Sir James Creed was an English merchant and politician.

Creed was a merchant of London and a director of the Honourable East India Company. He was in business in the manufacture of white lead, for which he obtained a patent in December 1749. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February, 1743.

In 1754 Creed was elected Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Canterbury

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and held the seat to 1761.

Creed was buried at St Alphage, Greenwich where there is a marble monument in memory.