• James MacKay (American politician) (1919–2004), U.S, Representative from Georgia
• James MacKay (explorer) (1762–1822), Scottish explorer with the North West Company
• James Mackay (New Zealand politician)
  James Mackay (New Zealand politician)
  James Mackay was a New Zealand politician. He was a member of the 1st New Zealand Parliament. He is remembered for the incident with Henry Sewell in Parliament in 1854.-Early life:Mackay was born in Scotland in 1804...
  
   (1804–1875), New Zealand MP
• James Mackay (Australian politician)
  James Mackay (Australian politician)
  Major-General James Alexander Kenneth Mackay CB, OBE, VD was an Australian politician.Born at Wallendenbeen Station near Cootamundra to pastoralist Alexander Mackay and Annie Mackenzie, he attended Camden College and Sydney Grammar School before farming at his father's property...
  
   (1859–1935)
• James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape
  James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape
  James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape, GCSI, GCMG, KCIE was a British colonial administrator in India.Mackay was the second son of James Mackay of Arbroath and his wife, Deborah Lyle...
  
   (1852–1932), British colonial administrator
• James Mackay (cricketer)
  James Mackay (cricketer)
  James Rainey Munro Mackay, better known as "Sunny Jim" Mackay, was an Australian cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman who was likened in his youth to Victor Trumper, and was considered unlucky to miss the 1905 Australian tour to England.Mackay was born in Armidale, New South Wales...
  
   (1880–1953), Australian cricketer
• James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern (born 1927), Scottish lawyer and former Lord Chancellor
• James A. Mackay
  James A. Mackay
  James Alexander Mackay was a prolific Scottish writer and philatelist whose reputation was damaged by a criminal conviction for theft and repeated accusations of plagiarism. In an obituary by John Holman, Editor of the British Philatelic Bulletin, Mackay was described as a "philatelic writer...
  
   (1936–2007), Scottish historian and philatelist
• James Mackay (police officer), retired Deputy Chief Constable of Tayside police
• James Mackay (film producer)
  James Mackay (film producer)
  James Mackay is a british film producer.He was born in Scotland and after studies at North East London Polytechnic, he worked in the London Filmmaker’s Co/op as cinema programmer...
  
  , friend and collaborator of Derek Jarman
• James Mackay (soldier)
  James Mackay (soldier)
  James Mackay was a captain in the British Army during the French and Indian War. He was in command of the Independent Company of South Carolina when he was sent by the Governor of South Carolina to assist Virginia's defense of the Ohio Country from the French in the summer of 1754...
  
  , captain in the British Army during the French and Indian War
• Jim "Bones" Mackay
  Jim "Bones" Mackay
  Jim "Bones" Mackay is an American golf caddy who is currently the caddy for Phil Mickelson. He has been on Mickelson's bag for over fifteen years and has seen all four of his major championships, being the 2004 Masters, the 2005 PGA, the 2006 Masters, and the 2010 Masters.His nickname, "Bones", was...
  
  , golf caddy for Phil Mickelson
• Jimmy Mackay
  Jimmy Mackay
  James Birrell "Jimmy" Mackay is a former football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany....
  
   (1943–1998), Australian footballer

See also

• James McKay (disambiguation)
• James Mackey (disambiguation)
• James Mackie (disambiguation)