- Scottish architect and author.
- U.S. physicist.
- U.S. chemist and educator.
- English journalist and writer.
- James. 1682–1754, British architect; his buildings include St Martin's-in-the-Fields, London (1722–26), and the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford (1737–49)
- Josiah Willard. 1839–1903, US physicist and mathematician: founder of chemical thermodynamics
