James Trotter

• James Trotter (British Army officer), British general
• James Trotter (Ontario politician), member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Canada
• James F. Trotter, United States Senator from Mississippi, state supreme court judge and lawyer
• James Monroe Trotter, soldier and African American rights activist
• James Trotter (tennis), Japanese tennis player
• James Henry Trotter, title character of Roald Dahl's ''James and the Giant Peach''