James or Jim Gordon may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* James Gordon (actor) (1871–1941), American actor * Jim Gordon (sportscaster) (1927–2003), American sportscaster * James Alexander Gordon (1936–2014), British radio presenter * Jim Gordon (musician) (1945–2023), American rock drummer *

James Gordon (Canadian musician) James Gordon is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known as a founding member of Tamarack. He has also released more than 20 solo albums. Musical career As a prolific songwriter, James Gordon is known for such diverse songs as "Sweaters for Peng ...

(born 1955), Canadian singer-songwriter * James Gordon (journalist), British broadcast journalist and radio presenter * Jim Gordon (bassist), bassist on

Sordid Humor Sordid Humor was an American rock music band, formed in 1987 by the duo of Tom Barnes and Jim Gordon. The duo received help from drummers Ken Gregg, Chris Pedersen, and Toby Hawkins, and bassists Tony Fader, David Immergluck and Marty Jones. Bar ...

* Jim Gordon (jazz musician), on '' Home Plate''

Military

James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne (c. 1620 – February 1649) was the second son of George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly, a Scottish royalist commander in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Early life Aboyne was a member of the powerful Gordon ...

(1620–1649), Scottish royalist commander in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms * James Willoughby Gordon (1772–1851), British Army general and long-serving Quartermaster-General to the Forces *

James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB (6 October 1782 – 8 January 1869) was a Royal Navy officer. As a volunteer, he fought at the Battle of Groix, at the Battle of the Glorious First of June and at the Battle of Cape St Vinc ...

(1782–1869), British admiral *

James Gordon (British Army officer, died 1783) Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-Colonel James Gordon, the third and last Laird of the barony of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Ellon, (17 October 1783) was a highly regarded British Army officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War ...

, British Army officer who fought in the American War of Independence *

James B. Gordon James Byron Gordon (November 2, 1822 – May 18, 1864) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Meadow Bridge. Early life Gordon was born in Wilkes County, N ...

(1822–1864), Confederate general * James Gordon (Australian soldier) (1909–1986), awarded the Victoria Cross in 1941 *

James Gordon (British Army officer, born 1957) Major General James Henry Gordon, (born 4 December 1957) is a former British Army officer who served as Commander British Forces Cyprus from 2008 to 2010. Military career Educated at Glenalmond College, Gordon was commissioned into the Royal Gr ...

, British Army general

Politics and law

* James Gordon (New York politician) (1739–1810), American Indian trader, U.S. Congressman *

James Gordon (MP) James Gordon (c.1758–1822) was a British barrister, politician and plantation owner on Antigua and Saint Vincent (Antilles), St Vincent. Life He was the son of James Brebner and Anne Lavington (or Mary), born on Antigua. His father adopted the s ...

(c. 1758–1822), Member of Parliament for Stockbridge, Truro, Clitheroe and Tregony *

James Gordon (Upper Canada politician) James Gordon (August 26, 1786 – April 10, 1865) was a merchant and political figure in Upper Canada and Canada West. He was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1786 and studied at the Inverness Royal Academy. He came to Amherstburg in Upper Can ...

(1786–1865), Upper Canada political figure * James Wright Gordon (J. Wright Gordon, 1809–1853), Whig politician from Michigan *

James Lindsay Gordon James L. Gordon (October 13, 1813 – December 7, 1877) was a Virginia lawyer and politician in Louisa County who served two terms in the Virginia House of Delegates.Malcolm H. Harris, History of Louisa County, Virginia (Richmond: The Dietz Pre ...

(1813–1877) attorney and member of the Virginia House of Delegates *

James Gordon (Mississippi politician) James Gordon (December 6, 1833November 28, 1912) was an American planter, writer, former Confederate officer and politician from Okolona, Mississippi. He was a United States senator for eight weeks, from December 27, 1909 to February 22, 1910. ...

(1833–1912), American planter, U.S. Senator *

James Gordon (Australian politician) James Gordon (27 June 1845 – 22 November 1914) was a politician and solicitor in New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Braidwood to pastoralist Hugh Gordon and Mary Macarthur. His grandfather was Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur. He was e ...

