Religious Scholars and Leaders
- James Smith (priest) (died 1667), Archdeacon of Barnstaple
- James Smith (Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District) (1645–1711), English Roman Catholic vicar-apostolic
- James Elishama Smith (1801–1857), British journalist and religious writer
- James Smith (archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh) (1841–1928), Roman Catholic archbishop in Scotland
- James E. Smith (Bible scholar)
- James K. A. Smith (born 1970), Canadian-American proponent of Radical Orthodoxy
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