James Black

James, Jimmy or Jim Black may refer to:

Sportsmen

  • James Black (cricketer) (1873–1920), New Zealand cricketer
  • James Black (ice hockey) (born 1969), former NHL hockey player
  • Jim Black (footballer) (born 1943), Scottish footballer
  • Jimmy Black (footballer) (1899–1933), Scottish football defender
  • James Black (hurler) (born 1992), Northern Irish hurler
  • Jimmy Black (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player
  • James Black (defensive end) (1956–2018), American football defensive end
  • James Black (rugby union) (born 1958), Australian rugby union player

Politicians

  • James Black (congressman) (1793–1872), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • James Black (prohibitionist) (1823–1893), American temperance movement leader and first Presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party
  • James A. Black (1793–1848), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
  • James B. Black (born 1935), Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1999–2006
  • James C. C. Black (1842–1928), U.S. Congressman from Georgia and Confederate Army veteran
  • James D. Black (1849–1938), governor of Kentucky for part of 1919

Musicians, artists and entertainers

  • James Milton Black (1856–1938), American hymn composer
  • James Black (guitarist) (born 1975), Canadian guitarist in the band Finger Eleven
  • Jimmy Carl Black (1938–2008), American drummer and vocalist for the Mothers of Invention
  • James R. Black (born 1962), American actor and former professional American football player
  • Jim Black (born 1967), American jazz musician
  • James N. Black (1940–1988), American jazz drummer
  • James Black, Australian guitarist and keyboard player formerly with Mondo Rock and The Black Sorrows

Religious figures

  • James Black (bishop) (1894–1968), first bishop of Paisley, Scotland
  • James Black (clergyman) (1797–1886), Scottish-born clergyman in Canada
  • James Black (Moderator) (1879–1948), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1938–1939

Doctors and scientists

  • James Black (pharmacologist) (1924–2010), British doctor and pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine
  • James Gow Black (1835–1914), New Zealand chemist, mineralogist, lecturer and university professor
  • James Black (scientist) (1787–1867), English scientist who published "An Inquiry into the Capillary Circulation of Blood" in 1825
  • James R. Black (scientist), researcher in electromigration and for whom Black's equation is named
  • James F. Black (1919–1988), senior scientist at Exxon who reported the impact of fossil fuels on climate to company executives

Others

  • James Black (blacksmith) (1800–1872), creator of the Bowie knife
  • James Wallace Black (1825–1896), American photographer
  • James Black (educator) (1826–1890), President of the University of Iowa, 1868–1870
  • James Black (Case Closed), a character from Case Closed

See also

  • Jim Blacker (born 1945), English footballer
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