James or Jim Yates may refer to: James Yates (jurist), American attorney and jurist James Yates (minister) (1789–1871), English Unitarian minister and scholar James Yates (poet) (fl. 1582) James Yates (cricketer) (1883–1929), English cricketer and British Indian Army officer Jamie Yates (born 1988), footballer Jim Yates (bowls) (born 1934), former Australian lawn and indoor bowler and coach Jim Yates (politician), American politician in Kentucky Jimmy Yates (1869–1922), footballer The James Yates murders, a 1781 multiple homicide, the basis for the early American novel Wieland