James Thornton
James Thornton may refer to:
Entertainment
- James Thornton , American songwriter and vaudeville performer
- Jim Thornton, American TV and radio announcer
- James Thornton , English actor
Politics and law
- James Innes Thornton, Alabama planter and politician
- James Johnston Thornton, judge, land developer, and quartermaster of the Union Army
- James D. Thornton, California Supreme Court Justice
- James Thornton, environmental lawyer and writer
Other
- James Thornton , American football player
- James Thornton , English cricketer
- James Thornton , officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War
- James R. Thornton, president of Hampden–Sydney College for two and a half weeks in 1904
- James Worth Thornton, businessman and scion of the Thorntons of Indiana
- James Thornton , professor of economics at Eastern Michigan University
- James E. Thornton, American computer scientist