james harvey robinson

United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936) ;

james henry leigh hunt

British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) ;

james hogg

Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835) ;

james howard meredith

United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) ;

james hutton

Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797) ;

james i

the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625) ;

james ii

the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701) ;

james iv

a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513) ;

james ives

United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895) ;

james jerome hill

United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) ;

james john corbett

United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933) ;

james joseph tunney

United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978) ;

james joyce

influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941) ;

james k. polk

11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849) ;

james knox polk

11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849) ;

james langston hughes

United States writer (1902-1967) ;

james leonard farmer

United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) ;

james madison

4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836) ;

james maitland stewart

United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997) ;

james marshall hendrix

United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970) ;

james mason

English film actor (1909-1984) ;

james matthew barrie

Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) ;

james mckeen cattell

American psychologist and editor (1860-1944) ;

james meredith

United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) ;

james merritt ives

United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895) ;

james michener

United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997) ;

james mill

Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) ;

james monroe

5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831) ;

james murray

Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) ;

james naismith

United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939) ;

james neville mason

English film actor (1909-1984) ;

james parkinson

English surgeon (1755-1824) ;

james polk

11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849) ;

james prescott joule

English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889) ;

james riddle hoffa

United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975) ;

james river

a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri ; a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads ;

james scott connors

outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952) ;

james thomas farrell

United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979) ;

james thomas harris

Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931) ;

james thurber

United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961) ;