James Gribble (12 January 1868 – 14 August 1934) was a British trade unionist and socialist activist.
Gribble worked as a bootmaker from the age of twelve, following in his father's trade.
[1] In 1902, Gribble took a full-time organisers' post with NUBSO, and he also served on the union's executive.
Despite this, he was elected as a local Poor Law Guardian and served several further terms on the town council.
He stood in the 1906 and January 1910 general elections in Northampton, but was unsuccessful on both occasions.