James Peter Hill FRS[1] (21 February 1873 – 24 May 1954) was a Scottish embryologist.

In Australia he formed with a group dubbed "The Fraternity of Duckmaloi" that did studies on the platypus and was named for a noted "hunting ground" for the animal.

[5] In 1907 he was awarded the Mueller Medal by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.

[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913[1] and delivered their Croonian Lecture in 1929.

He was elected President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1939 to 1941.