# James Robertson

James, Jim, Jimmy or Jamie Robertson may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* James Robertson (photographer) (1813–1888), English photographer and gem and coin engraver
* James D Robertson (1931–2010), Scottish painter and senior lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art
* James Logie Robertson (1846–1922), literary scholar, editor and author
* James Robertson (conductor) (1912–1991), English conductor and musical director of Sadler's Wells Opera
* James Robertson (novelist) (born 1958), Scottish novelist and poet
* Jamie Robertson (born 1981), film score composer from England
* James Napier Robertson (born 1982), New Zealand writer, film director and producer

## Academia

* James Robertson (orientalist) (1714–1795), Scottish minister, professor
* James I. Robertson Jr. (1930–2019), scholar on the American Civil War and professor at Virginia Tech
* James Burton Robertson (1800–1877), historian
* J. R. Robertson (James Robert Robertson, 1867–1928), educator and Freemason in South Australia
* James Alexander Robertson (1873–1939), American academic historian, archivist, translator and bibliographer
* James Craigie Robertson (1813–1882), Scottish Anglican churchman and historian
* James Duncan Robertson (1912–1993), Scottish professor of zoology

## Military

* James Robertson (British Army officer) (1717–1788), civil governor of the Province of New York, 1779–1783
* James Robertson (Australian Army officer) (1878–1951), Australian Army officer
* James Peter Robertson (1883–1917), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Jim Robertson (British Army officer) (1910–2004), British Army officer who commanded the 17th Gurkha Division
* James Madison Robertson (1817–1891), artillery officer in the United States Army

## Politics

* James William Robertson (1826–1876), first mayor of Queenstown, New Zealand
* James Edwin Robertson (1840–1915), Canadian physician and politician
* James Robertson, Baron Robertson (1845–1909), Scottish judge and Conservative politician
* James Wilson Robertson (educator) (1857–1930), Canada's first Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying
* James B. A. Robertson (1871–1938), American lawyer and governor of Oklahoma
* James Wilson Robertson (1899–1983), last British Head of Nigeria
* James Robertson (judge) (1938–2019), United States federal judge
* Jim Robertson (politician) (born 1945), Australian politician in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
* James Robertson (Jamaican politician) (born 1966), Minister of Mining and Energy 2009 -May 2011
* James Robertson (Trotskyist) (1928–2019), National Chairman of the Spartacist League of the United States
* James N. Robertson (1913–1990), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
* James A. Robertson Jr. (born 1939), member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
* James L. Robertson (Mississippi judge) (born c. 1940), justice on the Supreme Court of Mississippi

## Sports
### Football

* James Robertson (footballer, born 1873) (1873–?), footballer (place of birth unknown)
* Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1880) (1880–?), Scottish footballer who played as an inside right
* Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1885) (1885–1968), Scottish football forward (Blackburn Rovers, Falkirk)
* Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1913) (1913–?), for Bradford City
* James Robertson (footballer, born 1929) (1929–2015), Scottish footballer who played as a winger
* Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1944), Scottish footballer who played for Scotland
* Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1955), Scottish footballer who played as a left winger
* Jimmy Robertson (American football) (1901–1974), American football player, coach at Geneva College (1933)
* Jim Robertson (American football), American football player at Dartmouth College (1919–1921), coach at Oglethorpe University
* Jim Robertson (footballer) (1903–1985), Australian footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL
* James Robertson (soccer) (1891–1948), U.S. soccer full back
* James Robertson (rugby union, born 1883) (1883–?), Scottish international rugby union player
* James Robertson (rugby union, born 1854) (1854–1900), Scottish rugby union player

### Other sports

* James Robertson (cricketer, born 1850) (1850–1927), Scottish cricketer
* James Robertson (cricketer, born 1844) (1844–1877), English cricketer
* Jim Robertson (baseball) (1928–2015), Major League Baseball catcher
* Jimmy Robertson (snooker player) (born 1986), English snooker player
* James Daniel Robertson (born 1998), Australian rower

## Other

* James Robertson (activist) (1928–2023), British political and economic thinker and activist
* James Robertson (explorer) (1742–1814), explorer and pioneer in what is now the State of Tennessee, co-founder of Nashville
* James Robertson (grocer) (1832–1914), founder of Robertson's, a UK brand of marmalades and jams
* James Robertson (monk) (1758–1820), Scottish Benedictine monk and British Napoleonic War intelligence agent
* James Robertson (psychoanalyst) (1911–1988), psychiatric social worker and psychoanalyst
* James Robertson Automobiles manufactured the Robertson in Manchester in 1914
* James Robertson (surveyor) (1753–1829), Scottish mapmaker in Jamaica
* James Robertson (moderator) (1803–1860), Scottish minister and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland