James Lornie CMG (1876 – 30 March 1959) was a Scottish colonial administrator who became the 14th British Resident of Selangor, Federated Malay States, serving from 1927 to 1931.

James Lornie was born in 1876 and educated at Edinburgh University where he received a BSc and MA.

[1] One of the measures which he introduced was the Alien Ordinance which banned male migrants from mainland China from coming to the state of Selangor.

[7][8] Lornie wrote a paper on Land Tenure which appeared as a chapter in the book One Hundred Years of Singapore (1921).

[4][10] The road Lornie Drive (now Jalan Syed Putra) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was named after him.