Tam O'Shanter is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tam O'Shanter had "no people or a very low population".
Mount Tam O'Shanter () is at the westernmost point of the locality, rising to . From the mountain, the locality is bounded to the south-west by the Tam O'Shanter Range.
The locality is entirely within a number of protected areas, mostly within the Djiru National Park but with a small area in the south-east of the locality being within the Tam O'Shanter Forest Reserve.
The locality presumably takes its name from Tam O'Shanter Point on the coastline nearby. The point was named by Captain Owen Stanley of after the barque Tam O'Shanter, which carried Edmund Kennedy's ill-fated expedition to North Queensland in 1848. TheTam O'Shanter, of 270 tons (bm) and homeport Liverpool, had been launched at Workington in 1836.
In the , Tam O'Shanter had "no people or a very low population".
In the , Tam O'Shanter had "no people or a very low population".