Jim Watson

Jim or Jimmy Watson may refer to:

  • Jim Watson (Canadian politician)
  • Jim Watson (Illinois politician), Illinois State Representative
  • Jim Watson (guitarist), member of the band 311 in its early days
  • Jim Watson (ice hockey), ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League
  • Jimmy Watson (ice hockey), ice hockey player who played for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League
  • Jimmy Watson (Irish footballer), played as a full-back for Ulster and Ireland.
  • Jimmy Watson (racing driver), former American NASCAR driver
  • Jimmy Watson (English footballer) (1914–1979), played as an inside-forward for Northampton Town, Notts County and Gillingham
  • Jimmy Watson (Scottish footballer) (born 1924), played as a striker for Armadale Thistle, Motherwell, Huddersfield Town and Dunfermline Athletic
  • Jimmy Watson (footballer born 1877) (1877–1915) from Motherwell, Scottish footballer who played at full back for Clyde, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Scotland
  • Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy, trophy awarded annually at the Royal Melbourne Wine Show to the producer of the best one or two year old, dry, red wine

Famous quotes containing the words jim and/or watson:

    “Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
    —Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)

    “Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn’t so. I tried it. Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn’t any good to me without hooks.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)