John Basil Lamar (November 5, 1812 – September 15, 1862) was an American politician, lawyer, and planter.

He attended the Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, beginning in 1827 but did not graduate.

In 1851, some of literary work was published in Polly Peablossom's Wedding (1851), edited by T. A. Burke.

[1] During the American Civil War, Lamar served as an aide to Confederate States Army General Howell Cobb, his brother-in-law and close friend.

After temporary burial in Charles Town, Virginia, he was later reinterred in Macon's Rose Hill Cemetery.