James Trotter may refer to: James Trotter (British Army officer) (1849–1940), British general James Trotter (Ontario politician) (1923–1989), member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Canada James F. Trotter (1802–1866), United States Senator from Mississippi, state supreme court judge and lawyer 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