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James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was formulating a set of equations — eponymically named Maxwell's equations — that for the first time expressed the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in a unified fashion.
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is a 15-metre submillimetre-wavelength telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. It is the largest astronomical telescope in the world designed specifically to operate in the submillimetre regime (between the far-infrared and the microwave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum).
James Cleveland James Cleveland (December 5, 1931 - February 9, 1991) was a gospel singer, arranger, composer and, most significantly, the driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound, bringing the stylistic daring of hard gospel and jazz and pop music influences to arrangements for mass choirs.
James Cobban Sir James Macdonald Cobban, CBE (14 September 1910–19 April 1999) was an English educator and headmaster, as well as a prominent lay leader in the Church of England. He was the headmaster of Abingdon School from 1947 to 1970, and is largely credited with bringing that school from relative obscurity to national recognition in Britain.
James Cochran James Cochran (ca. 1767 - April 7, 1813) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Mount Tirzah Township, Person County, North Carolina, about 1767; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits near Helena, North Carolina; member of the
James Cochran Stevenson James Cochran Stevenson (9 October 1825 – 11 January 1905) was Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields from 1868 to 1895 and also owned, along with two of his brothers, a chemical factory in Jarrow: the Jarrow Chemical Company.
James Coleman (Irish artist) James Coleman, born in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon in 1941, is an Irish installation and video artist associated with slide-tape works: sequences of still images fading one into the other with synchronized sound. Often, social situations are depicted with a precision which, paradoxically, creates a narrative ambiguity.
James Colley James Colley is an American singer-songwriter whose music can be described as part rock and part classic country. Raised in Bakersfield, California, Colley found his musical inspiration in the works of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones and Lou Reed.
James Collins (Irish politician) James Collins (30th October 1900 – 1st September 1967) was an Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for Limerick West in the 1948 General Election and at each election until his death in 1967.
James Collip James Bertram Collip (November 20, 1892 – June 19, 1965) was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. Born in Belleville, Ontario, he served as the Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947-1961, where he was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Society.
James Colosimo James "Big Jim" Colosimo (1877No more specific date than 1877 is given in Encyclopedia Britannica – May 11, 1920) (born Giacomo Colosimo) immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, from Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, in 1895. Beginning as a small time hood, he was noticed by First Ward aldermen Michael Kenna and John Coughlin, for whom he worked as a precinct captain and later their bagman.
James Colvin (pseudonym) James Colvin was a pseudonym used by Michael Moorcock on several short stories appearing in New Worlds in the 1960s, in order to disguise the amount of material Moorcock (who also edited the magazine at the time) was contributing to it.
James Conder James Conder ran a drapery business in Ipswich in the 18th century. He was one of the first people to catalogue the 18th Century independently minted copper trade coinage that now often bears his name as a category of coins known as Conder Tokens.
James Cook University James Cook University (JCU) is a university based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia and was founded in 1970 as the first tertiary education institution in North Queensland. It is named after the British sea captain James Cook who popularised the discovery and potential colonial value of the east coast of Australia and whose exploratory vessel actually ran aground for repairs in North Queensland.
James Coonan James Coonan was born in 1947 to a lower class family in the Irish slum of Hell's Kitchen, New York. Coonan's father was extorted by Michael "Mickey" Spillane's Irish Mob, which ruled Hell's Kitchen at the time, and his mother--who was half German--had a very open affair with Spillane which destroyed Coonan's father's reputation.
James Cooper (VC) James Cooper VC ( September, 1840 - August 9, 1889) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
James Cordy James R. (Jim) Cordy is a computer scientist and an educator from Canada whose accomplishments include developing the first Euclid compiler, the TXL programming language, the Turing programming language family, SP/k, Concurrent Euclid, and S/SL.
James Corner James Corner is an internationally known landscape designer and theorist with numerous works exploring the meaning and depth of contemporary landscape architecture. His focus is on “developing innovative approaches toward landscape architectural design and urbanism” and he is recognized for his modern designs and theories.
James Corocoran James Corocoran (c.1770-1804) was an Irish rebel who fought during the rebellion of 1798 and was the leader of the last rebel guerrilla band to be defeated in the years following the suppression of the rebellion.
James Cosmano James "Sunny Jim" Cosmano was an organized crime figure and a leader of the Black Hand in pre-Prohibition Chicago. Born Vincenzo Cosmano, he along with other Black Handers such as James "The Mad Bomber" Belcastro preyed upon the residents of Chicago's Little Italy and elsewhere the city during the turn of the century.
