James White (April 7, 1928 - August 23, 1999) was a prolific Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories, and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending early years in Canada.

He is probably best-known as the author of the Sector General series of novels. The first novels were assembled from strung-together short stories, but later Sector General adventures were written as full-length novels. The first Sector General novel was published in 1962, and the last published posthumously in 1999. The short-story collection The Aliens Among Us (1969) is also related to the Sector General series, since it includes the Sector General story "Countercharm" and the quasi-Sector General story "Occupation: Warrior".

His novel The Watch Below is considered by some aficionados to be his finest work - a claustrophobic book describing the travails of parallel survivors of war (human) and accident (alien).

"The Silent Stars Go By" is an excellent example of alternative history. A Gaelic visitor to Alexandria, Egypt, realizes the industrial potential of a primitive steam engine constructed by Hero. The resulting society launches a starship in the year 1492.

Captain James Butler White, DFC, RNAS (July 7, 1893 - January 2, 1972) was a World War I Royal Naval Air Service flying ace.

White was born on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada.

He served with No. 8 Naval Squadron RNAS, which was renamed No. 208 Squadron RAF after the Royal Naval Air Service was merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force in 1918. He achieved 12 victories in total, his first on January 24, 1918 and his last two on October 3, 1918. All of his victories were scored while flying a Sopwith Camel.

The citation for his Distinguished Flying Cross (published in the London Gazette on December 3, 1918) read in part:

James R. White (born 1962) is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of more than twenty books, a professor, a prolific debater, and an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church.

James White (June 16, 1749 - October 1809) was an American physician, lawyer, and politician. He was an early settler at Nashville, Tennessee and in Louisiana. He was a delegate for North Carolina in the Continental Congress and a non-voting member of the U.S. House for the Southwest Territory.

White was born into a prosperous mercantile family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His early education was at the College of St. Omer, a Jesuit preparatory school in France. When he returned he entered the University of Pennsylvania and studied medicine and law. After graduating he moved to North Carolina.

In 1785 he was elected to the North Carolina state house of representatives. In [[1786],] North Carolina sent him as a delegate to the Continental Congress where he served there until 1788. Late in 1786, the Congress named him superintendent of Indian affairs for the southern department. After that he was frequently absent from Congress, travelling the Carolina and Georgia frontier negotiating with the Indian tribes. After his congressional service he moved to the frontier, buying land and settling in what would become Nashville, Tennessee.

When the Southwest Territory's territorial legislature was formed in 1794, White was selected as its delegate to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1794 to 1796. After Tennessee gained statehood in 1796, he returned home to Davidson County.

James White was a brilliant man, fluent in French and Spanish, but he had a tendency to become involved in complicated plots. In the 1780s he had become involved with John Sevier's plan to place the State of Franklin under Spanish rule. He used his position and travels as Indian superintendent to serve as agent conducting negotiations between Sevier and the governor of Spanish Louisiana. In the 1790s he gotten involved with William Blount's plan to work with the Indians and Britain in staging an invasion of Spanish Florida. As his role in these schemes became known, he moved to the Spanish territory of New Orleans in 1799, settling in what would later become St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.

While his earlier actions caused problems in Tennessee, they weren't generally know at a national level. So when the United States area reached him again President Jefferson named him as a Territorial Judge in 1804, first for the District of Louisiana and then for the Orleans Territory. His family prospered in Louisiana. His son (Edward Douglass White Sr.) would become Governor of Louisiana, and his grandson Edward Douglass White would serve as Chief Justice of the United States.

James White died at home in 1809 in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

James White (August 8, 1747 - August 14, 1821) was an American pioneer and soldier who founded White's Fort, which later became Knoxville, Tennessee.

White was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, although the site became part of Iredell County when it was organized. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a captain in the North Carolina militia. During the Creek War, he served as a brigadier general in the Tennessee militia with Andrew Jackson.

White died in Knox County, Tennessee, in 1821, and is buried in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Knoxville.

(James) "Jim" White (born 2 January 1938) is an Irish businessman and hotelier, and a former Fine Gael Teachtaí Dála (TD) for constituencies in County Donegal.

He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1973 general election as Fine Gael TD for the Donegal-Leitrim constituency. He was re-elected at the 1977 general election as the TD for the new Donegal constituency. After further boundary changes, he was re-elected at the 1981 general election as the TD for Donegal South West, and retired from politics at the February 1982 general election.

His Ballyshannon-based company, the White's Hotel Groupblank">http://www.whites-hotelsireland.com/, owns several large hotels in the spa town of _Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, renowned for its annual matchmaking festival.

