James, Jimmy or Jim Black may refer to:

• James Black (cricketer) (1873–1920), New Zealand cricketer
• James Black (ice hockey) (born 1969), former NHL hockey player
• Jim Black (footballer) (born 1943), Scottish footballer
• Jimmy Black (footballer) (1899–1933), Scottish football defender
• James Black (hurler) (born 1992), Northern Irish hurler
• Jimmy Black (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player
• James Black (defensive end) (1956–2018), American football defensive end
• James Black (rugby union) (born 1958), Australian rugby union player

• James Black (congressman) (1793–1872), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• James Black (prohibitionist) (1823–1893), American temperance movement leader and first Presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party
• James A. Black (1793–1848), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• James B. Black (born 1935), Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1999–2006
• James C. C. Black (1842–1928), U.S. Congressman from Georgia and Confederate Army veteran
• James D. Black (1849–1938), governor of Kentucky for part of 1919

• James Milton Black (1856–1938), American hymn composer
• James Black (guitarist) (born 1975), Canadian guitarist in the band Finger Eleven
• Jimmy Carl Black (1938–2008), American drummer and vocalist for the Mothers of Invention
• James R. Black (born 1962), American actor and former professional American football player
• Jim Black (born 1967), American jazz musician
• James N. Black (1940–1988), American jazz drummer
• James Black, Australian guitarist and keyboard player formerly with Mondo Rock and The Black Sorrows

• James Black (bishop) (1894–1968), first bishop of Paisley, Scotland
• James Black (clergyman) (1797–1886), Scottish-born clergyman in Canada
• James Black (Moderator) (1879–1948), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1938–1939

• James Black (pharmacologist) (1924–2010), British doctor and pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine
• James Gow Black (1835–1914), New Zealand chemist, mineralogist, lecturer and university professor
• James Black (scientist) (1787–1867), English scientist who published "An Inquiry into the Capillary Circulation of Blood" in 1825
• James R. Black (scientist), researcher in electromigration and for whom Black's equation is named
• James F. Black (1919–1988), senior scientist at Exxon who reported the impact of fossil fuels on climate to company executives

• James Black (blacksmith) (1800–1872), creator of the Bowie knife
• James Wallace Black (1825–1896), American photographer
• James Black (educator) (1826–1890), President of the University of Iowa, 1868–1870
• James Black (Case Closed), a character from Case Closed

• Jim Blacker (born 1945), English footballer