James Atkinson may refer to:
- James Atkinson (surgeon) (1759–1839), surgeon and bibliographer
- James Atkinson (software developer), founder of the phpBB project
- James Atkinson (inventor) (1846–1914), inventor of the Single-Stroke combustion engine in 1882
- James Atkinson (Persian scholar) (1780–1852), published one of the earliest translations of the Shahnameh in English
- James Atkinson (bobsleigh) (1929–2010), American bobsleigh competitor at the Winter Olympics
- James Atkinson (JP), first mayor of Crewe, England
- James Atkinson (physicist) (1916–2008), radar pioneer
- James Atkinson (cricketer) (born 1990), international cricketer for Hong Kong
- James Henry Atkinson (1849–1942), British ironmonger who invented the mousetrap
- James Atkinson (Neighbours), a fictional character from the soap opera Neighbours
- Jim Atkinson (1896–1956), Australian sportsman from Tasmania
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or atkinson:
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
—James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)
“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
—Brooks Atkinson (1894–1984)