Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Forrest Halkett Carmichael CMG CBE (8 July 1868 – 12 August 1934) was a British Army officer, engineer and colonial administrator.
In 1904 he retired from the army and was appointed head of the Engineering and Works Department of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
During the First World War he rejoined the army and served on the Armaments Output Committee at the War Office, and later as personal assistant for metals to the director of materials at the Ministry of Munitions and then as assistant director of munitions supply and on the High Speed Steel Committee.
After the war he returned to his post at the Crown Agents, later being promoted to chief engineer.
Carmichael was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918 and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1920 New Year Honours,[2] and was knighted in the 1929 New Year Honours.