James Shields may refer to:
- James Shields (baseball) (born 1981), American baseball player
- James Shields (politician, born 1762) (1762–1831), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- James Shields (politician, born 1806) (1806–1879), U.S. Senator from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri
- Shaemas O'Sheel (1886–1954), Irish-American poet, born James Shields
- James Shields (Volk), an 1893 bronze sculpture of James Shields by Leonard Volk
- James Shields (academic) (1918–1978), Scottish psychiatric geneticist
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