Leonard Gaston Broughton (December 5, 1865 – February 22, 1936) was a fundamentalist Baptist minister and medical doctor.

[3] His father was a poor farmer who served as an officer in the 26th North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, was captured by Union troops at the Battle of Gettysburg, and was held prisoner until the end of the war.

[1] After his return from the war, the family moved to Raleigh where the children, including Len, were schooled via the aid of a wealthy uncle, Needham B. Broughton.

Broughton attended Wake Forest College with his brother Charlie[1] though he did not graduate due to illness.

[1] He moved to Wilson County, North Carolina to practice medicine and it was there that he met his wife Roxana Barnes.

He had been in Atlanta only a short while when he started a project to build a much larger facility for the congregation, nearer to the center of town, to be known as the Tabernacle.

Broughton had a long and successful tenure as pastor of this church,[7] creating many new programs including Tabernacle Infirmary in 1901 (which would later become Georgia Baptist Hospital) and the largest Bible Conference in the South at the time.