| James Yap (葉克強) | |
| Nationality: | Filipino |
| Birth Date: | 26 September 1933 |
James Yap (; (26 September 1933 - 2003)[1] was a Chinese Filipino[2] basketball player who competed as part of the Republic of China's squad at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[3] He graduated from Chiang Kai-shek College.[4] He was born in 1933 on Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, China and moved to the Philippines at the age of 5. In 1954 he attended the FIBA World Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro and the Asian Games in Manila as a member of the Republic of China team. In 1956, he was a member of the ROC team to the Olympics in Melbourne and once again in Rome in 1960. He died in 2003.