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:

    “Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “In my grandmother’s house there was always chicken soup
    And talk of the old country—mud and boards,
    Poverty,
    The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)