary artist James Hampton. Known as bugler Hannibal Dobbs on F Troop, Caretaker in The Longest Yard (Golden Globe nomination), and Harold Howard in Teen Wolf; also directed sitcom episodes including Evening Shade and Sister, Sister.
James Hanratty
James Hanratty (1936-1962) was hanged at Bedford Prison for the A6 murder of Michael Gregsten and rape and shooting of Valerie Storie in 1961. His 2002 appeal failed on DNA evidence, though the CCRC had cited non-disclosure.
James Harden
James Harden (born 1989) is an American NBA guard, 2018 MVP and 11-time All-Star, for the Cleveland Cavaliers; drafted third in 2009 by Oklahoma City, known for his step-back three and free-throw drawing.
James Hardie Industries
James Hardie Industries is an Irish-domiciled building materials company, founded in 1888, that makes fiber cement siding and has paid over A$2.5 billion to asbestos victims.
James Hardiman
James Hardiman is a venture capital investor who has been a General Partner at Data Collective (DCVC), a San Francisco Bay Area deep-tech firm, since 2013.
James Harrison (American football)
James Harrison (James Henry Harrison Jr., born 1978) is a former NFL outside linebacker, undrafted in 2002, who won Super Bowls XL and XLIII with the Pittsburgh Steelers, was 2008 AP Defensive Player of the Year, and set the franchise sack record with 80.5.
James Harrison (blood donor)
James Harrison (1936-2025), the Man with the Golden Arm, Australian plasma donor whose rare anti-D antibody made injections preventing hemolytic disease; 1,173 donations credited with saving 2.4 million babies.
James Harrison Rigg
James Harrison Rigg (1821–1909) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister and educationist, principal of Westminster College from 1868 to 1903 and twice president of the Wesleyan Conference.
James Hartle
James Hartle (1939–2023) was an American gravitational physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, best known for the no-boundary wave function of the universe.
James Haskell
James Haskell (born 1985), English rugby union back-row forward, 77 England caps, 2017 British and Irish Lions tourist, Wasps, Stade Français, Highlanders, Northampton Saints; retired 2019, now podcaster and author.
James Haven
James Haven (born 1973), American actor and producer, son of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand and older brother of Angelina Jolie; appeared in Gia and Original Sin, produced Trudell, led the Artivist Film Festival, and came out as gay in 2026. Distinct from assistant director James Andrew Haven.
James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle
James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (c. 1580–1636) was a Scottish courtier and diplomat favored by James I, who in 1627 obtained from Charles I the proprietorship of the Caribbee Islands, including Barbados.
James Hayes (Pennsylvania politician)
James Hayes is an American economist and business executive, the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 12th District, challenging incumbent Summer Lee in a 2026 rematch.
James Hayter (actor)
James Hayter (Henry James Goodenough Hayter, 1907-1983), British character actor; Friar Tuck in Disney's 1952 Robin Hood and Samuel Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers (BAFTA nomination); voice of Mr Kipling cakes ads.