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James Robertson, Jim Robertson, Jimmy Robertson and Jamie Robertson is a name shared by the following individuals:
[edit] Public officials
- James Robertson (loyalist) (1710–1788), Scottish-English military official; civil governor of the Province of New York (1780–83)
- James Robertson, Baron Robertson (1845–1909), Scottish judge and political figure; Solicitor General; Conservative MP (1885–91)
- James B. A. Robertson (1871–1938), American lawyer and politician (a/k/a JBA Robertson); Democratic governor of Oklahoma (1919–23)
- James Wilson Robertson (1899–1983), British Colonial Office official; in Sudan (1922–53); last Governor-General of Nigeria (1955–60)
- James Robertson (judge) (born 1938), American jurist; U. S. District Judge for D. C.; issued ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
- Jim Robertson, Australian politician; MLA since the 1980s; Northern Territory Attorney General and Minister for Community Development
[edit] Sports personalities
- James Robertson (cricketer) (1850–1927), Scottish right-arm fast round-arm bowler; right-handed batter; played 1878–91
- James Robertson (soccer), American football (soccer) player; a full back defender, he played from the early 1910s to at least 1920
- Jimmy Robertson (born 1944), Scottish footballer, known as "The Flying Scotsman"; a right winger, he played from 1964 into late 1970s
[edit] Music industry artists
- James Robertson (guitarist), Canadian musician who has been co-writing and producing songs since 1999; under contract to EMI Music
- James Robertson (pianist), British pianist
- Jamie Robertson (born 1981), English composer of film scores who is also a music producer and sound designer
[edit] Others
- James Robertson (explorer) (1742–1814), American explorer; with Daniel Boone in 1759; general under George Washington 1790–96
- James Robertson (botanist), Scottish botanist, from Edinburgh who, on 17 August 1771, completed the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis
- James Robertson (monk) (1758–1820), Scottish Benedictine monk who, in 1808, served as British secret agent against Napoleon
- James Robertson (photographer) (1813–1888), English pioneering photographer; documented the Crimean War and Ottoman Empire
- James Robertson (grocer), Scottish grocer who, in 1864, originated Golden Shred Marmalade; firm is leading producer of jam/marmalade
- James Peter Robertson (1883–1917), Canadian soldier, a private, who posthumously received the Victoria Cross for heroism in World War I
- James Robertson (psychoanalyst) (1911–1988), Scottish psychiatric social worker and researcher; at London's Tavistock Clinic (1948–76)
- James Robertson (Trotskyist) (born 1928), American radical leader; Communist/Trotskyite/Spartacist activist since 1946
- James Robertson (activist) (born 1928), British writer/speaker; independent theorist of economic structures within social/spiritual values
- James Robertson (novelist) (born 1958), Scottish novelist whose The Testament of Gideon Mack was proposed for 2006 Man Booker Prize
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