Rae Else-Mitchell CMG, QC (20 September 1914 – 29 June 2006) was an Australian jurist, royal commissioner, historian and legal scholar.
He was an active member and office bearer in a number of community organisations concerned with history, the arts, libraries, medicine, education, financial and public administration, and town planning.
His obituary in The Times (London) described him as being "among Australia's cleverest postwar judges and administrators, accomplishing two distinguished careers of almost equal length.
He relinquished his practice during World War II to become Secretary of the Commonwealth Rationing Commission from 1943 to 1945.
He was counsel for the Commonwealth and New South Wales governments in a number of Privy Council appeals from 1950 to 1956.
[2][4][5] Else-Mitchell died at Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, on 29 June 2006, survived by his second wife, Margaret, and their daughter, Rosamund.