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James E. Livingston Major General James Everett Livingston (born January 12, 1940 is a retired United States Marine Corps general. He was awarded United State's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for heroic actions in 1968 during the Vietnam War.
James E. Long James E. (Jim) Long is the current North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance, the oldest democratic member of the North Carolina Council of State; he has held that post for 24 years and won a sixth term in the 2004 statewide elections.
James E. Robinson James Edgar Robinson (15 August 1868, near Maryville, Ohio - 27 January 1932) was educated at the local high school and latter attended Wesleyan and Ohio State universities. At the latter he was a member of the first law class.
James E. Sullivan James Edward Sullivan (November 18, 1862 in New York City - September 16, 1914) was an American sports official. He was one of the founders of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), and served as its president from 1906 to 1908.
James Earle Fraser James Earle Fraser (November 4, 1876 – October 11, 1953) was an American sculptor, born in Winona, Minnesota. Fraser's father was an engineer working for the railroads as they expanded across the American West.
James Eastland James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904 – February 19, 1986) was an American politician from Mississippi who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat briefly in 1941 and again from 1943 until 1978. From 1947 to 1978, he served alongside John Stennis, also a Democrat.
James Edward Allen Gibbs James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829-1902) was a farmer, inventor, and businessman from Rockbridge County in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. On June 2, 1857, he was awarded a patent for the first chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine.
James Edward Edmonds Brigadier General James Edward Edmonds (1861–1956) was a British First World War officer of the Royal Engineers who in the role of British official historian was responsible for the post-war compilation of the 28-volume History of the Great War. Edmonds himself wrote nearly half the volumes, including eleven of the 14 volumes dealing with the Western Front (Military Operations, France and Belgium).
James Edward Ignatius Masterson James Edward Ignatius Masterson(VC),(20 June 1862- 24 December 1935) 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 Edward Jouett Rear Admiral James Edward Jouett (7 February 1826 – 30 September 1902) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. His father was Matthew Harris Jouett, a notable painter, and his grandfather was Revolutionary War hero Jack Jouett.
James Edward Moore General James Edward Moore (United States Army) was born on November 29, 1902 in New Bedford], [[Massachusetts and died on January 28, 1986. General Moore graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1924 and served in the Army until his retirement in 1963.
James Edward Tait James Edward Tait (VC, MC), (May 27, 1886, Dumfries, Scotland - August 11, 1918), was a Canadian 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 Edward Wood James Edward Wood died in Idaho state prison on death row while awaiting execution for the 1993 murder of 11-year-old Jeralee Underwood. The girl was collecting money on her newspaper route when she was abducted, raped, and killed by Wood.
James Edward Zimmerman James Edward Zimmerman (February 19, 1923 – August 4, 1999) was born in Lantry, South Dakota. He was a coinventor of the radio-frequency superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and he is credited with coining the term.
James Edwards (basketball) James Franklin "Buddha" Edwards (born November 22, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a former professional basketball player. A 7' 0" center from the University of Washington, Edwards spent 19 years (1977-1996) in the NBA, playing for eight teams: the Los Angeles Lakers, the Indiana Pacers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Phoenix Suns, the Detroit Pistons, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Chicago Bulls.
James Edwin Cassidy Bishop James Edwin Cassidy (Born August 1, 1869, Died May 17, 1951) served the third Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. He was ordained a priest September 8, 1898, and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River on March 21, 1930.
James Edwin Doyle James Edwin "Ned" Doyle (October 23 1902–March 5 1989) was an American advertising executive a co-founder of the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency in 1949. Now known as DDB Worldwide, the agency he founded with Mac Dane and Bill Bernbach bears his initial and is among the largest global agency networks.
James Elles James Elles (born September 3, 1949 in London) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region for the Conservative Party. He was the MEP for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire from 1984 to 1989 and the MEP for Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East from 1994 to 1999.
James Elliott (politician) James Elliott (August 18, 1775 – November 10, 1839) was a Massachusetts local and a Vermont representative. He fought in the Northwest Indian War of 1793 in Ohio, studied law afterward, and upon getting admitted to the bar in 1803, he began practicing in Brattleboro, Vermont.
James Elmer James ("Jimmy") Andrew Elmer (born May 8, 1971 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former field hockey striker from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
James Emott James Emott (March 9, 1771 - April 7, 1850) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Poughkeepsie, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1790 and commenced practice in Ballston Center.
James Ensor James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19 1949) was a Belgian impressionist painter, who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life; his father was English, his mother Belgian. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
James Erwin Downey James Erwin Downey (born August 10, 1942) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1977 to 1999, and served as a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Sterling Lyon and Gary Filmon.
James Evans (linguist) James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was a Canadian Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is best remembered for his creation of writing systems for several Aboriginal languages, including Ojibwe, Cree, and indirectly Inuktitut.
James Ewing James Ewing (December 25, 1866, Pittsburgh — May 16, 1943, New York City) was an American pathologist. He was the first Professor of Pathology at Cornell University and became famous with the discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as Ewing's Sarcoma.
James F. Byrnes James Francis Byrnes (May 2, 1879 – April 9, 1972) was an American politician from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives (1911–1925), as a Senator (1931–1941), as Justice of the Supreme Court (1941–1942), as Secretary of State (1945–1947), and as Governor of South Carolina (1951–1955).
