Farmer vs James Farmer

Farmer and James Farmer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Farmer	Yes	No	No	No
James Farmer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Farmer and James Farmer are synonyms defined as:

Farmer and James Farmer: United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

Other synonyms of Farmer include James Leonard Farmer.

Farmer (noun)	James Farmer (noun)
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)	United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)