Leighton (surname)

Leighton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Alexander Leighton (1587–1644), Scottish physician and pamphleteer
 * Alexander H. Leighton (1908–2007), sociologist and psychiatrist
 * Amanda Leighton (born 1993), American actress
 * Baron Leighton of St Mellons, UK peerage title
 * Bernardo Leighton, Chilean Christian Democrat
 * Clare Leighton (1898–1989), English-American wood engraver and artist
 * David Keller Leighton, Sr. (1922–2013), American Episcopalian bishop
 * Dorothea Leighton (1908–1989), American social psychiatrist and a founder of the field of medical anthropology
 * Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922), English painter
 * Edward Leighton (disambiguation), several people
 * F. Thomson Leighton, computer scientist and co-founder of Akamai Technologies
 * Florence Winsome Leighton (born 1948), the birth name of British television presenter Wincey Willis
 * Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), English painter and sculptor
 * George N. Leighton (1912–2018), American judge
 * Isabel Leighton (1899-1995), American actress and playwright
 * Jane Leighton, English healthcare activist and television producer
 * Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer
 * Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988), British composer
 * Laura Leighton (born 1968), US actor
 * Michael Leighton (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * Roland Leighton (1895–1915), British poet and soldier who was killed in the First World War, and Vera Brittain's fiancé
 * Robert Leighton (author) (1858–1934), British author of historical adventure fiction and books about dogs. Father to Clare Leighton (1898–1989) and Roland Leighton (1985–1915)
 * Robert Leighton (bishop) (1611–1684), Scottish preacher, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, & academic
 * Robert Leighton (broadcaster) (1956–2008), English broadcaster
 * Robert Leighton (cartoonist) (born 1960), American writer, puzzle writer and cartoonist
 * Robert Leighton (film editor), British film editor
 * Robert B. Leighton (1919–1997), American physicist
 * Warner E. Leighton, film editor, mainly for Hanna-Barbera