Cecil Newman (July 25, 1903[1] – February 8, 1976)[2] was an American civic leader and prominent businessman in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He was a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a union that made major strides against segregation in the 1930s and 1940s, before the modern Civil Rights Movement.

[3] Cecil Newman was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on 25 July 1903.

[6] After Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis was blocked by construction of a Kmart at Lake Street, a one block long, one-way street was added in order to allow north bound traffic from 1st Avenue South to get over to Nicollet; it was named Cecil Newman Lane.

In 2015, the Spokesman-Recorder' celebrated its eightieth anniversary and its building was designated a historic landmark.