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James Osgood Andrew James Osgood Andrew (May 3, 1794-March 2, 1871) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1832. He was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, a son of the Rev.
James Ossuary The James Ossuary is a sepulchral urn for containing bones, which was found in Israel in 2002 and was claimed to have been the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. Its provenance is now in serious doubt, and it is considered a modern forgery.
James Oswald Dykes James Oswald Dykes (1835-1912) was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman and educator, born at Port Glasgow. He studied at the universities of Edinburgh, Heidelberg, and Erlangen, and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1859.
James Otis (politician) James Otis (born August 11,1826; died October 30,1875) was a politican from San Francisco, California. James Otis was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 11,1826 Otis then moved to San Francisco for the 1849 California Gold Rush.
James Otis Sargent Huntington The Rev. James Otis Sargent Huntington, OHC (23 July 1854 – 28 June 1935), a priest of the Episcopal Church, was the founder of the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican Benedictine monastic order for men whose mother house is now located in West Park, New York.
James Outram (mountaineer) Sir James Outram (13 October, 1864 – 12 March, 1925) was a British clergyman, who made many first ascents in the Canadian Rockies in the early 1900s. Outram was born in London, the son of Sir Francis Boyd Outram.
James Owens James Owens (1829 - August 20, 1901) was born in Killaine Baillieboro, County Cavan and 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 P. Hoffa James Phillip Hoffa (born May 19, 1941), is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is the only son of Jimmy Hoffa who was also a president of the Teamsters, and his wife, Josephine Poszywak.
James P. Mitchell James Paul Mitchell (November 12, 1900 – October 19, 1964) was an American politician from New Jersey. Nicknamed "the social conscience of the Republican Party," he served as United States Secretary of Labor from 1953 to 1961 in the Eisenhower Administration.
James P. Timilty Middle School The James P. Timilty Middle School (aka Timilty School) is a city-wide public school for sixth, seventh and eighth graders located in historic John Eliot Square in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
James Paget Sir James Paget (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) was a British surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included Lectures on Tumours (1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853).
James Paget Hospital Located at Gorleston, Norfolk, on the A12 road, the James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust serves a population of around 220,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. It was established as a third wave NHS Trust from 1 April 1993.
James Paice James Edward Thornton Paice (born 24 April 1949, Suffolk) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for South East Cambridgeshire, and was first elected in the 1987 general election.
James Palacio James Palacio (aka Fiona St. James) is a New York City-based female impersonator and actor who played Fiona Zonioni, the cross-dressing inmate on the HBO television series Oz, from season two until the show's sixth and final season.
James Palais James Palais (1934-2006) was an American scholar of Korean history. He was Professor of Korean History at the University of Washington for 33 years and was a key figure in establishing the Korean Studies field in the United States.
James Palmer Huffam James Palmer Huffam (31 March 1897- 16 February 1968) 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 Panero James Panero (born 1975, New York City) is the managing editor of the New Criterion and former Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth Review. In addition to his editorial duties for The New Criterion, Panero serves as the magazine’s gallery critic.
James Pankow James Carter Pankow (born August 20, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American trombonist and songwriter who is best known for being a founding member (along with Walter Parazaider, Terry Kath, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera) of the rock band Chicago.
James Park James Park (1835 -14 June 1858) 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 Park Woods James Park Woods VC, (4 January 1886–18 January 1963) was an Australian 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 Parker (cement maker) In 1791, Englishman James Parker was granted a patent "Method of Burning bricks, Tiles, Chalk". His second patent in 1796 "A certain Cement or Terras to be used in Aquatic and other Buildings and Stucco Work", covers Roman cement, a term he used in a 1798 pamphlet advertising his cement.
James Parker (Major General) James Parker (February 20 1854 – June 2 1934) was a Major General in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his role in the Philippine-American War during 1899. His son, Cortland Parker, also became a Major General in the United States Army.
James Parks Caldwell James Parks Caldwell, March 27, 1841-April 5, 1912 born in Monroe, Ohio, was just 14 years old when he helped launch the Sigma Chi Fraternity. By the time he was 13, his progress through academic courses, including Latin and advanced math, caused the principal of the local academy to remark that the boy had covered everything that could be offered there, and he entered Miami University apparently with advanced credits.
James Paten James Paten (born 1973) has served as a senior mandarin in the United Kingdom Treasury since 2002. Prior to that he was a mid-level civil servant in the Department of Health, and private secretary to the colourful Minister, John Hutton.
James Patrick Stuart James Patrick Stuart is an actor who was born June 16 1968 in Encino, California to Chad of the group Chad and Jeremy. He is known mostly for his work on television shows such as CSI, Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Still Standing and voice acting in video games such as Kingdom Hearts II (Xigbar) and Call of Duty 2: Big Red One.
James Patton Anderson James Patton Anderson (February 16, 1822 – September 20, 1872) was a 19th century American doctor and politician, most notably serving as a United States Congressman from the Washington Territory, a Mississippi state legislator, and a delegate at the Florida state secession convention to withdraw from the United States. He was subsequently a major general in the Confederate States Army, at one time commanding the Army of Tennessee.
James Penn James Penn, also known as "Stone Willie", was a vagrant from the 1800s whose corpse was mummified and put on display at the Auman Funeral Parlor in Reading, PA, and remained on display for more than 104 years before being stored away.