James F. M. Prinsep James Frederick McLeod Prinsep (July 27, 1861 – November 22, 1895) was an English footballer who held two 'youngest player' records for almost 125 years, before they were both broken within the space of just over a year.
James F. Simmons James Fowler Simmons (September 10, 1795 – July 10, 1864) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born on a farm near Little Compton, he attended a private school in Newport and moved to Providence in 1812.
James F. Trotter James Fisher Trotter (November 5, 1802 - March 9, 1866) was a United States Senator from Mississippi. Born in Brunswick County, Virginia, he moved to eastern Tennessee, attended private schools, and studied law.
James Fairbairn James Valentine Fairbairn (28 July 1897–13 August 1940) was an Australian Cabinet Minister and member of the House of Representatives, representing the Division of Flinders from 1933 until his death in 1940. Fairbairn died in the Canberra air disaster, 1940.
James Fairman Fielder James Fairman Fielder (February 26, 1867 in Jersey City, New Jersey – December 2, 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) was an American Democrat politician, who served as the 35th Governor of New Jersey, from 1913 to 1917, with a break of several months when he stepped down from office to avoid constitutional limits on serving successive terms.
James Fallows James Fallows is an American print and radio journalist who has been associated with The Atlantic Monthly for many years and has written eight books. His work has appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, and other magazines.
James Farley Post Office The James A. Farley Post Office, New York City's General Post Office, is located at 421 Eighth Avenue, between 31st Street and 33rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the street from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden.
James Farlow James Farlow is a vertebrate paleontologist, specialising on dinosaur trace fossils, biomechanics and physiology. He is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
James Farr James Farr is a freelance animator and animation director based at present in Tulsa, OK. He is widely known by the online community for his animated series Xombie, which quickly gained cult status in 2003 and has spawned a soon-to-be-released illustrated novel as well as an upcoming animated feature film.
James Farragher James Farragher (1876 - unknown) was a powerful left tackle for the University of Notre Dame football team in the early 1900s. He also has been identified in official university histories as the team's head coach for the 1902-1903 season.
James Farrior James Farrior (January 6, 1975, Petersburg, Virginia) is an American football player who currently plays as an inside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL. He played college football at the University of Virginia, and played with the New York Jets from 1997 to 2001.
James Faure Walker James Faure Walker (born 1948, London) studied painting and aesthetics at St Martins (1966-70) and the Royal College of Art (1970-72). He began writing criticism in the mid 1970s, and in 1976 he co-founded Artscribe - a journal for contemporary arts which he edited until 1983.
James Fechet James Edmond Fechet (August 21, 1877—February 10, 1948) was the Chief of the United States Army Air Corps in 1927-1931. Men he had selected and worked with both on his staff and in other top Air Corps positions became key leaders of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II.
James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is particularly remembered as a novelist, who wrote numerous sea-stories as well as the historical romances known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo.
James Fenner James Fenner (22 January 1771 - 17 April 1846) was an American politician who served as an United States Senator as well as the Governor of Rhode Island (on three separate occasions). He was the son of Arthur Fenner, the fourth governor of Rhode Island.
James Fenton (Australian politician) James Edward Fenton (1864-1950) was an Australian politician. He was first elected as a Labor member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Maribyrnong in Victoria in 1910, and would hold the seat until 1934.
James Ferguson (politician) James Robert Ferguson (born August 19, 1925 in Gladstone, Manitoba) is a retired politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1981.
James Finch James Finch is the owner of the Phoenix Racing team in NASCAR. They field the #1 Miccosukee Dodge driven by Jason Keller in the Busch Series and the #09 Dodge driven by Mike Wallace part-time in the NEXTEL Cup series.
James Firth James Firth (15 January 1874--29 May 1921) 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 Fisher James Maxwell McConnell Fisher (September 3, 1912 – September 25, 1970) was a British author, editor, broadcaster, naturalist and ornithologist. He was also a leading authority on Gilbert White and made over 1,000 radio and television broadcasts on natural history subjects.
James Fisher (Manitoba politician) James Fisher (November 6, 1840-1927) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He may have served as leader of the parliamentary opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for a brief period in the mid-1890s.
James Fisk (politician) James Fisk (October 4, 1763 - 1844) was a politician from Vermont who was elected to the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. Born in Greenwich, Massachusetts, he was self-educated and served in the Revolutionary War from 1779 to 1782.
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell (born 1931) was the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from April 1972 to December 8 1974 and from July 30 1984 until October 27 2000. He was a member and a founder of the New Democratic Party.
James Fitzedmund Fitzgerald John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald was the hereditary Seneschal of Imokilly, an Irish nobleman of the Anglo-Norman Fitzgerald dynasty in the province of Munster, who rebelled against the crown during the reign of Queen Elizabeth of England.
James FitzGerald James Edward FitzGerald (1818 - 1896) was a New Zealand politician. According to some historians, he should be considered the country's first Prime Minister, although a more conventional view is that neither he nor his successor should properly be given that title.
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster (May 29, 1722 – November 19, 1773) was an Irish nobleman and politician. He was the son of Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare, and was Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Athy before succeeding his father as twentieth Earl of Kildare in 1744.
