Brigadier James Thomas Burrows CBE DSO* ED (13 July 1904 – 10 June 1991) was a New Zealand teacher, sportsman, administrator, and military leader. He was born in Prebbleton, New Zealand, on 13 July 1904. Following his education at Christchurch Boys' High School, he became a teacher. He graduated from Canterbury College in 1935 with a master's thesis titled A comparison between the early colonisations of New Zealand and America. Burrows published an autobiography covering his experiences in the war, Pathway Among Men, in 1974 (ISBN 0723303789). Burrows died in Christchurch on 10 June 1991.