James Strachan may refer to:
James Strachan (Australian politician) (1810–1875), Australian politician and merchant James Strachan (educator) (1883–1973), New Zealand school principal James Strachan (ice hockey) (1876–1939), Canadian ice hockey executive James Strachan (programmer), developer of the Apache Groovy programming language James Frederick Strachan (1894–1978), Scottish judge James McGill Strachan (1808–1870), lawyer, business and political figure in Canada West