James Robinson Boise (January 27, 1815, Blandford, Massachusetts – February 9, 1895, Chicago) was an American classicist.

[1] In 1877, he became professor of New Testament Interpretation in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary.

On the establishment of the new University of Chicago, he was made professor emeritus of New Testament Greek.

[2] Robinson Boise was a strong supporter of women's education; his daughter Alice Robinson Boise Wood was the first woman to (informally) attend classes at the University of Michigan in 1866-7 and in 1872 became the first woman to graduate from the Old University of Chicago.

[3] He published several classical text books, including editions with original notes of Xenophon's Anabasis and the first six books of Homer's Iliad, besides notes on the Epistles to the Galatians, Romans, etc.