Sir George Claus Rankin PC (12 August 1877 – 8 April 1946) was a British judge in India. Rankin was born in Lamington, Lanarkshire, the son of Rev. Robert Rankin. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A., and where his essay on “Democracy in literature” was awarded the Edinburgh University Club of London Triennial Prize in 1898, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn and called to the bar in 1904. He served in the First World War with the Royal Garrison Artillery.