Payne Harry Ratner (October 3, 1896 – December 27, 1974) was an American lawyer serving as the 28th governor of Kansas from 1939 to 1943.

Born in Casey, Illinois, Ratner graduated from Blackwell High School in Oklahoma.

[3] Winning the 1938 Republican gubernatorial nomination and the election, Ratner was sworn in as Governor of Kansas on January 9, 1939.

Although he was a deacon in the Disciples of Christ church, because his father was Jewish Ratner was subjected to a vicious antisemitic campaign during the 1938 gubernatorial election.

The Marysville Advocate-Democrat called him "a tricky little Jew with just enough Aryan blood in his veins to camouflage his racial background and make him a welcome visitor in most any kind of respectable company.