James Robertson

James Robertson, Jim Robertson, Jimmy Robertson and Jamie Robertson is a name shared by the following individuals:

James Robertson (loyalist) (1710–1788), Scottish-English military official; civil governor of the Province of New York (1780–83)
James Robertson, Baron Robertson (1845–1909), Scottish judge and political figure; Solicitor General; Conservative MP (1885–91)
James B. A. Robertson (1871–1938), American lawyer and politician (a/k/a JBA Robertson); Democratic governor of Oklahoma (1919–23)
James Wilson Robertson (1899–1983), British Colonial Office official; in Sudan (1922–53); last Governor-General of Nigeria (1955–60)
James Robertson (judge) (born 1938), American jurist; U. S. District Judge for D. C.; issued ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
Jim Robertson, Australian politician; MLA since the 1980s; Northern Territory Attorney General and Minister for Community Development

James Robertson (cricketer) (1850–1927), Scottish right-arm fast round-arm bowler; right-handed batter; played 1878–91
James Robertson (soccer), American football (soccer) player; a full back defender, he played from the early 1910s to at least 1920
Jimmy Robertson (born 1944), Scottish footballer, known as "The Flying Scotsman"; a right winger, he played from 1964 into late 1970s

James Robertson (guitarist), Canadian musician who has been co-writing and producing songs since 1999; under contract to EMI Music
James Robertson (pianist), British pianist
Jamie Robertson (born 1981), English composer of film scores who is also a music producer and sound designer
Texas Jim Robertson (1909-1966), country singer from Texas

James Robertson (explorer) (1742–1814), American explorer; with Daniel Boone in 1759; general under George Washington 1790–96
James Robertson (botanist), Scottish botanist, from Edinburgh who, on 17 August 1771, completed the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis
James Robertson (monk) (1758–1820), Scottish Benedictine monk who, in 1808, served as British secret agent against Napoleon
James Robertson (photographer) (1813–1888), English pioneering photographer; documented the Crimean War and Ottoman Empire
James Robertson (grocer), Scottish grocer who, in 1864, originated Golden Shred Marmalade; firm is leading producer of jam/marmalade
James Peter Robertson (1883–1917), Canadian soldier, a private, who posthumously received the Victoria Cross for heroism in World War I
James Robertson (psychoanalyst) (1911–1988), Scottish psychiatric social worker and researcher; at London's Tavistock Clinic (1948–76)
James Robertson (Trotskyist) (born 1928), American radical leader; Communist/Trotskyite/Spartacist activist since 1946
James Robertson (activist) (born 1928), British writer/speaker; independent theorist of economic structures within social/spiritual values
James Robertson (novelist) (born 1958), Scottish novelist whose The Testament of Gideon Mack was proposed for 2006 Man Booker Prize

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