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

People

* Bob Leakey (1914–2013), inventor, potholer and cave diver *

Caroline Leakey Caroline Woolmer Leakey (8 March 1827 – 12 July 1881) was an English writer, whose poetry and only novel (''The Broad Arrow'', published using the pen name Oliné Keese) were influenced and based on her experience living in Van Diemen's Land (n ...

(1827–1881), English writer * Colin Leakey (born 1933), English botanist *

David Leakey Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant General Arundell David Leakey, (born 18 May 1952) is a former British Army officer. He was Director General of the European Union Military Staff in the Council of the European Union, Brussels. In ...

(born 1952), British Army general *

James Leakey James Leakey (1775–1865) was an English landscape and portrait artist. Life Born on 20 September 1775 in Exeter, Devon, he was the son of John Leakey, who was in the wool trade. At the time of Sir Joshua Reynolds's death he was about to becom ...

(1775–1866), English landscape and portrait painter *

Joshua Leakey Colour Sergeant Joshua Mark Leakey (born 1988) is a British soldier currently serving in the Parachute Regiment. In 2015, Leakey was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the British and Commonwealth armed f ...

(born c. 1988), British recipient of the Victoria Cross *

Louis Leakey Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai ...

(1903–1972), Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist *

Louise Leakey Princess Louise de Merode (''née'' Leakey, born 21 March 1972) is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist. She conducts research and field work on human fossils in Eastern Africa. Early life and education Louise Leakey was born in Nairobi, ...

(born 1972), Kenyan paleontologist *

Mary Leakey Mary Douglas Leakey, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised ''Proconsul (mammal), Proconsul'' skull, an extinct ape which is now ...

(1913–1996), British paleoanthropologist *

Meave Leakey Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute. She studies early hominid evolution and has ...

(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 Philip Leakey (born 21 June 1949 in Nairobi) is a former Kenyan politician. He was the first White member of the Kenyan Parliament since independence. Career Leakey represented the KANU party led by then president Daniel Arap Moi. He was a ...

(born 1949), Kenyan politician * Rea Leakey (1915–1999), British Army major-general *

Richard Leakey Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife cons ...

(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'' {{surname, Leakey