Sir James Bell Donald JP (13 October 1879 – 4 December 1971) was a United Party Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister in Auckland, New Zealand.

Donald studied at Queen's College and then entered his father's profession and would later become the firm's managing director.

[6] When he retired (to general surprise) in 1931, the electorate went back to Labour[7] due to vote-splitting as there were four anti-Labour candidates: William Henry Horton from United, Harold Percy Burton (who came second) and Ellen Melville from Reform and an Independent John Alexander Arthur.

In August 1935 the Auckland provincial executive of the Democrat Party elected Donald its chairman of committees.

[13] In 2016 Donald's granddaughter Desley Simpson was elected a member of the Auckland Council and Simpson paid tribute to him in her maiden speech and wore the fob chain presented to him when he became deputy chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board in 1935.