James Gordon Explained
James or Jim Gordon may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Military
- James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne (1620–1649), Scottish royalist commander in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- James Willoughby Gordon (1772–1851), British Army general and long-serving Quartermaster-General to the Forces
- James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (1782–1869), British admiral
- James Gordon (British Army officer, died 1783), British Army officer who fought in the American War of Independence
- James B. Gordon (1822–1864), Confederate general
- James Gordon (Australian soldier) (1909–1986), awarded the Victoria Cross in 1941
- James Gordon (British Army officer, born 1957), British Army general
Politics and law
- James Gordon (New York politician) (1739–1810), American Indian trader, U.S. Congressman
- James Gordon Sr. (1750–1796), American politician
- James Gordon (MP) (c. 1758–1822), member of Parliament for Stockbridge, Truro, Clitheroe and Tregony
- James Gordon (Upper Canada politician) (1786–1865), Upper Canada political figure
- James Wright Gordon (J. Wright Gordon, 1809–1853), Whig politician from Michigan
- James Lindsay Gordon (1813–1877) attorney and member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- James Gordon (Mississippi politician) (1833–1912), American planter, U.S. Senator
- James Gordon (Australian politician) (1845–1914), New South Wales politician
- James Lindsay Gordon (attorney) (1858–1904), American attorney and Virginia state senator, nephew of James Lindsay Gordon
- James Thomas Gordon (1859–1919), Canadian politician, Manitoba
- James L. Gordon (1917–1967), American-Filipino politician
- James Fleming Gordon (1918–1990), U.S. federal judge
- Jim Gordon (politician) (born 1937), Canadian politician
- James Gordon (New Brunswick politician) (born 1949), Canadian politician
- James D. Gordon III (born 1954), American legal academic
Religion
Other people
- James Gordon (botanist) (1708–1780), gardener, nurseryman and seed merchant
- James Davidson Gordon (1835–1889), British civil servant and administrator
- James Edward Henry Gordon (1852–1893), British engineer
- James Riely Gordon (1863–1937), American architect
- James Gordon (athlete) (1908–1997), American Olympic sprinter
- J. E. Gordon (James Edward Gordon, 1913–1998), British professor of materials science and biomechanics
- James P. Gordon (1928–2013), American physicist and engineer
- James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane (1936–2020), Scottish businessman
- James Gordon (American football) (born 1991), American football player
- James Samuel Gordon, American author and psychiatrist
Fictional people
- James Gordon (character), fictional police commissioner of Gotham City in Batman comics
- James Gordon Jr., a fictional supervillain in DC Comics and an enemy of Batman
- James Gordon (Gotham), a fictional character in the Gotham television series, based on the Batman character of the same name
See also