James Holmes may refer to:

Artists

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (born July 28, 1947) is an American blues musician and proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi. Holmes is known as the last of the Bentonia bluesmen, ...

(born 1947), American blues musician *

James Flournoy Holmes Flournoy Holmes is an established visual artist and musician. Growing up in the southern piedmont, Spartanburg South Carolina, the son of two artistically inclined parents, his father was a musician and his mother a ceramics teacher and they encour ...

, album cover artist * James Holmes (actor) (born 1965), British actor * James Holmes (artist) (1777–1860), English painter * James Roland Holmes (1939–1999), organist, partner of

Ned Rorem Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing i ...

James S. Holmes James Stratton Holmes (2 May 1924 – 6 November 1986) was an American-Dutch poet, Translation, translator, and translation scholar. He sometimes published his work using his real name James S. Holmes, and other times the pen names Jim Hol ...

(1924–1986), Dutch poet and translator

Criminals

James Holmes (mass murderer) James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is an American mass murderer responsible for the 2012 Aurora theater shooting in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others (62 directly and eight indirectly) at a Century 16 movie theater on Jul ...

(born 1987), convicted of the 2012 Aurora shooting * James William Holmes (1956–1994), convicted murderer of Don Lehman

Public servants

* James Holmes (politician) (1831–1910), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council *

James Howard Holmes James Howard Holmes (born April 1, 1943, Springfield, Virginia) is an American diplomat. He is the second son of the Rev. Robert Usher and Bertha Jeannette Cook Holmes. He is a 1965 graduate of Colgate University, as well as, a graduate of John ...

(born 1943), diplomat *

James Leon Holmes James Leon Holmes (born March 31, 1951) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Education and career Education Born in Hazen, Arkansas, Holmes received a Bachelor of Art ...

(born 1951), U.S. federal judge * James M. Holmes (born 1957), United States Air Force general

Sportspeople

Ducky Holmes James William "Ducky" Holmes (January 28, 1869 – August 6, 1932) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played ten seasons in the National League and American League with the Louisville Colonels (1895–97), New York Giants (1897), St ...

(James William Holmes, 1869–1932), baseball player *

Jim Holmes (baseball) James Scott Holmes (August 2, 1882 in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky – March 10, 1960 in Jacksonville, Florida) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in 3 games for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1906 season and in 13 games for th ...

(1882–1960), baseball pitcher *

Jimmy Holmes (footballer, born 1908) James Holmes (27 December 1908 – 1 November 1971) was an English footballer who played as a defender. Born in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, Holmes had trial spells with both Liverpool and Wigan Borough in 1925 but was an employed as a miner and ...

(1908–1971), English footballer *

Jimmy Holmes (footballer, born 1953) James Paul Holmes (born 11 November 1953) is an Irish former professional footballer. Hailing from Meath Square in The Liberties, he won 30 full international caps for the Republic of Ireland, scoring once. Career Holmes, a left-back, began ...

, Irish footballer *

Jim Holmes (footballer) James Black Holmes (born 8 December 1954) is a Scottish former Association football, footballer. Career Holmes began his career at Scottish Junior Football Association, junior club Muirkirk F.C., Muirkirk, before moving into the senior game wit ...

(born 1954), Scottish footballer

Trade unionists

James Holmes (trade unionist) James Headgoose Holmes (19 March 1861 – 1 October 1934) was a British trade unionist and political activist. Born in Frampton, Lincolnshire Frampton is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The vill ...

(1861–1934), English railway industry trade unionist *

Jimmy Holmes (trade unionist) James Holmes (1850 – 1911) was a British trade union leader and politician. Holmes began working in a knitwear factory, initially as a winding boy on hand frames, and later moved over to run powered knitting frames. In the early 1870s, he ...

(1850–1911), English hosiery industry trade unionist

Other

James H. Holmes James H. Holmes (December 9, 1826 - November 25, 1900) was a Baptist minister in Richmond, Virginia. As pastor of Richmond's First African Baptist Church, he was the leader of one of the largest churches in the country. Early life James Henry H ...