James Baird may refer to:
- James Baird (footballer) (born 1983), Scottish goalkeeper/soccer player
- James Baird (industrialist) (1802–1876), Scottish industrialist and MP for Falkirk Burghs
- James Baird (merchant), Newfoundland merchant and activist
- James Baird (trade unionist), Northern Irish politician and activist
- James Bryson Baird, Canadian politician
- Sir James Baird, 2nd Baronet (c.1658–1715), British peer
- Jim Baird (1920–2003), Australian Rules footballer
- James Baird (civil engineer) (1873–1953), builder of the Lincoln Memorial and quarterback of the Michigan Wolverines football team
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“To treat a “big” subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)