James Pennington James Pennington, also known as Suburban Knight, is an artist and DJ/Producer with Underground Resistance (UR), an independent record label based in Detroit, USA. Music by Pennington and other UR members was featured in the video game Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, which is set on the streets of Detroit.
James Percy Fitzpatrick Sir James Percy FitzPatrick (24 July 1862 - 24 January 1931) was a South African author, politician and pioneer of the fruit industry. He is best known for his book Jock of the Bushveld, considered a South African classic, as well as other children's books.
James Peter Davis Monsignor James Peter Davis (June 9, 1904–March 4, 1988) was an American Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Among his positions, were Archbishop of San Juan (1960–1964) and Archbishop of Santa Fe (1964–1974).
James Peter Robertson James Peter Robertson (October 26, 1883 - November 6, 1917) 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 Peters (athlete) James Henry Peters (born October 24, 1918 in London – died January 9, 1999 in Thorpe Bay) is a former long-distance runner from England, who set new marathon records four times during the 1950s. However, he is most remembered when he entered the Vancouver, British Columbia stadium near the end of the 1954 Commonwealth Games marathon with a five-kilometre (three-mile) lead but, severely dehydrated, staggered and collapsed several times and could not finish the final lap.
James Petiver James Petiver (1663-1718) was a London apothecary, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his study of botany and entomology. He named the Red Admiral butterfly after a British Naval Flag and named Fritillary after a chequered dice box.
James Petras James Petras, a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY, New York, USA, and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia,Canada. He is a self-described "revolutionary and anti-imperialist" activist and writer.
James Phillip Connor James Phillip Connor (January 12, 1919–July 27, 1994) was a sergeant in the United States Army who was awarded the Medal of Honor after leading a platoon of 36 men attached to the US 7th Infantry (US 3rd Infantry Division) against German positions, defended by snipers and machine gun nests, at Cape Cavalaire, France on August 15, 1944. Seriously wounded in the course of the assault, the third suffered while on active duty, he continued to fight alongside his men until his injuries forced him to stand down (although he continued to direct the assault).
James Phillip Fleming James Phillip Fleming (born March 12, 1943) was a United States Air Force pilot in the Vietnam War. Born in Sedalia, Missouri, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing a 6-man Green Beret unit, stranded within heavy enemy positions, near Duc Co, Vietnam.
James Phillips James Phillips (22 January 1959 - 31 July 1995) was a South African rock musician of the Voëlvry movement. His bands and personae included The Cherry-Faced Lurchers, Corporal Punishment, Illegal Gathering and Bernoldus Niemand.
James Pierce James Hubert Pierce (August 8, 1900 - December 11, 1983), of Shelbyville, IN, was the fourth actor to portray Tarzan on film. Big Jim Pierce, as he was known to family and friends, was an all-American center on the Indiana University football team.
James Pierpont (Yale founder) Rev. James Pierpont (born January 4, 1659, Roxbury, Massachusetts; died November 22, 1714, New Haven, Connecticut) was a Congregationalist minister who is credited with the founding of Yale University in the United States.
James Piers St Aubyn James Piers St Aubyn, an English architect of the Victorian era who was often referred to simply as J P St Aubyn was born at Powick Vicarage, Worcestershire, the home of his maternal grandfather, on 6 April 1815. St Aubyn was the second son of the Rev.
James Pilkington (bishop) James Pilkington (1520 - 1576), was the Bishop of Durham from 1561 until his death in 1576. He entered Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1536, but then moved to St John's College, Cambridge, from where he graduated BA in 1539, and MA in 1542.
James Pitts James Pitts (VC, MSM) (February 26,1877 - February 28, 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 Pond 2 James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod is a platform game originally released on the Commodore Amiga in 1991. It was originally released for the Commodore Amiga, DOS and Mega Drive/Genesis, from three different publishers.
James Ponder James Ponder (October 31 1819 – November 5 1897) was an American merchant and politician from Milton, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware.
James Porter (priest) James Porter (January 2 1935 - February 11 2005) was a Roman Catholic priest who molested at least 125 children of both sexes over a period of 30 years, starting in the 1960s. His imprisonment in 1993 was a precursor to the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal a decade later.
James Posey James Mikely Mantell Posey, Jr. (born January 13 1977 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing small forward for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association.
James Potter James Potter (1729–1789), of Scottish descent and born in County Tyrone, (now in Northern Ireland), was an American soldier, farmer, and politician from Pennsylvania. He came to Colonial America with his father, John Potter, in 1741, and the family settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where his father becoming high sheriff in 1750.
James Poyser James Poyser is an African-American songwriter, record producer, and keyboardist from Philadelphia, known for his hip-hop and R&B productions. He has often worked with Erykah Badu, Common, The Roots, Jaguar Wright, and has also worked for artists such as Mariah Carey and Beverley Knight.
James Prescott Joule James Prescott Joule, FRS (December 24, 1818 – October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Sale, near Manchester. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy).
James Price James Price (1752–1783) was a British chemist and alchemist, who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to perform the conversion in front of credible witnesses he instead committed suicide by drinking prussic acid.
James Prinsep James Prinsep (20 August 1799 - 22 April 1840) was an Anglo-Indian scholar and antiquary. In 1819 he was given an appointment in the Calcutta mint, where he ultimately became assay-master in 1832, succeeding H.
James Prior, Baron Prior James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, PC, known locally as Jim Prior, (born 11 October 1927) is a British politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Lowestoft and for the renamed constituency of Waveney.
