Charles Leonard Huskins (November 30, 1897 – July 26, 1953) was an English-born Canadian geneticist who specialized in the field of cytogenetics.
Huskins was born in Walsall, England, and moved with his family at the age of 9 to Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
Huskins stayed on in England from 1927 to 1930 to do research with the renowned geneticist William Bateson at what is now the John Innes Centre.
In 1942-1943 Huskins spent a year at Columbia University on a Guggenheim Fellowship he was awarded "to prepare a book on the cytology and genetics of plants, animals and man.
At the Innes Centre he studied a species of the grass Spartina (cordgrass) and showed that a suspected hybrid had undergone chromosome doubling in the course of evolution, one of the first demonstrations of this phenomenon.