James Neil Swallow (1931 – 29 April 2010) was a pioneering British dentist who developed treatments for adults and children with mental and physical disabilities.

[1] He frequently made night calls to construct feeding plates for new-born children with cleft palates.

[2] In addition, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he would visit the Bobaths at their centre in London for children with cerebral palsy.

He set up a course in paediatric dentistry and developed a dental service for children and adults with a disability.

[3] Swallow carried on treating children and adults with disabilities when he became professor of paediatric dentistry at the University of Amsterdam in 1975.