James, Jimmy, or Jim Wright may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

James Wright (poet) James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was an American poet. Life James Wright was born and spent his childhood in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father worked in a glass factory, and his mother in a laundry. Neither parent had ...

(1927–1980), American poet *

James Wright (singer) James Wright is a Filipino- Australian singer formerly signed with GMA Music. He gained fame after joining GMA Network's reality-talent competition ''Anak Ko 'Yan'' on 2013. Wright received critical acclaim after releasing his self-titled debut al ...

, Filipino-Australian singer *

Big Jim Wright James Quentin "Big Jim" Wright (March 19, 1966 – September 29, 2018) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, film score and record producer. A member of the vocal and instrumental ensemble Sounds of Blackness, Wright became a frequent ...

(James Quentin Wright) (1966–2018), American musician *

Jimmy Wright (actor) Jimmy Wright was an American stage and film actor. A member of the all-black cast of the Voodoo ''Macbeth'' production directed by Orson Welles in 1936, Wright went on to star as 'Dollar Bill' Burton in ''Souls of Sin'', a 1949 feature directed by ...

, American stage and screen actor *

Jimmy Wright (artist) Jimmy Wright (born 1944) is an American visual artist, who became firstly known in the 1970s for his series of bold paintings representing libertine scenes in gay ambiances in the ''Meatpacking district'' of Manhattan; later on, for his unanticip ...

(born 1944), American visual artist

Politics and the law

United States

James Wright (governor) James Wright (8 May 1716 – 20 November 1785) was a colonial lawyer and jurist who was the last British Royal Governor of the Province of Georgia. He was the only Royal Governor of the Thirteen Colonies to regain control of his colony during ...

(1716–1785), British colonial governor of the province of Georgia, and 1st Baronet, of Carolside *

J. Skelly Wright James Skelly Wright (January 14, 1911 – August 6, 1988) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District ...

(1911–1988), American judge *

James A. Wright (Pennsylvania politician) James Assion Wright (August 11, 1902 – November 7, 1963) was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served two terms in the U.S. Congress from 1941 to 1945. Wright was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. He graduated from th ...

(1902–1963), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania *

James A. Wright (Wisconsin politician) James A. Wright (June 17, 1873December 21, 1911) was an American businessman and politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing much of northern Wisconsin from 1905 until his death in 1911. B ...

(1873–1911), Wisconsin politician and businessman *

James Henry Wright James Henry Wright (c. August 13, 1838January 17, 1905) was an American jurist and politician. Following his service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, Wright became an attorney in Missouri where he served as mayor ...

(1838–1905), American jurist and politician *

James L. Wright James L. Wright, Jr. (March 10, 1925 – October 16, 1990) was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He is a native of New York City. He represented the 142nd legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Represen ...

(1925–1990), Pennsylvania politician *

Jim Wright James Claude Wright Jr. (December 22, 1922 – May 6, 2015) was an American politician who served as the 48th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989. He represented Texas's 12th congressional district as a ...

(1922–2015), U.S. Congressman from Texas, Speaker of the House *

Jim Wright (commissioner) James "Jim" Wright is an American businessman and politician. Wright owns environmental services companies. Wright is one of three members of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the elected regulatory body over oil, natural gas, utilities, and surf ...

, American politician and businessman from Texas

Elsewhere

* Sir James Wright (governor) (1716–1785), British colonial governor of the province of Georgia, and 1st Baronet, of Carolside *

Sir James Wright, 1st Baronet Sir James Wright, 1st Baronet (baptised 1730 – 1804), of Ray House, Essex, was a British diplomat and art collector. He was the ambassador to Venice for Great Britain from 1766 to 1774. Background He was the son of James Wright of Warwick (d ...

(1730–1804) of Ray House, Essex and Resident at Venice, British diplomat *

James Wright (Jamaican politician) James Wright (11 October 1904 – 1984/85) was the Director of Agriculture for Jamaica and a member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica. Wright was born 11 October 1904 in England to parents George and Beatrice Maude (née Poole). He married Ma ...

(1904–1984/85), member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica *

James R. Wright James R. Wright is a Canadian retired diplomat, and was Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from August 27, 2006 to September 14, 2011. Wright was born in Montreal and graduated from McGill Uni ...

