James Cooper may refer to:
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American writer
- 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 Maxwell Cooper, 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
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or cooper:
“This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)