James Yates
James or Jim Yates may refer to:
- James Yates, American attorney and jurist
- James Yates , English Unitarian minister and scholar
- James Yates , English poet
- James Yates , English cricketer and British Indian Army officer
- Jamie Yates, English footballer
- Jim Yates , former Australian lawn and indoor bowler and coach
- Jim Yates, American politician in Kentucky
- James Yates, African American anti-fascist
- Jimmy Yates, footballer
- The James Yates murders, a 1781 multiple homicide, the basis for the early American novel ''Wieland''