James FitzMaurice FitzGerald James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, a member of the 16th century ruling Geraldine dynasty in the province of Munster in Ireland, rebelled against the crown authority of Queen Elizabeth I of England in response to the onset of the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland and was deemed an archtraitor. He led the first of the Desmond Rebellions in 1569, spent a period in exile in continental Europe, but returned to Ireland with an invasion force in 1579.
James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston James Oliver Charles Fitzroy, Earl of Euston FCA (b. 13 December, 1947) is the eldest child and heir apparent of the 11th Duke of Grafton and his wife Fortune, the current Mistress of the Robes to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
James Flanagan (RUC) Sir James Bernard Flanagan, KBE (15 January 1914–1999) was the first and only Roman Catholic Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. There was a Roman Catholic Deputy Chief Constable, Michael McAtamney.
James Fleet James Fleet (born 1954 in Staffordshire) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.
James Flint James Flint is a British novelist. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1968 he did a journalistic apprenticeship on the Times of India in New Delhi before studying philosophy and psychology at Wadham College, Oxford.
James Florio James Joseph "Jim" Florio (born August 29 1937, Brooklyn, New York City) was a Democratic politician who served as the 49th Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian American to hold the position.
James Forbes-Robertson James Forbes-Robertson (VC, DSO & Bar, MC) (7 July 1884-5 August 1955) 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 Ford (pirate) James Ford was an American civic leader and business owner in southern Illinois at the turn of the 19th century. Despite his clean public image, he was also secretly a river pirate and the leader of a gang that would come to be known as "Ford's Ferry Gang".
James Foster (cricketer) James Savin Foster (born 15 April 1980 in Leytonstone, London) is an English cricketer, a wicket-keeper who played seven Tests and 11 One-Day Internationals in 2001/02 and 2002/03. Rather too many mistakes with the gloves and rather too few runs with the bat meant that he was never completely secure in his place, on one occasion suffering the indignity of seeing his place behind the stumps taken by Marcus Trescothick in an ODI against New Zealand.
James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos (born 1976) is an independent filmmaker and media artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations.
James Francis Edward Stuart Prince James Francis Edward Stuart or Stewart (June 10, 1688 – January 1, 1766) was the son of the deposed King James II of England and as such claimed to be James III of England and VIII of Scotland from the death of his father in 1701. However, his claim was only recognised by his Jacobite supporters, and he is more commonly known in the history of the British monarchy as The Old Pretender.
James Franco James Edward Franco (born April 19 1978) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen films.
James Frederick Dawson James Frederick Dawson (1874-1941) was a noted American landscape architect. His father, Jackson Thornton Dawson, was superintendent of the Arnold Arboretum, and Dawson himself was actually born in the arboretum.
James Frederick Ferrier James Frederick Ferrier (June 16, 1808 – June 11, 1864), Scottish metaphysical writer, was born in Edinburgh, the son of John Ferrier, writer to the signet. His mother was a sister of John Wilson (Christopher North).
James Fulkerson James Fulkerson (born July 2, 1945, Streator, Illinois) American composer, now resident in The Netherlands, of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, electroacoustic, and multimedia works; he is also active as a trombonist.
James Fullarton Born in Glasgow, James Fullarton studied at the Glasgow School of Art under David Donaldson. Since gaining his diploma in Painting and Drawing in 1969 he has been painting full-time, living and working in Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland.
James Furman James Furman (1937-1989) was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and at the age of six began piano studies with his aunt, Permelia Hansbrough. At the age of sixteen he won first place with a composition submitted to the Louisville Philharmonic Society's Young Artist Competition which was performed with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra.
James Fynn James Henry Fynn sometimes James Henry Finn (24 November 1893- 30 March 1917) 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 G. Birney James Gillespie Birney (February 4, 1792–November 25, 1857) was an American presidential candidate for the Liberty Party in the 1840 and 1844 elections. He received 7,069 votes in the 1840 election and 62,273 votes in 1844.
James Gabriel James Gabriel was Grand Chief of the Mohawk community at Kanesatake (located near Oka, Quebec) from 1995 to 2004. His tenure in office was very controversial, and was marked by bitter divisions between his supporters and opponents.
James Gadderar James Gadderar (1655–1733) was a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Previously a minister at Kilmaurs, he was consecrated a Bishop on 24 February 1712 by Bishop George Hickes, though without a diocese.
James Galante James Galante is a convicted felon and reputed mob figure, owner of the Danbury Trashers minor league hockey franchise and CEO of Automated Waste Disposal, a company which holds waste disposal contracts for most of Western Connecticut and Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York. Galante was sentenced in 1999 to 12 months and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion.
James Gallagher (American politician) James Gallagher is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served on the Passaic County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders since 1997, winning re-election to three-year terms of office in 2000, 2003 (when he garnered the greatest number of votes among all six Freeholder candidates) and 2006.Freeholder James Gallagher, accessed January 3, 2007 He served as Deputy Freeholder Director in 2005 and as Director of the Freeholder Board in 2003.
James Galway Sir James Galway (born December 8, 1939) is an Northern Ireland-born virtuoso flautist from Belfast, often called The Man With the Golden Flute. Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal, he became one of the first flautists to establish an international career as a soloist.