James Cotton James "Jimmy" Cotton (born July 1, 1935 in Tunica, Mississippi), is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter who is the bandleader for the James Cotton Blues Band. He also writes songs alone, and his solo career continues to this day.
James Counsilman James Edward ("Doc") Counsilman (born December 28, 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama – died January 4, 2004 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a swimming coach for Indiana University and the United States Olympic team.
James Cousins James Henry Sproul Cousins (born 1873 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, died 1956) was an Irish writer, playwright, actor, critic, editor, teacher and poet, best known as a writer on Theosophy. He used a pseudonym Mac OisĂ­n and the Hindu name Jayaram.
James Cowan (Progressive Conservative Manitoba politician) James Cowan (born September 5, 1914 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba; died January 4, 1997) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969.
James Coyne James Elliot Coyne, BCL , BA (born July 17, 1910) was the second Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had a much-publicized debate with PM John Diefenbaker that many conservatives still refer to as "The Coyne Crisis.
James Craggs the Younger James Cragg the Younger (9 April 1686 - 16 February 1721), son of James Cragg the Elder, was born at Westminster. Part of his early life was spent abroad, where he made the acquaintance of George Louis, Elector of Hanover, afterwards King George I.
James Craig (actor) James Craig (born February 1, 1912 in Nashville, Tennessee; died June 28, 1985 in Santa Ana, California) was an American actor. The Rice Institute graduate began appearing in films in 1937, appearing in mostly B-movies and serials.
James Cran James Douglas Cran (born 28 January 1944) is a British politician. He was Conservative member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness in northern England until he stepped down at the 2005 general election, being succeeded as Conservative candidate and MP by Graham Stuart.
James Cranston James Cranston (born 9 January 1859 in Bordesley, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; died 10 December 1904 in Bristol, England) was an amateur cricketer who was educated at Taunton College in Somerset and went on to play 103 first-class cricket matches for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club between 1876 and 1899. He also played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1886 and 1887, which was before Warwickshire gained first-class status.
James Crawford (basketball) James Crawford (born April 13, 1960 in Alabama, USA) is a former professional basketball player in the National Basketball League of Australia from 1982 through till the 1998/99 season. During his NBL career, the "Alabama Slamma" played for the Geelong Supercats (1982-1985), the Canberra Cannons (1986) and the Perth Wildcats (1987-1999).
James Crawford Biggs James Crawford Biggs was born in Oxford, North Carolina, on August 29 1872, to William and Elizabeth Arlington (Cooper) Biggs. Biggs was a student at the Horner Military School in Oxford from 1883-1887 before attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
James Creighton (hockey) James George Alywin Creighton (Born: 1850 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Died: 1930) was one the men originally responsible for the early popularization of ice hockey. Creighton developed the game from a similar game known as shinney in Halifax, where (according to some historians) it was developed out of an Irish game called hurley.
James Crichton (VC) James Crichton (15 July, 1879 - 25 September, 1961) was born in Carrickfergus in County Antrim. By birth an Irish recipient, and by naturalisation a New Zealander recipient, of the Victoria Cross — the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
James Crichton-Browne James Crichton-Browne (November 29, 1840 - January 31, 1938) was a British physician; he earned his medical degree at the Royal College in Edinburgh, and spent most of his career at the West Riding Asylum at Wakefield. It was here that neurologist David Ferrier performed his experimentation with cerebral localization.
James Cross James Richard Cross, CMG (born September 29 1921 in Ireland) was a British diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist group during the October Crisis of October 1970.
James Crotty James Crotty is a post-Keynesian macro economist whose research in theory and policy attempts to integrate the complementary analytical strengths of the Marxian and Keynesian traditions. He has made contributions to the Social Structure of Accumulation (SSA) theory, the implications of radical uncertainty for macro theory and theories of financial markets.
James Crumley James A. Crumley (born 12 October 1939 in Three Rivers, Texas) is the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays.
James Cumbes James Cumbes (born 4 May 1944), often known as Jim Cumbes, is a former English cricketer: a right-arm fast-medium bowler and lower-order right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for four counties, and later served as Chief Executive of Lancashire.
James Cummings (Mayor of Hamilton) James Cummings businesman, politiian; born in 1815 in Ireland; married Anne Morrison, and they had three children; died 13 April 1894 at Hamilton, Ontario, buried at Hamilton Cemetery. he was mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for three months in 1854 and in 1856.
James Currie (politician) James George Currie (November 24 1827 – 1901) was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario from December 21, 1871 to March 29, 1873 and served as Liberal MLA for Welland from 1871 to 1879. His standing committee service included those for Private Bills, Railways, Privileges and Elections, and Standing Orders.
