| Last name | Riley |
| First name | James |
| Display name | Captain James Riley |
| Birth date | 1777 |
| Death date | 1840 |
| Birth place | connt |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | review |
| Bio notes | Captain of the US merchant ship Commerce. Famous for his memoir Sufferings in Africa, describing his experience after being shipwrecked off the Western Sahara in 1815. Employed John Eddy to draw a map of Africa for him. |