James, Jim, Jimmy, or Jamie Davis may refer to:

Entertainment

J. Gunnis Davis (1873–1937), actor and director, whose directorial work was credited as James Davis Jim Davis (actor) (1909–1981), American actor Jim Davis (cartoonist) (born 1945), creator of the Garfield comic strip Jamie Davis (actor) (born 1981), English actor Jamie Davis (musician) (born 1983), American musician James B. Davis (musician) (1917–2007), American musician James "Thunderbird" Davis (1938–1992), American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Jimmy Davis (songwriter) (1915–1997), co-writer of the song "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" Jimmy Davis (Memphis singer), singer-songwriter for 1980s rock band Jimmy Davis & Junction James Davis (critic) (1853–1907), pen-name Owen Hall, Irish-born theatre writer and theatre critic James Davis (satirist) (c. 1706–1755), Welsh doctor and satirist James G. Davis, American artist

James Davis

Sports

American football

James Davis (cornerback) (born 1957), NFL cornerback and safety

James Davis (linebacker) (born 1979), NFL linebacker

Jim Davis (gridiron football) (born 1981), American football player

James Davis (running back) (born 1986), American football halfback

Baseball

Jumbo Davis (James J. Davis, 1861–1921), American baseball player

Jim Davis (pitcher) (1924–1995), baseball pitcher

Jim Davis (third baseman) (fl. 1945), American baseball player

Other sports

James Davis (Surrey cricketer) (fl. 1840s), English cricketer

James Davis (Kent cricketer) (died 1870), English cricketer

Jim Davis (rugby league) (1887–1934), Australian rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s Jim Davis (basketball player) (1941–2018), American basketball player Jim Davis (basketball coach) (born 1946), American college basketball coach James Davis (sprinter) (born 1976), American sprinter Jimmy Davis (footballer) (1982–2003), Manchester United footballer James Davis (fencer) (born 1991), British fencer James Davis (footballer, born 1995), Equatoguinean footballer

James Davis

Politics

James Davis (printer) (1721–1785), first postmaster of North Carolina

James Davis (Australian politician) (c. 1811–1859), politician in Alberton, Victoria, Australia James Davis (Iowa politician) (1826–1897), Iowa state senator James H. Davis (congressman) (1853–1940), United States Representative from Texas James J. Davis (1873–1947), United States Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of Labor James C. Davis (1895–1981), United States Representative from Georgia Jimmie Davis (1899–2000), musician and Governor of Louisiana Jim Davis (Florida politician) (born 1957), United States Representative from Florida Jim Davis (Indiana politician) (1928–2012), Indiana state representative Jim Davis (North Carolina politician) (born 1947), North Carolina state senator James E. Davis (New York politician) (1962–2003), assassinated New York City politician Jim Davis (Ohio politician) (1935–2011), Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives

James Davis

Religion

James J. Davis (bishop) (1852–1926), Roman Catholic bishop

James Peter Davis (1904–1988), American Roman Catholic archbishop

James Levert Davis, African Methodist Episcopal bishop

Law

James Z. Davis (1943–2016), judge on the Utah Court of Appeals

James Edward Davis (1817–1887), barrister, magistrate and author

James E. Davis (Los Angeles police officer) (1889–1949), Los Angeles Chief of Police

Business

Jim Davis (businessman) (born 1943), Chairman of New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. and founder of Major League Lacrosse James M. Davis (born 1948), former chief financial officer of Stanford Financial Group who pled guilty for his role in a US$7 billion Ponzi scheme

Other

James Davis (VC) (1835–1893), Scottish Victoria Cross recipient

James Davis (escaped convict) (1808–1889), aka "Duramboi", escaped convict who lived with Aborigines James A. Davis (1929–2016), sociologist James B. Davis (general) (born 1935), U.S. Air Force general Jim Limber Davis, mulatto boy who was briefly a ward of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America James Davis (mariner) (1575–c. 1620), English ship captain and author James William Davis, British naturalist James Davis (musical group), musical group signed to Motown

Other uses

USS James L. Davis (1861) (1861), sailing bark acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War

See also

Jimmy Davies (disambiguation) James Davies (disambiguation) Jim Davies (disambiguation) Jimmy Davies, American racecar driver in Champ cars and midgets