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