James Allan may refer to:
- James Alexander Allan (1879–1967), Australian poet
- James Allan (Australian footballer) (born 1985), Australian rules footballer
- James Allan (diplomat) (born 1932), British diplomat
- James Allan (footballer) (1857–1911), Scottish schoolmaster and footballer, founder of Sunderland A.F.C.
- James Allan (footballer born 1860s), Scottish international footballer
- James Allan (musician) (born 1979), lead singer and guitarist and former footballer
- James Allan (politician) (1894–1992), Canada politician
- James Allan (rugby) (1860–1934), New Zealand rugby union player
- James Allan (bishop) (born 1928), retired Canadian Anglican bishop
- Jock Allan, Scottish footballer
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or allan:
“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.
“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)