James Porter

James, Jamie, Jim or Jimmy Porter may refer to:

Politics and diplomacy

 * James Porter (Australian politician) (born 1950), former member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * James Porter (diplomat) (1710–1776), British
 * James Porter (Jacobite), Vice-Chamberlain of King James II of England who followed him into exile
 * James Porter (New Brunswick politician) (1847–1926), farmer, miller and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
 * James Porter (New York politician) (1787–1839), U.S. Representative from New York
 * James D. Porter (1828–1912), Governor of Tennessee
 * James E. Porter (1857–1946), mayor of Kansas City, Kansas
 * James Madison Porter (1793–1862), American cabinet secretary
 * James W. Porter (politician) (fl. 1940s), American politician from New York

Sport

 * James Porter (cricketer) (fl. 1844–1845), English cricketer
 * Jamie Porter (born 1993), English cricketer
 * Jim Porter (born 1949), Australian rugby player
 * Jim Porter (Australian rules footballer) (1892–1936)
 * Jimmy Porter (football manager) (1901–1967), manager of Manchester United F.C. of Bury F.C.

Fiction

 * James Porter, character in Disney's 2008 film College Road Trip
 * Jim Porter (Falling Skies), character in the TNT television series Falling Skies
 * Jimmy Porter, the lead character in John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger

Other

 * James Porter (Catholic priest) (1935–2005), defrocked American priest and child molester
 * James Porter (died 1798) (1753–1798), Irish presbyterian minister and satirist
 * James Porter (Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge) (1827–1900), British academic
 * James A. Porter (1905–1970), African American art historian, author of Modern Negro Art
 * James A. Porter (novelist) (1836–1897), American novelist
 * James Ezekiel Porter (1847–1876), American soldier in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
 * James Frederick Porter (1855–1919), Australian engineer and mine manager
 * James Herbert Porter (died 1973), English brewer and brewing executive
 * James Madison Porter III (1864–1928), American civil engineer
 * James W. Porter (judge) (1887–1959), justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
 * James W. Porter (ecologist) (born 1946), American ecologist
 * James W. Porter II (born 1949), American lawyer and gun rights activist
 * Jim Porter (giant) (1811–1859), American tavern keeper and coach driver