James Davis

• J. Gunnis Davis (1873–1937), actor and director, whose directorial work was credited as James Davis • Jim Davis (actor) (1909–1981), American actor • James Davis (actor), Broadway performer • Jim Davis (cartoonist) (born 1945), creator of the Garfield comic strip • 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, 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 (1931–2016), American artist • Jim Davis (radio presenter), British radio presenter ==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 • James Davis, middle-distance runner, 1938 mile run All-American for the North Carolina Tar Heels track and field team • Jimmy Davis (footballer) (1982–2003), Manchester United footballer • James Davis (fencer) (born 1991), British fencer • James Davis (footballer, born 1995), Equatoguinean footballer ==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 ==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) (1807–1889), aka "Duramboi", escaped convict who lived with Aboriginals • 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 • Jim Davis (university administrator), president of the University of Texas at Austin ==Other uses==

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