James Maxwell
James Maxwell may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- James Maxwell (actor), American-British actor and theatre director
- Jim Maxwell (commentator), Australian sports commentator
- Jimmy Maxwell (bandleader), musician and bandleader
- Jimmy Maxwell (trumpeter), American trumpeter
Science and medicine
- James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and proponent of Maxwell's equations
- James Maxwell (colonial administrator), British physician and colonial administrator
- James Laidlaw Maxwell Jr, English Presbyterian medical missionary to China, son of James Laidlaw Maxwell
Sport
- James Maxwell (cricketer), English cricket
- James Maxwell (footballer, born 1887), Scottish footballer
- James Maxwell (footballer, born 1900), Scottish footballer
- Bud Maxwell, Scottish footballer
- James Maxwell (footballer, born 2001), Scottish footballer
- Jim Maxwell (American football), American football linebacker
- Jimmy Maxwell (footballer), Irish footballer
- Jimmy Maxwell (rugby union), Scottish international rugby union player
Other fields
- James Maxwell, 9th Baron Farnham, British nobleman
- James Maxwell (British Marines officer)
- James Maxwell (poet), Scottish poet and essayist
- James Maxwell (scholar), Scottish author
- James Laidlaw Maxwell, missionary to Formosa
- James Shaw Maxwell, Scottish politician
- James Francis Maxwell, politician in Queensland, Australia
- James Maxwell (American politician), American politician from Oklahoma
- James D. Maxwell II, Mississippi judge
- James Maxwell, 1st Earl of Dirletoun, Scottish courtier
- James Maxwell, architect, one of the founders of Maxwell and Tuke