| Sport: | Water polo |
| Birth Date: | 20 March 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Melbourne, Australia |
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.[3] He was a torchbearer in Australia for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.[4]
Basser went to Caulfield Grammar from 1972-77.[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] He later joined biopharmaceutical company CSL Limited, where he was in charge of clinical trials and later was in charge of vaccine research and Development.[5] He retired in 2022.[5]