James Cannon may refer to:
- James P. Cannon (1890–1974), American Communist and (later) Trotskyist leader
- James Cannon (mathematician) (1740–1782), Scottish-born mathematician who was one of the principal authors of Pennsylvania's 1776 Constitution
- James Cannon Jr. (1864–1944), American temperance leader
- James Cannon (rugby union)
- Jim Cannon (born 1953), Scottish footballer, who played for the English club Crystal Palace
- Jim Cannon (comics), Golden Age comic book artist, see Novelty Press
- Jimmy Cannon (1910–1973), American sports writer
- James M. Cannon (1918–2011), American journalist and political adviser to President Gerald Ford
- James H. Cannon, founder of the Cannon Electric Company
- James W. Cannon (born 1943), American mathematician working in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or cannon:
“That reality is ‘independent’ means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)