Overview
James Anderson may refer to:
Arts
- James Robertson Anderson (1811-1895), Scottish actor
- James Anderson (songwriter) (1825-1899), Tyneside songwriter
- James Anderson (filmmaker) (1902-1960), American film director
- James McConnell Anderson (1907-1998), American painter and potter
- James Anderson (American actor) (1921-1969), American actor
- James Anderson (author) (1936-2007), British mystery writer
- James Arthur Anderson (born 1955), American writer
- James Anderson (English actor) (born 1980), British actor
- James Anderson (writer), American television writer
- Big Dad Ritch (James Richard Anderson), lead vocalist for American heavy metal band Texas Hippie Coalition
Government and military
- James Anderson (Royal Navy officer) (1765-1835)
- James Anderson (British politician) (1800-1864), Lord Provost of Glasgow and British MP for Stirling
- James Patton Anderson (1822-1872), Confederate Army general
- James Sibree Anderson (1841-1927), Scottish-born Wisconsin politician
- James Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1849-1918), American Indian Wars soldier
- James Drummond Anderson (1852-1920), member of the Indian Civil Service
- James H. Anderson (1878-1936), Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in the 1920s
- James Thomas Milton Anderson (1878-1946), Canadian politician; Premier of Saskatchewan, 1929-1934
- James Drummond Anderson (1886-1968), Financial Commissioner of the Punjab
- James Anderson (Manitoba politician) (1903-1983), Canadian politician
- James Anderson Jr. (1947-1967), USMC, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient
- James Lee Anderson (born 1948), American politician in the Wyoming Senate
Science
- Sir James Anderson, 1st Baronet (1792-1861), Irish inventor
- James Anderson (civil engineer) (1793-1861), Scottish civil engineer
- James Anderson (botanical collector) (1797-1842), Scottish botanical collector who later became the Superintendent of the Sydney Botanic Gardens
- James Anderson (botanist) (1739-1809), Scottish botanist
- James Anderson (mechanical engineer) (1871-1945), Scottish mechanical engineer
- James D. Anderson (1930-1976), American herpetologist
- James B. Anderson (born 1935), American professor of chemistry and physics at Penn State University
- James A. Anderson (cognitive scientist) (born 1940), American professor of cognitive science and brain science at Brown University
- James G. Anderson (born 1944), American professor of atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University
- James A. D. W. Anderson (born 1958), British computer scientist
- James Anderson (biomedical engineer), American professor of pathology, macromolecular science and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University
- James H. Anderson (computer scientist), American computer scientist
- James M. Anderson (scientist), American scientist
Sports
- Jamie Anderson (golfer) (1842-1905), born James Anderson, Scottish golfer
- James Oswald Anderson (1872-1932), sportsman in Argentina
- James Allan Anderson (chess player) (1906-1991), American chess player
- James Anderson (tennis) (1894-1973), Australian tennis player
- James Anderson (cricketer) (born 1982), English international cricketer
- James Anderson (cricketer, born 1931), English cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club
- James Anderson (swimmer) (born 1963), British Paralympic swimmer
- James Anderson (American football) (born 1983), American football linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons
- James Anderson (basketball) (born 1989), American basketball player
- James Anderson (footballer), Scottish footballer
Other
- James Anderson (lawyer) (1662-1728), Scottish lawyer
- James Anderson (Freemason) (1679/80-1739), Church of Scotland minister, author and Freemason
- James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808), Scottish Enlightenment agriculturalist, lawyer, inventor, economist, writer, publisher
- James Anderson (sea captain) (1824-1893), captain of SS Great Eastern laying transatlantic telegraph cable
- James Anderson (explorer), Hudson’s Bay Company executive after whom the Anderson River (Northwest Territories) was named
- James Anderson (missionary) (fl. 1865-1870), Protestant Christian missionary
- James Anderson (trade unionist) (died 1917), British trade union leader
- James A. Anderson (academic administrator), chancellor of Fayetteville State University
- James Craig Anderson (1963-2011), American murder victim
- James M. Anderson, American hospital executive
- James R. Anderson (1864-1913), lawyer in South Australia