James Barnes

James, Jim, or Jimmy Barnes may refer to:

People

Arts and entertainment

• James Barnes (author) (1866–1936), American author
• James Barnes (composer) (born 1949), American composer
• James Barnes (television director) (born 1979), English television director
• Jim Barnes (writer) (born 1933), Native American writer
• Jimmy Barnes (born 1956), Scottish-Australian rock musician

Politics

• James Barnes (Canadian politician) (1842–1924), farmer, lumberman, railway contractor and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
• James M. Barnes (politician) (1899–1958), U.S. Representative from Illinois
• James Strachey Barnes (1890–1955), British Fascist Party member and diarist
• Jim Barnes (politician) (1908–1995), New Zealand politician

Sports

• James Barnes (cricketer) (1886–1963), English cricketer
• Jim Barnes (golfer) (1886–1966), English professional golfer
• Jim Barnes (offensive guard), American football player
• Jim Barnes (American football, born 1959), American football player and coach
• Jim "Bad News" Barnes (1941–2002), American basketball player

Other fields

• James Barnes (civil servant) (1891–1969), English civil servant
• James Barnes (engineer) (1740–1819), English Canal engineer
• James Barnes (general) (1801–1869), American railroad executive and Union Army general in the American Civil War
• James Antonio Barnes (born 1944), American serial killer
• James Hector Barnes (1879–1917), British agricultural chemist
• James Phillip Barnes (1962–2023), American convicted murderer
• James Stevenson Barnes (1756–1823), British colonel who served in the Napoleonic Wars
• A. James Barnes (born 1942), American attorney, dean and professor

Fictional characters

• Bucky Barnes also known as James Barnes, sidekick of Captain America and inheritor of the name