, Canadian diplomat *

James William Wright James William Wright (9 October 1854 – 3 October 1917) was an Australian architect, civil engineer, and politician. He established the first private architectural practice in Western Australia in 1884, which now operates as Cameron Chisholm Ni ...

(1854–1917), Australian architect and politician

Science and academics

James Wright (academic) James Robertson Graeme Wright (born 14 June 1939) is a former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University. Career Educated at Inverness Royal Academy, the High School of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh, Wright became a lecturer at the Univers ...

(born 1939), former Vice-Chancellor, Newcastle University *

James Wright (historian) James Wright (August 16, 1939 – October 10, 2022) was an American writer and academic administrator who was the President of Dartmouth College and the Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth. The 16th President in the Wheelock Succes ...

(1939–2022), President of Dartmouth College, historian *

James Wright (palaeontologist) James Wright FRSE FGS (1878–1957) was a Scottish merchant remembered primarily as a palaeontologist, geologist and fossil collector. He was an expert on the Lower Carboniferous crinoids of Scotland. Life He was born in Kirkcaldy in Fife ...

(1878–1957), Scottish paaeontologist, geologist and fossil collector *

James C. Wright James C. Wright is an American classical archaeologist and academic who specialises in the Aegean civilizations and Ancient Greece. Since 1998, he has been a professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology of Bryn Mawr College ...

, American classical archaeologist *

James D. Wright James David Wright (November 6, 1947 - April 29, 2019) was an American sociologist. He had been the Provost's Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida since 2001. Since 2013, he had als ...

(1947–2019), American sociologist

Sports

Baseball

* Jim Wright (1920s pitcher) (1900–1963), Major League Baseball pitcher *

Jim Wright (1970s pitcher) James Clifton Wright (born December 21, 1950) is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox in 1978-79. Wright was born in Reed City, Michigan. Career Wright was drafted out of hi ...

(born 1950), Major League Baseball pitcher * Jim Wright (1980s pitcher) (born 1955), Major League Baseball pitcher

Cricket

James Wright (cricketer, born 1948) James Wright (born 24 January 1948) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Hertfordshire. He was born in Hampstead. Wright, who represented the team in the Minor Counties Champio ...

, English cricketer *

James Wright (cricketer, born 1874) James Wright (25 March 1874 – 20 August 1961) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1898 and 1905. Wright was born at Newbold, Leicestershire, the son of Thomas Wright, a coal miner and his wife Elizabet ...

(1874–1961), English cricketer *

James Wright (cricketer, born 1912) James Egerton Lowndes Wright (10 May 1912 – 14 January 1987) was an English cricketer. Wright was a right-handed batsman. He was born at London. Educated at Winchester College, he progressed from the college cadet force to enlist in the ...

(1912–1987), English cricketer *

James Wright (New Zealand cricketer) James Linton Wright (born 2 June 1936, Queensland, Australia) is a New Zealand cricketer. He played in three first-class matches for Northern Districts in 1958/59. See also * List of Northern Districts representative cricketers This i ...

(born 1946), New Zealand cricketer

Gridiron football

James Wright (tight end) James Willie Wright (born September 1, 1956) is a former professional American football player who played tight end for seven seasons for the Atlanta Falcons and the Denver Broncos. Wright played special teams for Atlanta in 1978 before findin ...

(born 1956), American football tight end *

James Wright (wide receiver) James Earl Wright (born December 31, 1991) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at LSU. Professional career Cincinnati B ...

(born 1991), American football player *

James Earl Wright (American football) James Earl Wright (March 27, 1939 – February 26, 2009) was an American professional football player who was a defensive back and quarterback in the American Football League (AFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college foot ...

(1939–2009), gridiron football defensive back and quarterback *

Jim Wright (American football coach) Jim Wright (born December 12, 1935) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Wichita State University from 1974 to 1978, compiling a record of 17–37–1. Wright was born on December 12, 1935, i ...

(born 1935), American football coach

Other sports

James Leroy Wright James Leroy Wright Sr. (May 6, 1938 – March 21, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967–68 and 1968–69, winning the ABA Finals in 1968 as a memb ...

