James Shannon may refer to:

People[edit]

• James Shannon (Massachusetts politician) (born 1952), US Representative from Massachusetts
• James Shannon (academic) (1799–1859), president of the University of Missouri
• James Shannon (Australian politician) (1840–1891)
• James Jebusa Shannon (1862–1923), American artist
• James Shannon (Irish politician) (died 1933), Irish Labour Party politician represented Wexford in 1927
• James Royce Shannon (1881–1946), Irish-American composer and lyricist
• James C. Shannon (1896–1980), U.S. politician
• James A. Shannon (1904–1994), American physician, head of National Institutes of Health
• James Patrick Shannon (1921–2003), American Roman Catholic bishop
• Jim Shannon (born 1955), Northern Irish Democratic Unionist politician
• James Shannon (cricketer) (born 1990), Irish cricketer

Characters[edit]

• James Wiley Shannon, an unseen character in In Plain Sight
• James "Jim" Shannon, the lead character of Terra Nova