James Hayes or Jim Hayes may refer to:
- James Hayes (Prince Rupert's secretary) (1637–1694), Prince Rupert's secretary and first Deputy Governor Hudson Bay Company
- James Hayes (b. 1676) (1676–1731), British Member of Parliament for Winchelsea
- James Hayes (1715-1800), British Member of Parliament for Downton
- James Hayes (bishop) (1889–1980), Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro
- James Hayes (Australian politician) (1831–1908), Australian politician from New South Wales
- James A. Hayes (1992–2000), American politician from California
- James E. Hayes (1865–1898), Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
- James Martin Hayes (born 1924), Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- James P. Hayes (born 1964), American politician from New York
- James Thomas Hayes (bishop) (1847–1904), Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago, 1889–1904
- James R. Hayes, American soldier involved in July 2005 Afghan captive incident
- Jim Hayes (baseball) (1913–1993), Major League pitcher (1935 Washington Senators)
- Jimmy Hayes (born 1946), American politician from Louisiana
- Jimmy Hayes (ice hockey) (born 1989), American professional ice hockey player
- James Hayes, UK, actor (known for very many TV shows and films)
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or hayes:
“The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Now boys, remember you are the Twenty-third, and give them hell. In these woods the Rebels don’t know but we are ten thousand; and if we fight, and when we charge yell, we are as good as ten thousand, by God.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)