James Hall
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Actors, Entertainment, Broadcasting
- James Hall (actor)James Hall (actor)James Hall was an American film actor. Born James E. Brown in Dallas, Texas, Hall began his film career during the silent film era. He made his sound film debut in the 1929 film The Canary Murder Case, opposite William Powell and Louise Brooks. In 1930, Hall co-starred in Howard Hughes' epic film...
(1900–1940), American actor - Jamie HallJamie HallJamie Hall is a Canadian television producer and host as well as promoter. Currently he is producing and hosting Club Life . He is also working on the campaign team for Barack Obama.- Biography :...
(born c. 1970s), Canadian TV producer
Authors
- James Hall (philosopher)James Hall (philosopher)James H. Hall was the James Thomas Professor of Philosophy at the University of Richmond from 1965 until his retirement in 2005. He remains at the university as Professor Emeritus. His philosophical interests include: 20th Century analytic philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and...
(born 1933), American academic - James Baker HallJames Baker HallJames Baker Hall was an American poet, novelist, photographer and teacher.- Biography :James Baker Hall was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1935. He was raised in a southern family of means and social standing, only to have a family scandal turn tragic when he was eight years old...
(born 1935), American author - James Norman HallJames Norman HallJames Norman Hall was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Nordhoff.-Biography:Hall was born in Colfax, Iowa, where he attended the local schools...
(1887–1951), American author
Musicians
- James Hall (singer)James Hall (singer)James Vincent Hall is an American rock singer and guitarist best known for his gothic-style lyrics, distinctive voice, eccentric behavior and eclectic compositions.- Early career - Mary My Hope/Solo:...
(born c. 1970), American - James A. HallJames A. HallJames A. Hall, Sr., is an American percussionist of all idioms, jazz drummer, jazz guitarist, and collegiate music educator.-Academia:* 2002-03 — Distinguished Professor, University of South Carolina School of Music...
, jazz guitarist; professor at the University of South Carolina School of Music - Jim Hall (musician)Jim Hall (musician)James Stanley Hall is an American jazz guitarist.-Biography:Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s...
(James Stanley Hall), jazz guitarist - Jimmy HallJimmy HallJimmy Hall was the lead singer and harmonica player for the Southern rock group, Wet Willie. He cofounded the band in 1970, which had significant success in the 1970s; in 1980 he scored a hit of his own with the single "I'm Happy that Love Has Found You"...
, American musician, frontman of the band Wet Willie
Sports
- James Hall (cricketer)James Hall (cricketer)James Douglas Hall is an English-born Irish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. Hall started his career in 2005 playing for Ireland's Under-17s team in Division One of the European Under-17 Championship, though after playing three matches in this competition,...
(born 1988), Irish - James Hall (American football) (born 1977)
- James Hall (rugby union) (born 1986)
Government, Politics, Royalty
- James Hall IIIJames Hall IIIJames W. Hall, III is a former United States Army warrant officer and signals intelligence analyst in Germany who sold eavesdropping and code secrets to East Germany and the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1988...
(born c. 1960), American soldier & East-bloc spy - Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet (1761–1832), Scottish politician and geologist
- James Hall (Canadian politician)James Hall (Canadian politician)James Hall was a Scottish-born land surveyor, civil engineer, merchant and political figure in Ontario, Canada...
(1806–1882), Canadian Member of Parliament, 1874–1878 - James Knox Polk HallJames Knox Polk HallJames Knox Polk Hall was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James K. P. Hall was born in Milesburg, Pennsylvania. He was educated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1866...
(1844–1915), American politician - J. H. Hall (1877–1942), British Member of Parliament for Whitechapel and St Georges, 1930–1931 and 1935–1942
Other
- James Hall (paleontologist)James Hall (paleontologist)James Hall was an American geologist and paleontologist. He was a noted authority on stratigraphy and had an influential role in the development of American paleontology.-Early life:...
(1811–1898), American, also geologist - James Randal HallJames Randal HallJames Randal Hall is a United States federal judge.Born in Augusta, Georgia, Hall received a B.A. from Augusta College in 1979 and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1982...
(born 1958), U.S. federal judge - James Hall (explorer)James Hall (explorer)James Hall was an English explorer. In Denmark, he was known as Jacob Hald. He piloted three of King Christian IV's Expeditions to Greenland under John Cunningham , Godske Lindenov , and Carsten Richardson . In his first voyage he charted the west coast of Greenland as far north as 68° 35' N...
(?–1612), English explorer - James Hall (British Army officer)
- James O. HallJames O. HallJames O. Hall was an amateur historian who specialized in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was widely regarded as one of the top experts on this matter, and is noted for having discovered a letter by John Wilkes Booth, written on the morning of the murder, in which Booth attempted to...
(1912–2007), amateur historian - James Hall, computer programmer and initiator of the FreeDOS project