James Kay

James Kay may refer to:

• James Kay (British inventor) (1774–1857), British inventor
• James J. Kay (1954–2004), ecological scientist and policy-maker
• Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet (1804–1877), British politician and educationalist
• James Kay (artist) (1858–1942), Scottish artist
• James Franklin Kay (born 1948), American professor
• James Ellsworth De Kay (1792–1851), American zoologist
• James Kay (Kentucky politician) (born 1982), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
• James Kay (golfer) (1855–1927), Scottish golfer