James Puckle James Puckle (1667 - 1724) was an English inventor from London who developed what he called the Puckle Gun, a multi-shot rifle capable of firing 9 rounds before being reloaded. The "Puckle Gun" is sometimes considered an ancestor of the machine gun.
James Purdy James Otis Purdy (b. July 17, 1923) is a noted American novelist, short story-writer, poet, and playwright who since his debut (63: Dream Palace, 1956) has published over a dozen novels, more than half-a-dozen collections of poetry and short fiction, as well as a handful of plays.
James Pycroft James Pycroft (born 1813, Geyers House, Wiltshire, died 1895-03-10, Brighton, Sussex) is chiefly known for writing The Cricket Field, one of the earliest books about cricket, published in 1851. Pycroft mythologised cricket as a noble, manly and essentially British activity and one unknown to the perfidious frog, kraut and dagoe ('Cricket is essentially Anglo-Saxon, ...
James R Scales Fine Arts Center The James R Scales Fine Arts Center is home to Wake Forest University's performing and visual arts departments. Students majoring in these fields have the opportunity to study, perform, and create using state of the art facitilites in music, drama, and art.
James R. Bath James Reynolds Bath was a former director of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and part owner of Arbusto Energy with George W. Bush, with whom Bath served as a member of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.
James R. Beverley James Ramsey Beverley (June 15, 1894—June 1967, San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a United States lawyer and Attorney General of Puerto Rico. While serving as Attorney General, he also served twice as acting-Governor of Puerto Rico.
James R. Browning James Robert Browning (born October 1, 1918, Great Falls, Montana) is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. As of 2005, he has served 44 years on the court—the longest tenure in that court's history—and published over 1,000 appellate decisions.
James R. Flynn James Robert Flynn (also Jim Flynn, born 1934) is an intelligence researcher and Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, known for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the continued year-on-year rise of IQ scores in all parts of the world. Flynn is the author of five books and his research interests are humane ideals and ideological debate, classics of political philosophy, and race, class and IQ (see race and intelligence).
James R. Kirk James R. Kirk was a song writer in the 1970's and early 1980's, who wrote jingles for such clients as The American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, WRKO (Boston), KMGC (Dallas), KVIL (Dallas), The Boy Scouts of America, Coca-Cola, KJR (Seattle), WFAA-TV (Dallas) and countless others.
James R. Lofland James Rush Lofland (November 2, 1823 - February 10, 1894) was a United States Representative from Delaware. Born in Milford, he received a classical education and was graduated from Delaware College (now the University of Delaware) at Newark in 1845.
James R. Sherck James Robert Scherk is an American politician of the Democratic party in Ohio. He stood for election to the United States House of Representatives four times--in 1978, 1980, 1982, and 1984, each time losing to Republican incumbent Del Latta.
James Rado James Radomski (born 1932, stage name James Rado, business name James Radomicki), is an American actor, writer and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the groundbreaking 1960s rock musical Hair. He and Ragni were nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for best musical, and they won for best musical at the Grammy Awards in 1969.
James Rainwater Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 – May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
James Ralph James Trevor Ralph (born 9 October, 1975) is an English cricketer who played one first-class match for Worcestershire and later played minor counties cricket for Shropshire. He was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
James Ramsden (politician) James Edward Ramsden (born 1 November 1923) was a British Conservative Party politican. He was the last cabinet minister to hold the title Secretary of State for War and sat as Member of Parliament for Harrogate from 1954 to 1974.
James Randi James Randi (born August 7, 1928), internationally billed as The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a debunker of pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto, Canada, Randi is the creator of the James Randi Educational Foundation's million dollar challenge offering a prize US$1,000,000 to anyone who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural or occult power or event, under test conditions agreed to by both parties.
James Randi Educational Foundation The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi after his departure from CSICOP in 1994. The Foundation's stated goals are to educate the public and the media on the consequences of accepting paranormal and supernatural claims, and to support research into paranormal claims and attempts to test them in controlled scientific experimental conditions.
James Raphael James Raphael was born in 1953 in Los Angeles from Jewish Sephardic parents (father born in Salonika, Greece and mother born in Paris, France from Boucharian ancestors). He began his piano studies at the age of eight in Brighton, England after having become intrigued by a 200 year-old piano in his father's antique shop.
James Raymond James Raymond (1915-1978), was a school custodian in Chicago, Illinois, USA at the Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church and School from 1945 to 1965. When a fire broke out at the school on December 1, 1958, Mr.
James Rea Benson James Rea Benson (January 21 1807 – March 18 1885) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Lincoln in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Liberal-Conservative member until March 14 1868, when he was named to the Senate of Canada for St.
James Read James Christopher Read (born July 31, 1953 in Buffalo, New York) is an American television actor. He is best known for his role of George Hazard in the TV miniseries based on the North and South novels by John Jakes and for his co-starring role on the movie Beaches.
James Ready James "Jim" Ready is a founder of Hunter & Ready, which became Ready Systems, and of MontaVista Software. He is famous for pioneering the market for embedded real-time operating systems, through VRTX, the prime product from Ready Systems.
James Reasoner Civil War Series The American Civil War Battle Series by author James Reasoner is a ten volume series of historical novels about the American Civil War. The series centers on the fictional Brannon family, which resides in Culpeper, Virginia, a village and county in north central Virginia north of the Rapidan River that served as a major supply depot for the Confederate army.
