James Jones or Jim Jones may refer to: James Jones (author) (1921-1977), novelist Jim Jones (1931-1978), James Warren Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple during its mass suicide James Earl Jones (born 1931), actor James Jones (ambassador), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico James L. Jones (born 1943), U.S. Marine Corps General, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe James Jones (basketball) (born 1980) James Kimbrough Jones (1839-1908), chairman of the Democratic National Committee H. James Jones, Canadian politician James T. Jones, Southwest Missouri State University professor who has written extensively on the work of Jack Kerouac James Jones (astronomer), astronomer at University of Western Ontario James Jones (bishop), the Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool James "Sweetie" Jones, musician James Jones (Georgia), Congressman, namesake of Jones County, Georgia James Taylor Jones, Congressman from Alabama James Chamberlain Jones, governor of Tennessee Jim K. Jones, Elvis impersonator in Cincinnati, Ohio, James K. Jones