James Lindsay FRSE FGS (1852 - 25 March 1923) was a Scottish minister, theologian and writer.

He was born in Ayrshire in 1852, where his father, John Cowan Lindsay, was headmaster of Kilmarnock Grammar School, where he was later educated.

His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley, and Sir James David Marwick.

[2] In 1908, aged 56, he married a widow, Margaret R. Barclay-Shaw (née Cook).

[1] Lindsay outlined a theistic idealism in his works starting with Studies in European Philosophy in 1909 and most notably A Philosophical System of Theistic Idealism, published in 1917.