James Redmond (broadcaster) Sir James Redmond (8 November1918–17 October1999) was one of the pioneers of modern public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. He spent the greater part of his career with the Engineering Department of the BBC rising all the way through the ranks from vision mixer to Director of Engineering and was involved in overseeing most of the technical developments which made modern TV broadcasting possible.
James Reeb James Reeb (January 1 1927 — March 12 1965) was a white Unitarian minister from Boston, Massachusetts who, while marching for civil rights in Selma, Alabama, was beaten to death by segregationists (He was 38 years old.
James Reese Europe James Reese Europe (22 February, 1881 – 9 May, 1919) was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African American music scene of New York City in the 1910s.
James Reserve The James Reserve a unit of the UC Natural Reserve System, is an ecological reserve and biological field station located in a remote wilderness area of the San Jacinto Mountains in Riverside County, California, United States, located on 29 acres at 5,300' asl (Latitude: 33deg 48' 30" N Longitude: 116deg 46' 40" W). The land on which the James reserve is located was donated to the University of California in 1966 by Harry and Grace James.
James Rest James Rest was a professor with the Department of Educational Psychology for the University of Minnesota. In 1982 he helped formally establish the Center for the Study of Ethical Development along with colleagues Muriel Bebeau, Darcia Narvaez and Steve Thoma.
James Reston James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995) (nicknamed "Scotty") was a prominent American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. Associated for many years with The New York Times, he became perhaps the most powerful, influential, and widely-read journalist of his era.
James Reyne James Reyne (born James Michael Nugent Reyne on 19 May 1957 in Nigeria) is a popular Australian singer/songwriter. Born in Nigeria then moving to the Australian state of Victoria with his Australian mother and English father, he went on to study drama at the Victorian College of Arts.
James Reynolds (hamilton) James Reynolds was a disreputable former Commissary officer during the American Revolution who made his living by swindling others. He was married to Maria Reynolds who had an affair with Alexander Hamilton in 1791 and 1792.
James Reynolds Roberts James Reynolds Roberts (1826 - August 1, 1859) 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 Riely Gordon James Riely Gordon (August 2, 1863, Winchester, Virginia - March 16, 1937, Pelham Heights, New York) was an architect of courthouses throughout the United States and the state of Texas in particular. Gordon's specialty was constructing public buildings mainly in the Romanesque Revival style.
James Richard Dacres Vice Admiral James Richard Dacres RN (1788-1853) was an English naval officer, born at Lowestoft. He entered the navy in 1796, accompanied the expedition sent against Ferrol, and in 1806 was promoted captain and put in command of the sloop Bacchante.
James Richardson & Sons, Limited James Richardson & Sons, Limited headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was founded in Kingston, Ontario in 1857. Today, the private, family-owned company continues to be a pioneer in a variety of businesses, including the international Agri-business, Oil & Gas Exploration and Real Estate Operations.
James Richardson (television presenter) James Richardson is the anchor for Football Italia, Bravo TV (UK)'s live coverage of Serie A, and British Eurosport's live Tour de France broadcasts. He also presents the weekly magazine show Gazzetta Football Italia.
James Richardson Corporation The James Richardson Corporation is a corporation, based in Abbotsford, Australia, and primarily involved with furniture, hospitality, real estate, and the duty free retail businesses. The company is owned by David Mandie.
James Riley (Captain) James Riley was the Captain of the American merchant ship Commerce. He led his crew through the Sahara Desert after they were shipwrecked on the coast of West Africa, and wrote a book on the ordeal in 1816 detailing his memoirs .
James Risen James Risen is a reporter for the New York Times and previously the Los Angeles Times. He has written or co-written several articles concerning United States government activities, as well as two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
James River (album) James River is the working title of the long-awaited upcoming album by neo soul singer, D'Angelo. The recording of the album is speculated to be underway, but as of writing, no new songs have been previewed, and very little is known about the project.
James River and Kanawha Turnpike The James River and Kanawha Turnpike was built to facilitate portage of shipments of passengers and freight by water between the western reaches of the James River via the James River and Kanawha Canal and the eastern reaches of the Kanawha River.
James River Bateau The James River Bateau was a shallow draft river craft used during the period from 1775 to 1840 to transport tobacco and other cargo on the James river and its tributaries in the state of Virginia. It was flat bottomed and pointed at both ends.
James River Squadron The James River Squadron was formed shortly after the secession of the State of Virginia as part of the Virginia State Navy. The squadron is most notable for its role in patrolling the James River, which was the main water approach to the Confederate capital, Richmond.
James Robb (politician) James Alexander Robb, PC (10 August 1859 – November 11 1929) was a Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister. Robb was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and from 5 September1925–28 June 1926 and again from 25 September 1926 until his death, served as Minister of Finance in the administration of William Lyon Mackenzie King.
James Robbins James Robbins (born January 19, 1954) is the BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, a post he has held since January 1998. He had previously served as its Southern Africa Correspondent (from 1987 to 1991) and its Europe Correspondent (from 1992 to 1998).
James Robert Baker James Robert Baker (October 18, 1946 – November 5 1997) was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California.
James Robert Wilson James Robert Wilson, PC, a Canadian politician, was born on September 16, 1866 in Almonte, Ontario and died on April 3, 1941. In 1884 he moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and was employed at a grocery and hardware store.
James Robertson (grocer) James Robertson was a grocer in Paisley, Scotland, who was persuaded to buy a barrel of bitter oranges. When sales were slow, James' wife Marion made the oranges into a batch of marmalade and 'Golden Shred' was born.
