James Ray

James Ray may refer to:

• James Ray (historian) ({{floruit|18th century}}), English historian of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745
• James B. Ray (1794–1848), governor of Indiana
• James Enos Ray Jr. (1874–1934), American politician
• James Davis Ray Jr. (1918–1990), American botanist
• James Earl Ray (1928–1998), American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Jim Ray (basketball) (born 1934), American basketball player
• James Ray (singer) (1941–{{circa|1963}}), R&B singer in the early 1960s
• James Edwin Ray (born 1941), U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and Vietnam-era prisoner-of-war
• Jim Ray (1944–2005), American baseball player
• James Ray (basketball) (1957–2023), American basketball player
• James Arthur Ray (1957–2025), American professional speaker and author convicted of negligent homicide in 2011
• Jimmy Ray (born 1970), English musician
• James Ray (rock musician) ({{floruit|21st century}}), American rock singer and band-leader, founding member of James Ray and The Performance, James Ray's Gangwar, The MK Ultra, and his current band 4080peru