James Black

James, Jimmy or Jim Black may refer to:

• 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), Scottish professional football defender
• James Black (hurler) (born 1992), Northern Irish hurler
• Jimmy Black (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player

• 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), known as Jim, 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

• James Milton Black (1856–1938), hymn composer
• James Black, Australian guitarist and keyboard player, formerly with Mondo Rock and The Black Sorrows, now on the Australian TV quiz show RocKwiz
• James Moses Black (born 1962), American actor
• James Black (guitarist), guitarist in the band Finger Eleven
• Jimmy Carl Black (1938–2008), drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention
• James R. Black (born 1962), American actor, former professional American football player
• Jim Black (born 1967), American jazz musician

• James Black (bishop) (1894–1968), first bishop of Paisley, Scotland
• James Black (clergyman) (1797–1886), Scottish-born clergyman in Canada

• James R. Black, researcher in electromigration and for whom Black's equation is named
• 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), d. 1867, London, who published "An Inquiry into the Capillary Circulation of Blood" in 1825

• James Black (Case Closed), a fictional character from the anime/manga series Case Closed

• 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