James George Currie (November 24, 1827[1] – December 8, 1901[2]) was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario from December 21, 1871, to March 29, 1873, and served as Liberal MLA for Welland from 1871 to 1879.

In 1862, he was elected to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada representing Niagara district in a by-election after the death of William Hamilton Merritt.

[1] Currie ran unsuccessfully for the Niagara seat in the Ontario assembly in 1867.

[2] He was elected to the provincial assembly in 1871 and became speaker in December of that year after Richard William Scott was named to cabinet.

In November 1873, he was named an agent at St. Catharines for the Canadian Department of Justice.