James Clay may refer to:
- James Clay (author) (1804–1873), English MP and writer about the game of whist
- James Clay, a pseudonym used by Phil Foglio (born 1956), cartoonist and comic book artist
- James Brown Clay (1817–1864), United States Representative from Kentucky
- James Franklin Clay (1840–1921), United States Representative from Kentucky
- James Clay (musician) (1935–1994), saxophonist and flautist
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or clay:
“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)