James Thomson (September 11, 1700 – August 27, 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright.

James Thomson may be

James Thomson (November 23, 1834—June 3, 1882), published under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Victorian-era British poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night (1874), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment.

James A. Thomson (born in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American developmental biologist who also serves as a professor of anatomy in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and as the chief pathologist at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.

James Thomson (February 16, 1822 - May 8, 1892) was an Irish engineer and physicist whose reputation would have been substantial had it not been overshadowed by that of his brother William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.

James P. S. Thomson, MB MS (London) DM (Lambeth) FRCS LRCP DObst RCOG FBS, Master of London Charterhouse, United Kingdom.

James Thomson (born 18/02/1988) is an AFL footballer who plays for the West Australian club West Coast Eagles. Thomson was recruited with the Eagles fifth and final pick in the 2006 AFL draft. He was selected as pick 80 overall.