James Barnes

James Barnes may refer to:

  • James Barnes (author) (1866–1936), American author
  • James Barnes (composer) (born 1949), American composer
  • James Barnes (general) (1801–1869), American railroad executive and Union Army general in the American Civil War
  • James M. Barnes (congressman) (1899–1958), U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • James "Jim" Barnes, co-founder of AirScooter Corporation
  • James Barnes (comics), James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, comic book sidekick of Captain America and inheritor of the name
  • James Barnes (Canadian politician) (1842–?), farmer, lumberman, railway contractor and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
  • James George Barnes (1908–1995), New Zealand politician
  • James Barnes (television director) (born 1979), English television director
  • James Barnes, murderer, featured in On Death Row

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or barnes:

    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 (1843–1916)

    After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)