Lionel Wordsworth Hinxman FRSE (21 March 1855 – 29 April 1936) was a Scottish geologist who was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Hinxman was born on 21 March 1855 in Dunmore, near Falkirk in Stirlingshire.

Beginning in 1883, he worked for HM Geological Survey alongside John Horne and Ben Peach.

His proposers were James Geikie, John Horne, Ben Peach and Ramsay Heatley Traquair.

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