James Ashmore (May 14, 1935 – December 15, 2023) was an American basketball player.

Ashmore attended Mississippi State University (MSU) from 1954 to 1957 after growing up in New Market, Missouri.

He played on the MSU basketball team and was notable for being Mississippi's first college basketball player to score more than 1,000 career points, scoring a total of 1,918 points.

From 1957 to 1960 Ashmore played for the Denver-Chicago Truckers of the National Industrial Basketball League.

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