James Watson (disambiguation)

James Watson (born 1928) is an American biologist and chemist, the co-discoverer of the double-helical structure of DNA, awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

James Watson may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment [ edit ]

James Watson (actor) (born 1970), British movie and TV actor
James Watson (author) (1936?2015), author from Lancashire, England
James Watson (engraver) (c. 1739?1790), Irish engraver
James Sibley Watson (1894?1982), American publisher and early experimenter in motion pictures
James Watson (trumpeter) (1951?2011), British trumpet player, conductor, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music
James Aaron Watson , country musician

Law [ edit ]

James F. Watson (1840?1897), American attorney and judge
James Lopez Watson (1922?2001), U.S. federal judge, first black judge to head a federal court in the South
James S. Watson (1882?1952), first black judge elected in New York State

Military [ edit ]

James Watson (British Army officer) (1772?1862), Commander-in-Chief in India
James Watson (American soldier) (1850??), American soldier who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn
James A. Watson (born 1956), rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard

Politics [ edit ]

James Watson (Australian politician) (1837?1907), colonial treasurer of New South Wales, 1878?1883
James Watson (MP) (1817?1895), English merchant, dairy herdsman, and Conservative politician, House of Commons 1885?92
James Watson (New York politician) (1750?1806), U.S. Senator from New York
James Cameron Watson (1891?1986), Canadian politician, mayor of Calgary
James Eli Watson (1864?1948), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Indiana
James H. Watson (1845?1908), English-born merchant and political figure in Newfoundland
James W. Watson (1849??), Scottish-born Wisconsin state assemblyman

Scientists and scholars [ edit ]

James Craig Watson (1838?1880), Canadian-American astronomer
James Wreford Watson (1915?1990), Scottish/Canadian geographer and cartographer
James L. Watson (anthropologist) (born 1947), professor of anthropology at Harvard
James Watson (Scottish chemist) (1859?1923), Scottish chemist and political activist
Sir James Anderson Scott Watson , Scottish agriculturalist
James Kay Graham Watson (1936?2020), molecular spectroscopist

Sport [ edit ]

James Watson (footballer, born c. 1883) (c. 1883??), Scottish footballer (Sunderland AFC and Middlesbrough FC)
James Watson (Rangers footballer) (died 1915), Scottish footballer (Rangers FC and Scotland)
James Watson (wrestler) (born 1973), professional wrestler who used the pseudonym Mikey Whipwreck

Other [ edit ]

James Watson (printer) (1644?1722), Scottish printer and publisher
James Watson (surgeon) (1766??1838), British radical and surgeon
James Watson (radical) (1799?1874), English publisher, activist, and Chartist
James Watson (murderer) (born 1981), English murderer