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James Knierim

James J. Knierim is a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who studies memory in the hippocampus, known for work on CA3, CA1, and path integration.

James Kottak

James Kottak (1962–2024), American hard rock drummer, founding member of Kingdom Come and Scorpions drummer 1996–2016, longest-serving in the band's history; also led the pop-punk band Kottak.

James Krause (fighter)

James "The James Krause" Krause (born 1986) is an American retired MMA welterweight (28-8, UFC 9-4), Glory MMA & Fitness head coach in Lee's Summit, Missouri, suspended in a 2022 UFC betting scandal.

James L. Abbruzzese

James L. Abbruzzese is an American medical oncologist known for pancreatic cancer treatment, who chaired gastrointestinal oncology at MD Anderson for 17 years before joining Duke.

James L. Boyer

James L. Boyer is an American hepatologist, the Ensign Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, known for research on bile formation and cholestatic liver disease.

James L. Brooks

James L. Brooks (born 1940, Brooklyn) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter who co-created The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Simpsons and won three Oscars for Terms of Endearment.

James L. Buckley

James L. Buckley (1923-2023), Conservative Party U.S. senator from New York 1971-1977, Reagan State Department official, Radio Free Europe president, D.C. Circuit judge, and lead plaintiff in Buckley v. Valeo (1976), distinct from his brother William F. Buckley Jr.

James L. Cox

James L. Cox (born 1942) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, creator of the Cox maze procedure, the first surgical cure for atrial fibrillation, first performed in 1987 at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis; 2020 Jacobson Innovation Award recipient.

James L. Dennis

James L. Dennis, born 1936 in Monroe, Louisiana, is an American jurist who served on the Louisiana Supreme Court before Bill Clinton appointed him to the Fifth Circuit in 1995.

James L. Dolan

James L. Dolan, American media executive, son of Charles Dolan; leads MSG Entertainment, Sphere Entertainment, MSG Sports, and chairs AMC Networks; former Cablevision CEO 1995-2016.

James L. Dye

James L. Dye (1927–2021) was an American inorganic chemist at Michigan State University who discovered alkalides and electrides, compounds with alkali metals or electrons as anions.

James L. Edmondson

James Larry Edmondson, born 1947, is an American jurist on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986.

James L. Flanagan

James L. Flanagan was an American electrical engineer who led speech and acoustics research at Bell Laboratories for 33 years, winning the 1996 National Medal of Science.

James L. Gould

James L. Gould (born 1945) is an American biologist who spent his career at Princeton University, known for work on honey bee dance communication and navigation.

James L. Graham

James L. Graham, born 1939 in Columbus, Ohio, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Ohio, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.

James L. Hedrick

James L. Hedrick is an American polymer chemist and Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center, known for pioneering metal-free organic catalysts for ring-opening polymerization.

James L. Jones

James L. Jones, born 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, is a retired US Marine Corps general: 32nd Marine Corps Commandant (1999-2003), first Marine SACEUR (2003-2007), 22nd National Security Advisor (2009-2010).

James L. Kinsey

James L. Kinsey (1934–2014) was an American physical chemist who co-invented stimulated emission pumping with Robert W. Field, taught at MIT, and served as dean at Rice University.

James L. Kirtley Jr.

James L. Kirtley Jr. is an American electrical engineer and MIT professor specializing in electric machinery and power systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.

James L. Kraft

James L. Kraft was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who founded the Kraft cheese business in Chicago in 1903 with $65 and was the first to patent processed cheese.

James L. Lammie

James L. Lammie, also known as James Louis Lammie (1931–2022), was an American civil engineer, a West Point graduate and Army colonel who led Parsons Brinckerhoff and oversaw Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel project.

James L. Maller

James L. Maller (1946–2018) was an American biochemist and University of Colorado pharmacology professor who purified maturation-promoting factor, the complex of Cdc2 and cyclin B that drives cell division.

James L. Manley

James L. Manley is a Columbia University molecular biologist known for discovering the first alternative splicing factor and for characterizing the factors that polyadenylate messenger RNA precursors.

James L. McClelland

James L. McClelland is an American cognitive scientist, Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford, known for the Parallel Distributed Processing framework and complementary learning systems theory of memory.

James L. McGaugh

James L. McGaugh, born 1931, is an American neuroscientist who spent his career at UC Irvine showing that stress hormones acting on the amygdala strengthen memory consolidation.

James L. Mills

James L. Mills is an American perinatal epidemiologist and Senior Investigator in the Epidemiology Branch of NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD, known for research on folic acid in preventing neural-tube defects.

James L. Ryan

James L. Ryan, full name James Leo Ryan (born 1932), is an American jurist appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1985.

James L. Salzer

James L. Salzer is an American cellular neuroscientist and professor of neuroscience and neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for studies of myelination, Schwann cells, and remyelination.

James L. Skinner

James L. Skinner is an American theoretical chemist known for his theory of vibrational spectroscopy and line shapes in liquids, especially water, and in solids.

James L. Tullis

James Lyman Tullis (1914–1996) was an American physician and blood researcher at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston who identified leukocyte and platelet antibodies behind transfusion reactions and purpura.