Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez (25 August 1853 – 15 July 1883), was a Peruvian soldier and adventurer who participated in various military actions against Spain; in Cuba and the Philippines in the 1870s.

He was son of the then colonel Mariano Ignacio Prado (later general and president of Peru in the periods 1865-1868 and 1876-1879) and María Avelina Gutiérrez.

At the age of thirteen he left his school to fight against the Spaniards in the squadron that sailed to the south of Chile and participated in the Battle of Abtao, where he was promoted to guardiamarina.

In November 1876, almost without weapons or ammunition, Leoncio Prado and ten other men captured the Spanish steam Moctezuma, with the objective of taking the war to the sea.

In 1877, he organized an expedition with the aim of achieving the independence of the Philippines from Spain, but the attempt failed because his ship sank in a storm near China, from which he managed to save himself.