James Yates

James or Jim Yates may refer to:


 * James Yates (jurist), American attorney and jurist
 * James Yates (minister) (1789–1871), English Unitarian minister and scholar
 * James Yates (poet) (fl. 1582), English poet
 * James Yates (cricketer) (1883–1929), English cricketer and British Indian Army officer
 * Jamie Yates (born 1988), English footballer
 * Jim Yates (bowls) (born 1934), former Australian lawn and indoor bowler and coach
 * Jim Yates (politician), American politician in Kentucky
 * James Yates (activist), African American anti-fascist
 * Jimmy Yates (1869–1922), footballer
 * The James Yates murders, a 1781 multiple homicide, the basis for the early American novel Wieland