| Jim Barrett | |
| Full Name: | James Barrett |
| Birth Date: | 3 March 1888 |
| Birth Place: | Paeroa, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | Hamilton, New Zealand |
| Position: | Loose forward |
| Repyears1: | 1913 |
| Repcaps1: | 2 |
| Reppoints1: | 0 |
James Barrett (3 March 1888 — 31 August 1971) was a New Zealand rugby union international.
Barrett, known as "Buster", was born in Paeroa, where he attended St Joseph's Catholic School.[1] He moved to Auckland as a teenager to become an apprentice wheelwright and played his rugby for the city's Marist club.[2] [3]
A loose forward, Barrett was capped twice by the All Blacks in 1913, as a flanker for the 2nd and 3rd Tests against the touring Australians. He made one further All Blacks appearance, an uncapped match on the 1914 tour of Australia.[3]
Barrett served with the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment in Egypt during World War I.[3]