James Maitland Stewart (20 de mai de 1908, Indiana – 2 de julhet de 1997, Los Angeles) es un actor e una vedeta dau cinèma estatsunidenc. Sa carriera es jalonada de caps d'òbra coma Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Winchester ’73 (1950), Thunder Bay (1953), The Glenn Miller Story (1953), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) e How the West was won (1962). Recebèt un Oscar d'onor en 1985.

James Stewart en 1948.