James Harlan is the name of:
- James Harlan (congressman) (1800–1863), Kentucky
- James Harlan (senator) (1820–1899), Iowa
- James S. Harlan (1861–1927), American lawyer and commerce specialist, son of John Marshall Harlan
- Jim Harlan (born 1954), American football player
Famous quotes containing the word james:
“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
—William James (1842–1910)