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Jalaluddin Haqqani
Jalaluddin Haqqani (جلال الدين حقاني, c. 1939–2018), Afghan mujahideen commander and founder of the Haqqani Network; CIA- and ISI-backed anti-Soviet commander, Taliban Minister of Tribal Affairs 1996–2001, UN-sanctioned, father and predecessor of Sirajuddin Haqqani.
Jalinus
Jalinus was a Sasanian army commander of the early 7th century who led part of the Persian line at al-Qadisiyyah and was killed there, around 636 or 637.
James Brooke
James Brooke, known as Rajah Brooke, was an English soldier who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in 1842, founding a dynasty that ruled until 1946.
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), British lieutenant-general, colonel of the 11th Hussars, commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava 1854; also tried by the House of Lords over the 1840 Black Bottle duel.
James C. Capers Jr.
James C. Capers Jr. (born 1937, Bishopville, South Carolina) is a retired Marine Corps major, first Black enlisted Marine to receive a battlefield commission, awarded the Medal of Honor on June 18, 2026 for his 1967 Phu Loc reconnaissance patrol, upgrading his Silver Star.
James C. McConville
James C. McConville (born 1959), retired U.S. Army general, 40th Chief of Staff of the Army 2019-2023, former 101st Airborne commander and first aviator chief, known for the BCAP command assessment programs.
James Clapper
James Robert Clapper Jr. (born 1941), retired USAF lieutenant general, was the fourth U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2010–2017) under Obama, after leading the Defense Intelligence Agency, NIMA/NGA, and serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
James Dougherty (police officer)
James Edward "Jimmy" Dougherty (1921–2005), Los Angeles Police Department detective for 25 years who trained its first SWAT group; first husband (1942–1946) of Norma Jeane Baker, later Marilyn Monroe; later a Maine county commissioner and 1997 memoirist.
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
Sir James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (c.1286–1330), the Good Sir James to Scots and the Black Douglas to the English, was Robert the Bruce's chief lieutenant in the Scottish Wars of Independence, victor of the Douglas Larder, knight of Bannockburn, and died at Teba, Spain, in 1330 carrying Bruce's heart on crusade.
James Earl Ray
James Earl Ray (1928-1998), American armed robber and prison escapee who pleaded guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, 1968, was captured at Heathrow, sentenced to 99 years, then recanted; also known as Eric Galt, 'the Mole.'
James Earp
James Cooksey Earp (1841-1926), eldest Earp brother of Tombstone fame; Union Civil War veteran wounded at Fredericktown, saloon keeper in Tombstone, absent from the O.K. Corral gunfight, died in Los Angeles.
James Files
James E. Files is an Illinois ex-prisoner who claims he was the grassy knoll gunman in the JFK assassination, promoted by Joe West and Bob Vernon; telephone records place him in Chicago on November 22, 1963, and researchers reject the confession.
James G. Stavridis
James G. Stavridis (born 1955) is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral, 16th NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2009-2013), first naval officer in that post, former SOUTHCOM commander, 12th Fletcher School dean, and Carlyle vice chairman.
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 Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton (1917–1987), chief of CIA counterintelligence 1954–1974, led the mole hunt after Golitsyn's defection, secured Khrushchev's secret speech, and was dismissed by Colby in 1974.
James Joseph Dresnok
James Joseph Dresnok, 'Comrade Joe', US Army Private First Class who defected across the Korean DMZ on August 15, 1962; last surviving of four American defectors in North Korea, propaganda film star in Nameless Heroes, subject of documentary Crossing the Line.
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 Lawrence
James Lawrence (1781-1813), U.S. Navy captain of USS Chesapeake, mortally wounded by HMS Shannon off Boston on 1 June 1813; his dying command "Don't give up the ship" became Perry's Battle of Lake Erie battle flag.
James M. Gavin
James M. Gavin (1907-1990), "Jumpin' Jim" or "the Jumping General," was a US Army lieutenant general who commanded the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II, made four combat jumps, and later served as Ambassador to France, 1961-1962.
James Mason (neo-Nazi)
James Mason (born 1952, Chillicothe, Ohio) is an American neo-Nazi accelerationist, author of Siege, ex-American Nazi Party and NSLF member, Universal Order founder with Charles Manson, and a 2021 Canadian-listed terrorist entity. Not the British actor.
James P. Isenhower III
James P. Isenhower III, U.S. Army lieutenant general, Combined Arms Command and Fort Leavenworth commanding general since 2025; former 1st Armored Division commander and 1st Multi-Domain Task Force leader; West Point 1992, Duke history PhD.
James R. Fitzgerald
James R. Fitzgerald, retired FBI supervisory special agent, criminal profiler, and forensic linguist known for the Unabomber manifesto analysis; also called Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald, first FBI-trained forensic linguist.
James Robert Conroy
James Robert Conroy (1892–1987), also known as Robert Conroy, was a US Army corporal of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, in WWI, Purple Heart recipient, Georgetown law graduate, and owner-handler of the war dog Sergeant Stubby.
James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez
Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez, was a Guernsey-born Royal Navy officer famed for the two battles of Algeciras in 1801 and for commanding the British Baltic fleet.
James Stockdale
James Bond Stockdale (1923-2005) was a US Navy vice admiral, highest-ranking naval POW in Vietnam at the Hanoi Hilton, Medal of Honor recipient (1976), Hoover Institution Stoicism scholar, and Ross Perot's 1992 independent vice-presidential running mate.
James Wilkinson
James Wilkinson (1757–1825), American general, first Governor of Louisiana Territory, and secret Spanish agent codenamed "Agent 13"; twice Senior Officer of the U.S. Army, exposed Burr's conspiracy, never convicted of treason.
James Wolfe
James Wolfe (1727-1759), British major-general, commanded the 1759 Quebec expedition and died at the Plains of Abraham after defeating Montcalm, securing the fall of New France and posthumous fame as Britain's heroic martyr of Quebec.
Jamil Mezher (جميل صالح عبد الله مزهر)
Jamil Mezher (جميل مزهر), born 1964 in Gaza, is deputy secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine since May 2022, politburo member, advocate of resistance and national unity; not to be confused with other Jamil Mezhar namesakes.
Jan Karski
Jan Karski was the pseudonym of Jan Kozielewski (born 1914), a Polish Underground courier who in late 1942 and 1943 brought the western Allies eyewitness reports of the Holocaust.
Jan Krukowiecki
Jan Stefan Krukowiecki (1772–1850) was a Polish count and general of infantry who led the National Government in 1831 and concluded the controversial capitulation of Warsaw.