James Manning

• James Manning (minister), American Baptist minister and first president of Brown University
• James Manning (lawyer), English barrister, serjeant-at-law, and law writer
• James S. Manning, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
• Jim Manning (baseball, born 1862), American professional baseball player, manager and team owner
• James Manning (scientist), surgeon, pathologist and public health administrator
• Jim Manning (pitcher), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• James David Manning, chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church
• James Manning (architect), English-born architect and builder, active in Perth, Western Australia
• James Manning Jr., Oregon state senator
• James Hilton Manning, American newspaper publisher, businessman and mayor of Albany
• J. L. Manning, British sports columnist
• James Manning, character in ''Almost Married''