Boris Petrovitch Babkin FRS,[1] M.D., D.Sc, LL.D (Russian: Бори́с Петро́вич Ба́бкин; 17 January 1877 – 3 May 1950) was a Russian-born physiologist, who worked in Russia, England and Canada.

[2] He held professorships at the Novo-Alexandria Agricultural Institute and the University of Odessa,[3] before being imprisoned and exiled from Russia in 1922, due to his criticism of the October Revolution.

[3] In 1928 Babkin became a research professor at McGill University, Montreal, under Prof John Tait,[6] where he spent the remainder of his career.

[4] In 1950, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] for "his work on the digestive glands, conditioned reflexes and the cortical representation of autonomically innervated organs.

Author of "Die aussere Sekretion der Verdauungsdrusen" and "Secretory Mechanism of the Digestive Glands"" [7] His personal papers are conserved at the McGill University Library in the collections of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine and the McGill University Archives.