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James Jeffords

James Jeffords was elected to the U.S. Senate from Vermont in 1988, then re-elected in 1994 and 2000. Previously he had been a Vermont state senator and Attorney General and had served in the U.S.…

James McAvoy

James McAvoy is a blue-eyed Scot who became a Hollywood leading man after his strong performance opposite Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006). A graduate of the Royal Scottish…

James Mason

English actor James Mason was a movie star for half a century in Britain and the United States, known especially for playing stylish, romantic villains, as in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (…

James Smithson

Name at birth: James Lewis MacieJames Smithson was an English chemist and mineralogist who left his fortune to the United States to found what became the Smithsonian Institution. Smithson was born…

Jesse James

Jesse James was one of the most famous outlaws of the American West. Young Jesse learned a lot about guerrilla activities during the U.S. Civil War, fighting and sabotaging the Union army in the…

James Corden

James Corden is a British comic actor and writer who is also known as the host of the television talk show The Late Late Show with James Corden. A popular segment of that show, "Car Karaoke," in…

James Comey

Name at birth: James Brien Comey, Jr.James Comey is the Republican lawyer and former U.S. attorney whose controversial tenure as Director of the FBI ended abruptly when he was fired by President…

Rick James

Name at birth: James Johnson, Jr.Rick James was a leading funk singer and songwriter of the 1980s. He remains best known for his song "Super Freak" -- and for being convicted of kidnapping and sexual…

Henry James

Many consider Henry James to be the master of the psychological novel, and his influence on 20th century English literature is undisputed. An expatriate in London from 1876 to his death (he became a…

James Caan

Tough-guy leading man and sometime supporting player James Caan was best-known for his role as hot-tempered Sonny Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972). Caan grew up in Queens, New…