Top Celebrity Names Starting With James

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   James Franco

   Age 34 Male
   

   Film Actor

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   James Edward Franco is an American actor, artist, and filmmaker. His first prominent role was a lead part on the short-lived cult hit television program Freaks and Geeks; he later achieved recognition for playing the titular character in the TV biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe Award. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.… read more

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   James Cameron

   Age 57 Male
   

   Producer, Film Maker, Editor

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   James Francis Cameron is a Canadian film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screenwriter, visual artist, editor, environmentalist and inventor. His writing and directing work includes Piranha II: The Spawning (1981), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Dark Angel (2000–2002).… read more

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   James Brown

   1933 - 2006 Male
   

   Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Dope Dealer

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   James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance. In a career that spanned decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moves on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly Africanised approach to music making.… read more

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   James Taylor

   Age 43 Male
   

   Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist

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   James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor achieved his major breakthrough in 1970 with the #3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first #1 hit the following year with "You've Got a Friend", a recording of Carole King's classic song. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies.… read more

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   James Blunt

   Age 38 Male
   

   Singer, Songwriter, Musician

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   James Hillier Blount, better known by his stage name James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and former army officer, whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", brought him to fame in 2005. His repertoire can be best described as a mix of acoustic-tinged pop, rock and folk.… read more

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   James McAvoy

   Age 33 Male
   

   Scottish Stage and Screen Actor

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   James McAvoy is a Scottish stage and screen actor. He made his acting debut as a teen in 1995's The Near Room and continued to make mostly television appearances until the early 2000s. His notable television work includes State of Play, Shameless, and Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. Besides screen acting, McAvoy has appeared on stage with Three Days of Rain in 2009, and in 2011 he did voice work for animated films including Gnomeo & Juliet and Arthur Christmas.… read more

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   James Earl Jones

   Age 81 Male
   

   Actor

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   James Earl Jones is an American actor. He is well known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has spent more than five decades as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile actors" and has been termed "one of the greatest actors in American history. " On November 12, 2011, Jones received an Honorary Academy Award.… read more

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   James Blake

   Age 32 Male
   

   Tennis Player

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   James Riley Blake is an American professional tennis player. Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. As of August 2011, Blake is ranked no. 63 among active male players with 24 career finals appearances (10–14 record). His career highlights include reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (2008) and US Open (2005, 2006).… read more

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   James Nesbitt

   Age 47 Male
   

   Actor

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   James Nesbitt is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher like his father, so he began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.… read more

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    James Garner

    Age 84 Male
    

    Actor

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    James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades.… read more

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    James Cagney

    1899 - 1986 Male
    

    Actor

    
    

    James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing tough guys. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its 50 Greatest American Screen Legends. In his first professional acting performance, he danced dressed as a woman in the chorus line of the 1919 revue Every Sailor.… read more

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    James Hetfield

    Age 48 Male
    

    Guitarist, Songwriter, Founder

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    James Alan Hetfield is the rhythm guitarist, co-founder, main songwriter, and lead vocalist for the American heavy metal band Metallica. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering a classified advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler, searching for band members. Since then, Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released nine studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays and 24 singles.… read more

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    James Stewart

    1908 - 1997 Male
    

    Actor and Military Veteran

    
    

    James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. He was a major MGM contract star.… read more

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    James Dean

    1931 - 1955 Male
    

    Actor

    
    

    James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and as the surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956).… read more

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    James Hansen

    Age 71 Male
    

    Center, Adjunct, Professor

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    James E. Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a part of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He has held this position since 1981. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. After graduate school, Hansen continued his work with radiative transfer models, attempting to understand the Venusian atmosphere.… read more

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    James A. Garfield

    1831 - 1881 Male
    

    President of the United States, Lawyer, Congressman

    
    

    James Abram Garfield served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments; energizing U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the Post Office Department.… read more

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    James Callaghan

    1912 - 2005 Male
    

    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

    
    

    Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC, was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980.… read more

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    James F. Gennaro

    Age 55 Male
    

    Politician, President, Congressman

    
    

    James F. Gennaro is a Democratic member of the New York City, New York, City Council, where he chairs the Environmental Protection Committee. In November 2009, he was reelected to a third term as the representative for the 24th Council District, of the Fresh Meadows neighborhood in the borough of Queens.… read more

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    James Reavis

    1843 - 1914 Male
    

    Forger and Fraudster

    
    

    James Addison Reavis, later using the name James Addison Peralta-Reavis, the so-called Baron of Arizona, was an American forger and fraudster. He is best known in association with the Peralta land grant, also known as the Barony of Arizona, a pair of fraudulent land claims that if certified would have granted him ownership to over 18,600 square miles (48,200 km) of land in central Arizona Territory and western New Mexico Territory.… read more

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    James Madison

    1751 - 1836 Male
    

    Fourth President of the United States of America

    
    

    James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights. He was the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817). He served as a politician much of his adult life.… read more

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    James P. Hoffa

    Age 71 Male
    

    Lawyer, Politician, General

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    James Phillip Hoffa is an attorney and labor leader and the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa was first elected during December 1998 and took office on March 19, 1999. He was subsequently re-elected in 2001, 2006 and 2011 to five-year terms.… read more

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    James Whitcomb Riley

    1849 - 1916 Male
    

    Writer, Poet

    
    

    James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man".… read more

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    James Furman

    1937 - 1989 Male
    

    Composer, Soloist, Musician

    
    

    James B. Furman was an African-American composer and college professor. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of six he began piano studies with his aunt, Permelia Hansbrough. In 1953, at the age of sixteen, he won first place with a composition submitted to the Louisville Philharmonic Society's Young Artist Competition which was performed with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, which allowed him to appear as a soloist with the Louisville Symphony.… read more

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    James W. Holsinger

    Age 73 Male
    

    Surgeon General Nominee

    
    

    This article is about James W. Holsinger, Jr. For other uses, see Holsinger. James Wilson Holsinger, Jr. , (born May 11, 1939 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American physician. A former major general in the U.S. Army Reserve (1962 to 1993), he has worked primarily in public health for over thirty years. He served as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 1990 to 1993, during the administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.… read more

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    James Soong

    Age 70 Male
    

    Politician, General

    
    

    James Soong Chu-yu, is a politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan. He founded and chairs the People First Party, a smaller party in the Kuomintang-led Pan-Blue Coalition. Born to a Kuomintang military family of Hunanese origin, Soong began his political career as a Secretary to Premier Chiang Ching-kuo (later President) and rose to prominence as Director-General of the Government Information Office from 1979 to 1984.… read more