James Innell Packer (1926–2020) was an English-born Canadian evangelical theologian and author who worked within the Anglican and Calvinist traditions. He is best known for his 1973 book Knowing God, as well as his work as an editor for the English Standard Version of the Bible. Packer served on the advisory board of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and his final teaching position was as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.