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