Sir James Robert Dickson, KCMG FRGS (30 November 1832 – 10 January 1901) was an Australian politician and businessman, the 13th Premier of Queensland and a member of the first federal ministry.

He lost his seat in 1888 but was again elected for Bulimba in 1892, supporting the importation of labourers from the South Pacific to work on the Queensland canefields.

The Continuous Ministry by this stage was falling apart, and Dickson had only a brief period in office before Anderson Dawson gained the support of the Legislative Assembly to become the leader of the world's first Labour Party government.

As a result, Dickson was appointed Minister for Defence in the first federal ministry under Edmund Barton on 1 January 1901.

[1][2] He was accorded a state funeral; it proceeded from Toorak, his residence at Hamilton, to the All Saints Anglican Church.