James Wood

James Wood or Jim Wood may refer to:

Politics and government

• James Wood (governor) (1741–1813), Governor of Virginia and officer in the American Revolutionary War
• James Wood (New York state senator) (1820–1892), New York politician and Union Army general
• James Wood (politician), Member of Parliament for East Down, 1902–1906
• Jim Wood (California politician), member of the California State Assembly
• Jim Wood (Arkansas) (fl. late 20th century), State Auditor of Arkansas
• Sebastian Wood (James Sebastian Lamin Wood, born 1961), British Ambassador to China

Sport

• James Wood (footballer) (born 1893), professional footballer, who played for South Shields, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool
• Jamie Wood (born 1978), footballer
• Jimmy Wood (1842–1927), American baseball player and manager
• Jim Wood (American football) (born 1936), American football player
• James Wood (South African cricketer) (born 1985), South African cricketer, played for Durham UCCE
• James Wood (Lancashire cricketer) (1933–1977), English cricketer for Lancashire 1954–56
• Jim Wood (Sussex cricketer) (1914–1989), English cricketer, played for Sussex 1936–55

Religion

• James Wood (mathematician) (1760–1839), Dean of Ely 1820–1839
• James Wood (minister) (1672–1759), Presbyterian minister of Atherton and Chowbent Chapels in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England
• James Frederick Wood (1813–1883), Archbishop of Philadelphia

Military

• James Wood (Canadian admiral) (born 1934), Canadian admiral
• James Athol Wood (1756–1829), British rear-admiral
• James W. Wood (1924–1990), U.S. Air Force colonel and senior test pilot on the Dyna-Soar program
• James Wood (Royal Navy officer), commander of the HMS Pandora during its commission at the Royal Navy's Pacific Station

Others

• James Wood (composer) (born 1953), British composer and percussionist
• James Wood (critic) (born 1965), British literary critic and novelist
• James Wood (encyclopaedist) (fl. late 19th century), British editor of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
• James Wood, Lord Irwin (born 1977), British courtesy peer
• James N. Wood (1941–2010), American director of the Art Institute of Chicago
• James Roland Wood (born 1941), Australian Royal Commissioner and jurist
• James Rushmore Wood (1816–1882), American physician
• Jim Wood (fiddler) (born 1964), American fiddler
• James Wood (engineer), American engineer
• James Wood Bush, (c. 1844–1906) Hawaiian-American Civil War combatant