James Nicholas Carleton Paget (born 16 February 1966) is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow and Tutor of Peterhouse, and was educated at Eton College and Queens' College, Cambridge. The son of John Byng Oswald Carleton Paget and Sheila Anne Lowther, his great-great-grandfather was Henry Carleton, and his great-uncle was John Lowther.
Carleton Paget is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.