James Farish Farrer (6 January 1876 – 6 July 1967) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Modewarre, where he attended state school before qualifying as a woolclasser.
He became a grazier at Modewarre and later at Pirron Yallock, and on 28 February 1914 married Alice Annie Jenkins, with whom he had two sons.
In 1906 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Barwon.
Farrer retired around 1929 and died in Richmond in 1967.