James William Brown

James William Brown (1897–1958) was an English physician, pathologist, and cardiologist.

As a Quaker educated at the Society of Friends School at Sidcot, he served with a Friends Ambulance Unit in France from 1916 to 1919, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1917 for evacuating six wounded soldiers under heavy fire. At the Grimsby Hospital, Brown became honorary pathologist and then honorary physician. Brown wrote with Evan Bedford the section on congenital heart disease in volume 6 of the British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice (1937, London, Butterworth & Co., Ltd.). Brown's book Congenital Heart Disease (1939) was of some importance in the development of cardiac surgery. In 1943 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture. He was a member of the editorial board of the British Heart Journal.

In Grimsby in 1925 Brown married Margaret J. Williamson. They had a son and a daughter.

Selected publications with D. C. Muir: with D. C. Muir: with D. C. Muir: with Frank Hampson: with William Whitaker and Donald Heath: with Donald Heath and William Whitaker: with Donald Heath and William Whitaker: with Donald Heath, Thomas L. Morris, and William Whitaker: with Donald Heath and William Whitaker: