James Burns

James Burns may refer to:

Business

 * James Burns (Australian shipowner) (1846–1923), Australian businessman
 * James Burns (Canadian businessman) (1921–2019), Canadian businessman
 * James Burns (merchant), Glasgow-born merchant of the 17th century
 * James Burns (publisher) (1808–1871), Scottish publisher and author
 * James Burns (Scottish shipowner) (1789–1871)
 * James D. Burns (1865–1928), American businessman and owner of the Detroit Tigers
 * James Ormston Burns (1925–1998), founder of Burns London, a guitar and amplifier company

Entertainment

 * James MacGregor Burns (1918–2014), American biographer
 * Jim Burns (born 1948), Welsh artist
 * Jim Burns (poet) (born 1936), English poet
 * Jim Burns (television producer) (1952–2017), American television producer and writer
 * Jim Burns (Oz), character on the HBO series Oz
 * Jimmy Burns (born 1943), American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter

Religion

 * James Burns (Spiritualist) (1835–1894), Scottish journalist and publisher
 * James A. Burns (1867–1940), American priest and president of the University of Notre Dame
 * James Anderson Burns (1865–1945), founder of the Oneida Baptist Institute
 * James Chalmers Burns (1809–1892), Scottish minister
 * James Drummond Burns (1823–1864), Scottish Presbyterian minister and poet

Sports

 * James Burns (cricketer) (1866–1957), English cricketer
 * Farmer Burns (baseball) (James Joseph Burns, 1876–?), American baseball player
 * Jamie Burns (born 1984), English footballer
 * Jim Burns (baseball) (died 1909), 19th-century baseball player
 * Jim Burns (basketball) (1945–2020), American basketball player
 * Jim Burns (footballer) (born 1943), Scottish footballer

Other

 * James Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde (1864–1919)
 * James Glencairn Burns, son of poet Robert Burns
 * J. H. Burns (James Henderson Burns, 1921–2012), Scottish historian
 * J. Irving Burns (1843–1925), American lawyer and politician
 * James M. Burns (judge) (1924–2001), U.S. federal judge
 * James M. Burns (Medal of Honor) (1845–1910), Union Army soldier and officer during the American Civil War
 * James Richard Henry Burns (1916–2002), English police officer who became a nobleman in Brunei