James Simpson

James, Jim, or Jimmy Simpson may refer to:

  • James Simpson (explorer) (1911–2002), polar explorer
  • James Young Simpson (1811–1870), Scottish doctor and pioneer in use of chloroform as anaesthetic
  • James Young Simpson (scientist) (1873–1934), Scottish professor of natural science and a diplomat; great nephew of the above
  • James Simpson (politician) (1873–1938), Canadian trade unionist and mayor of Toronto, 1935
  • Jim Simpson (Australian politician) (1905–1968), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
  • James Simpson (civil servant) (c. 1792 – 1857), early Australian civil servant and property developer
  • James H. Simpson (1813–1883), surveyor of the American West for the U.S. Army.
  • James Simpson (government official), New Jersey Department of Transportation commissioner and former Federal Transit Administrator for the United States DOT
  • James Simpson, Jr. (1905–1960), U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • James Simpson (engineer) (1799–1869), president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1853–1855
  • James Simpson (composer), music theatre composer, performer and musical director, co-writer of Give My Regards to Broady
  • Jim Simpson (director) (born 1956), American theatre and film director
  • Jim Simpson (sportscaster) (born 1927), American sportscaster
  • Jim Simpson (footballer), English footballer
  • Jimmy Simpson (footballer) (1908–1972), Scottish footballer
  • Jimmy Simpson (American football) (1897–?), blocking back in the National Football League
  • William James Simpson (born 1954), commonly known as James Simpson, academic
  • James Simpson (British Army officer) (1792–1868), general of the British Army
  • James Simpson (advocate) (1781–1853), Scottish advocate and author
  • James Simpson (minister), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
  • James B. Simpson (died 2002), American journalist and Episcopal priest, known for Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
  • James Simpson (priest) (1865–1948), Dean of Peterborough, 1928–1942

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or simpson:

    “Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “I don’t want to stay on the line. He’s going to beat the s— out of me.”
    —Nicole Brown Simpson (1957–1994)