James Holmes may refer to:

Artists

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (born July 28, 1947) is an American blues musician and proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi. Holmes is known as the last of the Bentonia bluesmen, ...

(born 1947), American blues musician *

James Flournoy Holmes Flournoy Holmes is an established visual artist and musician. Growing up in the southern piedmont, Spartanburg South Carolina, the son of two artistically inclined parents, his father was a musician and his mother a ceramics teacher and they encour ...

, album cover artist *

James Holmes (actor) James Holmes (born 1965) is a West Midlands-born comedy actor of stage and television. He is best known for playing Clive in the 2009 BBC sitcom '' Miranda''. Education Holmes trained at The Poor School in London, then did a Youth Training Scheme ...

(born 1965), British actor *

James Holmes (artist) James Holmes (1777 – 24 February 1860) was a painter in oil and water colour of genre scenes and miniatures. James Holmes was at an early age apprenticed to the well-known engraver Robert Mitchell Meadows and in 1800 engraved in stipple a por ...

(1777–1860), English painter * James Roland Holmes (1939–1999), organist, partner of Ned Rorem *

James S. Holmes James Stratton Holmes (2 May 1924 – 6 November 1986) was an American-Dutch poet, translator, and translation scholar. He sometimes published his work using his real name James S. Holmes, and other times the pen names Jim Holmes and Jacob ...

(1924–1986), Dutch poet and translator

Criminals

James Holmes (mass murderer) James Eagan Holmes (born December 13, 1987) is an American mass murderer responsible for the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others (62 directly and eight indirectly) at a Century 16 movie theater o ...

(born 1987), convicted of the 2012 Aurora shooting *

James William Holmes Donald Lehman (1933 – January 8, 1981) was an American man who was murdered in front of his family by four men in Arkansas. All four men: James William Holmes, Hoyt Franklin Clines, Michael Orndorff, and Darryl Richley, were convicted o ...

(1956–1994), convicted murderer of Don Lehman

Public servants

* James Holmes (politician) (1831–1910), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council *

James Howard Holmes James Howard Holmes (born April 1, 1943, Springfield, Virginia) is an American diplomat. He is the second son of the Rev. Robert Usher and Bertha Jeannette Cook Holmes. He is a 1965 graduate of Colgate University, as well as, a graduate of Johns ...

(born 1943), diplomat *

James Leon Holmes James Leon Holmes (born March 31, 1951) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Education and career Education Born in Hazen, Arkansas, Holmes received a Bachelor of Art ...

(born 1951), U.S. federal judge * James M. Holmes (born 1957), United States Air Force general

Sportspeople

* Ducky Holmes (James William Holmes, 1869–1932), baseball player *

Jim Holmes (baseball) James Scott Holmes (August 2, 1882 in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky – March 10, 1960 in Jacksonville, Florida) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in 3 games for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1906 season and in 13 games for the ...

(1882–1960), baseball pitcher *

Jimmy Holmes (footballer, born 1908) James Holmes (27 December 1908 – 1 November 1971) was an English footballer who played as a defender. Born in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, Holmes had trial spells with both Liverpool and Wigan Borough in 1925 but was an employed as a miner ...

(1908–1971), English footballer *

Jimmy Holmes (footballer, born 1953) James Paul Holmes (born 11 November 1953) is an Irish former professional footballer. Hailing from Meath Square in The Liberties, he won 30 full international caps for the Republic of Ireland, scoring once. Career Holmes, a left-back, began ...

, Irish footballer *

Jim Holmes (footballer) James Black Holmes (born 8 December 1954) is a Scottish former footballer. Career Holmes began his career at junior club Muirkirk, before moving into the senior game with Partick Thistle before becoming a legend at Greenock Morton. He won thr ...

(born 1954), Scottish footballer

Trade unionists

James Holmes (trade unionist) James Headgoose Holmes (19 March 1861 – 1 October 1934) was a British people, British trade unionist and political activist. Born in Frampton, Lincolnshire, Holmes left education at the age of nine to work on a farm, and at the age of eleven, ...

(1861–1934), English railway industry trade unionist *

Jimmy Holmes (trade unionist) James Holmes (1850 – 1911) was a British trade union leader and politician. Holmes began working in a knitwear factory, initially as a winding boy on hand frames, and later moved over to run powered knitting frames. In the early 1870s, he ...

(1850–1911), English hosiery industry trade unionist

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