The Reverend James Bulwer (21 March 1794 – 11 June 1879) was an English collector, naturalist, artist and conchologist.

James Bulwer was born at Aylsham in the English county of Norfolk, the son of James Bulwer and Mary Seaman, and was baptised by his parents on 23 March 1794, at St Michael and All Angels, the town's parish church.

[2] During his time at Cambridge he took drawing lessons from the landscape artist John Sell Cotman and became a fellow of the Linnean Society due to his interest in molluscs, one of his three proposers being William Elford Leach.

[3][4] Bulwer left London in 1839 and moved back to Norfolk, becoming curate of Blickling Hall and later of Hunworth.

His son James Redfoord Bulwer became a lawyer and a Member of parliament and also played first-class cricket.