James Wood
James or Jim Wood may refer to:
Politics and government
- James Wood (governor), Governor of Virginia and officer in the American Revolutionary War
- James Wood (New York politician), New York politician and Union Army general
- James Wood (Irish politician), Member of Parliament for East Down, 1902–1906
- Jim Wood (California politician), member of the California State Assembly
- Jim Wood (Arkansas politician), State Auditor of Arkansas
- Sebastian Wood, British Ambassador to Germany
Sport
- James Wood (baseball), American baseball player
- James Wood (footballer), professional footballer, who played for South Shields, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool
- James Wood (Lancashire cricketer), English cricketer for Lancashire 1954–56
- James Wood (New Zealand cricketer), New Zealand cricketer
- James Wood (South African cricketer), South African cricketer, played for Durham UCCE
- Jamie Wood, footballer
- Jim Wood (American football), American gridiron football player and coach
- Jim Wood (biathlete), British Olympic biathlete
- Jim Wood (Sussex cricketer), English cricketer, played for Sussex 1936–55
- Jimmy Wood, American baseball player and manager
- James Wood (athlete), Scottish long-distance runner
Religion
- James Wood (mathematician), Dean of Ely 1820–1839
- James Wood (minister), Presbyterian minister of Atherton and Chowbent Chapels in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England
- James Frederick Wood, Archbishop of Philadelphia
- James Julius Wood, Scottish minister
Military
- James Wood (Canadian admiral), Canadian admiral
- James Athol Wood, British rear-admiral
- James W. Wood, U.S. Air Force colonel and senior test pilot on the Dyna-Soar program
- Sir James Wood, 2nd Baronet, Scottish officer of the Dutch States Army and later the British Army
- James Wood (Royal Navy officer), commander of HMS Pandora during its commission at the Royal Navy's Pacific Station
Others
- James Wood (musician), British composer and percussionist
- James Wood (critic), British literary critic and novelist
- James Wood (encyclopaedist), British editor of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
- James Wood, Lord Irwin, British courtesy peer
- James Edward Wood, American murderer
- James N. Wood, American director of the Art Institute of Chicago
- James Roland Wood, Australian Royal Commissioner and jurist
- James Rushmore Wood, American physician
- Jim Wood (fiddler), American fiddler
- James Wood (engineer), American engineer
- James Wood Bush, Hawaiian-American Civil War combatant
- James Wood (screenwriter), British screenwriter