James Maxwell may refer to:
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 79), a Scottish physicist and mathematician
- James Laidlaw Maxwell (1836 – 1921), a missionary to Formosa
- James Laidlaw Maxwell, Junior (1876 – 1951), son of the above, an English Presbyterian medical missionary to China
- James Shaw Maxwell (1855 - 1928), a Scottish socialist
- James Maxwell (actor) (1929 – 95)
- James Maxwell (author) (born 1980), fantasy author
- James Maxwell, 9th Baron Farnham, a British nobleman
- James Maxwell (footballer) (born 1900)
- James Maxwell (cricketer), (1883 - 1967)
- Jim Maxwell (American football)
- Jim Maxwell (commentator), Australian sports commentator
- Jimmy Maxwell (trumpeter), American trumpeter
- Jimmy Maxwell (bandleader)
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or maxwell:
“Fowls in the frith,
Fishes in the flood,
And I must wax wod:
Much sorrow I walk with
For best of bone and blood.”
—Unknown. Fowls in the Frith. . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
“Aw, it’s just like a woman. When the shootin’s all over and everything’s safe, they pass out.”
—Griffin Jay, and Maxwell Shane (1905–1983)