| James Pirret | |
| Birth Date: | 22 February 1915 |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Sport: | Lawn bowls |
| Club: | Tuakau Bowling Club |
| Nationals: | Men's pairs champion (1958) |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
James "Ham" Pirret (22 February 1915 – 4 December 1976) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player.
At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won the men's singles gold medal.[1] In 1954 at the next British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver he won the silver medal in the men's singles.[2] Pirret competed in the men's singles at his third consecutive British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958 at Cardiff, finishing in sixth place.[3]
Pirret won two New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles representing the Tuakau Bowling Club: the men's singles in 1957; and the men's pairs (as skip), with C. J. Rogers, in 1958.[4]
Pirret died on 4 December 1976, and his ashes were buried at Tuakau Cemetery.[5]