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)
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“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
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