(1938–2020), American basketball player *

Jimmy Wright (golfer) Jimmy Wright (born December 1, 1939) is an American professional golfer. Biography Wright was born on a farm in Bentonville, Arkansas. At the age of 10, he moved to Enid, Oklahoma where he spent most of his youth. He started caddying at a loca ...

(born 1939), American professional golfer *

James Wright (ice hockey) James Wright (born March 24, 1990) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey centre (ice hockey), centre. He won a Memorial Cup with the Vancouver Giants in 2007 and was selected by Tampa Bay 117th overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Dra ...

(born 1990), Canadian ice hockey player *

James Wright (rugby) James Frost Wright (1 April 1863 – 4 October 1932) was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1890s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for Bradford F.C., as a half-back, i.e. number 9, or 10. Prior ...

(1863–1932), rugby union footballer of the 1890s for England, and Bradford F.C. *

James Wright (speedway rider) James Philip Wright (born 13 June 1986 in Stockport, Greater Manchester), is a speedway rider in the United Kingdom. Wright was also a squad member for Unia Tarnow in Liga I in Poland along with his Belle Vue Aces team mates Steve Boxall and ...

(born 1986), British motorcycle speedway rider *

James Wright (footballer) John "James" Wright (born 1892 in Ireland) was a professional footballer, who played for Cliftonville and Huddersfield Town. References * 1892 births Year of death missing Republic of Ireland men's association footballers Men's associat ...

(1892–?), footballer for Cliftonville and Huddersfield Town *

Jim Wright (Australian footballer) James Wright (born 26 September 1949), more commonly known as Jim Wright, is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules fo ...

(born 1949), Australian rules footballer (Geelong) *

Jim Wright (footballer, born 1910) James 'Jim' Wright (11 September 1910 – 1978) was an English professional footballer who played as a full-back. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Jim 1910 births 1978 deaths People from Okehampton English men's footballers Men's ass ...

(1910–1978), English footballer *James Earl Wright, a ring name of American professional wrestler

Dale Veasey Todd Dale Veasey (born May 20, 1960) is a retired American professional wrestler, better known by his ringnames Dale Veasey and Lt. James Earl Wright, who competed in North American regional promotions including the Mid-South region and the Nation ...

(born 1960)

Other fields

James Wright (antiquarian) James Wright (1643–1713), was an antiquary and writer, author of a county history of Rutland (1684), and the '' Historia Histrionica'' (1699), an account of theatre in England in the seventeenth century. Early life and education Wright was th ...

(1643–1713), antiquary and writer * James Wright (doctor) (1927–2022), Australian medical professional *

James Wright (inventor) James Gilbert E. Wright (March 25, 1874 – August 20, 1961) was a Scottish-born inventor, researcher and chemical engineer at General Electric who invented Silly Putty in 1943 while looking for a replacement for rubber. The invention of Nutty Put ...

, American creator of Silly Putty *

James Wright (potter) James Wright (1819–1887) was a notable New Zealand potter. He was born in Fenton, Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the no ...

(1819–1887), New Zealand potter *

James Homer Wright James Homer Wright (April 8, 1869 – January 3, 1928) was an early and influential American pathologist, who was chief of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1896 to 1926. Wright was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1915, he ...

(1869–1928), American pathologist *

James Hood Wright James Hood Wright (known professionally as J. Hood Wright; November 4, 1836 – November 12, 1894) was an American banker, financier, corporate director, business magnate, and reorganizer of US railroads. He began as a bookkeeper but his manag ...

(1836–1894), American banker, financier and railroad man *

James W. Wright James W. Wright was executive director of the Development Authority of the North Country, a position he held for 11 years until his retirement in 2020. Previously he had been a member of the New York State Senate, representing the 48th district ...

, executive director of the Development Authority of the North Country *James

Whitaker Wright James Whitaker Wright (9 February 1846 – 26 January 1904) was a company promoter and swindler, who committed suicide at the Royal Courts of Justice in London immediately following his conviction for fraud. Early life The eldest of five child ...

(1846–1904), English mining company owner *

(1854–1917), Australian architect and politician