James Duff is the name of:
- Sir James Duff, 1st Baronet (died 1815), of the Duff-Gordon baronets
- Sir James Duff (British Army officer) (1753–1839), a British army officer, who fought in the Napoleonic wars and a Member of Parliament from 1784 to 1789
- James Grant Duff (1789–1858), Indian soldier and statesman
- James Duff (North Norfolk MP) (1831–1878), British MP for North Norfolk
- James Stoddart Duff (born 1856), Canadian politician
- James Duff Duff (1860–1940), English translator and classical scholar
- James Augustine Duff (1872–1943), Ulster Unionist politician in Northern Ireland
- James H. Duff (1883–1969), Pennsylvanian politician
- James Fitzjames Duff (1898–1970), British educationalist
- James Duff (writer) (born 1955), American screenwriter and playwright
- James C. Duff, Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
James Duff is also the name of several British nobles:
- James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (1729–1809), MP for Banffshire and Elginshire
- James Duff, 4th Earl Fife (1776–1857), MP for Banffshire
- James Duff, 5th Earl Fife (1814–1879), MP for Banffshire
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or duff:
“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“‘Why do you wear your hair like a man,”
—Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900)