James Perry is an American football coach and former player.

He is the head football coach at his alma mater, Brown University, where he was a starting quarterback in the late 1990s.

[1] Perry is the youngest of seven children by Massachusetts hall of fame track and field coach Ernest Perry Jr.[2] While a student at Malden Catholic High School, Perry played football, basketball, and track, receiving the Phelps Scholar-Athlete Award in 1996.

[3] He played quarterback at Brown, earning a number of school and Ivy League passing records.

[3] Perry served as the head coach at Bryant University from 2017 to 2018, where he posted a record of 12–10.