James Wilson may refer to:

Politicians and government officials

Canada

James Wilson (Upper Canada politician) James Wilson (1770 – September 1, 1847) was an English-born farmer and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented Prince Edward in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1808 to 1810, from 1820 to 1830 and from 1834 to 1836 as ...

(1770–1847), English-born farmer and political figure in Upper Canada * James Crocket Wilson (1841–1899), Canadian MP from Quebec * James Robert Wilson (1866–1941), mayor of Saskatoon and member of the Parliament of Canada * James Wilson (Ontario MPP) (1810–1891), Canadian politician

Oceania

James Wilson (New South Wales politician, born 1862) James Wilson (1862 – 24 September 1925) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at Redditch to labourer James Wilson and Martha Collins. He migrated to New South Wales around 1870 and worked as a confectioner. He was secreta ...

(1862–1925), English-born Australian politician * James Wilson (New South Wales politician, born 1865) (1865–1927), New Zealand-born Australian politician *Sir

James Wilson (New Zealand politician, born 1849) Sir James Glenny Wilson (probably on 29 November 1849 – 3 May 1929) was a New Zealand politician and farmer. Biography Originally from Hawick, Roxburghshire in Scotland, Wilson was educated at Bruce Castle School, in London, and then ...

(1849–1929), New Zealand politician and farmer * James Wilson (New Zealand politician, born 1814) (1814–1898) *Sir

James Milne Wilson Sir James Milne Wilson, (29 February 1812 – 29 February 1880) served as Premier of Tasmania from 1869 to 1872. Biography Wilson was born in 1812 in Banff, Scotland; the third son of John Wilson, a shipowner, and his wife, Barbara Gray; mat ...

(1812–1880), Australian politician in Tasmania *

James Phillips Wilson James Phillips Wilson (5 October 1853 – 6 July 1925) was a politician in South Australia. History Wilson was born in Wales and was brought out to New South Wales around 1850 by his father, a miner. He was educated at Fort Street School, th ...

(c. 1852–1925), South Australian Labor politician

United Kingdom

James Wilson (MP for York) James Wilson was one of two Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the constituency of York from 1826 to 1830. Life and politics There are very few records of the life of James Wilson prior to 1820 when he came to public notice w ...

between 1826 and 1830. * James Wilson (Labour politician) (1879–1943), British MP for Dudley and Oldham *James Harold Wilson (1916–1995), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1964–1970 and 1974–1976 *

James Wilson (businessman) James Wilson (3 June 1805 – 11 August 1860) was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded ''The Economist'' weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to f ...

(1805–1860), UK member of parliament and founder of ''The Economist'' magazine * James Wilson (Orangeman) (fl. 1793–94), North Irish politician, founder of the Orange Institution

United States

James Wilson (Founding Father) James Wilson (September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father, legal scholar, jurist and statesman who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798. Wilson was electe ...

(1742–1798), Founding Father of the United States *

James Wilson (Colorado politician) James D. Wilson is an American politician who served as the Colorado State Representative for the 60th district from January 9, 2013 to January 13, 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. Education Wilson earned his BA in history, physic ...

, former member of the Colorado House of Representatives *

James Wilson (Indiana politician) James Wilson (April 9, 1825 – August 8, 1867) was a United States representative from Indiana. He and his wife, Emma (Ingersoll) Wilson (daughter of Stephen Ingersoll and Hannah Elizabeth Bullard, sister to Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, were the par ...

(1825–1867), US Representative *

James Wilson I (New Hampshire politician) James Wilson (August 16, 1766 – January 4, 1839) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, father of James Wilson (1797-1881). Born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Wilson attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and gradua ...

(1766–1839), US Representative *

James Wilson II James Wilson II (March 18, 1797 – May 29, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, son of James Wilson (1766–1839). Life Born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, James Wilson II attended New Ipswich Academy and the academies at ...

(1797–1881), US Representative, son of James Wilson I *

James Wilson (Pennsylvania politician) James Wilson (April 28, 1779 – July 19, 1868) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. James Wilson was born in Millerstown, Pennsylvania (now Fairfield). He attended the common schools and learned the trade of cab ...

(1779–1868), US Representative *

James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture) James "Tama Jim" Wilson (August 16, 1835 – August 26, 1920) was a Scottish-American politician who served as United States Secretary of Agriculture for sixteen years during three presidencies, from 1897 to 1913. He holds the record as the l ...

(1835–1920), United States Secretary of Agriculture and US Representative from Iowa *

James Charles Wilson James Charles Wilson (24 August 1816 – 7 February 1861) was an early settler of Texas and later a state legislator. Wilson was born in Yorkshire, England, on August 21, 1818. He immigrated to the Republic of Texas in 1836. In 1842 he joined ...

