# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-the-less
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:56.317Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-the-less"
name: "James the Less"
slug: "james-the-less"
description: "A first-century apostle distinguished from his more prominent namesake by a nickname that meant younger or shorter, not lesser in rank — though history remembers him mostly as the one who needed the label."
tagline: "Christian saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rubens_apostel_jakobus_mindere_grt.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "100"
deathDate: "62"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.94724133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    slug: "religious-figures"
  - name: "Religious Figure"
    slug: "religious-figure"
  - name: "Religion"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3245490"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jakub Mladší"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ιάκωβος ο Μικρός"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jacques le Mineur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Naomh Séamas Beag"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Santiago o Menor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ifjabb Jakab apostol"
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    title: "Yakobus Muda"
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    title: "Giacomo il Minore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Giagu su Minore"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Chaime_o_Menor"
    title: "Sant Chaime o Menor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "يعقوب الصغير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jerome identified him as the same person called "James the Just" and "James, brother of Jesus" in scripture, understood by some as a cousin rather than sibling, and Papias of Hierapolis linked him to "James, son of Alphaeus," one of the Twelve Apostles. The Western Church traditionally commemorated him alongside Philip on 1 May, a date the Roman Catholic calendar shifted to 11 May in 1955 to make room for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, then moved again to 3 May in a later revision. Many other churches, including the Church of England, kept the original May Day observance. The nickname that stuck — "the Less" — was meant to distinguish him from James the Great, marking a difference in age or stature that became his enduring epithet.