Famous People with Name James

James J. Collins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James J. Collins: an American bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. He is one of the founders of the emerging field of synthetic biology, and a pioneering researcher in systems biology, stochastic resonance, biological dynamics and neurostimulation.[2]Collins received a bachelor's degree in Physics (summa cum laude; class valedictorian) from the College of the Holy Cross in 1987 and a doctorate in Medical Engineering from the University of Oxford in 1990. From 1987 to 1990, he was a Rhodes Scholar. Since 1990, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. Currently,

James F. Crow            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James F. Crow: Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Some of his most significant peer-reviewed contributions were coauthored with Motoo Kimura. His major contribution to the field, however, is arguably his teaching. He has written an influential introductory textbook on genetics and a more advanced one with Kimura, and the list of his graduate and undergraduate students and postdocs includes Alexey Kondrashov, James Bull, Joe Felsenstein, Russell Lande, Dan Hartl, Takeo Maruyama, Terumi Mukai, Wen-Hsiung Li, Chung-I Wu and many others.

James Stuart Blackton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Stuart Blackton: was an American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation. He is considered the father of American animation.In 1894, Blackton and two fellow English émigrés, Albert E. Smith and Ronald A. Reader, formed a partnership to break into vaudeville. Smith called himself the "Komikal Konjurer", Blackton was the "Komikal Kartoonist", and Reader operated an early version of the slide projector called a "magic lantern". Blackton's act consisted of "lightning sketches", where Blackton drew and rapidly modified drawings on an easel pad before the audience's eyes, accompanying this with a stream of talk nearly as rapid. The act failed to make enough money and the trio broke up to get regular jobs.

James A. Naismith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James A. Naismith: was a Canadian sports coach and innovator. Naismith invented the sport of "Basket Ball" in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. A pioneer of basketball, he also wrote the original rulebook of this sport, was founder of the University of Kansas basketball program and lived to see the introduction of his sport as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event in 1936. Naismith's contributions to the sport have earned him several posthumous enshrinements, such as in the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame,

James Leonard Plimpton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Leonard Plimpton: was an American inventor who is known for changing the skating world with his patented roller skates in 1863. Pimpton's roller skates were safer and easier to use than the existing versions, his "rocker skate" or Quad skates allowed people to steer just by leaning to the left or the right. He also opened some of the earliest roller skating rinks in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island.

Aaron James            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Aaron James: is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA. He spent his entire five-year NBA career with the New Orleans Jazz.James, a 6'8" small forward, averaged 10.8 points and 4.1 rebounds over 356 career games from 1974 to 1979 with the Jazz, who drafted him out of Grambling State University with the 10th pick of the second round of the 1974 NBA Draft. He was the team's first ever selection.[1

Henry Charles James            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Charles James: is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA.out of Saint Mary's University, the 6'8" small forward signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 1990-91 NBA season and in 37 games, averaged 8.1 points per game.

Jerome Keith James            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jerome Keith James: is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the New York Knicks of the NBA. James played at Florida A&M University, and was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the second round of the 1998 NBA Draft. Over the course of a six-year career, he has played for the Kings, Seattle SuperSonics and New York Knicks. He has also played for the Harlem Globetrotters.

LeBron Raymone James            Origin/Culture/Country: American

LeBron Raymone James: is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). James, commonly nicknamed "King James," and sometimes referred to as "The L-Train" by Austin Carr, was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA star while still in high school at St. Vincent - St. Mary High School, and was named Ohio's "Mr. Basketball" three times. At the age of 18, he was selected with the first overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Cavaliers and signed an unprecedented US$90 million shoe contract with Nike before his NBA debut. He has since set numerous youngest player records.

Michael Lamont James            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael Lamont James: is an American professional basketball player currently with the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA.