James Jackson

James Jackson may refer to:

=Military=

James Jackson (British Army officer) (1790–1871), British Army general
James Jackson (colonial administrator), British Army officer, acting commandant of St Mary's Island, 1829–1830
James S. Jackson (1823–1862), Union General in the American Civil War
James W. Jackson (c. 1824–1861), shooter of Elmer Ellsworth during the American Civil War
James Jackson (Medal of Honor) (1833–1916), U.S. Army officer
James F. Jackson (born 1951), Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force

James Jackson (Alabama politician) (1782–1840), businessman, racehorse investor, state legislator
James Jackson (Georgia politician) (1757–1806), Revolutionary War soldier, Georgia congressman, senator and governor
James Jackson (congressman) (1819–1887), Georgia Congressman, grandson of Senator James Jackson
James H. Jackson (b. 1939), American politician, science teacher, coach and businessman in Iowa.
James M. Jackson (1825–1901), West Virginia Congressman
James Jackson Jr. (New York politician) (c. 1826–1891), New York politician
James Jackson (Massachusetts politician) (1881–1952), American politician in Massachusetts
James Jackson (Rhode Island politician), American politician from Rhode Island
James K. Jackson, Secretary of State of Alabama, 1894–1898

James Jackson (footballer, born 1900) (1900–c. 1976), British footballer for Aberdeen and Liverpool
James Jackson (cyclist) (1908–1977), Canadian Olympic cyclist
James Jackson (American football) (born 1976), American football player
Boo Jackson (born 1981), American basketball player

James Jackson (steelmaker) (1771–1829), English manufacturer who established the first steel mill in France
James Jackson (physician) (1777–1867), Massachusetts physician
James Hayter Jackson (1800–1877), New Zealand mariner, whaler and trader
James Caleb Jackson (1811–1895), inventor of granula
James U. Jackson (1856–1925), founder and developer of the city of North Augusta, South Carolina
James Ranalph Jackson (1882–1975), Australian painter
James R. Jackson (1924–2011), American mathematician
James Jackson (psychologist) (1944–2020), social psychologist and member of the National Science Board
James A. Jackson (born 1954), British professor of geophysics at Cambridge University
James D. Jackson, sociology professor and candidate in the United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi