James Howell (disambiguation)

James Howell is the name of:

• James Howell (c. 1594 – 1666), an Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
• James Howell (chess player) (born 1967), is an English chess grandmaster and author
• James B. Howell (1816 – 1880), an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and politician

• James Howell, author of Dodona's Grove (1640), a historical allegory
• James Howell, founder of Cardiff's Howells (department store) in 1856
• James Howell, early leader of Britain's National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers
• James Lee Howell (1914 – 1995) known as Jim Lee Howell, an American football player and coach
• James Phillip Howell (born 1983) known as J. P. Howell, an American professional baseball pitcher

• Jim Howell, Ambassador of New Zealand to Saudi Arabia, 2003–2007