James Ategan Bop (died 12 July 1984) was a Nauruan politician.

He served as a member of Parliament and its predecessors from 1951 to 1955 and then from 1959 until his death, and was Minister of Finance for most of the period between 1968 and 1978.

He remained a minister until the 1976 elections when President Hammer DeRoburt was replaced by Bernard Dowiyogo.

When DeRoburt regained the presidency in May 1978, Bop returned as Minister of Finance.

[2] He subsequently became Deputy Speaker in 1979 and was chairman of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation.