List of Famous people named Jim

Jim Ochowicz is a former bicyclist and manager of UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux. He served as president of the USA Cycling Board of Directors from 2002–2006.

James Charles William Parrott was a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election, representing the electoral district of Fundy-River Valley. Parrott was a heart surgeon.

James Turner Brewer is a retired American National Basketball Association (NBA) player.

James Forbes Chapin was an American jazz drummer and the author of books about jazz drumming. He was the author of several albums on jazz drumming, as well as 2 CDs entitled Jim Chapin: Songs, Solos, Stories. He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2011.

Jim Walmsley is an American long-distance runner. An ultra-trail specialist, he won the JFK 50 Mile in 2014, 2015 and 2016, the Lake Sonoma 50 in 2016 and 2018 and the Tarawera Ultramarathon in 2017. He holds several course records and fastest known times, including the Western States 100, set in 2018 and further improved by 21 minutes in 2019. He was named UltraRunner of the Year for four years in a row - 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. In addition, he qualified and ran in the 2020 Olympic trials in the marathon with his 2019 qualifying performance at the Houston half-marathon. While competing in the Hoka One One Project Carbon X 100K Challenge on May 5, 2019 he set a new unofficial world best for the 50 mile distance, completing it in 4:50:07. Walmsley won the World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships in 2019.

James Shorttel Bannon was a radio announcer and Hollywood Western film actor known for his work on the I Love a Mystery and Red Ryder series during the 1940s and 1950s.

James Edward Doyle, Jr., is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th Governor of Wisconsin, serving from January 6, 2003 to January 3, 2011. In his first election to the governorship, he defeated incumbent Governor Scott McCallum by a margin of 45 percent to 41 percent; the Libertarian Party candidate Ed Thompson won 10 percent of the vote. Although in 2002 Democrats increased their number of governorships, Doyle was the only one of them to unseat a Republican. Doyle also served as Wisconsin’s Attorney General for 12 years before becoming Governor. He is currently an attorney 'of counsel' in the Madison, Wisconsin office of the law firm of Foley & Lardner and serves on the corporate board of Epic Systems.

James Ronald McDaniels was an American professional basketball player. McDaniels played collegiately for Western Kentucky University and was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1971 American Basketball Association Draft. McDaniels was an NBA All-Star.