James Robertson

James Robertson, Jim Robertson, Jimmy Robertson and Jamie Robertson is a name shared by the following individuals:

Public officials

• James Robertson (loyalist) (1710–1788), Scottish military official; civil governor of the Province of New York (1780–83)
• James Robertson, Baron Robertson (1845–1909), Scottish judge and political figure; Solicitor General; Conservative MP (1885–91)
• James B. A. Robertson (1871–1938), American lawyer and politician (a/k/a JBA Robertson); Democratic governor of Oklahoma (1919–23)
• James Wilson Robertson (1899–1983), British Colonial Office official; in Sudan (1922–53); last Governor-General of Nigeria (1955–60)
• James Robertson (conductor) (1912–1991) English conductor, best known as musical director of Sadler's Wells Opera
• James Robertson (judge) (born 1938), American jurist; U. S. District Judge for D. C.; issued ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
• Jim Robertson (politician) (born 1945), MLA from 1974 to 1986, Northern Territory Attorney General and Minister for Community Development
• James Robertson (Jamaican politician) (born June 9, 1966)

Sports personalities

• "Jim Robertson" (Alfred James Robertson), American baseball player
• James Robertson (cricketer) (1850–1927), Scottish right-arm fast round-arm bowler; right-handed batter; played 1878–91
• Jimmy Robertson (footballer born 1880) (1880–unknown), Scottish football inside-right who played from 1901 to 1915
• Jimmy Robertson (footballer born 1910), Scottish international football centre-forward who played from 1928 to 1938
• James Robertson (footballer), Scottish footballer active in the 1950s for Arsenal and Brentford
• Jimmy Robertson (footballer born 1944), Scottish footballer, known as "The Flying Scotsman"; a right winger who played from 1964 into the late 1970s
• Jimmy Robertson (footballer born 1955), Scottish footballer who played on the left wing for Motherwell, Stranraer, Queen of the South, Morton and Clydebank from 1977 until 1993
• James Robertson (soccer), American football (soccer) player; a full back defender who played from the early 1910s to at least 1920
• Jimmy Robertson (snooker player)

Music industry artists

• James Robertson (guitarist), member of Boy (Canadian band)
• Jamie Robertson (born 1981), English composer of film scores who is also a music producer and sound designer
• Texas Jim Robertson (1909-1966), country singer from Texas

Others

• James Robertson (British Army officer) (1717–1888), British general and colonial governor
• James Robertson (explorer) (1742–1814), American explorer with Daniel Boone in 1759; general under George Washington 1790–96, co-founder of Nashville, Tennessee
• James Robertson (botanist), Scottish botanist from Edinburgh who, on 17 August 1771, completed the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis
• James Robertson (monk) (1758–1820), Scottish Benedictine monk who, in 1808, served as British secret agent against Napoleon
• James Burton Robertson (1800–1877), British historian
• James Robertson (photographer) (1813–1888), English pioneering photographer; documented the Crimean War and Ottoman Empire
• James Robertson (grocer), Scottish grocer who, in 1864, originated Golden Shred Marmalade, a leading producer of jam/marmalade
• James A. Robertson (1873–1939), American academic historian, librarian and archivist; noted historiographer of the Philippines and Latin America
• James Peter Robertson (1883–1917), Canadian soldier, a private, who posthumously received the Victoria Cross for heroism in World War I
• Jim Robertson (British Army officer) (1910–2004), British major-general
• James Robertson (psychoanalyst) (1911–1988), Scottish psychiatric social worker and researcher; at London's Tavistock Clinic (1948–76)
• James Robertson (Trotskyist) (born 1928), American radical leader; Communist/Trotskyist activist since 1946
• James Robertson (activist) (born 1928), British writer/speaker; independent theorist of economic structures within social/spiritual values
• James I. Robertson, Jr. (born 1930), American Civil War scholar and Virginia Tech history professor
• James Robertson (novelist) (born 1958), Scottish novelist whose The Testament of Gideon Mack was proposed for 2006 Man Booker Prize

See also

• James Robertson Justice (1907–1975), Scottish actor and University of Edinburgh rector; born in London; in films and TV from 1944
• Robertson (disambiguation)