James Dunsmure FRCSEd (1 January 1846 – 5 July 1907) was a Scottish physician and obstetrician who, as his father had done before him, served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

[3] As a student he lived in the family home at 53 Queen Street, Edinburgh next door to the obstetrician Sir James Young Simpson, an association which may have influenced his choice of career speciality.

After further postgraduate experience studying in  Berlin, Vienna and Prague, he returned to Edinburgh and qualified MD in 1870 with a thesis entitled Pathology and treatment of strictures of the urethra.

For ten years acted as Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and was obstetrician to the New Town Dispensary.

[3] His brother Robert Dunsmure (1852–94) emigrated to Australia where he became a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.