James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier Admiral John James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier RN (13 October 1756 New Providence, Bahamas – 19 April 1833 Iver, England), English admiral, was born in the Bahamas, while his father John Gambier was Lieutenant Governor of the Bahamas. He entered the navy list in 1767 as a midshipman on board the Yarmouth, commanded by his uncle, and family interests gained him rapid promotion.
James Gamble Rogers IV James Gamble Rogers IV (January 31, 1937-October 10, 1991) was a folk artist born in Winter Park, Florida. The namesake of two prominent architects, Rogers chose the path of a musician while on his way to a Serendipity Singers audition in New York.
James Gandon James Gandon (1743 -1823) is today recognised as one of the leading late 18th century, early 19th century architects to have worked in Ireland. His better known works include The Custom House, the Four Courts and lastly King's Inns in Dublin.
James Gang James Gang was a rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. The original members were drummer Jim Fox, bassist Tom Kriss, guitarist Ronnie Silverman, keyboardist Phil Giallombardo, and guitarist Glen Schwartz.
James Garcia James Robert Garcia (born February 3, 1980 in Torrance, California) is a minor league pitcher in the San Francisco Giants system as of 2006. He attended West Torrance High School, and later the University of California, Santa Barbara.
James Garden James Ford Garden (1847-1914), an engineer, was the seventh Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1898 to 1900. Under his tenure the city developed a street car system, sidewalks, road grades and water connections.
James Garfield Gardiner James Garfield "Jimmy" Gardiner, PC (November 30, 1883-January 12, 1962) was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician. He served as Premier of Saskatchewan, and as a minister in the Canadian Cabinet.
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, CB, PC (October 23 1861 – April 4 1947) was the eldest son and heir of the Victorian statesman Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Born in London, he was educated at Eton and at University College, Oxford.
James Geddes James Geddes (b. 1953) is an American who, in 1992, received two consecutive seventy-five year sentences - one for cultivation of five Cannabis sativa plants - and the other for possession of a small amount of marijuana found on his person.
James Geiss James Geiss (February 13, 1820 - August 30, 1878) was a noted nineteenth-century English businessman from Dover, Kent. His contributions to whaling were well-noted, and he was one of the last whaling tycoons in English history.
James Geiss (Academic) James Geiss, PhD (14 March 1950 - 19 December 2000) was an American scholar who published several books and articles on Chinese history, specifically on the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE). He also co-authored several textbooks on Classical Chinese, notably Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader, with Naiying Yuan and Haitao Tang.
James George Scott Sir (James) George Scott, KCIE (25 December 1851-April 4, 1935) was a Scottish journalist and colonial administrator who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma, and in addition introduced football to Burma.
James George Smith James George Smith (1819-1849) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He was never in good health and after graduating from Miami University in 1840, he became a farmer in Powhattan County, Virginia and died on September 16 1849 from what might have been smallpox.
James Getzlaff James Getzlaff (born July 7, 1970 in Devil's Lake, North Dakota) is an American reality television participant and actor. He is best known as the "leading man" from the 2003 Bravo "gay dating" series Boy Meets Boy.
James Gibbs James Gibbs (1682-1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects. His first public building was St-Mary-Le-Strand and he was also responsible for St Martin's-in-the-Fields in London, the Cambridge University Senate House, the nave of All Saint's, Derby - now Derby Cathedral, and the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford.
James Gillett James Norris Gillett (September 20, 1860 – April 21, 1937) was a California politician who served as Governor of California from January 9, 1907 to January 3, 1911. He was born in 1860 in Viroqua, Wisconsin and died in 1937 in Berkeley, California.
James Gleick James Gleick (August 1, 1954– ) is an author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Three of them have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.
James Glenn Beall James Glenn Beall (June 5, 1894 – January 14, 1971) was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1953-1965. He was also a United States Congressman, representing the sixth district of Maryland from 1943-1953.
James Glennon James Glennon, ASC, (born 29 August, 1942 in Los Angeles, California; died 19 October, 2006), was an American cinematographer who started off working in the Warner Bros. mail room, moved to the camera department and later worked as a cinematographer on feature motion pictures including as Director of Photography of the American unit for Return Of The Jedi, Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt and others including El Norte.
James Godfrey MacManaway Reverend James Godfrey MacManaway, MBE (22 April 1898 – 3 November 19511) was a British Unionist politician and Church of Ireland Minister, who was notable for being disqualified as a Member of Parliament, owing to his status as a priest.
James Godwin James Basil Godwin III, a Rear Admiral (upper half) of the United States Navy, is the Program Executive Officer – Enterprise Information Systems of the Department of the Navy. His responsibilities include oversight of the Navy – Marine Corps Intranet.
James Goldstein James Goldstein is a multi-millionaire "NBA superfan" who attends over one hundred NBA games each season (typically in courtside seats), including approximately 95 percent of home games for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers. He also travels from city to city to catch games, especially during the NBA Playoffs (and not necessarily Lakers and Clippers playoff games).
James Gomez James Gomez (born January 1965, Singapore) is the Second Assistant Secretary-General and Chairman of the Policies and Communications Committee in the Workers' Party of Singapore (WP). Presently, he is also the Programme Officer of the Political Parties Programme at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm, Sweden.
James Goodnight James "Jim" Goodnight is the CEO of the SAS Institute and is generally recognized as the wealthiest man in the state of North Carolina and one of the wealthiest in the world. He was born in Salisbury, NC and lived in Greensboro, NC until his family moved to Wilmington, NC when he was 12.