James Curtin James Curtin is a British professional wrestler best known by the ring name Spud. Curtin, known for his small stature, is considered the smallest mainstream wrestler in the United Kingdom and his high-flying high-risk style of wrestling is often compared to The Amazing Red, another small wrestler from the United States.
James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid Major-General James (Jack) Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid (19 December 1912 - 6 September 1987) was a British Conservative politician. He was a member of the prominent Anglo-Jewish d'Avigdor-Goldsmid family, and his brother Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid was also a Member of Parliament.
James deAnda James deAnda (28 August, 1925 – 7 September, 2006) was an American attorney and United States federal judge, noted for his activities in defense of Hispanic civil rights, particularly as a plaintiff's attorney in Hernandez v. Texas.
James D. Hudnall James David Hudnall (born April 10, 1957 in Santa Rosa, California) is an American writer who began his career in the comic book field in 1986 with the series Espers, published by Eclipse Comics. He later worked for Marvel and DC on such titles as Alpha Flight, Strikeforce: Morituri, and his own creation Interface, which was a sequel to Espers.
James D. La Belle Private First Class James Dennis La Belle (1924-1945) enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on 18 November 1943. Fifteen months later, in his first and last battle, he heroically sacrificed his life at Iwo Jima and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military honor awarded by the United States.
James D. Watson James Dewey Watson KBE(Hon) ForMemRS (born April 6, 1928) is an American scientist, best known as one of the four discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material, with the help of the research of Rosalind Franklin, who also received the honor of National Medal of Science in 1997.
James Dale Davidson James Dale Davidson is an American investment newsletter writer and author of The Sovereign Individual, The Great Reckoning, and Blood in the Streets, all three co-authored with William Rees-Mogg. He is also the founder and former head of the National Taxpayers Union.
James Dale Robinson James Dale Robinson, usually referred to as just "James Robinson", is a British writer of comic books and screenplays and known for his interest in old collectibles and memorabilia. His style is described as smart and energetic, built upon his vast knowledge of obscure Golden Age continuity.
James Dalgleish Pollock James Dalgleish Pollock (3 June 1890-10 May 1958) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
James Daly (Irish Land League) James Daly (born in County Mayo, Ireland in 1838; died in County Mayo in 1910) was an Irish nationalist activist best known for his work in support of tenants' rights and the formation of the Irish Land League.
James Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy James Henry Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy (1868–15 July 1935) was a Liberal British politician and supporter of David Lloyd George. Originally a journalist, he became a member of parliament for Kirkcaldy in 1892.
James Daniel Gardner James Daniel Gardner or Gardiner (16 September 1839 – 29 September 1905) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm.
James David James Theodoric ("Hatchet", "Rebel") David (born December 2, 1927 in Florence, South Carolina) is a former American football Defensive Back for the Detroit Lions (1952-1959). He attended Colorado A&M.
James David Forbes James David Forbes (April 20, 1809 - December 31, 1868) was a Scottish physicist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat, seismology and glaciology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for his entire life, educated at the University and a professor there from 1833.
James David Stewart James David Stewart (January 15, 1874 -October 10, 1933) was a Prince Edward Island politician. In 1917, the Conservative Party recruited Stewart, a young lawyer, to be the party's candidate in a by-election in King's County.
James Davidson (UK politician) James Duncan Gordon Davidson (born 10 January 1927) has been a British Liberal politician. He served as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire West from 1966 to 1970, when the seat was gained by the Conservatives.
James Davis 'Duramboi' James Davis 'Duramboi' (1808-May 7 1889), absconder and shopkeeper, was born in Broomielaw, Scotland, and at 14 was apprenticed to his father as a blacksmith at Old Wynd, Glasgow. Convicted two years later for stealing 2s.
James Davis (VC) James Davis (February 1835 - March 2, 1893) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. His full name was James Davis Kelly.
James Davy James Davy is the former Commissioner of Human Services in New Jersey, holding the position under former Governors James McGreevey and Jon Corzine. He previously served on McGreevey's staff in the governor's office and while McGreevey was Mayor of Woodbridge Township.
James Dawson (Aboriginal Guardian) James Dawson (July 05, 1806 – April 19, 1900) was a prominent champion of Aboriginal interests. He was born at Bonytoun, Linlithgow and arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 1840 with his wife Joan Anderson Park, niece of Mungo Park.
James De Leo James De Leo is an Australian stand-up comedian and broadcaster. De Leo started his television career as a host of the ABCs Saturday morning music show – FLY- TV His television credits also include ABC TVs Late Night Fly, Talk Back Classroom, The New Inventors and AFI award winning comedy Double the Fist.
