# James Gordon

James or Jim Gordon may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* James Gordon (actor) (1871–1941), American actor
* Jim Gordon (sportscaster) (1927–2003), American sportscaster
* James Alexander Gordon (1936–2014), British radio presenter
* Jim Gordon (musician) (1945–2023), American rock drummer
* James Gordon (Canadian musician) (born 1955), Canadian singer-songwriter
* James Gordon (journalist), British broadcast journalist and radio presenter
* Jim Gordon (bassist), bassist on Sordid Humor
* Jim Gordon (jazz musician), on Home Plate

## Military

* James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne (1620–1649), Scottish royalist commander in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
* James Willoughby Gordon (1772–1851), British Army general and long-serving Quartermaster-General to the Forces
* James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (1782–1869), British admiral
* James Gordon (British Army officer, died 1783), British Army officer who fought in the American War of Independence
* James B. Gordon (1822–1864), Confederate general
* James Gordon (Australian soldier) (1909–1986), awarded the Victoria Cross in 1941
* James Gordon (British Army officer, born 1957), British Army general

## Politics and law

* James Gordon (New York politician) (1739–1810), American Indian trader, U.S. Congressman
* James Gordon Sr. (1750–1796), American politician
* James Gordon (MP) (c. 1758–1822), member of Parliament for Stockbridge, Truro, Clitheroe and Tregony
* James Gordon (Upper Canada politician) (1786–1865), Upper Canada political figure
* James Wright Gordon (J. Wright Gordon, 1809–1853), Whig politician from Michigan
* James Lindsay Gordon (1813–1877) attorney and member of the Virginia House of Delegates
* James Gordon (Mississippi politician) (1833–1912), American planter, U.S. Senator
* James Gordon (Australian politician) (1845–1914), New South Wales politician
* James Lindsay Gordon (attorney) (1858–1904), American attorney and Virginia state senator, nephew of James Lindsay Gordon
* James Thomas Gordon (1859–1919), Canadian politician, Manitoba
* James L. Gordon (1917–1967), American-Filipino politician
* James Fleming Gordon (1918–1990), U.S. federal judge
* Jim Gordon (politician) (born 1937), Canadian politician
* James Gordon (New Brunswick politician) (born 1949), Canadian politician
* James D. Gordon III (born 1954), American legal academic

## Religion

* James Gordon (Jesuit) (1541–1620), Scottish Jesuit
* James Gordon (vicar apostolic) (1665–1746), Vicar Apostolic of Scotland
* James Bentley Gordon (1750–1819), Irish clergyman and historian
* James Frederick Skinner Gordon (1821–1904), Scottish antiquary and Episcopal church minister
* James Gordon (missionary) (1832–1872), Scottish missionary to the New Hebrides
* James Henry Hamilton-Gordon (1845–1868), prospective missionary, son of George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen
* James Gordon (bishop of Jarrow) (1881–1938), Bishop of Jarrow in the Church of England

## Other people

* James Gordon (botanist) (1708–1780), gardener, nurseryman and seed merchant
* James Davidson Gordon (1835–1889), British civil servant and administrator
* James Edward Henry Gordon (1852–1893), British engineer
* James Gordon (athlete) (1908–1997), American Olympic sprinter
* J. E. Gordon (James Edward Gordon, 1913–1998), British professor of materials science and biomechanics
* James P. Gordon (1928–2013), American physicist and engineer
* James Riely Gordon (1863–1937), American architect
* James Roycroft Gordon (1898-1980), Canadian industrialist and President of Inco Limited
* James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane (1936–2020), Scottish businessman
* James Gordon (American football) (born 1991), American football player
* James Samuel Gordon, American author and psychiatrist

## Fictional people

* James Gordon (character), fictional police commissioner of Gotham City in Batman comics
* James Gordon Jr., a fictional supervillain in DC Comics and an enemy of Batman
* James Gordon (Gotham), a fictional character in the Gotham television series, based on the Batman character of the same name