James Fairlie Gemmill FRS FRSE FZS (1867–1926) was a Scottish physician, botanist and author.
He studied medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1894 and received his doctorate (MD) in 1900.
[1] He lectured at Glasgow University in both Surgery and Embryology until 1916, being replaced by Thomas Walmsley.
At the point of recruitment he lived at 12 Ann Street in Hillhead, Glasgow.
[3] Gemmill's body was washed up several hundred metres downstream of the Tay Rail Bridge on 10 February 1926.