Leakey (surname)

Leakey is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Bob Leakey (1914–2013), inventor, potholer and cave diver
• Caroline Leakey (1827–1881), English writer
• Colin Leakey (born 1933), English botanist
• David Leakey (born 1952), British Army general
• James Leakey (1775–1866), English landscape and portrait painter
• Joshua Leakey (born c. 1988), British recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Louis Leakey (1903–1972), Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist
• Louise Leakey (born 1972), Kenyan paleontologist
• Mary Leakey (1913–1996), British paleoanthropologist
• Meave Leakey (born 1942), British paleontologist
• Nigel Gray Leakey (1913–1941), Kenyan recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Phil Leakey (1908–1992), British make-up artist
• Philip Leakey (born 1949), Kenyan politician
• Rea Leakey (1915–1999), British Army major-general
• Richard Leakey (1944–2022), Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist

Fictional characters

• Mr. Leakey, a magician in J. B. S. Haldane's 1937 children's book My Friend Mr Leakey