James Willan (March 25, 1653 – September 16, 1717) was the 10th great-grandfather of Cometan, classified as one of Cometan’s distant paternal ancestors in the McKerney family line. Born in Dent, Yorkshire, James was the son of William Willan (1615 – 1697) and Margaret Baynes (1616 – 1694) and is known to have married Lucy Bland on 17th February 1676 in Dent.
In Cometanic ancestry, James is categorised as part of the 12th generation retrograde, classifying him as a distant ancestor of Cometan.