James Nelson
James Nelson is the name of the following people:
- James Nelson (soccer player) (1901-1965), British soccer player from Scotland
- James Nelson (rugby player) (1903-1981), Scottish rugby player
- James Nelson (tennis player) (born 1982), British tennis player
- James Nelson (sound engineer) (1932-2014), American sound engineer
- James Nelson (cricketer) (1873-1950), New Zealand cricketer
- James C. Nelson (born 1944), American lawyer, judge at the Montana Supreme Court
- Jamie Nelson (James Victor Nelson, born 1959), American baseball player
- James L. Nelson (* 1962), American naval writer and historian
