James Cooper may refer to: James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American writer James Cooper (baseball) (born 1982), American college baseball coach James Cooper (Pennsylvania) (1810–1863), American soldier and politician James Graham Cooper (1830–1902), American surgeon and naturalist James Cooper (VC) (1840–1889), British soldier James Cooper (Canadian politician) (1900–1979), Canadian politician James Scott Cooper (1874–1931), Canadian businessman and noted bootlegger James Cooper, 19th-century Canadian shoe merchant who built James Cooper House James Cooper (Northern Ireland politician), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for Fermanagh and Tyrone James Fairlie Cooper (1814–1869), superintendent of the Dahlonega Mint James Cooper (minister) (1846–1922), Church of Scotland minister and church historian James Cooper (artist), African American artisan associated with the cane carving tradition in coastal Georgia