James Alfred Norton (born November 18 1942 in Wilmington North Carolina) is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers Atlanta Falcons Philadelphia Eagles Washington Redskins and New York Giants. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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