James Garland may refer to: James Garland (Virginia politician) (1791–1885), politician and lawyer from Virginia James Garland (Australian politician) (1813–1904), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly James C. Garland (born 1942), physicist, author and president of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio James Henry Garland (born 1931), bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States James F. Garland, American politician in the Virginia House of Delegates