James Trotter may refer to:
James Trotter (British Army officer) (1849–1940), British general James Trotter (Ontario politician) (1923–1989), Canadian politician from Ontario James Trotter (tennis) (born 1999), Japanese tennis player James F. Trotter (1802–1866), American politician and judge from Mississippi James Monroe Trotter (1842–1892), soldier and African American rights activist James Henry Trotter, title character of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach
See also Jimmy Trotter (1899–1984), English football player and manager