James Stedman Dixon (8 January 1845 – 18 July 1911) was a leading Scottish coal-mine owner, president of the Mining Institute of Scotland and of the Institution of Mining Engineers of Great Britain, and founder of the James S. Dixon Chair of Applied Geology in the University of Glasgow.
In the following year, Dixon started the Bent Colliery Company which was to become the largest mining operation in the Hamilton area.
In 1932, another notable former pupil of Hamilton Academy, Andrew Bryan was appointed to this chair, as Professor of Mining.
For his services to education, James Dixon was awarded the degree of LLD by the university.
James Stedman Dixon died at his home, Fairleigh, in Bothwell, South Lanarkshire, on 18 July 1911.