LeRoy Perry Samse (September 13, 1883 – May 1, 1956) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault.

[1] Samse attended Kokomo High School from 1899 to 1902, before enrolling at Indiana University where he was reportedly introduced to the pole vault by coach James H.

[2][3] Samse was acknowledged for having set a world record in the pole vault at a Western Intercollegiate Conference meet in Evanston, Illinois on June 2, 1906.

[4] His vault of 12' 4 7/8" beat the mark of 12' 3" set three days earlier in New York by Alfred Carlton Gilbert of Yale University.

In 1920 he was hired as Physical Education director in the Los Angeles school system.