Daniel James may refer to:
- Daniel James (businessman) (born 1801), one of the co-founders of Phelps, Dodge & Co.
- Daniel James (game developer) (born 1971), British-Canadian video game developer
- Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) aka "Gwyrosydd" (1847–1920), Welsh poet and hymn-writer
- Daniel James (historian) (fl. 1980 to present), British historian and expert in Peronism
- Daniel James (music producer), Australian music producer and songwriter
- Daniel James (singer), a singer part of the band Yell!
- Daniel James (soldier) (born 1962), British Army Corporal and interpreter, convicted of espionage
- Daniel Willis James (1832–1907), American businessman
- Daniel James, Jr. aka "Chappie" (1920–1978), African American USAF general
- Daniel James (assisted suicide) a British man whose parents assisted his plea for suicide, in contravention of British law, after he was paralysed playing rugby
- Dan James, American football player
Famous quotes containing the words daniel and/or james:
“Are they shadows that we see?
And can shadows pleasures give?
Pleasures only shadows be,
Cast by bodies we conceive;”
—Samuel Daniel (15621619)
“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 (18431916)