James Porter

Politics and diplomacy

• James Porter , former member of the Australian House of Representatives
• James Porter , British
• James Porter, Vice-Chamberlain of King James II of England who followed him into exile
• James Porter , farmer, miller and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
• James Porter , U.S. Representative from New York
• James D. Porter, Governor of Tennessee
• James E. Porter, mayor of Kansas City, Kansas
• James Madison Porter, American cabinet secretary
• James W. Porter , American politician from New York

  Sport

• James Porter , English cricketer
• Jamie Porter, English cricketer
• Jim Porter, Australian rugby player
• Jim Porter
• Jimmy Porter , manager of Manchester United F.C. of Bury F.C.

  Fiction

• James Porter, character in Disney's 2008 film College Road Trip
• Jim Porter, 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 , defrocked American priest and child molester
• James Porter , Irish presbyterian minister and satirist
• James Porter , British academic
• James A. Porter, African American art historian, author of Modern Negro Art
• James A. Porter , American novelist
• James Ezekiel Porter, American soldier in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• James Frederick Porter, Australian engineer and mine manager
• James Herbert Porter, English brewer and brewing executive
• James Madison Porter III, American civil engineer
• James W. Porter , justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
• James W. Porter , American ecologist
• James W. Porter II, American lawyer and gun rights activist
• Jim Porter , American tavern keeper and coach driver