| James | United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993) |
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| James | United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936) |
| James | British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) |
| James | Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835) |
| James | United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) |
| James | Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797) |
| James | the first Stuart King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1925 and King of Scotland from 1567 to 1625 |
| James | the last Stuart King of England and Ireland and Scotland |
| James | United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895) |
| James | United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) |
| James | United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933) |
| James | United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978) |