Jem (given name)
Jem is a given name, sometimes as a nickname for James, Jeremiah, Jeremy, Jemma, or Jemima, and sometimes as an anglicized version of the Turkish name Cem.
People with the name include:
- Jem Belcher, English bare-knuckle boxer
- Jem Cohen, American filmmaker
- Jem Finer, English musician, artist and composer, a founding member of the Pogues
- Jem Karacan, English footballer
- Jem Mace, English bare-knuckle boxer
- Jem Shaw, English cricketer
- Jem Smith, English bare-knuckle boxer
- Jem Stansfield, inventor and television presenter
- Jem Ward, English bare-knuckle boxer
- Jem Lea, alias of Wendy Soloman, bass player with Slady
Fictional characters
- Jerrica "Jem" Benton, protagonist of Jem, an animated TV series, and the 2015 film Jem and the Holograms
- James Matthew "Jem" Blythe in Anne Shirley franchise
- James "Jem" Carstairs in The Infernal Devices trilogy
- Jem Costello, in the soap opera Hollyoaks
- Jem Finch, in the film and novel ''To Kill a Mockingbird''