Prof James Colquhoun Petrie CBE FRSE FRCP FRCPE FRCGP FRCPI FFPM FMedSci (18 September 1941 – 31 August 2001) was a Scottish medical doctor, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, from 1985, and Head of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, from 1994 at the University of Aberdeen. He studied Medicine at Aberdeen University. A keen skier, in 1976 he founded the Lecht Ski Company. In 1986 he founded the Health Services Research Unit. In 1996 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to medicine. He died of glioblastoma on 21 August 2001.