James Beale may refer to:
- James Beale (athlete), track and field athlete
- Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone
- James M. H. Beale (1786–1866), U.S. Representative from Virginia
- James Beale (composer) (born 1924)
- James Beale (ice hockey), see Blackburn Hawks
Famous quotes containing the word james:
“That reality is ‘independent’ means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”
—William James (1842–1910)