Yeshwant S. Bakhle (born 1936), is a British pharmacologist.

Bakhle studied chemistry, with supplementary chemical pharmacology, in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, later obtaining both a DPhil and, in 1993, a DSc there.^[1]

He spent two years at Yale University as a Fulbright Fellow, then in 1965 obtained a position at the Royal College of Surgeons' Department of Pharmacology under John Vane.^[1][2] He was appointed reader in biochemical pharmacology there in 1980.^[1]

Later in his career, he moved to the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, as a senior research fellow, a position which became honorary upon his retirement.^[1][3]

He served as a senior editor at the British Journal of Pharmacology from 2001 to 2006, and was subsequently press editor there.^[1]

He became an Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society in 2002.^[2]