James Manning may refer to:
James Manning (minister) (1738–1791), American Baptist minister and first president of Brown University James Manning (lawyer) (1781–1866), English barrister, serjeant-at-law, and law writer James S. Manning (1859–1938), Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Jim Manning (baseball, born 1862) (1862–1929), American professional baseball player, manager and team owner James Manning (scientist) (1917–1989), surgeon, pathologist and public health administrator Jim Manning (pitcher) (1943–2020), American Major League Baseball pitcher James David Manning (born 1947), chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church James Manning (architect), English-born architect and builder, active in Perth, Western Australia James Manning Jr., Oregon state senator James Hilton Manning (1854–1925), American newspaper publisher, businessman and mayor of Albany J. L. Manning (James Lionel Manning), British sports columnist James Manning, character in Almost Married