Erna Lesky (22 May 1911 – 17 November 1986) was an Austrian pediatrician and historian of medicine.
After graduating in 1931 from the Graz Academic Gymnasium, she became a medical student at the University of Vienna, and earned her M.D.
[1] After the war, she returned to graduate study in history and philology at the University of Vienna.
She finished her doctoral dissertation in 1950 and published it in 1951 through the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, but the official date of her promotion was delayed until 1956.
In 1973 she was elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and in 1976 she was the winner of the Karl Sudhoff Plakette of the German Society for the History of Medicine.