(1816–1861), American politician in Texas *

James Clifton Wilson James Clifton Wilson (June 21, 1874 – August 3, 1951) was a United States representative from Texas and was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Education and career Wilson wa ...

(1874–1951), US Representative from Texas * James F. Wilson (1828–1895), US Senator and Representative from Iowa * James J. Wilson (1775–1824), US Senator from New Jersey * James M. Wilson Jr. (1918–2009), Assistant Secretary of State *

James Wilson (journalist) __NOTOC__ James Wilson (20 February 1787 – 17 October 1850) was a journalist and politician who was the paternal grandfather of US president Woodrow Wilson. Life and career Born in Ulster, Ireland in 1787, Wilson emigrated in his youth to the U ...

(1787–1850), Irish-American journalist, politician, and judge

Military and revolutionary figures

James Wilson (British Army officer) Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander James Wilson KBE MC (13 April 1921 – 17 December 2004) was a British Army officer who commanded South East District. Military career Born the son of Major-General Bevil Wilson and educated at Winchester Coll ...

(1921–2004), British general *

James Wilson (explorer) Captain James Wilson (1760–1814), commanded the British ship ''Duff'', which the London Missionary Society contracted in 1797 to convey a team of missionaries (consisting of thirty men, six women, and three children) to their postings in Tahiti ...

(1760–1814), brought the first British missionaries to Tahiti *

James Wilson (Irish nationalist) James McNally ( Irish: ''Séamas Mac an Fhailí''; 6 February 1836 – 6 November 1921), better known by his alias James Wilson or Séamas Mac Liammóir'','' was an Irish Fenian and soldier of India. In 1867 he was transported as a convict t ...

(1836–1921), Irish republican convicted of desertion * James Wilson (revolutionary) (1760–1820), Scottish leader of the Radical War *

James H. Wilson James Harrison Wilson (September 2, 1837 – February 23, 1925) was a United States Army topographic engineer and a Union Army Major General in the American Civil War. He served as an aide to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan during the Maryland Cam ...

(1837–1925), general in the United States Army

Sportsmen

* James Wilson (athlete) (1891–1973), British athlete *

James Wilson (Australian rules footballer) James Wilson (1856 – 16 November 1935) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), captaining the side for a few seasons during the 1870s and 1880s. This was an era when the club won ...

(c. 1855–1935), Australian rules footballer for Geelong * James Wilson (basketball), American basketball player * James Wilson (cricketer) (born 1978), South African cricketer *

James Wilson (darts player) James Wilson (born 25 February 1972) is an English darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation. Career BDO Wilson first rose to prominence in 2012 by winning several tournaments, rising to number four in the world and reaching ...

(born 1972), English darts player * James Wilson (footballer, born 1866) (c. 1866–1900), Scottish footballer * James Wilson (footballer, born 1882), Scottish footballer (St Mirren, Preston NE) *

James Wilson (footballer, born 1884) James Henry Wilson (29 February 1884 – 1 July 1934) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia ser ...

(1884–1934), Australian rules footballer for Essendon * James Wilson (footballer, born 1890) (1890–1917), Scottish footballer (Queen's Park) * James Wilson (Welsh footballer) (born 1989), Welsh professional footballer with Plymouth Argyle * James Wilson (English footballer) (born 1995), English professional footballer for Port Vale * James Wilson (1910s footballer), English footballer * James Wilson (rugby union) (born 1983), New Zealand rugby player *

James Wilson (trainer) James "Old Jim" Wilson (26 December 1828 – November 1917) was a racehorse trainer in Victoria, Australia, founder of the historic St Albans Stud in Geelong, and trainer of the 1873 Melbourne Cup winner Don Juan and 1876 winner Briseis. His old ...

(1828–1917), founder of St. Albans Stud, Victoria, Australia * James B. Wilson (1896–1986), American football player and coach *

James H. Wilson (American football) James H. Wilson (March 6, 1940 – March 27, 2013) was an American football coach. He was the 25th head football coach at The Apprentice School in Newport News, Virginia and he held that position for four seasons, from 1971 until 1974. His coach ...

(1940–2013), American football coach

Science and medicine

* James Wilson (anatomist) (1765–1821), Scottish anatomist * James Wilson (scientist), American gene therapist * James Wilson (zoologist) (1795–1856), Scottish zoologist *

James Wilson (mathematician) James Wilson (1774? – 24 April 1829) was an Irish mathematician whose career was spent at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He was born in Dublin, his father being William, and was brought up there. He studied at TCD, graduating BA (1794), MA (180 ...

(1774?–1829), Irish mathematician * James A. Wilson (21st century), American mathematician *

James Arthur Wilson Dr James Arthur Wilson FRCP (1795 – 29 December 1882) was a British physician. He was born in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, the son of James Wilson, the surgeon and teacher of anatomy at the Hunterian School of Medicine in Great Windmill Str ...

