James Shields
James Shields may refer to:
- James Shields (baseball), American baseball player
- James Shields (politician, born 1762), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- James Shields (politician, born 1806), U.S. Senator from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri
- Shaemas O'Sheel, Irish-American poet, born James Shields
- James Shields (Volk), an 1893 bronze sculpture of James Shields by Leonard Volk
- James Shields (academic), Scottish psychiatric geneticist
- James Shields (sprinter), winner of the 1967 4 × 440 yard relay at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships