Leigh (name)

Leigh (/liː/ LEE) is both an English surname and a unisex given name meaning "meadow" and "delicate".

Surname

• Leigh (surname)

Given name

• Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe (born 1995), Irish rugby sevens and union player
• Leigh Alexander (1898–1943), British army officer and cricketer
• Leigh Alexander (journalist) (born 1981), American author and journalist
• Leigh Daniel Avidan (born 1979), lead singer of Ninja Sex Party, Shadow Academy, and co-host of Game Grumps
• Leigh-Allyn Baker (born 1972), American actress
• Leigh Bardugo (born 1975), American writer
• Leigh Brackett (1915–1978), American science-fiction writer
• Leigh Brewer (1933–2013), New Zealand dancer and choreographer
• Leigh Broxham (born 1988), Australian footballer
• Leigh Davis (poet) (1955–2009), New Zealand-based writer
• Leigh Diffey (born 1971), Australian-American commentator
• Leigh Francis (born 1973), English comedian
• Leigh Griffiths (born 1990), Scottish footballer
• Leigh Halfpenny (born 1988), Welsh rugby union player
• Leigh Hart (born 1970), New Zealand comedian and radio show host
• Leigh Ann Hester (born 1982), American soldier and Silver Star recipient
• Leigh Hulsey, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
• Leigh Hunt (born 1784, died 1859) English poet
• Leigh Kavanagh (born 2005), Irish footballer
• Leigh G. Kirkland (1873–1942), New York politician
• Leigh Lawson (born 1945), English actor and director
• Leigh Leigh (1975–1989), Australian murder victim
• Leigh McCloskey (born 1955), American actor
• Leigh Nash (born 1976), American singer-songwriter
• Leigh Ann Orsi (born 1981), American dancer and former actress
• Leigh-Anne Pinnock (born 1991), Bajan and Jamaican singer-songwriter from Little Mix
• Leigh Richmond (1911–1995), American writer
• Leigh Rubin, American cartoonist (Rubes)
• Leigh Sales (born 1973), Australian author and journalist
• Leigh Taylor-Young (born 1945), American actress
• Leigh Whannell (born 1977), Australian screenwriter
• Leigh Wood, English boxer

Fictional characters

• Amyas Leigh, fictional character from Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho!
• Leigh Cabot, fictional character in the Stephen King novel Christine and its film adaptation
• Sir Leigh Teabing, fictional character in the popular 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on it
• Brenda Leigh Johnson, fictional character in the American television police procedural The Closer, played by Kyra Sedgwick