James Ossuary The James Ossuary is a sepulchral urn for containing bones, which was found in Israel in 2002 and was claimed to have been the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. Its provenance is now in serious doubt, and it is considered a modern forgery.
James Oswald Dykes James Oswald Dykes (1835-1912) was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman and educator, born at Port Glasgow. He studied at the universities of Edinburgh, Heidelberg, and Erlangen, and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1859.
James Otis (politician) James Otis (born August 11,1826; died October 30,1875) was a politican from San Francisco, California. James Otis was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 11,1826 Otis then moved to San Francisco for the 1849 California Gold Rush.
James Otis Sargent Huntington The Rev. James Otis Sargent Huntington, OHC (23 July 1854 – 28 June 1935), a priest of the Episcopal Church, was the founder of the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican Benedictine monastic order for men whose mother house is now located in West Park, New York.
James Outram (mountaineer) Sir James Outram (13 October, 1864 – 12 March, 1925) was a British clergyman, who made many first ascents in the Canadian Rockies in the early 1900s. Outram was born in London, the son of Sir Francis Boyd Outram.
James Owens James Owens (1829 - August 20, 1901) was born in Killaine Baillieboro, County Cavan and 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 P. Hoffa James Phillip Hoffa (born May 19, 1941), is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is the only son of Jimmy Hoffa who was also a president of the Teamsters, and his wife, Josephine Poszywak.
James P. Mitchell James Paul Mitchell (November 12, 1900 – October 19, 1964) was an American politician from New Jersey. Nicknamed "the social conscience of the Republican Party," he served as United States Secretary of Labor from 1953 to 1961 in the Eisenhower Administration.
James P. Timilty Middle School The James P. Timilty Middle School (aka Timilty School) is a city-wide public school for sixth, seventh and eighth graders located in historic John Eliot Square in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
James Paget Sir James Paget (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) was a British surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included Lectures on Tumours (1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853).
James Paget Hospital Located at Gorleston, Norfolk, on the A12 road, the James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust serves a population of around 220,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. It was established as a third wave NHS Trust from 1 April 1993.
James Paice James Edward Thornton Paice (born 24 April 1949, Suffolk) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for South East Cambridgeshire, and was first elected in the 1987 general election.
James Palacio James Palacio (aka Fiona St. James) is a New York City-based female impersonator and actor who played Fiona Zonioni, the cross-dressing inmate on the HBO television series Oz, from season two until the show's sixth and final season.
James Palais James Palais (1934-2006) was an American scholar of Korean history. He was Professor of Korean History at the University of Washington for 33 years and was a key figure in establishing the Korean Studies field in the United States.
James Palmer Huffam James Palmer Huffam (31 March 1897- 16 February 1968) 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 Panero James Panero (born 1975, New York City) is the managing editor of the New Criterion and former Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth Review. In addition to his editorial duties for The New Criterion, Panero serves as the magazine’s gallery critic.
James Pankow James Carter Pankow (born August 20, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American trombonist and songwriter who is best known for being a founding member (along with Walter Parazaider, Terry Kath, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera) of the rock band Chicago.
James Park James Park (1835 -14 June 1858) 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 Park Woods James Park Woods VC, (4 January 1886–18 January 1963) was an Australian 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 Parker (cement maker) In 1791, Englishman James Parker was granted a patent "Method of Burning bricks, Tiles, Chalk". His second patent in 1796 "A certain Cement or Terras to be used in Aquatic and other Buildings and Stucco Work", covers Roman cement, a term he used in a 1798 pamphlet advertising his cement.
James Parker (Major General) James Parker (February 20 1854 – June 2 1934) was a Major General in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his role in the Philippine-American War during 1899. His son, Cortland Parker, also became a Major General in the United States Army.
James Parks Caldwell James Parks Caldwell, March 27, 1841-April 5, 1912 born in Monroe, Ohio, was just 14 years old when he helped launch the Sigma Chi Fraternity. By the time he was 13, his progress through academic courses, including Latin and advanced math, caused the principal of the local academy to remark that the boy had covered everything that could be offered there, and he entered Miami University apparently with advanced credits.
James Paten James Paten (born 1973) has served as a senior mandarin in the United Kingdom Treasury since 2002. Prior to that he was a mid-level civil servant in the Department of Health, and private secretary to the colourful Minister, John Hutton.
James Patrick Stuart James Patrick Stuart is an actor who was born June 16 1968 in Encino, California to Chad of the group Chad and Jeremy. He is known mostly for his work on television shows such as CSI, Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Still Standing and voice acting in video games such as Kingdom Hearts II (Xigbar) and Call of Duty 2: Big Red One.
James Patton Anderson James Patton Anderson (February 16, 1822 – September 20, 1872) was a 19th century American doctor and politician, most notably serving as a United States Congressman from the Washington Territory, a Mississippi state legislator, and a delegate at the Florida state secession convention to withdraw from the United States. He was subsequently a major general in the Confederate States Army, at one time commanding the Army of Tennessee.
James Penn James Penn, also known as "Stone Willie", was a vagrant from the 1800s whose corpse was mummified and put on display at the Auman Funeral Parlor in Reading, PA, and remained on display for more than 104 years before being stored away.
James Pennington James Pennington, also known as Suburban Knight, is an artist and DJ/Producer with Underground Resistance (UR), an independent record label based in Detroit, USA. Music by Pennington and other UR members was featured in the video game Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, which is set on the streets of Detroit.
