James Archibald "Snowy" Atkinson (4 April 1896 – 11 June 1956) was an Australian rules footballer and first class cricketer.

He was a defender, and in 1922 was a member of Fitzroy's premiership side as well as winning their Club Champion award.

He broke "virtually every bone in his body" during his career, and his injuries finally forced him out of the game in 1930.

"Probably Tasmania's greatest cricket captain"[2] in the years before it entered the Sheffield Shield, he led the team in 19 first-class matches from 1928–29 to 1932–33.

The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket described him as an "uncompromising opening batsman, capable of thunderous hooks and drives, as well as delicate late cuts, and a fine close-to-the-wicket fieldsman".