James Terry White (July 3, 1845 – April 3, 1920) was an American publisher and poet.

Given his wide range of interests and involvement in various businesses and cultural activities, he was reputed to be a Renaissance man.

White's uncle, Andrew Judson White (1824–1898), had entered the wholesale drug business in New York and London — mainly, he, along with two other family members, obtained the rights to Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills.

White was an organizer and vice president of the Hudnut Pharmacy in New York City.

He founded the Character Development League in New York City and, in 1885, invented White’s Physiological Manikin, a life-size illustration of human anatomical structure, surgical techniques, and even prenatal development despite the gender being male.