James Townsend
James or Jim Townsend may refer to:
- James Townsend , English cricketer, wine merchant and settler in New Zealand's South Island
- James Townsend , Lord Mayor of London 1772
- James Townsend , U.S. Congressman-elect from New York
- James Townsend, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
- James Townsend , mathematical psychologist
- Jim Townsend , Scottish footballer
- Jim Townsend , member of the Irish Senate
- Jim Townsend, member of the Michigan House of Representatives
- James William Emery Townsend, better known as Lying Jim Townsend, American storyteller
- James Townsend Saward, English forger
- James Matthew Townsend, African Methodist Episcopal minister and state legislator from Indiana
- James G. Townsend, politician in New Mexico
- James Robert Townsend, American patent attorney