James Percy Fitzpatrick Sir James Percy FitzPatrick (24 July 1862 - 24 January 1931) was a South African author, politician and pioneer of the fruit industry. He is best known for his book Jock of the Bushveld, considered a South African classic, as well as other children's books.
James Peter Davis Monsignor James Peter Davis (June 9, 1904–March 4, 1988) was an American Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Among his positions, were Archbishop of San Juan (1960–1964) and Archbishop of Santa Fe (1964–1974).
James Peter Robertson James Peter Robertson (October 26, 1883 - November 6, 1917) 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 Peters (athlete) James Henry Peters (born October 24, 1918 in London – died January 9, 1999 in Thorpe Bay) is a former long-distance runner from England, who set new marathon records four times during the 1950s. However, he is most remembered when he entered the Vancouver, British Columbia stadium near the end of the 1954 Commonwealth Games marathon with a five-kilometre (three-mile) lead but, severely dehydrated, staggered and collapsed several times and could not finish the final lap.
James Petiver James Petiver (1663-1718) was a London apothecary, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his study of botany and entomology. He named the Red Admiral butterfly after a British Naval Flag and named Fritillary after a chequered dice box.
James Petras James Petras, a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY, New York, USA, and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia,Canada. He is a self-described "revolutionary and anti-imperialist" activist and writer.
James Phillip Connor James Phillip Connor (January 12, 1919–July 27, 1994) was a sergeant in the United States Army who was awarded the Medal of Honor after leading a platoon of 36 men attached to the US 7th Infantry (US 3rd Infantry Division) against German positions, defended by snipers and machine gun nests, at Cape Cavalaire, France on August 15, 1944. Seriously wounded in the course of the assault, the third suffered while on active duty, he continued to fight alongside his men until his injuries forced him to stand down (although he continued to direct the assault).
James Phillip Fleming James Phillip Fleming (born March 12, 1943) was a United States Air Force pilot in the Vietnam War. Born in Sedalia, Missouri, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing a 6-man Green Beret unit, stranded within heavy enemy positions, near Duc Co, Vietnam.
James Phillips James Phillips (22 January 1959 - 31 July 1995) was a South African rock musician of the Voëlvry movement. His bands and personae included The Cherry-Faced Lurchers, Corporal Punishment, Illegal Gathering and Bernoldus Niemand.
James Pierce James Hubert Pierce (August 8, 1900 - December 11, 1983), of Shelbyville, IN, was the fourth actor to portray Tarzan on film. Big Jim Pierce, as he was known to family and friends, was an all-American center on the Indiana University football team.
James Pierpont (Yale founder) Rev. James Pierpont (born January 4, 1659, Roxbury, Massachusetts; died November 22, 1714, New Haven, Connecticut) was a Congregationalist minister who is credited with the founding of Yale University in the United States.
James Piers St Aubyn James Piers St Aubyn, an English architect of the Victorian era who was often referred to simply as J P St Aubyn was born at Powick Vicarage, Worcestershire, the home of his maternal grandfather, on 6 April 1815. St Aubyn was the second son of the Rev.
James Pilkington (bishop) James Pilkington (1520 - 1576), was the Bishop of Durham from 1561 until his death in 1576. He entered Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1536, but then moved to St John's College, Cambridge, from where he graduated BA in 1539, and MA in 1542.
James Pitts James Pitts (VC, MSM) (February 26,1877 - February 28, 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 Pond 2 James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod is a platform game originally released on the Commodore Amiga in 1991. It was originally released for the Commodore Amiga, DOS and Mega Drive/Genesis, from three different publishers.
James Ponder James Ponder (October 31 1819 – November 5 1897) was an American merchant and politician from Milton, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware.
James Porter (priest) James Porter (January 2 1935 - February 11 2005) was a Roman Catholic priest who molested at least 125 children of both sexes over a period of 30 years, starting in the 1960s. His imprisonment in 1993 was a precursor to the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal a decade later.
James Posey James Mikely Mantell Posey, Jr. (born January 13 1977 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing small forward for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association.
James Potter James Potter (1729–1789), of Scottish descent and born in County Tyrone, (now in Northern Ireland), was an American soldier, farmer, and politician from Pennsylvania. He came to Colonial America with his father, John Potter, in 1741, and the family settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where his father becoming high sheriff in 1750.
James Poyser James Poyser is an African-American songwriter, record producer, and keyboardist from Philadelphia, known for his hip-hop and R&B productions. He has often worked with Erykah Badu, Common, The Roots, Jaguar Wright, and has also worked for artists such as Mariah Carey and Beverley Knight.
James Prescott Joule James Prescott Joule, FRS (December 24, 1818 – October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Sale, near Manchester. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy).
James Price James Price (1752–1783) was a British chemist and alchemist, who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to perform the conversion in front of credible witnesses he instead committed suicide by drinking prussic acid.
James Prinsep James Prinsep (20 August 1799 - 22 April 1840) was an Anglo-Indian scholar and antiquary. In 1819 he was given an appointment in the Calcutta mint, where he ultimately became assay-master in 1832, succeeding H.
James Prior, Baron Prior James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, PC, known locally as Jim Prior, (born 11 October 1927) is a British politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Lowestoft and for the renamed constituency of Waveney.
