James Baines may refer to:
James Baines (draper) (1648–1717), English businessman and philanthropist James Baines (merchant) (1822–1889), British merchant, shipowner and shipbroker James Baines & Co., parent company of a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool, England and Australia James Baines (clipper), a 1854 passenger clipper ship
See also James Baine (1710–1790), minister of the Church of Scotland James Baynes (1766–1837), English watercolour painter and drawing-master James Bain (disambiguation)