James De Mille James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian popular writer who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s. His most popular work with contemporaries, and the work for which he is known today, is A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, which was serialized posthumously in Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City, in 1888.
James De Wolf James De Wolf (March 18, 1764–December 21, 1837) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Bristol, Rhode Island, during the American Revolutionary War he shipped as a sailor on a private armed vessel; he participated in several naval encounters and was twice captured by the enemy.
James Dearing James Dearing (April 25, 1840 – April 23, 1865) was a Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of High Bridge during the Appomattox Campaign, making him one of the last officers to die in the war; there are claims that he was the last general officer to die in the war.
James DeBarge James DeBarge (born 22 August, 1963 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American R&B and soul singer. He was one of the charter members of the family group DeBarge, who became stars with their 1980s classic songs "All This Love", "In a Special Way", "Rhythm of the Night", and "Who's Holding Donna Now?
James Deering James Deering (1859 – 1925) industrialist and early developer of Miami, Florida, United States and the builder of Villa Vizcaya, an Italian Renaissance-style estate in Miami facing Biscayne Bay, complete with sculpted gardens. He used it as a winter home from 1916 to the time of his death.
James Deese James Deese (1921 — 1999) joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1980 after having served for an extended period with Johns Hopkins University. He advanced to become the Chairman of the Psychology Department where he served until 1980.
James Deetz James Deetz (February 8, 1930 - November 25, 2000) was an American anthropologist, often known as one of the fathers of historical archaeology. His work focused on culture change and the cultural aspects inherent in the historic and archaeological record, and was concerned primarily with the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies.
James Delaney (Laois) James Delaney was a fugitive from the crown who died in the Slieve Bloom mountains while on the run for the murder of a landlords agent Richard Ely, of Ballaghmore Castle on November 8, 1858. He reportedly escaped from the police after a ball of woll was thrown out a window to alert him when he called down for food from the caves in the mountainside where he was hiding in the townland of Rossabawn.
James Densmore James Densmore was a business associate of Christopher Sholes, who along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule helped contribute to inventing one of the first practical typewriters at a machine shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
James DePreist James DePreist, is an American conductor born on November 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the permanent conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, director of conducting and orchestral studies at the Juilliard School and Laureate Music Director of the Oregon Symphony.
James Der Derian James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute’s Global Security Program.
James Devaney James Devaney (1890-1976) was an Australian poet and novelist sometimes credited with coining the name of the Jindyworobak Movement and being one of the big forces in it. It is said he took the name from a phrase in the Woiwurrung language he found in a 19th century vocabulary.
James Devereux James Patrick Sinnott Devereux (February 20, 1903 – August 5, 1988) was an United States Marine Corps general who was Commanding Officer of the 1st Defense Battalion during the defense of Wake Island in December 1941. He was captured on Wake Island as a prisoner of war, along with his men, after a 15-day battle with the Japanese.
James Devine James Devine is a dancer, choreographer and director. Synonymous in the world of dance for his tapping speed and precision, he earned a Millennium Guinness World Record entry as the fastest dancer that has ever lived.
James Dickens (UK politician) James McCulloch York Dickens (born 4 April 1931) has been a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for the marginal constituency of Lewisham West from 1966 to 1970, when it was gained by the Conservative candidate John Gummer.
James Dicks James Dicks is the founder of PremiereTrade AI software (previously doing business as Forex Made Easy, 4XME, dix, Inc., GlobalTec, or Wizetrade), and is the president and CEO of PremiereTrade, Inc, which he started in 2002.
James Dixon James Dixon (August 5, 1814 - March 27, 1873) was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut. Born in Enfield, Connecticut, he pursued preparatory studies, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1834.
James Dobson James Clayton "Jim" Dobson (born April 21, 1936 in Shreveport, Louisiana), is a conservative Evangelical Christian and psychologist who presents a daily radio program called Focus on the Family on over 6,000 stations worldwide in more than a dozen languages. He founded and is chairman of the board of a nonprofit organization of the same name, founded in 1977 and based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where it has its own zip code.
James Dole James Drummond Dole (September 27, 1877-May 1958), also known as the Pineapple King, was a United States industrialist who developed the pineapple industry in Hawaii and established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. Hawaiian Pineapple Company, or HAPCO, was later reorganized to become the present-day Dole Food Company, which now does business in over 90 countries.
James Doohan James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was an Irish Canadian character and voice actor who is best remembered for his role as Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott "Scotty" in the television and film series Star Trek.
