James Beattie may refer to:
- James Beattie (writer) (1735–1803)
- James Beattie (1852—1934), founder of James Beattie Ltd., Wolverhampton department store
- James Beattie (1914—1988), chairman and managing director of James Beattie plc, department store chain
- James Beattie (footballer) (born 1978), English footballer
- Jim Beattie (born 1954), baseball player
- Jim Beattie (musician), Scottish rock musician
Famous quotes containing the word james:
“There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)