James Powell may refer to:

Sports

Jay Powell (baseball) James Willard "Jay" Powell (born January 9, 1972) is an American former baseball pitcher who last played for the Atlanta Braves. He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in , but did not sign. Following his junior year at Mississippi State, he was ...

(James Willard Powell, born 1972), Major League Baseball pitcher *

Jim Powell (baseball) James Edwin Powell (August 30, 1859 – November 20, 1929) was a professional baseball first baseman A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bas ...

(1859–1929), Major League Baseball player *

Jim Powell (sportscaster) Jim Powell is an American radio and television sportscaster, currently employed with Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves after 13 seasons (1996–2008) with the Milwaukee Brewers. A native of Roswell, Georgia, Powell was educated at the Unive ...

, announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves *

Jimmy Powell (golfer) Jimmy Powell (January 17, 1935 – January 16, 2021) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s, but whose greatest success came on the Senior PGA Tour in the early to mid-1990s. Powell was born in Da ...

(1935–2021), PGA Tour and Champions Tour golfer * James Powell (cricketer, born 1792) (1792–1870), English cricketer * James Powell (cricketer, born 1899) (1899–1973), English cricketer * James Powell (cricketer, born 1982), Welsh cricketer

Music

Jimmy Powell (musician) James Theodore Powell (October 24, 1914 – February 16, 1994) was an American jazz saxophonist who played alto sax. He played on two recording dates with Billie Holiday for Columbia. The first, in February 1940, was with a band comprising Ro ...

(1914–1994), American jazz saxophonist *

Jimmy Powell (singer) Jimmy Powell (13 October 1942 – 13 May 2016) was a British soul and rhythm and blues singer who recorded and performed throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and is best remembered as the lead singer of Jimmy Powell and the 5 Dimensions, a ...

(born 1942), British rhythm and blues singer

Science

* James L. Powell (born 1936), American geologist and environmentalist *

James R. Powell (physicist) James R. Powell was an American physicist, notable – together with Gordon Danby – for his work on superconducting Maglev (transport), Maglev, for which he shared the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute), Franklin Institute "Medal 2000 fo ...

, American physicist

Fiction and poetry

Jim Powell (British novelist) Jim Powell (born 17 May 1949 in London) is a British novelist, and is a direct descendant of the 19th-century novelist Thomas Love Peacock. Education Jim Powell was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he has a maste ...

(born 1949) *

Jim Powell (poet) Jim Powell is an American poet, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Career Powell's poetry of 1977-2007 is collected in It Was Fever That Made The World (1989) and Substrate (2009). He has translated the poetry of Sappho ...

, American poet, translator, literary critic, MacArthur Fellow, classicist *

James Powell (author) James Powell (born 1932) is a Canadian author of mystery and humorous short stories. Many of his 130 stories have been published in ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''. He has been nominated twice for the Crime Writers of Canada Award for the Best ...

(born 1932), author of mystery and humorous short stories

Other

James Powell and Sons The firm of James Powell and Sons, also known as Whitefriars Glass, were London-based English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers. As ''Whitefriars Glass'', the company existed from the 17th century, but became well ...

, British stained glass manufacturers *James Powell (1774–1840), British glassmaker, founder of

Jim Powell (filmmaker) Jim Powell is an American documentary film producer. A graduate of Kent State University, Powell is the producer of award-winning documentaries ''The Arnolds of Owen County'' and ''Space Camp''. He also received awards for his performance in ''Mis ...

, American documentary filmmaker *

Jim Powell (historian) Jim Powell is Senior Fellow at a libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., with which he has been associated since 1988. He has also done work for the Manhattan Institute, the Institute for Humane Studies, Citizens for a S ...

, fellow at libertarian think tank the Cato Institute * James R. Powell (politician), founder of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, mayor and state politician *James Powell, African American teenager whose shooting led to the

Harlem riot of 1964 The Harlem riot of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964. It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan in front of Powell's friends and about a dozen other witnesses. ...

* James L. Powell, American economist {{hndis, Powell, James