Basin (surname)
Basin or Bassin, Slavic feminine: Basina, is a surname of multiple origins. As a Jewish one, it is a matronymic surname derived from the feminine given name Basia, a diminutive of Barbara. Notable people with the surname include:
- Benjamin Bassin, Finnish official and ambassador
- Elieser Bassin, Russian-Jewish convert to Christianity, and an author and proponent of British Israelism
- Ian Bassin American lawyer, writer, and activist
- Soviet and Russian writer, biographer
- Mark Bassin, American geographer and specialist on Russian and German geopolitics
- Meyer Basin, Russian revolutionary
- Pyotr Basin, Russian religious, history and portrait painter
- Rose Ethel Bassin, Scottish writer, music educator, and folklorist
- Sherwood Bassin, Canadian ice hockey executive
- Thomas Basin, French bishop of Lisieux and historian
- , Soviet and Belarusian physician, historian, cultural scientist, publicist and public figure of the Jewish community in Belarus
- Max Bassin, American musician and drummer for New York-based art rock band Geese