James or Jim Kerr may refer to:

• James Kerr (football manager) (died 1933), English football manager
• James Kerr (footballer, born 1894), Scottish football wing half
• Jim Kerr (footballer, born 1942) (1942–2008), Scottish footballer
• Jim Kerr (footballer, born 1959), Scottish footballer
• Jimmy Kerr (footballer, born 1919) (1919–2001), Scottish footballer (Hibernian FC)
• Jimmy Kerr (footballer, born 1949), Scottish footballer (Bury FC)

• Jamie Kerr (born 1975), Scottish cricketer
• James A Kerr (born 1967)

American Collegiate Basketball player (University of North Dakota), High School Basketball Coach (The Shipley School), Son of Johnny "Red" Kerr.

• James Reid Kerr (1883–1963), Scottish rugby player
• Jimmy Kerr (1910–1998), Scottish rugby player
• James Kerr (fencer) (born 1940), Olympic fencer for the United States Virgin Islands
• Jim Kerr (American football) (born 1939), American football player
• James Kerr (rower), Australian rower
• James Kerr (rugby union) (born 1975), New Zealand rugby union player

• James Kerr (New Zealand politician) (1834–1901), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
• James Kerr (Pennsylvania politician) (1851–1908), American politician, U.S. congressman and Clerk of U.S. House of Representatives
• James Kerr (Texas politician) (1790–1850), American soldier and statesman who was prominent in the Republic of Texas
• James Hutchison Kerr (1837–1919), American educator, engineer, and politician from Colorado
• James Kirkpatrick Kerr (1841–1916), Canadian lawyer and senator
• James Stevingstone Kerr (1889–1960), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

• James Kerr, Scottish engineer and co-founder of locomotive builders Kerr Stuart
• James Lennox Kerr (1899–1963), British author
• Jim Kerr (born 1959), Scottish musician with the group Simple Minds
• James S. Kerr, Scottish music publisher
• James Semple Kerr (1932–2014), Australian architectural historian and conservation practitioner
• James Taggart Kerr, U.S. Army general