James Black

James, Jimmy or Jim Black may refer to:

Sportsmen

 * James Black (cricketer) (1873–1920), New Zealand cricketer
 * James Black (ice hockey) (born 1969), former NHL hockey player
 * Jim Black (footballer) (born 1943), Scottish footballer
 * Jimmy Black (footballer) (1899–1933), Scottish football defender
 * James Black (hurler) (born 1992), Northern Irish hurler
 * Jimmy Black (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player
 * James Black (defensive end) (1956–2018), American football defensive end
 * James Black (rugby union) (born 1958), Australian rugby union player

Politicians

 * 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

Musicians, artists and entertainers

 * 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

Religious figures

 * 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

Doctors and scientists

 * 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

Others

 * 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