Leland Todd Powers (January 28, 1857 – November 27, 1920) was an American performing arts educator, author, and actor.

The family were Christian Scientists,[4] with Carol Hoyt Powers serving a three-year term as Second Reader of The Mother Church in Boston.

In 1893, it was written that, "Leland Powers is small and active, and tropical in temperament, and he dare enact a play with great fidelity.

In 1904, he founded the Leland Powers School of the Spoken Word in Boston, Massachusetts, joining his wife and more than a dozen staff members in teaching 140 students annually.

Powers' pedagogy was credited as "offering a more holistic answer to the actor's problems," similar to his contemporary, Charles Wesley Emerson.