James Scholefield (15 November 1789 – 4 April 1853) was an English classical scholar.
He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was in 1825 appointed professor of Greek in the university.
[1] He was for some time curate to Charles Simeon, the evangelical churchman, and his low church views involved him in disputes with his own parishioners at St Michael's, Cambridge, of which he was perpetual curate from 1823 till his death at Hastings on 4 April 1853.
His most useful work was his edition of the Adversaria of PP Dobree, his predecessor in the chair of Greek.
He also published editions of Aeschylus (1828), in which he dealt very conservatively with the text, and of Porson's four plays of Euripides.