(1845–1914), New South Wales politician * James L. Gordon (1917–1967), American-Filipino politician * James Fleming Gordon (1918–1990), U.S. federal judge *

James Lindsay Gordon (attorney) James Lindsay Gordon (1858-November 30, 1904) was an American lawyer who briefly served in the Virginia Senate and practiced in Virginia and New York City, where he died. He was the grandson of U.S. Congressman William F. Gordon, son of attorne ...

(1858–1904), American attorney and Virginia state senator, nephew of James Lindsay Gordon * James Thomas Gordon (1859–1919), Canadian politician, Manitoba * Jim Gordon (politician) (born 1937), Canadian politician * James Gordon (New Brunswick politician) (born 1949), Canadian former politician * James D. Gordon III (born 1954), American legal academic

Religion

James Gordon (Jesuit) James Gordon (1541 – 16 April 1620) was a Scottish Jesuit. He is sometimes known as James Gordon Huntly, to distinguish him from James Gordon (1553–1641), another Jesuit. Life He was the fifth son of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, by El ...

(1541–1620), Scottish Jesuit * James Gordon (vicar apostolic) (1665–1746), Vicar Apostolic of Scotland * James Bentley Gordon (1750–1819), Irish clergyman and historian * James Frederick Skinner Gordon (1821–1904), Scottish antiquary and Episcopal church minister *

James Gordon (missionary) James Douglas Gordon (1832 – 7 March 1872) was a Scottish-Canadian missionary to the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Gordon was born in Alberton, Prince Edward Island, the younger brother of George N. Gordon. James followed his brother to Erromango a ...

(1832–1872), Scottish missionary to the New Hebrides * James Henry Hamilton-Gordon (1845–1868), prospective missionary, son of George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen *

James Gordon (bishop of Jarrow) James Geoffrey Gordon (11 December 1881 – 28 August 1938) was a priest and bishop in the Church of England. Life James Gordon was the son of J. E. H. Gordon, an early electrical engineer and Alice Mary Gordon (née Brandreth) later Lady Dan ...

(1881–1938), Bishop of Jarrow in the Church of England

Other people

James Gordon (botanist) James Gordon (1708–1780) was a gardener who became a nurseryman, and later a seed merchant in London, specializing in exotics such as camellia and rhododendron;Desmond, R. & Ellwood, C. (1994). ''Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists & Horti ...

(1708–1780), gardener, nurseryman and seed merchant * James Davidson Gordon (1835–1889), British civil servant and administrator *

James Edward Henry Gordon James Edward Henry Gordon (26 June 1852 – 3 February 1893) was a British electrical engineer, the son of James Alexander Gordon (1793-1872). He took his B.A. at Caius College, Cambridge in 1876. Gordon designed large electrical machines, such ...

(1852–1893), British engineer * James Riely Gordon (1863–1937), American architect * James Gordon (athlete) (1908–1997), American Olympic sprinter *

J. E. Gordon James Edward Gordon (UK, 1913–1998) was one of the founders of materials science and biomechanics, and a well-known author of three books on structures and materials, which have been translated in many languages and are still widely used in scho ...

(James Edward Gordon, 1913–1998), British professor of materials science and biomechanics * James P. Gordon (1928–2013), American physicist and engineer *

James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane James Stuart Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane, (17 May 1936 – 31 March 2020) was a Scottish business executive and member of the House of Lords. Early life A kinsman of the Marquess of Huntly, he was the son of James Gordon and Elsie '' ...

(1936–2020), Scottish businessman * James Gordon (American football) (born 1991), American football player *

James Samuel Gordon James Samuel Gordon is an American author and psychiatrist known for mind-body medicine. In 1991, he founded and is the director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization. At the Georgetown Medica ...

, American author and psychiatrist

Fictional people

* James Gordon (character), fictional police commissioner of Gotham City in ''Batman'' comics *

James Gordon Jr. The Batman family enemies are a collection of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. These characters are depicted as adversaries of the superhero Batman and his allies. Since Batman first appeared in ''Detectiv ...