James or Jim Yates may refer to: *

James Yates (jurist) James A. Yates is an American lawyer and former judge from New York. He had been appointed general counsel to the Governor of New York, David Paterson, in 2008, but Yates ultimately decided to remain a judge instead. The appointment had come as a ...

, American attorney and jurist *

James Yates (minister) James Yates F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. (30 April 1789 – 7 May 1871) was an English Unitarian minister and scholar, known as an antiquary. Life He was the fourth son of John Yates (1755–1826) by his wife Elizabeth (1750–1819), youngest daug ...

(1789–1871), English Unitarian minister and scholar * James Yates (poet) (fl. 1582), English poet *

James Yates (cricketer) James Ainsworth Yates (24 November 1883 – 1 December 1929) DSO, CSI was an English first-class cricketer and British Indian Army officer. Early life and first-class cricket Yates was born at Trimulgherry in British India to Major Henry Tow ...

(1883–1929), English cricketer and British Indian Army officer * Jamie Yates (born 1988), English footballer *

Jim Yates (bowls) Jim Yates is a former Australian lawn and indoor bowler and coach, born in Corowa, New South Wales on 11 October 1934. Bowls career Yates partnered Ian Schuback when he won the 1988 World Indoor Bowls Championship The 1988 Embassy World Indoo ...

(born 1934), former Australian lawn and indoor bowler and coach * Jim Yates (politician), American politician in Kentucky *

James Yates (activist) James Yates (August 9, 1906, Quitman, Mississippi – November 7, 1993, New York City, New York) was an African American anti-fascist who fought in the Spanish Civil War as a soldier in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Before he volunteered to go to ...

, African American anti-fascist *

Jimmy Yates James Yates (2 November 1869 – 5 September 1922) was an English professional footballer who played as a right winger in the 1900 FA Cup Final for Southampton. Playing career Yates was born in Tunstall, Stafordshire, but started his professi ...

(1869–1922), footballer * The

James Yates murders The James Yates murders occurred in 1781, when James Yates brutally murdered his wife and his four children in New York, later claiming that a voice instructed him to do so. History In late December 1781 and in the first months of 1782, a few news ...

, a 1781 multiple homicide, the basis for the early American novel ''Wieland''

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