Leech (surname)
Leech is an English surname, originally denoting a physician.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Allen Leech, Irish stage, television and film actor
- Andrew Leech, English cricketer
- Faith Leech, Australian freestyle swimmer
- Fred Leech, English footballer
- Geoffrey Leech, specialist in English language and linguistics
- George L. Leech, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- George Leech (actor), British actor and stunt performer
- Gwyneth Leech, American artist
- Haliburton Hume Leech, Royal Air Force aviator, air racer and test pilot
- James Russell Leech, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Kenneth Leech, Anglican priest and Christian socialist
- Noyes Leech, American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Margaret Leech, American historian and fiction writer
- Michelle Leech, Australian academic clinician-scientist and rheumatologist
- Richard Leech, Irish actor
- Richard Leech (tenor), American operatic tenor
- Ryan Leech, Canadian trials mountain bike rider
- Samuel Leech, sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812
- William John Leech, Irish painter