Leonard H. Lesko

Leonard H. Lesko, born , is an American egyptologist. He was the chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University and held the Charles Edwin Wilbour professorship. In 1961, he received a B.A. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago, and his masters in 1964. In 1969, he received a Ph.D. in "Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations-Egyptology" at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Brown faculty in 1982, he held various teaching positions at University of California-Berkeley.

Lesko is an expert in Egyptian languages including Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic . He has also studied the Coffin Texts, the Book of the Dead and Deir el-Medina . Along with his wife, Barbara Lesko, he edited A Dictionary of Late Egyptian.

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