James L. Kinsey (October 15, 1934, in Paris, Texas &ndash; December 20, 2014, in Houston, Texas)  was an American chemist, and D. R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor at Rice University.
He won the 1995 Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy.
He was a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.