 Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.His son, also Henry, was to become a senior commander in the British Army during World War I.

Rawlinson was born on 5 April 1810, at the place now known as Chadlington, Oxfordshire, England.