James Douglas (the Black) Sir James Douglas (also known as Good Sir James and the Black Douglas), (1286 – August 25, 1330), was a Scottish soldier and knight who fought in the Scottish Wars of Independence. He was a son of Sir William Douglas, the 'Hardy', who had been a supporter of William Wallace (the elder Douglas died in 1298, a prisoner in the Tower of London).
James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, PC, QC (born 31 July 1942), briefly 11th Earl of Selkirk and styled The Lord James Douglas-Hamilton (he is the younger son of the 14th Duke of Hamilton and Brandon) 1942-1997, is a Scottish Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians.
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton KT FRS (1702 -October 12, 1768), was a Scottish representative peer who became president of the Royal Society (24 March 1764), and was a distinguished patron of science, and particularly of astronomy. In 1746 he visited France, and was imprisoned in the Bastille, probably as a Jacobite.
James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry (November 2 1697 – February 17 1715), known until 1711 as James Douglas, Earl of Drumlanrig was an insane British nobleman, eldest son to survive infancy (the second son) of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry.
James Douglas, Jr. James Stuart Douglas, Jr (1867-1949), popularly known as "Rawhide Jimmy", was the son of James Douglas; both men were important figures in Arizona and Sonora mining history. Born in Quebec, Jimmy Douglas grew up in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where his father managed a copper refinery.
James Duffy (VC) James Duffy(VC) (November 17, 1889- April 8, 1969) born in Crolly, Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. He was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
James Duhig Archbishop Sir James Duhig (2 September 1873 - 10 April 1965 was Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane for nearly 50 years and was at the time of his death the longest-serving bishop in the church. Duhig was born in County Limerick but emigrated with his family to Australia as a young boy, completing his education at St.
James Dunbar-Nasmith Professor Sir James (Duncan) Dunbar-Nasmith, CBE BA DA RIBA PPRIAS, is a leading conservation architect from England. He was born in 1927, son of Admiral Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, VC KCB KCMG DL, and his older brother is Rear-Admiral David Arthur Dunbar-Nasmith, CB DSC.
James Duncan (UK politician) Captain Sir James Alexander Lawson Duncan (1899 - 30 September 1974) was a British Conservative and National Liberal politician. He was elected as the first Member of Parliament for the newly created Angus South constituency in 1950, and served until his retirement in 1964.
James Duncan Davidson James Duncan Davidson (born July 29, 1970 in Lubbock, Texas) is a American software developer. While a software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997-2001), Davidson created the Tomcat Java-based webserver application and the Ant Java-based build tool.
James Dunlop James Dunlop (Scotland, October 31, 1793 to September 22, 1848) was an early figure in the history of Australian astronomy. He became interested in astronomy at an early age and was constructing telescopes in 1810.
James Dunsmuir James Dunsmuir (b July 8, 1851, Fort Vancouver – d June 6, 1920, Cowichan Bay, British Columbia) was a British Columbian industrialist and politician. Son of Robert Dunsmuir, he was heir to his family's coal fortune.
James Dunwoody Bulloch James Dunwoody Bulloch (25 June1823 – 7 January1901) was the Confederate States of America's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. He was the half-brother of Martha Bulloch, the mother of future U.
James Duport James Duport (1606, Cambridge - July 17 1679, Peterborough) was an English classical scholar. His father, John Duport, who was descended from an old Norman family (the Du Ports of Caen, who settled in Leicestershire during the reign of Henry IV), was master of Jesus College.
James Dwight Dana [Dwight Dana (February 12] [[1813–April 14 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made important studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans.
James E. English James Edward English (March 13, 1812 - March 2, 1890) was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut. He was born in New Haven and attended the common schools; later, he engaged in the lumber business, banking, and manufacturing.
James E. Fraser James Earle Fraser is a Canadian historian and Picticist, from Alliston, Ontario. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and did post-graduate work on William Wallace at the Scottish Studies programme of the University of Guelph.
James E. Johnson Sergeant James Edmund Johnson, 25, was posthumously awarded the United States' highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic lone fight on December 2, 1950, to cover the withdrawal of his platoon during the bitter Chosin Reservoir campaign in Korea. When last seen by his comrades he was wounded, but still engaging the enemy in close grenade and hand-to-hand combat.
James E. Kyes James Ellsworth Kyes, born in Everett, Washington, 16 April 1906, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1930. As commanding officer of USS Leary (DD-158), Commander Kyes was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for "extraordinary heroism" during action against German submarines in the North Atlantic 23 December 1943.

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