* James Atlas ( born 1949 ), is a founding editor of the Lipper / Viking Penguin Lives Series

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

Watterson was born in Washington, D. C., where his father, James G. Watterson ( born 1932 ), worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School before becoming a patent attorney in 1960.

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

The King James ' Version uses the phrase born again three times.

" ( King James Version ) They consider that when Jesus said in John 3: 5 that one has to be born from " water and the spirit " to enter the kingdom of God, it was not a command but a necessity, because the text states " Ye must be born again ".

Others such as department store magnate James Cash Penney, Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, actor / martial artist Chuck Norris, wrestlers Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, AJ Styles, Ted DiBiase and wrestler Sting, and actors Jesse McCartney, Kirk Cameron, and Mr. T are also mentioned as being born again.

* James Hal Cone ( born 1938 ), an advocate of Black liberation theology

James Charles Evers ( born September 11, 1922 ), the older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi.

The second son of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark, Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife, on 19 November 1600.

Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since James Buchanan in 1856.

David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire to Margaret Key ( 1753 – 1790 ) and James Brewster ( c. 1735 – 1815 ), the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and a teacher of high reputation.

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae ( née Davis, July 12, 1917-January 12, 2007 ) and James Millard Hopper ( June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982 ).

James Clerk Maxwell, the founder of the modern theory of electromagnetism, was born here and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and University of Edinburgh, as was the engineer and telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

The Scottish lords forced her to abdicate in favour of her son James, who had been born in June 1566.

Hubble was born to an insurance executive, John Powell Hubble, and Virginia Lee James in Marshfield, Missouri, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1900.

The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson ( 1812 – 1880 ), Premier of Tasmania.

Forrest J. Ackerman ( born Forrest James Ackerman ; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008 ) was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

Cook was the second of eight children of James Cook, a Scottish farm labourer from Ednam near Kelso, and his locally born wife, Grace Pace, from Thornaby-on-Tees.

Joseph Rucker Lamar, deceased, who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1910 – 1916, was born in Elbert County.

Harris, deceased, for whom Young Harris College is named, was born in Elbert County.

Blues guitarist Baby Tate was born in Elbert County.

* Elbert Dubenion-" Golden Wheels " was an American football wide receiver ( born in Griffin )

Elbert Dubenion ( nicknamed " Duby " or " Golden Wheels ") ( born February 16, 1933 in Griffin, Georgia ) was an American football wide receiver.

Elbert Leander " Burt " Rutan ( born June 17, 1943 ) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft.

Harris was born in Elbert County, Georgia, in the middle of Walton Harris and Virginia Beverly Billup's 8 children.

Elbert Duncan Thomas was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 17, 1883 to Caroline Stockdale and Richard Kendall Thomas.

Elbert L. " Ickey " Woods ( born February 28, 1966 in Fresno, California ) is a former American football fullback who played his entire NFL career ( 1988 to 1991 ) with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Heard was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1740, and died in Elbert County, Georgia, in 1815, at the age of 75.

Elbert Gary was born near Wheaton, Illinois on October 8, 1846 to Erastus Gary and Susan A. Vallette.

Peirce was born at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

* Phillips Idowu ( athlete, born in Hackney )

Phillips was born in Hudson, New York in 1868.

Pauline Phillips ( born July 4, 1918 ) is an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the " Dear Abby " column in 1956.

* Connor Phillips ( 1981 ), born in County Armagh, Radio, Television Presenter and DJ

Phillips was the youngest of eight children, born on a farm near Florence, Alabama to poor tenant farmers.

Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt ( 1871 – 1931 ) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt ( née Phillips ) ( 1873 – 1960 ); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties, after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks.

Leslie Samuel Phillips, CBE ( born 20 April 1924 ) is an English actor with a highly recognisable upper class accent.

He was born in Tottenham, North London, England, the son of Cecelia Margaret ( née Newlove ) and Frederick Samuel Phillips, who worked at Glover and Main, manufacturers of cookers in Edmonton, London ; the " filthy, sulphurous " air of the factory gave him a weak heart and edema, leading to his death at the age of 44.

* 1960-7 school minister and teacher of religion at Phillips Exeter Academy ; daughters are born

Arkansas Attorney General Bruce Bennett was born in Phillips County in 1917 but reared and lived his adult years in El Dorado, the seat of Union County, Arkansas in southern Arkansas. Barry Williamson, an attorney in Austin, Texas, and a former member of the Texas Railroad Commission was reared in Phillips County.

Mark Lavon “ Levon ” Helm was born on May 26, 1940, outside Elaine ( Phillips County ) to Nell and Diamond Helm.

* University of Kentucky football head coach Joker Phillips was born and raised in Franklin.

* Scott Phillips ( born 1961 ), writer

* Shaun Phillips ( born 1981 ), National Football League defensive tackle.

* Stone Phillips ( born 1954 ), former co-anchor of Dateline NBC

Laura Phillips " Laurie " Anderson ( born June 5, 1947 ) is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles.

Bancroft was born in Worcester, and began his education at Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Harvard College at thirteen years of age.

She was born Dorothea ( sometimes called Dorothy or Dora ) Bland near Waterford, Ireland, the daughter of Francis Bland ( d. 1778 ) and his mistress, Grace Phillips.

Sam Phillips ( born Leslie Ann Phillips January 28, 1962 ) is an American singer-songwriter and composer.

Phillips was born in Glendale, California.

Rock n ' roll disc jockey Dewey Phillips was born in Adamsville and is buried in nearby Crump Cemetery.