James Baxter

James Baxter may refer to:

  • James Keir Baxter, New Zealand poet
  • James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, ME and cofounder of Baxter State Park
  • James Phinney Baxter III, American historian
  • James Baxter (actor), British actor
  • James Baxter (animator), British animator
  • James Baxter (sportsman), English rugby union internationalist and Olympic silver medalist
  • Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (1939–2004)
  • Jimmy Baxter (footballer), Scottish footballer (born 1904)
  • Jimmy Baxter, character in Amateur Crook

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or baxter:

    “Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
    —Variously Ascribed.

    The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)