James Cater (3 September 1902 — 17 April 1947) was a British boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Cater was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1902. He competed, aged 17, in the 1920 Olympics and was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the featherweight class after losing his fight to the eventual bronze medalist Edoardo Garzena.^[2]

Cater died in Glasgow in 1947, aged 44.^[3]