(1795–1882), English physician * James G. Wilson (1915–1987), embryologist and anatomist * James George Wilson (1830–1881), Scottish surgeon and professor of midwifery *

James Ricker Wilson James "Jim" Ricker Wilson (October 21, 1922, Berkeley, California – August 14, 2007, Livermore, California) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his pioneering research in numerical relativity and numerical relativistic hydrodynamics ...

(1922–2007), American theoretical physicist *

James Thomas Wilson James Thomas Wilson FRS (1861-1945) was a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1886, he was invited by T.P. Anderson Stewart to become a demonstrator in anatomy in the recently establi ...

(1861–1945), British professor of anatomy

Arts and craftspersons

James Wilson (architect) James Wilson (1816–1900) was a prominent Victorian architect practising in Bath, Somerset and partner in the firm Wilson & Willcox. On 12 January 1843 he married Maria Buckley of Llanelli, and in 1846 they had a son, James Buckley Wilso ...

(1816–1900), British architect in Bath * James Wilson (cinematographer) (active 1927–1963), British cinematographer * James Wilson (composer) (1922–2005), Irish composer * James Wilson (globe maker) (1763–1855), American globe maker * James Wilson (songwriter), 18th-century English songwriter *

James Daniel Wilson James Daniel Wilson is an English actor and writer in various media including lip sync translations of foreign films into English. Films James has written for include '' The Door'' starring Helen Mirren and directed by István Szabó, ''Vicky a ...

(born 1977), English actor * James Keys Wilson (1828–1894), American architect in Ohio *

Mark Wilson (magician) James "Mark" Wilson (April 11, 1929 – January 19, 2021) was an American magician and author, who was widely credited as the first major television magician and in the process establishing the viability of illusion shows as a television format. ...

or James Wilson (1929–2021), American magician * James Perry Wilson (1889–1976), American painter, designer, and architect

Academics

James Kinnier Wilson James Vincent Kinnier Wilson (27 November 1921 – 22 December 2022) was a British Assyriologist. He was Eric Yarrow Lecturer, from 1955 until 1989, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge. Life and career Kinnier Wilson was born in Maryl ...

(1921–2022), British assyriologist *

James Q. Wilson James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 – March 2, 2012) was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University. He was the chairman of the Council of A ...

(1931–2012), American professor of public policy * James Southall Wilson (1880–1963), American author, professor, and founder of the ''Virginia Quarterly Review''

Clergy

James Wilson (Archdeacon of Manchester) James Maurice Wilson (6 November 1836, Castletown, Isle of Man – 15 April 1931, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire, England) was a British priest in the Church of England as well as a theologian, teacher and astronomer. Early life Wilson and his t ...

(1836–1931), British theologian and science teacher *

James Wilson (bishop) James Wilson (1780-1857) was an Irish bishop of the Church of Ireland. He was born near Newry, County Down, his father being James Wilson (merchant), and was brought up there. He studied at Trinity College Dublin starting in 1798, becoming a Scho ...

(died 1857), Irish bishop of Cork *

James Wilson (Dean of Elphin and Ardagh) James Wilson was an Anglican priest in Ireland, most notably Dean of Elphin and Ardagh from 1954 to 1963. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1963/4 London, OUP, 1963 p1332 Wilson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained deacon in 1900 an ...

, Irish Anglican clergyman *

James Wilson (Dean of Tuam) James Wilson was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Wilson was vicar general of the Diocese of Elphin and also its archdeaconFryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Ca ...

, Irish Anglican clergyman * James Hood Wilson (1829–1903), moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1895

Other

* James Wilson (civil servant) (1853–1926), British civil servant in British India * James Wilson (''House''), a character on ''House'' *

James Grant Wilson James Grant Wilson (April 28, 1832 – February 1, 1914) was an American editor, author, bookseller and publisher, who founded the ''Chicago Record'' in 1857, the first literary paper in that region. During the American Civil War, he served as ...

(1832–1914), American soldier, editor, and author *

James Wilson (motorcyclist) James C. Wilson (October 8, 1900 – January 31, 1995) was a long-distance motorcyclist and author of the autobiography '' Three-Wheeling Through Africa''. His five-month 1927 journey from Nigeria to Eritrea on a Triumph sidecar with Francis Flood ...

(c. 1901–1995), long-distance motorcyclist and author *James William Wilson, Jr. (born 1969), American murderer and perpetrator of the

Oakland Elementary School shooting The Oakland Elementary School shooting was a school shooting in 1988 in Greenwood, South Carolina, United States, in which 19-year-old James William Wilson Jr. shot and killed two students and wounded seven other students, a teacher, and a gym c ...