James Whitney Young (January 24, 1941) is an American astronomer who worked in the field of asteroid research. After nearly 47 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at their Table Mountain Facility, Young retired July 16, 2009. He was a very prolific asteroid observer of both physical properties and astrometric positions, and had discovered some 390 main belt asteroids since 2002, as well as two NEOs ( and ), two Trojan asteroids (2002 VQ and ), three Mars crossers, (2005 SA, 2005 SB, and ), and one extra-galactic supernova (SN 2004eg).