Basil Charles Elwell French (1919 - 11 September 2014) was a British Anglican priest who ministered in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Born in the United Kingdom, he was educated at Edinburgh Theological College and was ordained a priest in 1946. He moved to Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), in 1957, before relocating to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, where he ministered to railway workers across southern Africa. In the 1960s, he served as priest in charge of parishes in the Mashonaland region and was Archdeacon of the Great Dyke. He also served as a prison chaplain and a Rhodesian Army chaplain, earning a . He left Zimbabwe and returned to England in 1985, where he ministered into his 90s.