James E. Long James E. (Jim) Long is the current North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance, the oldest democratic member of the North Carolina Council of State; he has held that post for 24 years and won a sixth term in the 2004 statewide elections.
James E. Robinson James Edgar Robinson (15 August 1868, near Maryville, Ohio - 27 January 1932) was educated at the local high school and latter attended Wesleyan and Ohio State universities. At the latter he was a member of the first law class.
James E. Sullivan James Edward Sullivan (November 18, 1862 in New York City - September 16, 1914) was an American sports official. He was one of the founders of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), and served as its president from 1906 to 1908.
James Earle Fraser James Earle Fraser (November 4, 1876 – October 11, 1953) was an American sculptor, born in Winona, Minnesota. Fraser's father was an engineer working for the railroads as they expanded across the American West.
James Eastland James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904 – February 19, 1986) was an American politician from Mississippi who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat briefly in 1941 and again from 1943 until 1978. From 1947 to 1978, he served alongside John Stennis, also a Democrat.
James Edward Allen Gibbs James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829-1902) was a farmer, inventor, and businessman from Rockbridge County in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. On June 2, 1857, he was awarded a patent for the first chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine.
James Edward Edmonds Brigadier General James Edward Edmonds (1861–1956) was a British First World War officer of the Royal Engineers who in the role of British official historian was responsible for the post-war compilation of the 28-volume History of the Great War. Edmonds himself wrote nearly half the volumes, including eleven of the 14 volumes dealing with the Western Front (Military Operations, France and Belgium).
James Edward Ignatius Masterson James Edward Ignatius Masterson(VC),(20 June 1862- 24 December 1935) 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 Edward Jouett Rear Admiral James Edward Jouett (7 February 1826 – 30 September 1902) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. His father was Matthew Harris Jouett, a notable painter, and his grandfather was Revolutionary War hero Jack Jouett.
James Edward Moore General James Edward Moore (United States Army) was born on November 29, 1902 in New Bedford], [[Massachusetts and died on January 28, 1986. General Moore graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1924 and served in the Army until his retirement in 1963.
James Edward Tait James Edward Tait (VC, MC), (May 27, 1886, Dumfries, Scotland - August 11, 1918), was a Canadian 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 Edward Wood James Edward Wood died in Idaho state prison on death row while awaiting execution for the 1993 murder of 11-year-old Jeralee Underwood. The girl was collecting money on her newspaper route when she was abducted, raped, and killed by Wood.
James Edward Zimmerman James Edward Zimmerman (February 19, 1923 – August 4, 1999) was born in Lantry, South Dakota. He was a coinventor of the radio-frequency superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and he is credited with coining the term.
James Edwards (basketball) James Franklin "Buddha" Edwards (born November 22, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a former professional basketball player. A 7' 0" center from the University of Washington, Edwards spent 19 years (1977-1996) in the NBA, playing for eight teams: the Los Angeles Lakers, the Indiana Pacers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Phoenix Suns, the Detroit Pistons, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Chicago Bulls.
James Edwin Cassidy Bishop James Edwin Cassidy (Born August 1, 1869, Died May 17, 1951) served the third Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. He was ordained a priest September 8, 1898, and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River on March 21, 1930.
James Edwin Doyle James Edwin "Ned" Doyle (October 23 1902–March 5 1989) was an American advertising executive a co-founder of the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency in 1949. Now known as DDB Worldwide, the agency he founded with Mac Dane and Bill Bernbach bears his initial and is among the largest global agency networks.
James Elles James Elles (born September 3, 1949 in London) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region for the Conservative Party. He was the MEP for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire from 1984 to 1989 and the MEP for Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East from 1994 to 1999.
James Elliott (politician) James Elliott (August 18, 1775 – November 10, 1839) was a Massachusetts local and a Vermont representative. He fought in the Northwest Indian War of 1793 in Ohio, studied law afterward, and upon getting admitted to the bar in 1803, he began practicing in Brattleboro, Vermont.
James Elmer James ("Jimmy") Andrew Elmer (born May 8, 1971 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former field hockey striker from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
James Emott James Emott (March 9, 1771 - April 7, 1850) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Poughkeepsie, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1790 and commenced practice in Ballston Center.
James Ensor James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19 1949) was a Belgian impressionist painter, who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life; his father was English, his mother Belgian. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
James Erwin Downey James Erwin Downey (born August 10, 1942) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1977 to 1999, and served as a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Sterling Lyon and Gary Filmon.
James Evans (linguist) James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was a Canadian Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is best remembered for his creation of writing systems for several Aboriginal languages, including Ojibwe, Cree, and indirectly Inuktitut.
James Ewing James Ewing (December 25, 1866, Pittsburgh — May 16, 1943, New York City) was an American pathologist. He was the first Professor of Pathology at Cornell University and became famous with the discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as Ewing's Sarcoma.
James F. Byrnes James Francis Byrnes (May 2, 1879 – April 9, 1972) was an American politician from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives (1911–1925), as a Senator (1931–1941), as Justice of the Supreme Court (1941–1942), as Secretary of State (1945–1947), and as Governor of South Carolina (1951–1955).
