| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Earl of Lindsay | |
| Office: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland |
| Primeminister: | John Major |
| Term Start: | 6 July 1995 |
| Term End: | 2 May 1997 |
| Predecessor: | Sir Hector Monro |
| Successor: | Sam Galbraith |
| Office1: | Lord-in-waiting Government Whip |
| Primeminister1: | John Major |
| Term Start1: | 12 January 1995 |
| Term End1: | 6 July 1995 |
| Predecessor1: | The Lord Inglewood |
| Successor1: | The Earl of Courtown |
| Office2: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status2: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Label2: | as a hereditary peer |
| Term Start2: | 21 December 1989 |
| Term End2: | 11 November 1999 |
| Predecessor2: | The 15th Earl of Lindsay |
| Successor2: | Seat abolished |
| Term Label3: | as an elected hereditary peer |
| Term Start3: | 11 November 1999 |
| Term End3: | present |
| Predecessor3: | Seat established |
| Party: | Conservative Party |
| Birth Date: | 19 November 1955 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | University of Edinburgh University of California, Davis |
| Children: | Lady Frances Lindesay-Bethune Lady Alexandra Coleman William Lindesay-Bethune, Viscount of Garnock Hon. David Lindesay-Bethune Charlotte, Duchess of Noto |
| Father: | David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay |
| Mother: | Hon. Mary Douglas-Scott-Montagu |
James Randolph Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay, (born 19 November 1955), is a Scottish businessman and Conservative politician.
The son of David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay, and his first wife Mary Douglas-Scott-Montagu, he was educated at Eton, the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, Davis.
He succeeded his father as Earl of Lindsay in 1989. He was vice-chairman of the Inter-Party Union Committee on Environment 1994–95, and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1995 to 1997, during which time he was responsible for agriculture, fisheries and the environment. His work has been involved with the environment and the food industry. Between 2012 and 2017, Lord Lindsay was President of the National Trust of Scotland and appointed President of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute in April 2021.[1]
In 1982 he married Diana Mary Chamberlayne-Macdonald, a granddaughter of Sir Alexander Somerled Angus Bosville Macdonald of Sleat, 16th Baronet; the two have five children:
The Countess of Lindsay is a patroness of the Royal Caledonian Ball[4] and a master of the Fife Foxhounds.[5]