Bassingbourne Gawdy (1535 – 20 January 1590), of West Harling, Norfolk, was an English landowner, magistrate and Member of Parliament (MP). He was the second son of Thomas Gawdy (d.1556) of Shotesham and Redenhall, Norfolk, by his father's first wife, Anne, daughter and coheiress of John Bassingbourne of Woodhall, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matriculating in 1545, and trained in the law at the Inner Temple. Bassingbourne Gawdy was buried on 25 January 1589/90 at West Harling.