James F. M. Prinsep James Frederick McLeod Prinsep (July 27, 1861 – November 22, 1895) was an English footballer who held two 'youngest player' records for almost 125 years, before they were both broken within the space of just over a year.
James F. Simmons James Fowler Simmons (September 10, 1795 – July 10, 1864) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born on a farm near Little Compton, he attended a private school in Newport and moved to Providence in 1812.
James F. Trotter James Fisher Trotter (November 5, 1802 - March 9, 1866) was a United States Senator from Mississippi. Born in Brunswick County, Virginia, he moved to eastern Tennessee, attended private schools, and studied law.
James Fairbairn James Valentine Fairbairn (28 July 1897–13 August 1940) was an Australian Cabinet Minister and member of the House of Representatives, representing the Division of Flinders from 1933 until his death in 1940. Fairbairn died in the Canberra air disaster, 1940.
James Fairman Fielder James Fairman Fielder (February 26, 1867 in Jersey City, New Jersey – December 2, 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) was an American Democrat politician, who served as the 35th Governor of New Jersey, from 1913 to 1917, with a break of several months when he stepped down from office to avoid constitutional limits on serving successive terms.
James Fallows James Fallows is an American print and radio journalist who has been associated with The Atlantic Monthly for many years and has written eight books. His work has appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, and other magazines.
James Farley Post Office The James A. Farley Post Office, New York City's General Post Office, is located at 421 Eighth Avenue, between 31st Street and 33rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the street from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden.
James Farlow James Farlow is a vertebrate paleontologist, specialising on dinosaur trace fossils, biomechanics and physiology. He is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
James Farr James Farr is a freelance animator and animation director based at present in Tulsa, OK. He is widely known by the online community for his animated series Xombie, which quickly gained cult status in 2003 and has spawned a soon-to-be-released illustrated novel as well as an upcoming animated feature film.
James Farragher James Farragher (1876 - unknown) was a powerful left tackle for the University of Notre Dame football team in the early 1900s. He also has been identified in official university histories as the team's head coach for the 1902-1903 season.
James Farrior James Farrior (January 6, 1975, Petersburg, Virginia) is an American football player who currently plays as an inside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL. He played college football at the University of Virginia, and played with the New York Jets from 1997 to 2001.
James Faure Walker James Faure Walker (born 1948, London) studied painting and aesthetics at St Martins (1966-70) and the Royal College of Art (1970-72). He began writing criticism in the mid 1970s, and in 1976 he co-founded Artscribe - a journal for contemporary arts which he edited until 1983.
James Fechet James Edmond Fechet (August 21, 1877—February 10, 1948) was the Chief of the United States Army Air Corps in 1927-1931. Men he had selected and worked with both on his staff and in other top Air Corps positions became key leaders of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II.
James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is particularly remembered as a novelist, who wrote numerous sea-stories as well as the historical romances known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo.
James Fenner James Fenner (22 January 1771 - 17 April 1846) was an American politician who served as an United States Senator as well as the Governor of Rhode Island (on three separate occasions). He was the son of Arthur Fenner, the fourth governor of Rhode Island.
James Fenton (Australian politician) James Edward Fenton (1864-1950) was an Australian politician. He was first elected as a Labor member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Maribyrnong in Victoria in 1910, and would hold the seat until 1934.
James Ferguson (politician) James Robert Ferguson (born August 19, 1925 in Gladstone, Manitoba) is a retired politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1981.
James Finch James Finch is the owner of the Phoenix Racing team in NASCAR. They field the #1 Miccosukee Dodge driven by Jason Keller in the Busch Series and the #09 Dodge driven by Mike Wallace part-time in the NEXTEL Cup series.
James Firth James Firth (15 January 1874--29 May 1921) 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 Fisher James Maxwell McConnell Fisher (September 3, 1912 – September 25, 1970) was a British author, editor, broadcaster, naturalist and ornithologist. He was also a leading authority on Gilbert White and made over 1,000 radio and television broadcasts on natural history subjects.
James Fisher (Manitoba politician) James Fisher (November 6, 1840-1927) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He may have served as leader of the parliamentary opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for a brief period in the mid-1890s.
James Fisk (politician) James Fisk (October 4, 1763 - 1844) was a politician from Vermont who was elected to the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. Born in Greenwich, Massachusetts, he was self-educated and served in the Revolutionary War from 1779 to 1782.
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell (born 1931) was the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from April 1972 to December 8 1974 and from July 30 1984 until October 27 2000. He was a member and a founder of the New Democratic Party.
James Fitzedmund Fitzgerald John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald was the hereditary Seneschal of Imokilly, an Irish nobleman of the Anglo-Norman Fitzgerald dynasty in the province of Munster, who rebelled against the crown during the reign of Queen Elizabeth of England.
James FitzGerald James Edward FitzGerald (1818 - 1896) was a New Zealand politician. According to some historians, he should be considered the country's first Prime Minister, although a more conventional view is that neither he nor his successor should properly be given that title.
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster (May 29, 1722 – November 19, 1773) was an Irish nobleman and politician. He was the son of Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare, and was Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Athy before succeeding his father as twentieth Earl of Kildare in 1744.
James FitzMaurice FitzGerald James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, a member of the 16th century ruling Geraldine dynasty in the province of Munster in Ireland, rebelled against the crown authority of Queen Elizabeth I of England in response to the onset of the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland and was deemed an archtraitor. He led the first of the Desmond Rebellions in 1569, spent a period in exile in continental Europe, but returned to Ireland with an invasion force in 1579.
