Eliyahu Lankin (Hebrew: אליהו לנקין, 25 September 1914 – 10 August 1994) was a Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun member and an Israeli politician.

Eliyahu Lankin was born in Gomel, and moved with his family to Manchuria at the age of three in the wake of the October Revolution.

As an Irgun member, he participated in landing illegal Jewish immigrants on Palestine's Mediterranean coast.

[3] In 1983, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin named Lankin ambassador to the United Kingdom.

The British government was outraged over his selection due to his Irgun past, and warned that it would harm Anglo-Israeli relations.