Frederick James Kirkwood (31 July 1890 – 18 August 1956) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

[1] From Surrey Hills, Kirkwood was a wingman in Essendon's 1912 premiership team, having spent the previous two seasons at Fitzroy.

His final season in 1914 was marred by a four-game suspension for using "insulting language" at an umpire.

Kirkwood later served in World War I.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1890 is a stub.