List of Famous people named James
James Franklin Jeffrey
James Franklin Jeffrey aka Jim Jeffrey is an American diplomat who serves as the United States Special Representative for Syria Engagement and the Special Envoy to the International military intervention against ISIL.
James McArthur
James McFarlane McArthur is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Crystal Palace.
James L. Brooks
James Lawrence Brooks is an American director, producer and screenwriter. His television and film work includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, The Simpsons, Broadcast News, As Good as It Gets, and Terms of Endearment.
James Spudich
James A. Spudich is an American scientist and professor. He is the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Biochemistry and of Cardiovascular Disease at Stanford University and works on the molecular basis of muscle contraction. He was awarded the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 2012 with Michael Sheetz and Ronald Vale. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
James Manos, Jr.
James Manos Jr. is an American film and television writer and producer.
James McMurtry
James McMurtry is an American rock and folk rock/americana singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and occasional actor. He performs with veteran bandmates Daren Hess, Cornbread and Tim Holt.
James Till
James Edgar Till, is a University of Toronto biophysicist, best known for demonstrating – with Ernest McCulloch – the existence of stem cells.
James Kenneth Morrow
James Morrow is an American novelist and short-story writer known for filtering large philosophical and theological questions through his satiric sensibility.
James Carpinello
James Anthony Carpinello is an American actor who came to national attention with his appearances in Tori Spelling's VH1 sitcom So Notorious. He is also part of the musical Rock of Ages.
James Kelman
James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize with How Late It Was, How Late. In 1998 Kelman was awarded the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award. His 2008 novel Kieron Smith, Boy won both of Scotland's principal literary awards: the Saltire Society's Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.