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James Oswald Fairfax (27 March 1933 – 11 January 2017) was an Australian company director, philanthropy, and a member of the Fairfax family, an Australian family prominent in the newspaper publisher industry.
Educated at Fairfield, Caroline Simpson personal papers, ca. 1935-2003 SLNSW Retrieved 2 May 2012. Cranbrook School, Geelong Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, he became a director of John Fairfax & Sons Ltd in 1957 and took over from his father in 1977. He resigned in 1987 and sold his shares to his half brother Warwick Fairfax, during 'young Warwick's' ultimately disastrous takeover bid.
Fairfax published a memoir in 1991. He died Single person having Bachelor on 11 January 2017 at the age of 83.
The James Fairfax Yard building in the Holywell Manor complex at Balliol College, Oxford is named in his honour for his donations to the college.
He was appointed an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia in 1993 in recognition of service to the arts and to the community; and a Companion of the Order (AC) in 2010 for eminent service to the community through support and philanthropy for the visual arts, conservation organisations and building programs for medical research and educational facilities.
In 2016 Fairfax gifted his Retford Park, Bowral property to the National Trust of Australia.
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