James Davis
James, Jim, or Jimmy Davis may refer to:
Entertainment
- J. Gunnis Davis, actor and director, whose directorial work was credited as James Davis
- Jim Davis (actor), American actor
- James Davis (actor), Broadway performer
- Jim Davis (cartoonist), creator of the Garfield comic strip
- James B. Davis (musician), American musician
- James "Thunderbird" Davis, American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Jimmy Davis (songwriter), co-writer of the song "Lover Man "
- Jimmy Davis, singer-songwriter for 1980s rock band Jimmy Davis & Junction
- James Davis (critic), pen-name Owen Hall, Irish-born theatre writer and theatre critic
- James Davis (satirist), Welsh doctor and satirist
- James G. Davis, American artist
- Jim Davis (radio presenter), British radio presenter
Sports
American football
- James Davis (cornerback), NFL cornerback and safety
- James Davis (linebacker), NFL linebacker
- Jim Davis (gridiron football), American football player
- James Davis (running back), American football halfback
Baseball
- Jumbo Davis, American baseball player
- Jim Davis (pitcher), baseball pitcher
- Jim Davis (third baseman), American baseball player
Other sports
- James Davis (Surrey cricketer), English cricketer
- James Davis (Kent cricketer), English cricketer
- Jim Davis (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s
- Jim Davis (basketball player), American basketball player
- Jim Davis (basketball coach), American college basketball coach
- James Davis (sprinter), American sprinter
- James Davis, middle-distance runner, 1938 mile run All-American for the North [Carolina Tar Heels track and field] team
- Jimmy Davis (footballer), Manchester United footballer
- James Davis (fencer), British fencer
- James Davis (footballer, born 1995), Equatoguinean footballer
Politics
- James Davis (printer), first postmaster of North Carolina
- James Davis (Australian politician), politician in Alberton, Victoria, Australia
- James Davis (Iowa politician), Iowa state senator
- James H. Davis (congressman), United States Representative from Texas
- James J. Davis, United States Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of Labor
- James C. Davis, United States Representative from Georgia
- Jimmie Davis, musician and Governor of Louisiana
- Jim Davis (Florida politician), United States Representative from Florida
- Jim Davis (Indiana politician), Indiana state representative
- Jim Davis (North Carolina politician), North Carolina state senator
- James E. Davis (New York politician), assassinated New York City politician
- Jim Davis (Ohio politician), Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives
Religion
- James J. Davis (bishop), Roman Catholic bishop
- James Peter Davis, American Roman Catholic archbishop
- James Levert Davis, African Methodist Episcopal bishop
Law
- James Z. Davis, judge on the Utah Court of Appeals
- James Edward Davis, barrister, magistrate and author
- James E. Davis (Los Angeles police officer), Los Angeles Chief of Police
Business
- Jim Davis (businessman), Chairman of New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. and founder of Major League Lacrosse
- James M. Davis, former chief financial officer of Stanford Financial Group who pled guilty for his role in a US$7 billion Ponzi scheme
Other
- James Davis (VC), Scottish Victoria Cross recipient
- James Davis (escaped convict), aka "Duramboi", escaped convict who lived with Aboriginals
- James A. Davis, sociologist
- James B. Davis (general), U.S. Air Force general
- Jim Limber Davis, mulatto boy who was briefly a ward of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America
- James Davis (mariner), English ship captain and author
- James William Davis, British naturalist
- James Davis (musical group), musical group signed to Motown
- Jim Davis (university administrator), president of the University of Texas at Austin
Other uses
- USS James L. Davis (1861), sailing bark acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War