James Roche Verling (27 February 1787 – 1 January 1858) was a British Army surgeon who became personal surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.

He was commissioned Second Assistant Surgeon in the Ordnance Medical Department (which provided medical officers to the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers) in 1810 during the Peninsular War.

The first to fill that post was another Irishman, Barry Edward O'Meara, but he was dismissed as it was felt he was too close to Napoleon.

Verling had already been a surgeon on board the ship HMS Northumberland, which brought Napoleon to St Helena, and was chosen to replace O'Meara and to Spy on Napoleon by Hudson Lowe who was general of the Island at that time.

Verling returned home to the Cove of Cork (now Cobh) in 1822, where he lived at Bella Vista (which is now The Bellavista Hotel) in Ballyvaloon until his death on New Year's Day, 1 January 1858.