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