Basil Arthur Helmore OBE (28 February 1897 – 4 November 1973) was an Australian solicitor and businessman.
Born at Newcastle to company secretary Ernest Arthur James Helmore and Gertrude, née Allbon, he attended local state schools and in 1913 was first in the state in French and Latin for the Leaving certificate.
After training in England he was sent to the Western Front with the 4th Field Artillery Brigade in August 1917; in October 1918 he began work with the AIF Education Scheme and returned to Sydney in June 1919.
Helmore also edited four legal textbooks and qualified by correspondence for his Bachelor of Law (1933) and PhD (1955) from the University of London.
In 1960 he was elected to the council of the University of Newcastle, which he had helped found; he was later deputy chairman (1965–66) and warden of convocation (1967).