Mentioned in the Bible by name

James (half-brother of Jesus)

Isn't this the carpenter's son? [The Greek word often translated as carpenter can also mean stonemason. Joseph was probably a construction worker who worked with both wood and stone. Isn't his mother named Mary, and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?]

He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet and told them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. He said, "Tell this to James [Jesus' half-brother who led the church in Jerusalem] and the brothers." [They were not there at that moment.] Then he left for another place.
[Peter remained in hiding somewhere outside Jerusalem for a time. A little over a year later, he was in Antioch, see Gal. 2:11, and then came to the Jerusalem meeting in 49 AD.]

[Now James stands up. He is mentioned first among the three pillars of the church, see Gal. 2:9. He was the leader in Jerusalem, see Acts 12:17, until he was stoned to death in 62 AD at the request of the high priest. James was the half-brother of Jesus, see Gal. 1:19, and became a believer only after Jesus' resurrection, see 1 Cor. 15:7.]
When they had finished speaking, James said, "Brothers, listen to me.

The next day Paul went with us to James [Jesus' brother, who led the church in Jerusalem]. All the elders [leaders of the church] were also there.
[It is noteworthy that none of the apostles are mentioned. They were present at the previous apostolic council seven or eight years earlier, see Acts 15:4. It is likely that they were out on missionary assignments around the world. They took the commission in Matt. 28:19–20 very seriously to reach the whole world during their lifetime. Although there are stories and legends that are not credible, it can still be said with considerable certainty that areas as far away from Jerusalem as England, Spain, Mauritius, Ethiopia, China, and Finland all appear to have been visited by one or more of Jesus' twelve apostles!
Peter was in Asia Minor, and we know that he worked in the cities of Antioch and Rom.
Andrew, Peter's brother, traveled north and evangelized Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, and Russia, and may have been as far north as the border with Finland. James, the son of Zebedee, was killed by Herod Agrippa I, see Acts 12:1–2. Before that, it is said that he evangelized in Spain.
John, James' brother, worked in Turkey.
Philip is said to have worked in Greece, Phrygia, and Syria. In excavations in 2011 in Hierapolis (in present-day Turkey), his name was found on a tomb from the first century, and churches built around that site have a tradition that it is the tomb of the apostle Philip.
Matthew first worked in North Africa, but later moved south and is considered the apostle of Ethiopia.
James, the son of Alphaeus, worked in Egypt. Jude and Simon the Zealot evangelized Mesopotamia and Persia. Simon also worked throughout North Africa from Egypt all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. From there, he is said to have traveled by boat to England, where we know that Christianity had already arrived when southern England became part of the Roman Empire in 43 AD.
Thomas and Bartholomew first traveled to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, all the way to Pakistan and China. After the apostolic council in Jerusalem, they set out again via Saudi Arabia to India.
Matthias, who replaced Jude Iscariot, is said according to Greek tradition to have worked in Cappadocia and along the Caspian Sea, but there are many different traditions surrounding him.]

Later, he appeared to James [presumably Jesus' half-brother],
then to all the apostles,

But I did not meet any of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.

When James, Cephas (Peter), and John, who were known as (had a reputation for being) pillars [in the Jerusalem church], felt (understood, had a personal experience of) the grace of God that I had received, they extended their hands to me and Barnabas in cooperation. We agreed that we [Barnabas and I] would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised (Jews).

[From:] James,
servant (slave, bondman – Gk. doulos) of God and of the Lord Jesus the Anointed One (Messiah, Christ),
To the twelve tribes in the dispersion (diaspora).
[The first Christian congregations consisted mainly of Jews who had fled from Jerusalem. Some of the places to which the letter was sent and read aloud were probably Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch in Syria north of Jerusalem, where many had fled, see Acts 11:19. The letter was written to Messianic Jews living outside their homeland, scattered throughout the Roman Empire, but it is at least as relevant to Christians today.] Greetings (be joyful)!
[James was Jesus' half-brother who came to faith only after Jesus' resurrection. James had a leading role in the church in Jerusalem, see Gal. 1:18–19; Acts 15:13. The greeting is similar to that in the letter sent from Jerusalem, see Acts 15:23, which James initiated, see Acts 15:13–20. This confirms that it is the same James who wrote this letter. Compared to other New Testament letters, the introduction and greeting are short. In Paul's letter to Rom. for example, the greeting is seven verses long.]

[From:] Jude,
servant (slave, bondman) of Jesus the Anointed One (Messiah, Christ)
and brother of James.
[Like his brother James, Jude chooses not to present himself as Jesus' half-brother, see James 1:1. In God's kingdom, it is the spiritual relationship with Jesus that counts.] To those:
who are loved [with selfless and generous love] in God the Father,
who are kept in Jesus the Anointed One (Messiah, Christ),
who are called.