List of Famous people named James

Žilvinas Tratas, also known as James Tratas is a Lithuanian actor, screenwriter and TV personality.

James W. Harper is an American actor. Throughout his career, he has acted in many movies and guest-starred in a myriad television shows, such as Frasier, Matlock, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and JAG. He also played the role of Admiral Kelso in the 1998 film Armageddon. In addition to acting, Harper has contributed his voice to several video games, most notably StarCraft as Arcturus Mengsk, Resistance: Fall of Man, and Diablo II. Harper reprised his role of Arcturus Mengsk in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

James Johnston is an English alternative rock musician and painter.

James Jannard is an American designer and businessman, and founder of Oakley, Inc., an eyewear and apparel company, and Red Digital Cinema Camera Company.

James Polin Gray is an American jurist and writer. He was the presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, California. Gray was the 2012 Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee, as well as the party's 2004 candidate for the United States Senate in California. He is the author of multiple books and a play, and is an outspoken critic of American drug laws.

James Joseph Sloyan is an American actor.

James Thorne Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar and 16th Earl of Kellie, is a Scottish peer and former Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.

James Mark Dakin Purnell is a British broadcasting executive and former Labour Party politician who served as Work and Pensions Secretary and Culture Secretary in the Brown Government from 2007 to 2009. In October 2016, he became BBC's Director of Radio, in addition to his other role as the BBC's Director of Strategy and Digital, a job he has held since March 2013. In 2020 he left the BBC to become vice-chancellor of University of the Arts London.

James T. Russell is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam welder.