James McKnight may refer to:
James McKnight (American football) (born 1972), American football wide receiver James McKnight (footballer) (1889–1920), Irish footballer James Stuart McKnight (1884–1950), National Guard officer and member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California Jim McKnight (1936–1994), American baseball player See also James MacKnight (1721–1800), Scottish minister and theological author James MacKnight (agrarian reformer), Irish journalist and agrarian reformer