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Jim Jones
Jim Jones
James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in...

(1931–1978) was a religious leader known for the Peoples Temple cult and the Jonestown suicides.

Jim Jones is also the name of:
  • Jim Jones (rapper)
    Jim Jones (rapper)
    Joseph Guillermo Jones II , better known by his stage name Jim Jones, is an American rapper and original member of The Diplomats, also known as Dipset. He is Co-CEO of Diplomat Records...

     (born 1976), American rapper from Harlem
  • Jim Jones (ice hockey)
    Jim Jones (ice hockey)
    James William Jones is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman.Jones was drafted by the Boston Bruins in the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft, but saw no playing time with them. He was signed as a free agent by the California Golden Seals in June, 1971, appearing in two games for the Seals...

     (born 1949), National Hockey League player
  • Jim Jones (baseball)
    Jim Jones (baseball)
    James Tilford Jones was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He played all or part of three seasons in the majors: for the Louisville Colonels, and and for the New York Giants....

     (1876–1953), Major League Baseball player
  • Jim Jones (jurist)
    Jim Jones (jurist)
    Jim Jones is a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court and a former Attorney General of Idaho.Jones was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Northwestern University School of Law...

     (born 1942), Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court and former Attorney General of Idaho
  • The Jim Jones Revue
    The Jim Jones Revue
    The Jim Jones Revue is an English garage rock band comprising Jim Jones , Rupert Orton, Gavin Jay, Nick Jones and Henri Herbert...

    , an English garage rock band
  • H. James Jones
    H. James Jones
    H. James Jones is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2000, initially as a Progressive Conservative and later as a member of the Canadian Alliance....

     (born 1943), Canadian politician
  • James Robert Jones
    James Robert Jones
    James Robert "Jim" Jones is a lawyer, a Democratic politician, a retired U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma, and a former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico....

     (born 1939), U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
  • Jim Jones (guitarist)
    Jim Jones (guitarist)
    James E. Jones, known as Jim Jones, was an experimental music artist, producer, and guitarist in the rock band Pere Ubu. Jones was a founding member of many experimental rock bands of the 70s and 80s including: Easter Monkeys, Foreign Bodies, Mirrors, The Styrenes, Home And Garden, and Terminal...

     (died 2008), guitarist with the band Pere Ubu
  • Jim Jones (musician), singer and guitarist with Thee Hypnotics and Jim Jones Revue
  • James L. Jones
    James L. Jones
    James Logan Jones, Jr. is the former United States National Security Advisor and a retired United States Marine Corps General....

    , retired general and National Security Advisor under President Barack Obama


Jim Jones may also refer to:
  • "Jim Jones at Botany Bay
    Jim Jones at Botany Bay
    "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" is a traditional Australian folk ballad first published in 1907. The narrator, Jim Jones, is found guilty of an unnamed crime and sentenced to transportation. En route, his ship is attacked by pirates, but the crew holds them off...

    ", a traditional Australian folk ballad

See also

  • James Jones (disambiguation)
  • Jimmy Jones (disambiguation)
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