James Vance Explained

Jim, Jamie, Jimmy, Jimmie or James Vance may refer to:

Sportsmen

• James Vance (footballer) (1877–after 1897), Scottish inside left
• Jamie Vance (born 1997), American tennis player

Writers

• James E. Vance Jr. (1925–1999), American geographer
• James Vance (comics) (1953–2017), American author and playwright
• J. D. Vance (James David Vance, born 1984), American politician, businessman, author, and presumptive vice-presidential nominee in the 2024 election

Others

• James "Jim" Vance, American instigator of 1863–1891 Hatfield–McCoy feud
• Jimmy Vance, Canadian World War I Air Force Cross recipient alongside Harry Yates
• Jim Vance (1942–2017), American television news anchor
• James Vance (1965–1988), American whose suicide instigated 1990 Judas Priest subliminal message trial

Characters

• Jimmie Vance, male ingenue lead in D. W. Griffith's 1916 film Hoodoo Ann