James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston James Oliver Charles Fitzroy, Earl of Euston FCA (b. 13 December, 1947) is the eldest child and heir apparent of the 11th Duke of Grafton and his wife Fortune, the current Mistress of the Robes to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
James Flanagan (RUC) Sir James Bernard Flanagan, KBE (15 January 1914–1999) was the first and only Roman Catholic Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. There was a Roman Catholic Deputy Chief Constable, Michael McAtamney.
James Fleet James Fleet (born 1954 in Staffordshire) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.
James Flint James Flint is a British novelist. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1968 he did a journalistic apprenticeship on the Times of India in New Delhi before studying philosophy and psychology at Wadham College, Oxford.
James Florio James Joseph "Jim" Florio (born August 29 1937, Brooklyn, New York City) was a Democratic politician who served as the 49th Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian American to hold the position.
James Forbes-Robertson James Forbes-Robertson (VC, DSO & Bar, MC) (7 July 1884-5 August 1955) 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 Ford (pirate) James Ford was an American civic leader and business owner in southern Illinois at the turn of the 19th century. Despite his clean public image, he was also secretly a river pirate and the leader of a gang that would come to be known as "Ford's Ferry Gang".
James Foster (cricketer) James Savin Foster (born 15 April 1980 in Leytonstone, London) is an English cricketer, a wicket-keeper who played seven Tests and 11 One-Day Internationals in 2001/02 and 2002/03. Rather too many mistakes with the gloves and rather too few runs with the bat meant that he was never completely secure in his place, on one occasion suffering the indignity of seeing his place behind the stumps taken by Marcus Trescothick in an ODI against New Zealand.
James Fotopoulos James Fotopoulos (born 1976) is an independent filmmaker and media artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations.
James Francis Edward Stuart Prince James Francis Edward Stuart or Stewart (June 10, 1688 – January 1, 1766) was the son of the deposed King James II of England and as such claimed to be James III of England and VIII of Scotland from the death of his father in 1701. However, his claim was only recognised by his Jacobite supporters, and he is more commonly known in the history of the British monarchy as The Old Pretender.
James Franco James Edward Franco (born April 19 1978) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen films.
James Frederick Dawson James Frederick Dawson (1874-1941) was a noted American landscape architect. His father, Jackson Thornton Dawson, was superintendent of the Arnold Arboretum, and Dawson himself was actually born in the arboretum.
James Frederick Ferrier James Frederick Ferrier (June 16, 1808 – June 11, 1864), Scottish metaphysical writer, was born in Edinburgh, the son of John Ferrier, writer to the signet. His mother was a sister of John Wilson (Christopher North).
James Fulkerson James Fulkerson (born July 2, 1945, Streator, Illinois) American composer, now resident in The Netherlands, of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, electroacoustic, and multimedia works; he is also active as a trombonist.
James Fullarton Born in Glasgow, James Fullarton studied at the Glasgow School of Art under David Donaldson. Since gaining his diploma in Painting and Drawing in 1969 he has been painting full-time, living and working in Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland.
James Furman James Furman (1937-1989) was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and at the age of six began piano studies with his aunt, Permelia Hansbrough. At the age of sixteen he won first place with a composition submitted to the Louisville Philharmonic Society's Young Artist Competition which was performed with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra.
James Fynn James Henry Fynn sometimes James Henry Finn (24 November 1893- 30 March 1917) 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 G. Birney James Gillespie Birney (February 4, 1792–November 25, 1857) was an American presidential candidate for the Liberty Party in the 1840 and 1844 elections. He received 7,069 votes in the 1840 election and 62,273 votes in 1844.
James Gabriel James Gabriel was Grand Chief of the Mohawk community at Kanesatake (located near Oka, Quebec) from 1995 to 2004. His tenure in office was very controversial, and was marked by bitter divisions between his supporters and opponents.
James Gadderar James Gadderar (1655–1733) was a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Previously a minister at Kilmaurs, he was consecrated a Bishop on 24 February 1712 by Bishop George Hickes, though without a diocese.
James Galante James Galante is a convicted felon and reputed mob figure, owner of the Danbury Trashers minor league hockey franchise and CEO of Automated Waste Disposal, a company which holds waste disposal contracts for most of Western Connecticut and Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York. Galante was sentenced in 1999 to 12 months and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion.
James Gallagher (American politician) James Gallagher is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served on the Passaic County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders since 1997, winning re-election to three-year terms of office in 2000, 2003 (when he garnered the greatest number of votes among all six Freeholder candidates) and 2006.Freeholder James Gallagher, accessed January 3, 2007 He served as Deputy Freeholder Director in 2005 and as Director of the Freeholder Board in 2003.
James Galway Sir James Galway (born December 8, 1939) is an Northern Ireland-born virtuoso flautist from Belfast, often called The Man With the Golden Flute. Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal, he became one of the first flautists to establish an international career as a soloist.
James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier Admiral John James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier RN (13 October 1756 New Providence, Bahamas – 19 April 1833 Iver, England), English admiral, was born in the Bahamas, while his father John Gambier was Lieutenant Governor of the Bahamas. He entered the navy list in 1767 as a midshipman on board the Yarmouth, commanded by his uncle, and family interests gained him rapid promotion.
