James Hay may refer to:
- James Hay (bishop) (died 1538), Scottish abbot and bishop
- James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (c. 1580–1636), British aristocrat
- James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle (1612–1660)
- James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll (1726–1778)
- James Hay, Lord Hay (1797–1815), British aristocrat and soldier
- James Hay (politician) (1856–1931), U.S. Representative from Virginia
- James Hay (footballer 1876) (1876–?), footballer for Barnsley, Chesterfield Town and Stoke
- James Grant Hay (born 1969), Australian television advertising entrepreneur, writer and film producer
- Jim Hay (born 1931), ice hockey player
- Jimmy Hay (1881–1940), Scottish football player
- Sir James Shaw Hay, Governor of Gambia, Sierra Leone and the Bahamas
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or hay:
“There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“It’s a bad town to bring an appetite to, soldier. We’ve been here since yesterday morning and we’ve been living on boiled hay and razor blades.”
—Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)