Yevgeny Borisovich Rein (Russian: Евгений Борисович Рейн; born 29 December 1935 in Leningrad,[1] now Saint Petersburg) is a Russian poet and writer, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997).

In 1960s, along with Joseph Brodsky, Dmitri Bobyshev, and Anatoly Naiman, he was one of the Akhmatova's Orphans, a well-known poetic group from Leningrad.

His poems were published in samizdat and Soviet underground papers.

His first book was published in 1984 (The Names of Bridges) after a "careful" censorship.

A well-known poet and free-thinker, the elder friend of Joseph Brodsky and Sergei Dovlatov, he became a member of Russian Writer's Union only in 1987, during perestroika.