Leevi Lehto (23 February 1951 – 22 June 2019) was a Finnish poet, translator, and programmer.

After making his poetic debut in 1967, he published six volumes of poetry, a novel, Janajevin unet (Yanayev's Dreams, 1991), and an experimental prose work, Päivä (Day, 2004).

He was active in leftist politics (during the 1970s) and worked as a corporate executive in communications industry (during the 1990s).

His translations, more than forty books in total, range from mystery writing to philosophy, sociology, and poetry, including work by Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, George Orwell, Stephen King, Ian McEwan, Josef Skvorecky, Walter Benjamin, John Keats, John Ashbery, Mickey Spillane and Charles Bernstein.

[2] Lehto suffered from the aggressive multiple system atrophy for several years and died on 22 June 2019, aged 68.