James or Jim Chapman may refer to:
- James Chapman (explorer) (1831–1872), South African explorer, hunter, trader and photographer
- James Chapman (author) (born 1955), American novelist
- James Chapman (media historian) (born 1968), British media historian
- James Chapman (bishop) (died 1879), Anglican Bishop of Colombo
- James Chapman (cricketer) (born 1986), English cricketer
- James Chapman (rower) (born 1979), Australian rower
- Jim Chapman (born 1945), American businessman and politician
- Jim Chapman Lake, a lake in Texas named after the politician
- Jim Chapman (footballer) (born 1965), Scottish (association) football player and manager
- Jim Chapman (Canadian) (born 1949), Canadian radio and TV personality, musician, journalist and author
- Jim Chapman (Resident Evil), fictional character
- James A. Chapman (1881–1966), Oklahoma oil magnate and philanthropist
- J. A. Chapman (1821–1885), three-term mayor of Portland, Oregon
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or chapman:
“To treat a “big” subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)