James Puckle James Puckle (1667 - 1724) was an English inventor from London who developed what he called the Puckle Gun, a multi-shot rifle capable of firing 9 rounds before being reloaded. The "Puckle Gun" is sometimes considered an ancestor of the machine gun.
James Purdy James Otis Purdy (b. July 17, 1923) is a noted American novelist, short story-writer, poet, and playwright who since his debut (63: Dream Palace, 1956) has published over a dozen novels, more than half-a-dozen collections of poetry and short fiction, as well as a handful of plays.
James Pycroft James Pycroft (born 1813, Geyers House, Wiltshire, died 1895-03-10, Brighton, Sussex) is chiefly known for writing The Cricket Field, one of the earliest books about cricket, published in 1851. Pycroft mythologised cricket as a noble, manly and essentially British activity and one unknown to the perfidious frog, kraut and dagoe ('Cricket is essentially Anglo-Saxon, ...
James R Scales Fine Arts Center The James R Scales Fine Arts Center is home to Wake Forest University's performing and visual arts departments. Students majoring in these fields have the opportunity to study, perform, and create using state of the art facitilites in music, drama, and art.
James R. Bath James Reynolds Bath was a former director of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and part owner of Arbusto Energy with George W. Bush, with whom Bath served as a member of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.
James R. Beverley James Ramsey Beverley (June 15, 1894—June 1967, San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a United States lawyer and Attorney General of Puerto Rico. While serving as Attorney General, he also served twice as acting-Governor of Puerto Rico.
James R. Browning James Robert Browning (born October 1, 1918, Great Falls, Montana) is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. As of 2005, he has served 44 years on the court—the longest tenure in that court's history—and published over 1,000 appellate decisions.
James R. Flynn James Robert Flynn (also Jim Flynn, born 1934) is an intelligence researcher and Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, known for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the continued year-on-year rise of IQ scores in all parts of the world. Flynn is the author of five books and his research interests are humane ideals and ideological debate, classics of political philosophy, and race, class and IQ (see race and intelligence).
James R. Kirk James R. Kirk was a song writer in the 1970's and early 1980's, who wrote jingles for such clients as The American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, WRKO (Boston), KMGC (Dallas), KVIL (Dallas), The Boy Scouts of America, Coca-Cola, KJR (Seattle), WFAA-TV (Dallas) and countless others.
James R. Lofland James Rush Lofland (November 2, 1823 - February 10, 1894) was a United States Representative from Delaware. Born in Milford, he received a classical education and was graduated from Delaware College (now the University of Delaware) at Newark in 1845.
James R. Sherck James Robert Scherk is an American politician of the Democratic party in Ohio. He stood for election to the United States House of Representatives four times--in 1978, 1980, 1982, and 1984, each time losing to Republican incumbent Del Latta.
James Rado James Radomski (born 1932, stage name James Rado, business name James Radomicki), is an American actor, writer and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the groundbreaking 1960s rock musical Hair. He and Ragni were nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for best musical, and they won for best musical at the Grammy Awards in 1969.
James Rainwater Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 – May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
James Ralph James Trevor Ralph (born 9 October, 1975) is an English cricketer who played one first-class match for Worcestershire and later played minor counties cricket for Shropshire. He was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
James Ramsden (politician) James Edward Ramsden (born 1 November 1923) was a British Conservative Party politican. He was the last cabinet minister to hold the title Secretary of State for War and sat as Member of Parliament for Harrogate from 1954 to 1974.
James Randi James Randi (born August 7, 1928), internationally billed as The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a debunker of pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto, Canada, Randi is the creator of the James Randi Educational Foundation's million dollar challenge offering a prize US$1,000,000 to anyone who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural or occult power or event, under test conditions agreed to by both parties.
James Randi Educational Foundation The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi after his departure from CSICOP in 1994. The Foundation's stated goals are to educate the public and the media on the consequences of accepting paranormal and supernatural claims, and to support research into paranormal claims and attempts to test them in controlled scientific experimental conditions.
James Raphael James Raphael was born in 1953 in Los Angeles from Jewish Sephardic parents (father born in Salonika, Greece and mother born in Paris, France from Boucharian ancestors). He began his piano studies at the age of eight in Brighton, England after having become intrigued by a 200 year-old piano in his father's antique shop.
James Raymond James Raymond (1915-1978), was a school custodian in Chicago, Illinois, USA at the Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church and School from 1945 to 1965. When a fire broke out at the school on December 1, 1958, Mr.
James Rea Benson James Rea Benson (January 21 1807 – March 18 1885) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Lincoln in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Liberal-Conservative member until March 14 1868, when he was named to the Senate of Canada for St.
James Read James Christopher Read (born July 31, 1953 in Buffalo, New York) is an American television actor. He is best known for his role of George Hazard in the TV miniseries based on the North and South novels by John Jakes and for his co-starring role on the movie Beaches.
James Ready James "Jim" Ready is a founder of Hunter & Ready, which became Ready Systems, and of MontaVista Software. He is famous for pioneering the market for embedded real-time operating systems, through VRTX, the prime product from Ready Systems.
James Reasoner Civil War Series The American Civil War Battle Series by author James Reasoner is a ten volume series of historical novels about the American Civil War. The series centers on the fictional Brannon family, which resides in Culpeper, Virginia, a village and county in north central Virginia north of the Rapidan River that served as a major supply depot for the Confederate army.
