James Randolph Vigne OLS FSA (1928 – 19 June 2016) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

[3] Vigne was born in 1928 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, attended primary school in Port Elizabeth and did his high schooling at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, where he enjoyed a spell as head boy at the age of 13 in 1941.

He did his higher education at Wadham College, Oxford, after which he returned to Cape Town and served as English editor at the publisher Maskew Miller until 1964.

[4] He served as a director of the French Hospital for some thirty years and was its treasurer for ten.

[6][7] In April 2010 Vigne was awarded the Order of Luthuli in Silver for "his contribution to the struggle for a democratic, free and non-racial South Africa".