James Jeffrey Roche (31 May 1847, Mountmellick, Queen's County, Ireland — 3 April 1908, Berne, Switzerland) was an Irish-American poet, journalist and diplomat.
Roche was taken to the United States as a young child, and grew up in Prince Edward Island. In 1883 he joined the staff of the Boston Pilot as an assistant editor under John Boyle O'Reilly, and later became editor of the newspaper. At the end of his life he was the American Consul in Switzerland.