James "Jimmy" H. Walsh (21 November 1923 – 30 May 2018) was an Irish medical doctor and former Deputy Chief Medical Officer to the Government of Ireland.
Jimmy's grandfather, also named James Walsh, was a dispensary doctor who had founded a fever hospital and inspired Jimmy to study medicine.
In 1976, he co-founded the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Faculty of Public Health Medicine, of which he was later made Dean.
[1] In 1953, Walsh married Nancy O'Brien, a nurse from Ferns, County Wexford whom he had met that year at the Meath Hospital.
They had 3 children - Paul, Ann, and James - who were born in England.