Basin (surname)

Basin or Bassin, Slavic feminine: Basina, is a surname of multiple origins. As a Jewish one (may also be transliterated as Bassin), it is a matronymic surname derived from the feminine given name Basia, a diminutive of Barbara. Notable people with the surname include:

• Benjamin Bassin (1944–2018), Finnish official and ambassador
• Elieser Bassin (1840–1898), Russian-Jewish convert to Christianity, and an author and proponent of British Israelism
• Ian Bassin American lawyer, writer, and activist
• Marianna Basina  [ ru ] (1916–1994) Soviet and Russian writer, biographer
• Mark Bassin, American geographer and specialist on Russian and German geopolitics
• Meyer Basin (1890–1918), Russian revolutionary
• Pyotr Basin (1793–1877), Russian religious, history and portrait painter
• Rose Ethel Bassin (1889–1974), Scottish writer, music educator, and folklorist
• Sherwood Bassin, Canadian ice hockey executive
• Thomas Basin (1412–1491), French bishop of Lisieux and historian
• Yakov Basin  [ ru ] (1939–2022), Soviet and Belarusian physician, historian, cultural scientist, publicist and public figure of the Jewish community in Belarus

See also

• All pages with titles containing Basin
• All pages with titles containing Bassin
• All pages with titles containing Basina