James Redmond (broadcaster) Sir James Redmond (8 November1918–17 October1999) was one of the pioneers of modern public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. He spent the greater part of his career with the Engineering Department of the BBC rising all the way through the ranks from vision mixer to Director of Engineering and was involved in overseeing most of the technical developments which made modern TV broadcasting possible.
James Reeb James Reeb (January 1 1927 — March 12 1965) was a white Unitarian minister from Boston, Massachusetts who, while marching for civil rights in Selma, Alabama, was beaten to death by segregationists (He was 38 years old.
James Reese Europe James Reese Europe (22 February, 1881 – 9 May, 1919) was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African American music scene of New York City in the 1910s.
James Reserve The James Reserve a unit of the UC Natural Reserve System, is an ecological reserve and biological field station located in a remote wilderness area of the San Jacinto Mountains in Riverside County, California, United States, located on 29 acres at 5,300' asl (Latitude: 33deg 48' 30" N Longitude: 116deg 46' 40" W). The land on which the James reserve is located was donated to the University of California in 1966 by Harry and Grace James.
James Rest James Rest was a professor with the Department of Educational Psychology for the University of Minnesota. In 1982 he helped formally establish the Center for the Study of Ethical Development along with colleagues Muriel Bebeau, Darcia Narvaez and Steve Thoma.
James Reston James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995) (nicknamed "Scotty") was a prominent American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. Associated for many years with The New York Times, he became perhaps the most powerful, influential, and widely-read journalist of his era.
James Reyne James Reyne (born James Michael Nugent Reyne on 19 May 1957 in Nigeria) is a popular Australian singer/songwriter. Born in Nigeria then moving to the Australian state of Victoria with his Australian mother and English father, he went on to study drama at the Victorian College of Arts.
James Reynolds (hamilton) James Reynolds was a disreputable former Commissary officer during the American Revolution who made his living by swindling others. He was married to Maria Reynolds who had an affair with Alexander Hamilton in 1791 and 1792.
James Reynolds Roberts James Reynolds Roberts (1826 - August 1, 1859) 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 Riely Gordon James Riely Gordon (August 2, 1863, Winchester, Virginia - March 16, 1937, Pelham Heights, New York) was an architect of courthouses throughout the United States and the state of Texas in particular. Gordon's specialty was constructing public buildings mainly in the Romanesque Revival style.
James Richard Dacres Vice Admiral James Richard Dacres RN (1788-1853) was an English naval officer, born at Lowestoft. He entered the navy in 1796, accompanied the expedition sent against Ferrol, and in 1806 was promoted captain and put in command of the sloop Bacchante.
James Richardson & Sons, Limited James Richardson & Sons, Limited headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was founded in Kingston, Ontario in 1857. Today, the private, family-owned company continues to be a pioneer in a variety of businesses, including the international Agri-business, Oil & Gas Exploration and Real Estate Operations.
James Richardson (television presenter) James Richardson is the anchor for Football Italia, Bravo TV (UK)'s live coverage of Serie A, and British Eurosport's live Tour de France broadcasts. He also presents the weekly magazine show Gazzetta Football Italia.
James Richardson Corporation The James Richardson Corporation is a corporation, based in Abbotsford, Australia, and primarily involved with furniture, hospitality, real estate, and the duty free retail businesses. The company is owned by David Mandie.
James Riley (Captain) James Riley was the Captain of the American merchant ship Commerce. He led his crew through the Sahara Desert after they were shipwrecked on the coast of West Africa, and wrote a book on the ordeal in 1816 detailing his memoirs .
James Risen James Risen is a reporter for the New York Times and previously the Los Angeles Times. He has written or co-written several articles concerning United States government activities, as well as two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
James River (album) James River is the working title of the long-awaited upcoming album by neo soul singer, D'Angelo. The recording of the album is speculated to be underway, but as of writing, no new songs have been previewed, and very little is known about the project.
James River and Kanawha Turnpike The James River and Kanawha Turnpike was built to facilitate portage of shipments of passengers and freight by water between the western reaches of the James River via the James River and Kanawha Canal and the eastern reaches of the Kanawha River.
James River Bateau The James River Bateau was a shallow draft river craft used during the period from 1775 to 1840 to transport tobacco and other cargo on the James river and its tributaries in the state of Virginia. It was flat bottomed and pointed at both ends.
James River Squadron The James River Squadron was formed shortly after the secession of the State of Virginia as part of the Virginia State Navy. The squadron is most notable for its role in patrolling the James River, which was the main water approach to the Confederate capital, Richmond.
James Robb (politician) James Alexander Robb, PC (10 August 1859 – November 11 1929) was a Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister. Robb was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and from 5 September1925–28 June 1926 and again from 25 September 1926 until his death, served as Minister of Finance in the administration of William Lyon Mackenzie King.
James Robbins James Robbins (born January 19, 1954) is the BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, a post he has held since January 1998. He had previously served as its Southern Africa Correspondent (from 1987 to 1991) and its Europe Correspondent (from 1992 to 1998).
James Robert Baker James Robert Baker (October 18, 1946 – November 5 1997) was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California.
James Robert Wilson James Robert Wilson, PC, a Canadian politician, was born on September 16, 1866 in Almonte, Ontario and died on April 3, 1941. In 1884 he moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and was employed at a grocery and hardware store.
James Robertson (grocer) James Robertson was a grocer in Paisley, Scotland, who was persuaded to buy a barrel of bitter oranges. When sales were slow, James' wife Marion made the oranges into a batch of marmalade and 'Golden Shred' was born.
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