List of Famous people named James

Name James is among the most common names in USA, England, Canada, Australia. Shortened forms: Jim, Jimmy, Jamie. Similar names: Jim, Jimmy, Jamie, Jameis. Here are some famous Jameses:

James Lowther

First Name James
Last Name Lowther
Born on January 27, 1947 (age 79)
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James Seymour Emerson

First Name James
Last Name Emerson
Born on September 15, 1941 (age 84)
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James Lea Siliki

First Name James
Last Name Siliki
Born on June 12, 1996 (age 30)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

James Edward Léa Siliki is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Stade Rennais.

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James Newton Howard

First Name James
Last Name Howard
Born on June 9, 1951 (age 75)

James Newton Howard is an American composer, conductor, and record producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and nine Academy Award nominations. His film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Fugitive (1993), Space Jam (1996), King Kong (2005), The Dark Knight, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films since The Sixth Sense and all of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend, including the Hunger Games series.

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James Duckworth-Chad

First Name James
Last Name Duckworth-Chad
Born on July 9, 1972 (age 53)
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James E. Gunn

First Name James
Last Name Gunn
Born on October 21, 1938 (age 87)

James Edward Gunn is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. Gunn's early theoretical work in astronomy has helped establish the current understanding of how galaxies form, and the properties of the space between galaxies. He also suggested important observational tests to confirm the presence of dark matter in galaxies, and predicted the existence of a Gunn–Peterson trough in the spectra of distant quasars.

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James Jerningham Corballis

First Name James
Last Name Corballis
Born on April 19, 1919 (age 107)
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James K. Galbraith

First Name James
Last Name Galbraith
Born on January 29, 1952 (age 74)

James Kenneth Galbraith is an American economist who writes frequently for the popular press on economic topics. He is currently a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and at the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Senior Scholar with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and part of the executive committee of the World Economics Association, created in 2011.

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James Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray, 21st of Abercairny

First Name James
Last Name Abercairny
Born on November 8, 1900
Died on August 4, 1968 (aged 67)
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James Christopher Ellis

First Name James
Last Name Ellis
Born on January 1, 1918 (age 108)
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