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James Heartt Van Buren
James Heartt Van Buren (1850–1917) was an American Episcopal missionary bishop of Porto Rico from 1902, residing at San Juan, and educated at Yale University.
James Heckman
James Joseph Heckman is an American economist at the University of Chicago who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on selection bias and policy evaluation.
James Henderson Sutherland Gear
James Henderson Sutherland Gear (1905–1994) was a South African virologist who established Coxsackie B virus as the cause of myocarditis in newborns and led South Africa's polio vaccine research.
James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) was an American Egyptologist and historian who founded the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago and coined the popular term "Fertile Crescent."
James Henry Coffin
James Henry Coffin (1806–1873) was an American mathematician and meteorologist, professor at Lafayette College from 1846, known for the first large-scale statistical studies of the winds, published by the Smithsonian as Winds of the Globe.
James Henry Darlington
James Henry Darlington (1856–1930) was an American Episcopal clergyman and the first bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, serving from 1905 until his death in 1930.
James Henry Greathead
James Henry Greathead (1844–1896) was a South African-born British civil engineer whose cylindrical tunnelling shield, first used on the Tower Subway in 1869, made deep-level tunneling through soft ground practical and underpinned the London Underground.
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (c.1536-1578), Scottish nobleman, Lord High Admiral, and third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots; probable murderer of Lord Darnley, abducted and married Mary in 1567, died imprisoned insane in Dragsholm Castle, Denmark.
James Herbert
James Herbert (1943-2013), British horror novelist, author of The Rats, The Fog, and Haunted; 23 novels, tens of millions sold, OBE 2010; distinct from Frank Herbert of Dune.
James Herriot
James Herriot, pen name of James Alfred (Alf) Wight (1916–1995), Yorkshire vet and author of All Creatures Great and Small; Glasgow-trained, Thirsk-based, name taken from a Birmingham City goalkeeper.
James Hetfield
James Hetfield (born 1963) is an American musician, co-founder, lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of Metallica since 1981, known for down-picked riffs, rehab stints in 2001 and 2020, and 2026 Sphere politics remarks.
James Hewitt
James Hewitt (born 1958), former Life Guards major and Gulf War tank commander, known for his five-year affair with Diana, Princess of Wales, the 1994 book Princess in Love, and his repeated denials that he fathered Prince Harry.
James Hickman
James Hickman, English swimmer (born 1976, Stockport), five-time world short-course 200m butterfly champion 1997-2004, short-course world record holder 100m and 200m fly, three-time British Olympian.
James Hicks
James B. Hicks, born 1946 in Neenah, Wisconsin, is an American molecular biologist known for yeast mating type switching and single-cell genomics of breast and prostate cancer.
James Hinchcliffe
James Hinchcliffe, born 1986 in Toronto, is a retired Canadian IndyCar driver, six-time race winner, 2011 Rookie of the Year, 2016 Indy 500 pole sitter after a near-fatal 2015 crash, and now a FOX and F1 TV broadcaster.
James Hing
Dr. James T. Hing is an American robotics engineer at NAWCAD Lakehurst, New Jersey, who founded its RISE Laboratory and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
James Hobrecht
James Hobrecht (1825–1902) was a German civil engineer who directed Berlin's 1862 expansion plan and designed the city's radial sewerage system, pumping wastewater to sewage farms outside the city.
James Hogg
James Hogg (1770–1835), known as the Ettrick Shepherd, was a Scottish writer whose novel The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) is now a recognized masterpiece.
James Holland (author)
James Holland (born 1970, Salisbury) is a British historian and broadcaster specializing in World War II, author of Fortress Malta, Normandy '44, and Brothers in Arms, co-host with Al Murray of the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast, and co-founder of the Chalke History Festival; distinct from historian Tom Holland.
James Holmes (mass murderer)
James Eagan Holmes, the Aurora theater shooter, killed 12 and wounded 70 at a 2012 Colorado screening of The Dark Knight Rises; convicted on all 165 counts in 2015 and sentenced to 12 life terms plus 3,318 years.
James Holzhauer
James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, set the Jeopardy! single-game winning record. He holds the fourth-longest winning streak in the show's history.
James Hone
James Hone is an experimental condensed-matter physicist and Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, known for pioneering work on graphene and 2D materials.
James Honeyman-Scott
James Honeyman-Scott (1956–1982), English founding lead guitarist of the Pretenders, played on their 1980 debut, Extended Play EP, and Pretenders II, co-wrote Brass in Pocket, and died at 25 of cocaine-related heart failure.
James Hong
James Hong (born 1929) is an American character actor with about 700 credits, known for Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, and Kung Fu Panda.
James Hooper (Michigan politician)
James Hooper is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Michigan's 12th district, having won the primary on August 4, 2026.
James Horner
James Horner (1953-2015), American film composer trained with Ligeti, wrote over 100 scores; won two Oscars for Titanic, whose soundtrack sold over 27 million copies.
James Hough
Sir James (Jim) Hough, born in 1945, is a British experimental physicist at Glasgow who led development of the mirror suspensions that made LIGO's 2015 gravitational-wave detection possible.
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler (born 1948) is an American author and social critic, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency, critic of suburban sprawl and peak oil, blogger of Clusterfuck Nation, and host of the KunstlerCast podcast.
James Howison
James Howison is an information scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies open source software development and the sustainability of scientific software.
James Hunt
James Hunt (1947-1993), British Formula 1 driver and 1976 World Champion, beat Niki Lauda by one point at Fuji; 92 Grands Prix, 10 wins, Hesketh and McLaren, later BBC commentator.