James Holmes Hutchison CBE FRSE (born 16 April 1912 – died 27 December 1987) was a Scottish paediatrician and Samson Gemmell Professor of Child Heath at Glasgow University from 1961 to 1977.

During the Second World War, he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, with missions in France, Algeria, Italy and Austria.

[2] Hutchison returned to the Royal Hospital for Sick children in Glasgow after the war, also accepting the Leonard Gow Lectureship in Medical Diseases of Childhood and Infancy.

Hutchison specialised in tuberculosis in childhood and worked on thyroid diseases with Prof Edward McGirr.

His proposers were Thomas Symington, Paul Bacsich, Robert Campbell Garry, and George Montgomery.