James Stanley may refer to:
- James Stanley (bishop) (c. 1465–1515), Bishop of Ely 1506–1515
- James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (1607–1651), Lord of Mann and Earl of Derby
- James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (1664–1736), British peer and politician
- James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (1716–1771), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Jim Stanley (1935–2012), football coach
- Jim Stanley (baseball) (born 1889), baseball player
- James Stanley (writer), American soap opera actor, writer and producer
- James Lee Stanley (born 1946), American folk singer-songwriter
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or stanley:
“Fowls in the frith,
Fishes in the flood,
And I must wax wod:
Much sorrow I walk with
For best of bone and blood.”
—Unknown. Fowls in the Frith. . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
“It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man’s hand.”
—Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944)