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James Francis Burke (8 April 1895 – 28 December 1987) was an Irish hurler, Gaelic footballer and revolutionary. His championship career as a dual player with the Dublin senior teams spanned ten years from 1917 until 1927.
Burke enjoyed his first successes in competitive hurling and football during his studies at University College Dublin. A regular on the university's inter-varsities team he won five Sigerson Cup medals and four Fitzgibbon Cup medals between 1915 and 1924.
At club level Burke played with the Colegians team. As a hurler he won three successive county senior championship medals from 1917 to 1919.
Burke made his debut on the inter-county scene in 1914 when he was selected for the Dublin junior team. He won an All-Ireland medal that year before collecting a second in 1916. Burke subsequently joined the Dublin senior teams in both codes, making his debut in 1917. Over the course of the next decade he became one of the greatest and most successful dual players of all time, winning All-Ireland medals as a hurler in 1917 and 1920 before collecting three successive All-Ireland medals as a footballer from 1921 to 1923. Burke also won a total of nine Leinster medals. He played his last game for Dublin during the 1927 championship.