James Watson (c.1918) was a boxer who competed for Scotland and won a silver medal at the British Empire Games.
Watson was best known for representing the Scottish team, where he won the silver medal in the featherweight division at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia, losing to gold medallist Barney Henricus in the final.
He boxed out of the Leith Victoria BC.
At the time of the 1938 Games, he was an apprentice dentist and living at 96 Leith Street, Edinburgh.