James Joseph "Father Joe" Devlin (December 27, 1916 – February 25, 1998) was one of the three American Jesuits during the Vietnam War that went to Vietnam to aid refugees. He was important in securing the passage of several thousand Cambodian refugees to America.
In April 1975, Devlin escaped before the fall of Saigon and was evacuated by helicopter to the .
He built an orphanage in Thailand which housed, fed, and schooled several hundred abandoned children.
After his death, his brother Rev. Raymond Ambrose Devlin wrote his biography which he entitled 
"Cha".
Devlin was born in San Francisco, where his family lived at 431 Jersey Street. He died in 1998 in Los Gatos, California.
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