James Gamble Rogers IV James Gamble Rogers IV (January 31, 1937-October 10, 1991) was a folk artist born in Winter Park, Florida. The namesake of two prominent architects, Rogers chose the path of a musician while on his way to a Serendipity Singers audition in New York.
James Gandon James Gandon (1743 -1823) is today recognised as one of the leading late 18th century, early 19th century architects to have worked in Ireland. His better known works include The Custom House, the Four Courts and lastly King's Inns in Dublin.
James Gang James Gang was a rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. The original members were drummer Jim Fox, bassist Tom Kriss, guitarist Ronnie Silverman, keyboardist Phil Giallombardo, and guitarist Glen Schwartz.
James Garcia James Robert Garcia (born February 3, 1980 in Torrance, California) is a minor league pitcher in the San Francisco Giants system as of 2006. He attended West Torrance High School, and later the University of California, Santa Barbara.
James Garden James Ford Garden (1847-1914), an engineer, was the seventh Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1898 to 1900. Under his tenure the city developed a street car system, sidewalks, road grades and water connections.
James Garfield Gardiner James Garfield "Jimmy" Gardiner, PC (November 30, 1883-January 12, 1962) was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician. He served as Premier of Saskatchewan, and as a minister in the Canadian Cabinet.
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, CB, PC (October 23 1861 – April 4 1947) was the eldest son and heir of the Victorian statesman Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Born in London, he was educated at Eton and at University College, Oxford.
James Geddes James Geddes (b. 1953) is an American who, in 1992, received two consecutive seventy-five year sentences - one for cultivation of five Cannabis sativa plants - and the other for possession of a small amount of marijuana found on his person.
James Geiss James Geiss (February 13, 1820 - August 30, 1878) was a noted nineteenth-century English businessman from Dover, Kent. His contributions to whaling were well-noted, and he was one of the last whaling tycoons in English history.
James Geiss (Academic) James Geiss, PhD (14 March 1950 - 19 December 2000) was an American scholar who published several books and articles on Chinese history, specifically on the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE). He also co-authored several textbooks on Classical Chinese, notably Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader, with Naiying Yuan and Haitao Tang.
James George Scott Sir (James) George Scott, KCIE (25 December 1851-April 4, 1935) was a Scottish journalist and colonial administrator who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma, and in addition introduced football to Burma.
James George Smith James George Smith (1819-1849) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He was never in good health and after graduating from Miami University in 1840, he became a farmer in Powhattan County, Virginia and died on September 16 1849 from what might have been smallpox.
James Getzlaff James Getzlaff (born July 7, 1970 in Devil's Lake, North Dakota) is an American reality television participant and actor. He is best known as the "leading man" from the 2003 Bravo "gay dating" series Boy Meets Boy.
James Gibbs James Gibbs (1682-1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects. His first public building was St-Mary-Le-Strand and he was also responsible for St Martin's-in-the-Fields in London, the Cambridge University Senate House, the nave of All Saint's, Derby - now Derby Cathedral, and the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford.
James Gillett James Norris Gillett (September 20, 1860 – April 21, 1937) was a California politician who served as Governor of California from January 9, 1907 to January 3, 1911. He was born in 1860 in Viroqua, Wisconsin and died in 1937 in Berkeley, California.
James Gleick James Gleick (August 1, 1954– ) is an author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Three of them have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.
James Glenn Beall James Glenn Beall (June 5, 1894 – January 14, 1971) was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1953-1965. He was also a United States Congressman, representing the sixth district of Maryland from 1943-1953.
James Glennon James Glennon, ASC, (born 29 August, 1942 in Los Angeles, California; died 19 October, 2006), was an American cinematographer who started off working in the Warner Bros. mail room, moved to the camera department and later worked as a cinematographer on feature motion pictures including as Director of Photography of the American unit for Return Of The Jedi, Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt and others including El Norte.
James Godfrey MacManaway Reverend James Godfrey MacManaway, MBE (22 April 1898 – 3 November 19511) was a British Unionist politician and Church of Ireland Minister, who was notable for being disqualified as a Member of Parliament, owing to his status as a priest.
James Godwin James Basil Godwin III, a Rear Admiral (upper half) of the United States Navy, is the Program Executive Officer – Enterprise Information Systems of the Department of the Navy. His responsibilities include oversight of the Navy – Marine Corps Intranet.
James Goldstein James Goldstein is a multi-millionaire "NBA superfan" who attends over one hundred NBA games each season (typically in courtside seats), including approximately 95 percent of home games for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers. He also travels from city to city to catch games, especially during the NBA Playoffs (and not necessarily Lakers and Clippers playoff games).
James Gomez James Gomez (born January 1965, Singapore) is the Second Assistant Secretary-General and Chairman of the Policies and Communications Committee in the Workers' Party of Singapore (WP). Presently, he is also the Programme Officer of the Political Parties Programme at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm, Sweden.
James Goodnight James "Jim" Goodnight is the CEO of the SAS Institute and is generally recognized as the wealthiest man in the state of North Carolina and one of the wealthiest in the world. He was born in Salisbury, NC and lived in Greensboro, NC until his family moved to Wilmington, NC when he was 12.
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