Leighton (surname)
Leighton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Leighton, Scottish physician and pamphleteer
- Alexander H. Leighton, sociologist and psychiatrist
- Bernardo Leighton, Chilean Christian Democrat
- Clare Leighton, EnglishAmerican wood engraver and artist
- David Keller Leighton, Sr., American Episcopalian bishop
- Dorothea Leighton, American social psychiatrist and a founder of the field of medical anthropology
- Edmund Blair Leighton, English painter
- Edward Leighton, several people
- Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, English painter and sculptor
- F. Thomson Leighton, computer scientist and cofounder of Akamai Technologies
- George N. Leighton, American judge
- Baron Leighton of St Mellons, UK peerage title
- Jane Leighton, English healthcare activist and television producer
- Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer
- Kenneth Leighton, English composer
- Laura Leighton, US actor
- Roland Leighton a poet who was killed in the First World War and Vera Brittain's fiancé
- Robert Leighton , Scottish preacher, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, & academic
- Robert Leighton , British author of historical adventure fiction and books about dogs. Father to Clare Leighton and Roland Leighton
- Robert B. Leighton, American physicist
- Robert Leighton , English broadcaster
- Robert Leighton , American writer, puzzle writer and cartoonist
- Robert Leighton, British film editor
- Warner E. Leighton, film editor, mainly for HannaBarbera
- Michael Leighton, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
