Leslie Finlay Crisp (19 January 1917 – 21 December 1984) was an Australian academic and political scientist.
[3][4] Educated at Black Rock State School, Caulfield Grammar School and St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he graduated in 1934, Crisp earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and history from the University of Adelaide.
[5][6] In 1949, Crisp published his MA thesis from the University of Adelaide as The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Widely prescribed as a politics textbook, it was expanded and renamed Australian National Government in 1965.
In 2005, Crisp and his wife were two of the first 17 inductees in the Australian Capital Territory Honour Walk, recognising their contribution to the development of Canberra.