James Bovill (born 2 June 1971 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Hampshire from 1993 to 1997.
Bovill was educated at Charterhouse School and Durham University.
He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman.
He joined Hampshire in 1993, and played 36 first-class matches and 18 one-day matches for the club.
He took 99 first-class wickets for Hampshire, his best performance coming in Hampshire's first match in the 1995 County Championship, when he took 6 for 39 and 6 for 29 against Durham.At the end of the 1997 County Championship season Bovill was released by Hampshire.
In 1998 he joined Buckinghamshire, representing the county in one-day matches in the NatWest Trophy before retiring from cricket at the end of the 1999 season.