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Etta James

Name at birth: Jamesetta HawkinsEtta James sang blues, jazz, country, gospel and pop hits beginning in the early 1950s, from the suggestive dancehall favorite "Roll With Me, Henry" to her signature…

James Brown

Name at birth: James Joe Brown, Jr.Singer James Brown was a founding inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and one of the most influential popular musicians of the 20th century, a wildly…

James Bond

James Bond was created by author Ian Fleming and remains one of the most famous secret agents in modern fiction. Bond is a cool, handsome, dangerous agent for British Intelligence; his code number,…

James Cameron

A self-made giant of Hollywood, Canadian-born James Cameron went from set-builder to art director (for 1981's Escape From New York) to writer and then director of some of the biggest movies of his…

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…