Big Jim

Big Jim may refer to:

People

Nickname

• James Clark (shinty) (born 1973), Scottish shinty player
• Jim Clinton (1850–1921), American Major League Baseball player
• James Colosimo (1878–1920), Italian-American Mafia crime boss
• Jim Courtright (gunman) (1848–1887), American lawman and murderer
• Jim Crockett (1909–1973), American professional wrestling promoter and sports franchise owner
• Jim Daniell (1918–1983), American National Football League player
• Giacomo Ferri (born 1959), Italian football manager and former player
• James Fisk (financier) (1835–1872), American stockbroker, corporate executive and "robber baron"
• Jim Folsom (1908–1987), American politician, twice governor of Alabama
• Jim French (cowboy), key participant in the 1878 Lincoln County Wars
• Jim Fridley (1924–2003), American Major League Baseball player
• Jim Hamilton (rugby union) (born 1982), Scottish rugby union footballer
• Jim Healy (trade unionist) (1898–1961), Australian trade unionist and communist activist
• Jim Hogg (1851–1906), American lawyer and politician, 20th governor of Texas
• Jim Justice (born 1951), American businessman and politician, 36th governor of West Virginia
• James Larkin (1876–1947), Irish trade union leader and socialist activist
• Jim McCafferty (1916–2006), American college basketball coach
• Jim Mills (rugby league) (born 1944), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer
• Jim Nance (1942–1992), American college and pro football player
• James Patrick O'Leary (1869–1925), Chicago gambling boss and saloon owner
• James Pendergast (1856–1911), American politician, first political boss of Kansas City
• Jim Ricca (1927–2007), American National Football League player
• Jim Rivera (1921–2017), American Major League Baseball player
• Jim Roberts (baseball) (1895–1984), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• James Roberts (trade unionist) (1878–1967), New Zealand trade unionist and president of the Labour Party
• Jim Robinson (trombonist) (1892–1976), American jazz musician
• Jim Schrader (1932–1972), American National Football League player
• Jim Smith (cricketer, born 1906) (1906–1979), English cricketer
• James R. Thompson (1936–2020), American politician, longtime governor of Illinois
• Jim Thompson (writer) (1906–1977), American author and screenwriter
• Jim Tatum (1913–1959), American college football and baseball player and coach
• Jim Tinndahn (born 1961), Danish mobster
• Jim Tucker (journalist) (1934–2013), American journalist
• Jim Weaver (right-handed pitcher) (1903–1983), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jim West (boxer) (1954–2015), Australian boxer
• Jim Williams (powerlifter) (1940–2007), American powerlifter
• James "Big Jim" Wright (1966–2018), American musician

Native Americans

• Big Jim, grandson of Tecumseh and chief of the Kispicotha or Absentee Shawnee band – see Mardock Mission

Ring name or stage name

• James Harris (1950–2020), American professional wrestler under the ring names Kamala (wrestler) and Big Jim Harris
• Jim Martin (musician) (born 1961), American rock guitarist
• Big Jim Sullivan (1941–2012), English guitarist born James George Tomkins
• Jimmy Valiant (born 1942), semi-retired professional wrestler and author born James Harold Fanning

Characters

• "Big Jim" Walker, title character of the Jim Croce song "You Don't Mess Around with Jim"
• Big Jim, a character in the Bob Dylan song "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"
• Big Jim, in the song of the same name by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• Title character of the film Big Jim McLain, played by John Wayne
• "Big Jim" Colfax, a villain in the 1946 film The Killers
• Big Jim McKay, in the Charlie Chaplin film The Gold Rush, played by Mack Swain
• "Big Jim" Devine, a major character in the Australian crime drama television series Underbelly: Razor
• James "Big Jim" Rennie, a major character in the Stephen King novel Under the Dome and the television series based on it
• James R. "Big Jim" Smoke, Copperhead antagonist and would-be assassin of President Lincoln in Peter G. Tsouras' The Britannia's Fist Trilogy

Other uses

• Big Jim (toy line), a Mattel action figure line
• Big Jim Mountain, part of the Chiwaukum Mountains in Washington state, United States
• James T. Staples, a 1908 American sternwheel steamboat also known as the Big Jim
• KJRV ("Big Jim 93.3"), a radio station licensed to serve Wessington Springs, South Dakota
• Big Jim pepper, a variety of New Mexico chile pepper

See also

• Jim Folsom Jr. (born 1949), American politician, nicknamed "Little Jim" to distinguish him from his father, "Big Jim" Folsom (see above)