James West or Jim West may refer to:
- James West (Australian journalist) (born 1982), Australian journalist and author
- James West (antiquary) (1703–1772), English politician and antiquary; president of the Royal Society
- James E. West (politician) (1951–2006), American politician; recalled former mayor of Spokane, Washington
- James E. West (Scouting) (1876–1948), first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA)
- James Grey West (1881–1951), British architect
- James West (football manager), British football manager
- James West (Canadian football) (born 1957), Canadian former football player
- James Marion West, Sr. (1871–1941), Houston, Texas businessman and political figure
- James Marion West, Jr. (1903–1957), his son, Houston businessman
- James R. West, American trumpet player and teacher
- James Edward Maceo West (born 1931), American co-inventor of the microphone
- James T. West, a fictional character on the television series The Wild Wild West and the motion picture Wild Wild West
- Jim West (biblical scholar and biblioblogger) (born 1960)
- Jim West (guitarist) (born 1953), American guitarist, film and TV composer
- Jim West (footballer) Australian former footballer (born 1966)
- James West (baseball), American baseball player
- James West (musician), drummer for the band Ghostwood
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or west:
“When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)