Russell Basser (born 20 March 1960) is an Australian former water polo player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
[1] He is Jewish, and played in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in the 1980s.
[2] In 1985 he was named the Australian Jewish Sportsman of the Year.
[5] He graduated from the University of Melbourne in Medicine, trained as an oncologist and worked in academic medicine at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Western Hospitals.
[5] This biographical article relating to an Australian water polo figure is a stub.