James Greenwood (25 August 1838 – 6 November 1882) was an English-born Australian politician.
Greenwood was born at Stansfield near Todmorden, West Yorkshire to Richard and Betty Greenwood. He studied at the University of London, receiving a Master of Arts in theology, philosophy and economics in 1866. John Clifford the Baptist Nonconformist minister and politician was a contemporary.[1] On 26 June 1866 he married Mary Anne Wallis Ward; they had seven children, of whom four survived to adulthood.