James White (born 10 April 1922) is a British Labour Party politician.

White was Member of Parliament for Glasgow Pollok from 1970 to 1987, when he retired.

James William White IV (born October 21, 1982 in Washington, D.C.) is an American professional basketball player for the Turkish Basketball League Champion Fenerbahçe Ülker. He is a 6' 7, 200 lb. guard/forward. White signed four years contract with Turkish Champions Fenerbahçe on 8 September 2007, that will play in the 2007-08 Euroleague.

He was selected in the second round (3rd overall) by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2006 NBA Draft, and his rights were immediately traded to the Indiana Pacers for the rights to the Pacers' pick at #45 overall (Alexander Johnson), and second-round draft choices in 2007 and 2008. White was cut by the Indiana Pacers on October 30, 2006, with coach Rick Carlisle saying his release was the most difficult cut he's been involved with in his coaching career. He averaged 3.8 points and 2.0 rebounds in eight pre-season games. White signed a two-year contract with the San Antonio Spurs on November 3, 2006.

In December 2006 the Spurs assigned White to play in their NBA Development League affiliated team the Austin Toros. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich stated that the reason for the move was that the in-season schedule does not allow much time to practice and the veteran-heavy team does not allow any spare minutes for White. He continued to receive his salary from the Spurs while playing for the Toros. Toros coach Dennis Johnson stated that White received regular playing time. White played for a few games in the 2007 regular season and was waived during the off-season. White is regarded by many, "The greatest free-throw dunker active" for his exploits in the NCAA Slam Dunk Contest

James White (b. 1863 in Ingersoll, Ontario) was a Canadian geographer. White studied geology at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. In 1883, he became the Geographer and Chief Draftsman for the Geological Survey of Canada. White and a team of 20 cartographers produced the first edition of the Atlas of Canada in 1906.

James White (d. 1799) was an English writer and translator.

James C. "Duck" White (born October 26, 1953, in Hot Springs, Arkansas) is a former National Football League defensive/nose tackle who played from 1976 to 1983 for the Minnesota Vikings. He attended Oklahoma State University and was the Vikings first round draft pick in the 1976 NFL Draft.

James White (2 December 1861 – 14 July 1918) was an Australian sculptor, winner of the Wynne Prize in 1902.

White was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, the son of Robert White, journeyman shipwright, and his wife Janet, née Dunn. He was apprenticed to a plasterer and studied modelling at South Kensington.

White came to Sydney around 1884 . He won the Wynne prize at Sydney in 1902 and executed a large number of statues and memorials in Australia, including the Queen Victoria memorial and the Fitzgibbon statue at Melbourne, statues of George Bass, Daniel Henry Deniehy, Sir John Robertson and William Bede Dalley at Sydney, the John McDouall Stuart statue at Adelaide, South African war memorials at Perth and Ballarat and statues of Queen Victoria and George Lansell at Bendigo. In spite of this long list White was by no means a distinguished sculptor. He came to Australia when there were few sculptors there of ability, and it must be presumed that his sketch models were better than his finished works, as in later years he more than once obtained important commissions in competition with better men. His head of an Australian aboriginal is at the national gallery at Sydney.

White died of cancer on 14 July 1918 and was survived by his wife, son and two daughters.

James White, advertising agent, author and lifelong friend of Charles Lamb. Known as Jem White.

He was the son of Samuel and Mary White and was baptised at the Church of St. John in Bedwardine, Worcester, on April 171775.

At the age of 8, he was admitted to Christ's Hospital on the Presentation of Thomas Coventry on September 19, 1783. He left the school on 30 April 1790 in order to become a clerk in the treasurer's office at the school. Later he founded an advertising company, which subsequently moved to 33 Fleet Street, London and became R F White & Son Ltd. This is considered to be the where the idea of copywriting originated.

While at the school White formed a close and long lasting friendship with Charles Lamb who was the same age as him. Charles Lamb refers to James White in many of his letters and the Essays of Elia (in particular the essay entitled The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers).

White developed a fascination with the character of Falstaff and was even known to dress up and go about 'in character'. This led to him writing and publishing in 1796 his only known book: "Original Letters, etc, of Sir John Falstaff and his friends".

White died at his house in Burton Crescent (since renamed Cartwright Gardens) in London on March 131820. He was survived by his wife Margaret (daughter of Robert Faulder the bookseller) and three children. After his death his business seems to have been initially managed by his wife, and was later taken over by his son Robert Faulder White.

As an aside, it is worth noting that James White is the great-great-grandfather of the author T. H. White (1906-1964).