James or Jim Dickson may refer to:

Politics James Dickson (Scottish politician) (c. 1715–1771), MP for Lanark Burghs 1768–1771 James Dickson (New South Wales politician) (1813–1863), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly James Dickson (Queensland politician) (1832–1901), Australian politician and 13th Premier of Queensland James Dickson (Irish politician) (1850–1941), Liberal MP for Dungannon 1880–1885 James Dickson (New Zealand politician) (1854–1937), Reform Party member James Dickson (Swedish politician) (1899–1980), MP for The Right 1941–1968 James Hill Dickson (1863–1938), Northern Ireland politician James M. Dickson, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1872 and 1873 James Samuel Dickson (1870–1939), New Zealand politician Jim Dickson (politician) (born 1964), English politician

Sport James Sinclair Dickson (1885–1961), Australian rules footballer James Dickson (cricketer) (1887–1970), New Zealand cricketer James Dickson (rugby union), Irish international rugby union player Jim Dickson (baseball) (1938–2025), pitcher for the Houston Colt .45s, Cincinnati Reds, and Kansas City Athletics

Others James Dickson (botanist) (1738–1822), Scottish botanist James Dickson (merchant) (1784–1855), Scottish merchant and philanthropist in Gothenburg, Sweden James Dickson (priest), Irish Anglican priest James Bell Dickson (1923–1944), pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces James G. Dickson (1891–1962), American mycologist James Jameson Dickson (1815–1885), Scottish Swedish logging industrialist and philanthropist James Robertson Dickson (1810–1873), Swedish shipping and logging businessman James Douglas Hamilton Dickson (1849–1931), Scottish mathematician and expert in electricity James Dickson, member of New Zealand pop group The Chills Jim Dickson (producer) (1931–2011), American record producer James Dickson, one of the people killed during the 1990 Aramoana massacre

See also James Dickson Phillips Jr. (1922–2017), American judge James Dixon (disambiguation)