James Young

James Young may refer to:

  • James Young (1762–1833), Royal Navy officer
  • James Young (American football) (born 1950), former professional American football defensive end
  • James Young (American musician) (born 1949), guitarist for the band Styx
  • James Young (British musician), author, keyboardist and composer, briefly accompanist for Nico
  • James Young (Canadian politician) (1835–1913), former member of the Canadian House of Commons
  • James Young (comedian) (1918–1974), Northern Irish comedian
    • James Young (album), a comedy album by James Young
  • James Young (congressman) (1866–1942), U.S. Representative from Texas
  • James Young (director) (1872–1948), American film director and actor
  • James Young (footballer) (1882–1922), Scottish footballer, played for Celtic F.C. and Scotland
  • James Young (hurler), hurling player from County Laois, Ireland
  • James Young (Lord Provost of Aberdeen)
  • James Young (mayor) (born 1956), first African American to be elected mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, 2009
  • James Young (New Brunswick politician) (1841–?), merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
  • James Young (physician) (1930–2008), American White House physician
  • James Young (Upper Canada politician) (1777–1831), political figure in Upper Canada
  • James Young (Scottish chemist) (1811–1883), Scottish chemist known for his method of distilling paraffin from coal
  • James Alexander Young (1875–1956), New Zealand politician
  • James H. Young (1860–1921), African-American North Carolina politician
  • James Henry Young (1834–1908), colonial Australian businessman and politician
  • James Hardy Vaux (1782–?), wrote the first Australian dictionary and used James Young as an alias
  • James R. Young (1847–1924), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
  • James R. Young (Canadian politician), mayor of East Gwillimbury, Ontario
  • James R. Young (UP), President, CEO and Chairman of Union Pacific Railroad
  • James R. Young (North Carolina politician) (1853–?), Insurance Commissioner of North Carolina
  • James Scott Young (1848–1914), United States federal judge
  • James Sterling Young, American historian and professor
  • James Webb Young (1886–1973), American advertising executive
  • James Whitney Young (born 1941), American astronomer
  • Jamie Young (born 1985), Anglo-Australian soccer goalkeeper

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or young:

    “It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.”
    —Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)