Jim Hall
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- Jim Hall (musician)Jim Hall (musician)James Stanley Hall is an American jazz guitarist.-Biography:Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s...
(born 1930), jazz guitarist and composer - Jim Hall (boxer)Jim Hall (boxer)Montague James Furlong , commonly known as Jim Hall, was an Australian middleweight boxer. He won the Australian middleweight title in 1887 before moving to the United States in an attempt to capture the World title from Jack Dempsey...
(1868–1913), Australian boxer in the late 19th century - Jim Hall (racing driver) (born 1935), race car driver and founder of Chaparral Cars
- Jim Hall (announcer)Jim Hall (announcer)Jim Hall is the public address announcer for New York Giants football games at New Meadowlands Stadium, located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, East Rutherford, New Jersey....
, public address announcer for the New York Giants and occasionally the New York Yankees - Jim Hall (programmer)Jim Hall (programmer)Jim Hall is a computer programmer and advocate of free software, best known for his work on FreeDOS. Hall began writing the free replacement for the MS-DOS operating system in 1994 when he was still a physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls...
, computer programmer and initiator of the FreeDOS project - Jim Hall (baseball)Jim Hall (baseball)James Hall was a professional baseball player who played second base for the Brooklyn Atlantics and Keokuk Westerns of the NAPBBP.-External links:...
, (died 1886), professional baseball player from 1872-1875 - Jim Hall (footballer born 1914)Jim Hall (footballer born 1914)James Henry "Jim" Hall was an English footballer who played as a wing half. He made 26 appearances in the Football League for Blackpool and scored one League goal....
, English footballer who played for Blackpool - Jim Hall (footballer born 1945)Jim Hall (footballer born 1945)James Leonard "Jim" Hall is an English former footballer who played as a forward.He made 450 appearances in the Football League, including over 300 for Peterborough United. He scored 122 League goals for Peterborough between 1967–1975, and is their all time leading League goalscorer.-References:...
, English footballer who made 450 Football League appearances - Jimmy HallJimmy HallJimmy Hall was the lead singer and harmonica player for the Southern rock group, Wet Willie. He cofounded the band in 1970, which had significant success in the 1970s; in 1980 he scored a hit of his own with the single "I'm Happy that Love Has Found You"...
, musician - James A. HallJames A. HallJames A. Hall, Sr., is an American percussionist of all idioms, jazz drummer, jazz guitarist, and collegiate music educator.-Academia:* 2002-03 — Distinguished Professor, University of South Carolina School of Music...
, aka Jim Hall, jazz guitarist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina School of Music