James Wood or Jim Wood may refer to:

• James Wood (governor) (1747-1813), Governor of Virginia and officer in the American Revolutionary War
• James Athol Wood (1756-1829), British rear-admiral
• James Rushmore Wood (1816-1882), American physician
• James Frederick Wood (1813-1883), Archbishop of Philadelphia
• James Wood (encyclopaedist) (fl. late 19th century), British editor of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
• James Wood (mathematician) (1760-1839), Dean of Ely (1820-1839)
• Jimmy Wood (1842-1927), American baseball player and manager
• James N. Wood (1941-2010), American director of the Art Institute of Chicago
• James Roland Wood (born 1941), Australian Royal Commissioner and jurist
• James W. Wood (1924-1990), U.S. Air Force colonel and senior test pilot on the Dyna-Soar program
• James Wood (composer) (born 1953), British composer and percussionist
• James Wood (critic) (born 1965), British literary critic and novelist
• James Wood, Lord Irwin (born 1977), British courtesy peer
• Jim Wood (Arkansas) (fl. late 20th century), State Auditor of Arkansas
• Jim Wood (California), mayor of Oceanside, California
• James Wood (politician), Member of Parliament for East Down, 1902-1906
• James Wood (minister) (1672-1759), Presbyterian minister of Atherton and Chowbent Chapels in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England
• James Wood (footballer) (born 1893), professional footballer, who played for South Shields, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool

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