James Dougherty or Jim Dougherty may refer to:
Jim Dougherty (baseball) (born 1968), Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Dougherty (footballer) (1878–1944), English footballer James Dougherty (Medal of Honor) (1839–1897), U.S. Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Sir James Dougherty (civil servant) (1844–1934), Member of Parliament for Londonderry City, 1914–1918 James Dougherty (police officer) (1921–2005), first husband of Marilyn Monroe Jimmie Dougherty (born 1978), American football coach and former player James Witt Dougherty (1813–1879), Californian politician, rancher, and landowner
See also James Doherty (disambiguation) James Daugherty (1889–1974), American modernist painter