James Powell may refer to:
Sports
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Jay Powell (baseball) (James Willard Powell, born 1972), Major League Baseball pitcher
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Jim Powell (baseball) (1859–1929), Major League Baseball player
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Jim Powell (sportscaster)
Jim Powell is an American radio and television sportscaster, currently employed with Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves after 13 seasons (1996–2008) with the Milwaukee Brewers.
A native of Roswell, Georgia, Powell was educated at the Unive ...
, announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves
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Jimmy Powell (golfer)
Jimmy Powell (January 17, 1935 – January 16, 2021) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s, but whose greatest success came on the Senior PGA Tour in the early to mid-1990s.
Powell was born in Da ...
(1935–2021), PGA Tour and Champions Tour golfer
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James Powell (cricketer, born 1792) (1792–1870), English cricketer
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James Powell (cricketer, born 1899) (1899–1973), English cricketer
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James Powell (cricketer, born 1982), Welsh cricketer
Music
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Jimmy Powell (musician)
James Theodore Powell (October 24, 1914 – February 16, 1994) was an American jazz saxophonist who played alto sax.
He played on two recording dates with Billie Holiday for Columbia. The first, in February 1940, was with a band comprising Ro ...
(1914–1994), American jazz saxophonist
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Jimmy Powell (singer)
Jimmy Powell (13 October 1942 – 13 May 2016) was a British soul and rhythm and blues singer who recorded and performed throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and is best remembered as the lead singer of Jimmy Powell and the 5 Dimensions, a ...
(born 1942), British rhythm and blues singer
Science
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James L. Powell (born 1936), American geologist and environmentalist
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James R. Powell (physicist), American physicist
Fiction and poetry
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Jim Powell (British novelist) (born 1949)
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Jim Powell (poet), American poet, translator, literary critic, MacArthur Fellow, classicist
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James Powell (author) (born 1932), author of mystery and humorous short stories
Other
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James Powell and Sons
The firm of James Powell and Sons, also known as Whitefriars Glass, were London-based English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers. As ''Whitefriars Glass'', the company existed from the 17th century, but became well k ...
, British stained glass manufacturers
*James Powell (1774–1840), British glassmaker, founder of
James Powell and Sons
The firm of James Powell and Sons, also known as Whitefriars Glass, were London-based English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers. As ''Whitefriars Glass'', the company existed from the 17th century, but became well k ...
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Jim Powell (filmmaker), American documentary filmmaker
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Jim Powell (historian), fellow at libertarian think tank the Cato Institute
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James R. Powell (politician), founder of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, mayor and state politician
*James Powell, African American teenager whose shooting led to the
Harlem riot of 1964
The Harlem riot of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964. It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan in front of Powell's friends and about a dozen other witnesses. ...
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James L. Powell, American economist
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