James Melville or Melvill may refer to:

  • James Melville (Scottish minister) (1556–1614), Scottish divine and reformer
  • James Melville of Halhill (1535–1617), Scottish diplomat and memoir writer
  • James Melville (politician) (1885–1931), British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Gateshead 1929–1931
  • James Melville (author) (1931–2014), pseudonym of British author Roy Peter Martin
  • James Melville (cricketer, born 1909) (1909–1961), English cricketer for Warwickshire
  • James Melville (cricketer, born 1936) (1936–2016), English cricketer for Kent
  • James Cosmo Melvill (1792–1861), British administrator of the East India Company
  • James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist) (1845–1929), British botanist and malacologist
  • James D. Melville Jr. (born 1957), American statesman

See also

  • Melville (name)