James Bell Bullitt (January 18, 1874 – March 7, 1964) was an American physician and a college football player and coach. He served as a player-coach at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia in 1893. Bullitt was born on January 18, 1874 in Louisville, Kentucky. He earned a master's degree from Washington and Lee and a degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He taught at Virginia and the University of Mississippi before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine as a professor of pathology in 1913. Bullitt died at a nursing home, in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 7, 1964.