James Finlayson

• James Finlayson (minister), of the Church of Scotland
• James Finlayson (industrialist), Scottish Quaker who, in effect, took the Industrial Revolution to Tampere, Finland
• James Finlayson (actor), Scottish actor
• James Finlayson (politician), British Liberal Party politician
• James Finlayson (surgeon), Scottish physician and writer
• James Finlayson (martyr), 16th-century Scot, one of the Perth Martyrs
• James Gordon Finlayson, British philosopher