Usually means: Invented basketball; Canadian-American educator.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (James Naismith)

▸ noun:  (November 6, 1861November 28, 1939) a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.
▸ noun:  James Henderson Naismith (born 26 July 1968) is a Scot, Professor of Structural Biology and since autumn of 2023 the Head of the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Science Division Division at the University of Oxford.


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