James Black

James, Jimmy or Jim Black may refer to:

Sportsmen

James Black (congressman) (1793–1872), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
James Black (prohibitionist) (1823–1893), American temperance movement leader and first Presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party
James A. Black (1793–1848), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
James B. Black (born 1935), Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1999–2006
James C. C. Black (1842–1928), U.S. Congressman from Georgia and Confederate Army veteran
James D. Black (1849–1938), governor of Kentucky for part of 1919

James Milton Black (1856–1938), American hymn composer
James Black (guitarist) (born 1975), Canadian guitarist in the band Finger Eleven
Jimmy Carl Black (1938–2008), American drummer and vocalist for the Mothers of Invention
James R. Black (born 1962), American actor and former professional American football player
Jim Black (born 1967), American jazz musician
James N. Black (1940–1988), American jazz drummer
James Black, Australian guitarist and keyboard player formerly with Mondo Rock and The Black Sorrows

James Black (bishop) (1894–1968), first bishop of Paisley, Scotland
James Black (clergyman) (1797–1886), Scottish-born clergyman in Canada
James Black (Moderator) (1879–1948), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1938–1939

James Black (pharmacologist) (1924–2010), British doctor and pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine
James Gow Black (1835–1914), New Zealand chemist, mineralogist, lecturer and university professor
James Black (scientist) (1787–1867), English scientist who published "An Inquiry into the Capillary Circulation of Blood" in 1825
James R. Black (scientist), researcher in electromigration and for whom Black's equation is named
James F. Black (1919–1988), senior scientist at Exxon who reported the impact of fossil fuels on climate to company executives

James Black (blacksmith) (1800–1872), creator of the Bowie knife
James Wallace Black (1825–1896), American photographer
James Black (educator) (1826–1890), President of the University of Iowa, 1868–1870
James Black (Case Closed), a character from Case Closed