Basil Edmund "Baz" O'Meara (June 5, 1892 – October 25, 1971), was a Canadian sports journalist.

A columnist for the Montreal Star, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

[3] He was the sports editor of the Ottawa Journal during the 1920s, and mentored his successor Bill Westwick.

Although controversy exists over this claim, he was widely credited with nicknaming Maurice Richard "Rocket".

He had entered the facility roughly one week before, after suffering a heart attack, and never regained consciousness.