Colonel James McBrayer Sellers (June 20, 1895 – September 3, 1990) was a highly decorated Marine in World War I, and served as commandant, superintendent and president of Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri, from 1920 to 1990.

James McBrayer Sellers was born in Wentworth Military Academy's administration building in 1895.

He also was a reserve on Amos Alonzo Stagg's football squad, and in 1917 was named as one of twelve marshalls for his senior class.

Discharged from active service in 1920, he remained in the Marines as a reserve officer until his retirement in 1944 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Sellers also taught Latin at the school for 70 years, and he gave his last lesson, in his office located directly under the room in which he was born, at the age of 95 in 1990.