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

  • Jimmy Porter, principal character in John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger
  • James Porter, character in Disney's 2008 film College Road Trip
  • Jim Porter, minor television series character, list of Falling Skies characters

Other

  • James Porter (Catholic priest) (1935–2005), defrocked American priest and child molester
  • James Porter (Presbyterian minister) (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