Java Persistence: Cast to something the result of Query.getResultList()?

As a newcomer to JPA was taking this as the definitive answer but then I found a better one via this question: Why in JPA EntityManager queries throw NoResultException but find does not?

Its as simple as as using TypedQuery instead of Query e.g.:

TypedQuery<Person> lQuery = myEntityManager.createQuery("from Person", Person.class);
List<Person> personList = lQuery.getResultList();