title: James Knight
text: # James Knight
  
  James or Jim Knight may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Born before 1900
  
  * James Knight (explorer) (c.1640–c.1720), English explorer and director of the Hudson's Bay Company in America
  * James Knight (actor) (1891–1948), British actor
  * James Knight (Australian politician) (c. 1826–1876), member of the Victorian Legislative Council
  * James Knight (coach) (1875–1969), American football coach active 1902–1904
  * James H. Knight (1892–1945), American pilot
  * James Knight (architect) (1867–1930), British architect
  * James Knight (golfer), Scottish amateur golfer
  
  ### Born after 1900
  
  * James L. Knight (1909–1991), American newspaper publisher
  * James A. Knight (1918–1998), psychiatrist, theologian, and medical ethicist
  * Jim Knight (footballer) (1918–1943), Australian rules footballer
  * James W. Knight (1925–2005), American Presbyterian minister
  * James Knight (diplomat) (born 1948), current United States Ambassador to Chad
  * Jim Knight (born 1965), British politician
  
  ## Places
  
  * James L. Knight Center, concert hall in Miami, USA
  * John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, American non-profit foundation
  