James Brown is an American singer and bandleader. James Brown is also the name of:
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Politicians
United Kingdom
- James Gordon Brown (born 1951), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- James Clifton Brown (1841-1917), member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Horsham from 1876-1880
- James Brown (politician) (1862-1939), member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ayrshire from 1918-1931 and 1935-1939
United States
- James Brown (Senator) (1766-1835), U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1813-1817 and 1819-1823
- James S. Brown (1824-1878), mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1861 and member of U.S. House of Representatives from 1863-1865
- James W. Brown (1844-1909), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1903-1905
Canada
- James Brown (Canadian politician) (1828-1897), member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1867-1882
- Jim Brown (politician) (born 1943), member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995-1999
Elsewhere
- James Anthony Brown, Chief Minister of the Isle of Man
Military
- James Browne (engineer) (1839-1896), Scottish-Indian military officer and engineer
- James Sutherland Brown (1881-1951), Canadian general and war planner, also called "Buster"
Athletics
- Jim Brown (born 1936), American football player and film actor
- Jim Brown (soccer) (1908-1994), American soccer player
- Jimmy Brown (baseball player) (1910-1977), American baseball player
- Jimmy Brown (Scottish footballer) (1924-2002)
- James Brown (cricketer) (born 1931), Scottish cricketer
- James Victor Brown (born 1935), Australian rugby player
- James Brown (television) (born 1951), American sportscaster
- James Brown (football player) (born 1975), American college football player for the University of Texas
- James Brown (footballer) (born 1987), English footballer
Writing and publishing
- James Browne (1793-1841), Scottish writer and editor
- James Brown (publisher) (1800-1855), American publisher and co-founder of Little, Brown and Company
- J. B. Selkirk (1832-1904), Scottish poet and essayist, born James Brown
- James Cooke Brown (1921-2000), sociologist and science fiction author
- James Brown (author) (born 1957), American novelist and memoirist
Media and entertainment
- James Brown (director), music video and TV commercial director
- James Brown (magician), English professional magician
- Jimmy Brown (musician) (1926–2006), American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer
- James Brown, member of the English reggae band UB40
Other people
- James Brown (ecologist), ecologist and professor of biology
- Jimmy Brown (Irish nationalist), member of the Irish People's Liberation Organisation
- James A.C. Brown, (1911-1964), Scottish psychiatrist
- James Joseph Brown (1854-1922), American mining businessman
- James M. Brown (born 1941), Attorney General of Oregon from 1980-1981
- James Robert Brown, philosopher
- James Failla (1919-1999), member of the Gambino crime family


