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James A. Anderson (academic administrator), chancellor of Fayetteville State University •
James Anderson (explorer), Hudson's Bay Company executive after whom the
Anderson River (Northwest Territories) was named •
James Anderson (Freemason) (1679/80–1739), Church of Scotland minister, author and Freemason •
James Anderson (lawyer) (1662–1728), Scottish lawyer •
James Anderson (missionary) (fl. 1865–1870), Protestant Christian missionary •
James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808), Scottish Enlightenment agriculturalist, lawyer, inventor, economist, writer, publisher •
James Anderson (farm manager), whisky distiller at
Mount Vernon •
James Anderson (sea captain) (1824–1893), captain of SS Great Eastern laying transatlantic telegraph cable •
James Anderson (trade unionist) (died 1917), British trade union leader •
James Craig Anderson (1963–2011), American murder victim •
James M. Anderson (hospital executive), American hospital executive • Sir James
Norman Dalrymple Anderson (1908–1994), English missionary and academic Arabist •
James R. Anderson (1864–1913), lawyer in South Australia ==See also==