General James Cholmondeley (18 April 1708 – 13 October 1775) was a British Army officer who also sat in Parliament. He was the second son of George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley and brother of George Cholmondeley, Viscount Malpas, later 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley. In 1720, he married Lady Penelope Barry, the only child of her father, James Barry, 4th Earl of Barrymore, and heiress of her maternal grandfather, Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers.