James Rector

John "James" Alcorn Rector was an American athlete. He was the first Arkansas-born athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. While competing he was a University of Virginia student and went there to train with Pop Lannigan.

22 June 1884

Born on the same birth day (22 June): Anne Ziegler • Bruce Kent • Ebenezer Erskine • Edmund A. Chester • Franz Alexander • John Taylor (classical scholar) • Mikel Merino • Pascual Díaz y Barreto • Richard Eastham • Vernon Kirby • William Chester Minor

Born in the same month (June 1884): Cyclone Taylor • Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler • Georg Zacharias • Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes • Harry Langdon • Lamina Sankoh • Mary R. Calvert • Ralph Benatzky • Édouard Daladier • Étienne Gilson