Hezekiah Augur (February 21, 1791 – January 10, 1858) was an early American sculptor and inventor.

[1] The son of a carpenter, he learned his trade as a woodcarver, carving table legs and other furniture ornament.

Borrowing $2,000 from his father, he was invited to join a grocery store business venture.

While thus engaged he invented a lace-making machine that lifted the financial burdens that he had assumed and thus allowed him to take up carving full-time.

A portrait of Alexander Metcalf Fisher (c. 1827) and a neo-classical grouping, Jephthah and His Daughter (c. 1832), are in the Yale University art collection, and in 1833 Auger received an honorary degree from Yale University.