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James Berry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6129727
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James Berry may refer to:

Entertainment

James Berry (artist) (1906–1979), New Zealand artist, stamp and coin designer

James Berry (entertainer) (1915–1969), American actor and dancer

James Berry (poet) (1924–2017), Jamaican poet

James Berry (writer) (1842–1914), Irish writer

Jim Berry (cartoonist) (1932–2015), American comic strip artist

Politics

Jake Berry (James, born 1978), British politician

James Berry (barrister) (born 1983), British politician

James E. Berry (1881–1966), American politician

James H. Berry (1841–1913), Governor and U.S. Senator of Arkansas

Sports

James Berry (footballer) (born 2000), English footballer

Jim Berry (soccer) (1945–2020), Canadian soccer player

Jim Berry (hurler) (born 1989), Wexford hurler

James Eric Berry (born 1988), American former football safety

Other

James Berry (major-general) (died 1691), Parliamentary major-general who fought in the English Civil War

James Berry (executioner) (1852–1913), English executioner, 1884–1891

James Berry (surgeon) (1860–1946), British surgeon

Jim Berry, president of the United States Chess Federation

Jim Berry (news anchor) (born c.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “James Berry” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through James, Berry and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1979, 1915, 1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, James, Berry and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6129727. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1979, 1915 and 1969.

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