Sir John Rankine of Bassendean FRSE (18 February 1846 – 8 August 1922) was a Scottish legal author.

He was born in the manse at Sorn in Ayrshire on 18 February 1846, the son of Very Rev Dr John Rankine DD, the local minister, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1883, and his wife Jane Simpson (1795-1879).

His proposers were Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Alexander Crum Brown, Lord Kinnear, and Robert Flint.

[5] He died at Threepwood in Roxburghshire on 8 August 1922 and was buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.

The grave lies in the first northern extension attaching to the original cemetery, facing south onto the central east–west path.