James Brooks may refer to:
- James Brooks (bishop) (1512–1560), Bishop of Gloucester
- James Brooks (politician) (1810–1873), United States Representative from New York
- James H. Brookes (1830–1897), American religious writer
- James Brooks (Texas Ranger) (1855–1944), American lawman
- Sir James Brooks (civil servant) (1863–1941), British Admiralty Director of Victualling
- James Brooks (painter) (1906–1992), American painter
- James F. Brooks (born 1955), American historian
- James L. Brooks (born 1940), American producer, writer and film director
- James Brooks (American football) (born 1958), American football player
- Jim Brooks (actor) (born 1980), American actor
- James Brooks (rugby union) (born 1980), English rugby player
- Jimmy Brooks, fictional character on Degrassi: The Next Generation
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or brooks:
“To treat a “big” subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)