James Kendall may refer to:
James Kendall (politician) (1647–1708), English soldier, Member of Parliament and Governor of Barbados James Kendall (chemist) (1889–1978), English chemist James Tyldesley Kendall (1916–1991), American chemist and research physicist James Kendall (died c. 1874), bandleader, brother of Edward "Ned" Kendall