James or Jim Wood may refer to:

Politics and government

James Wood (governor) James Wood (January 28, 1741June 16, 1813) was an officer of the U.S. Continental Army during the American Revolution and the 11th Governor of Virginia. Early life Born in Winchester Frederick County, Virginia. on January 28, 1741, Wood w ...

(1741–1813), Governor of Virginia and officer in the American Revolutionary War * James Wood (New York politician) (1820–1892), New York politician and Union Army general *

James Wood (Irish politician) James Wood (17 July 1867 – 31 October 1936) was an Irish land refomer and, as a Russellite Unionist, was a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament (MP) for East Down. Supported by what the Unionist leader Edward Carson described as "an unholy ...

(1865–1936), Member of Parliament for East Down, 1902–1906 *

Jim Wood (California politician) Jim Wood (born April 10, 1960) is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat representing the 2nd Assembly District, which encompasses all of Del Norte, Trinity, Humboldt and Mendocino counties ...

(born 1960), member of the California State Assembly * Jim Wood (Arkansas politician) (fl. late 20th century), State Auditor of Arkansas * Sebastian Wood (James Sebastian Lamin Wood, born 1961), British Ambassador to Germany

Sport

* James Wood (footballer) (1893–?), professional footballer, who played for South Shields, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool * Jamie Wood (born 1978), footballer *

Jimmy Wood James ("Jimmy") Leon Wood (December 1, 1842 – November 30, 1927) was an American second baseman and manager in early professional Major League Baseball (MLB) who hailed from Brooklyn, New York. He was the player-manager for four teams in the ...

(1842–1927), American baseball player and manager *

Jim Wood (American football) Jim Wood (born July 27, 1936) is an American former gridiron football player and coach. He played college football at the End (gridiron football), end position at Oklahoma State University from 1956 to 1958. He was selected by the American Footba ...

(born 1936), American gridiron football player and coach * James Wood (South African cricketer) (born 1985), South African cricketer, played for Durham UCCE * James Wood (Lancashire cricketer) (1933–1977), English cricketer for Lancashire 1954–56 * James Wood (New Zealand cricketer) (1854–1937), New Zealand cricketer * Jim Wood (Sussex cricketer) (1914–1989), English cricketer, played for Sussex 1936–55 * Jim Wood (biathlete) (1952–2020), British Olympic biathlete * James Wood (baseball)

Religion

James Wood (mathematician) James Wood (14 December 1760 – 23 April 1839) was a mathematician, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge. In his later years he was Dean of Ely. Life Wood was born in Holcombe, Bury where his father ran an evening school and taught ...

(1760–1839), Dean of Ely 1820–1839 *

James Wood (minister) James Wood (1672–1759) was a Presbyterian minister of the first Atherton and Chowbent Chapels in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. During the Jacobite rising, he was given the title "the General" for leading a force of men that routed the ...

(1672–1759), Presbyterian minister of Atherton and Chowbent Chapels in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England *

James Frederick Wood James Frederick Bryan Wood (April 27, 1813 – June 20, 1883) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fifth Bishop and first Archbishop of Philadelphia, serving between 1860 and his death in 1883. Early life James Wood ...

(1813–1883), Archbishop of Philadelphia *

James Julius Wood James Julius Wood (1800–1877) was a 19th-century Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1857/8. Life He was born in Jedburgh on 4 September 1800 the son of Dr William Wood MD and ...

(1800–1877), Scottish minister

Military

* James Wood (Canadian admiral) (born 1934), Canadian admiral * James Athol Wood (1756–1829), British rear-admiral *

James W. Wood James Wayne Wood (August 9, 1924 – January 1, 1990), (Colonel (United States), Col, United States Air Force, USAF), was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and astronaut in the Boeing X-20 Dyna ...

(1924–1990), U.S. Air Force colonel and senior test pilot on the Dyna-Soar program * Sir James Wood, 2nd Baronet (died 1738), Scottish officer of the Dutch States Army and later the British Army * James Wood (Royal Navy officer) (died 1860), commander of HMS ''Pandora'' during its commission at the Royal Navy's Pacific Station

Others

James Wood (musician) James Wood (born 27 May 1953 in Barton-on-Sea, England) is a British conductor, composer of contemporary classical music and former percussionist. Wood studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1971 to 1972 before going on to study m ...

(born 1953), British composer and percussionist *

James Wood (critic) James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. Wood was ''The Guardian''s chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995. He was a senior editor at ''The New Republic'' between 1995 and 2007. ...

(born 1965), British literary critic and novelist *

James Wood (encyclopaedist) James Wood (12 October 1820 – 17 March 1901) was a Scottish writer, editor, and Free Church minister.Stirling 1902, pp.vii–viii Life Born in Leith, Wood studied at the University of Edinburgh and was ordained as a minister of the Free Chur ...

(1820–1901), British editor of ''The Nuttall Encyclopaedia'' *

James Wood, Lord Irwin Earl of Halifax is a title that has been created four times in British history—once in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The name of the peerage refers to Halifax, We ...

(born 1977), British courtesy peer *

James Edward Wood James Edward Wood (born James Godwin; December 9, 1947 – February 1, 2004) was an American murderer, serial rapist and self-confessed serial killer. A violent sex offender with an extensive criminal record, Wood was convicted and sentenced to d ...

(1947–2004), American murderer *

James N. Wood James Nowell Wood (March 20, 1941 – June 11, 2010) was an American museum director who spent 25 years as head of the Art Institute of Chicago and later served as head of the J. Paul Getty Trust, starting in 2006. Biography Wood was born in ...

(1941–2010), American director of the Art Institute of Chicago *

James Roland Wood The Honourable James Roland Tomson Wood AO, KC (born 1941) is the chairman of Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the chairman of the New South Wales Sentencing Council, the Inspector of the Police Integrity Commission and a former jud ...

(born 1941), Australian Royal Commissioner and jurist * James Rushmore Wood (1816–1882), American physician * Jim Wood (fiddler) (born 1964), American fiddler *

James Wood (engineer) James J. Wood was an engineer who contributed to the development of lockmaking, the development of the submarine, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the design of the modern refrigerator. He fabricated the steel cables for the Brooklyn Br ...

, American engineer * James Wood Bush (c. 1844–1906), Hawaiian-American Civil War combatant *

James Wood (screenwriter) James Wood is a British screenwriter. Wood is perhaps best known for his writing on the BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ''Decline and Fall'' and as a writer and creator of ''Quacks''. When asked how it felt to be the first to take on Waugh's ...

, British screenwriter

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