James Whitfield

• James Whitfield (bishop), Roman Catholic Bishop of Baltimore, 1828–1834
• James Whitfield (Mississippi politician), Governor of Mississippi, 1858–1859
• James B. Whitfield, Florida lawyer and justice of the Florida Supreme Court
• James Monroe Whitfield, African American poet, abolitionist and political activist
• James Whitfield, principal of Colleyville [Heritage High School]