Bryant LeMaire Boatner (9 April 1907 – 16 December 1986) was a United States Air Force Lieutenant general.

His father, Mark Mayo Boatner, graduated from Virginia Military Institute and was a respected lawyer and judge in New Orleans.

He was one of six children: Mark II, Frank, Haydon (who became an Army Major general), Charlotte and Elizabeth (Betty).

After attending flying schools at Brooks and Kelly Fields, Texas, he was transferred to the United States Army Air Corps as a Second lieutenant in November 1929, and assigned as squadron engineering and operations officer at Selfridge Field, Michigan.

In August 1938, he went to the Air Corps Engineering School at Wright Field, Ohio, from which he graduated a year later.

[1] Still at USAF Headquarters, he was appointed assistant deputy chief of staff for personnel and administration, in February 1948.

In April 1961 a private bill was passed by the United States Senate providing for his retirement pay.