Leonora Howard King (April 17, 1851 – June 30, 1925) was a Canadian physician and medical missionary who spent 47 years practising medicine in China.

[7] She took up her residence alongside Lucinda L. Combs, the first female physician to serve in China stationed by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society in Peking around August 1887.

On Lady Li's recovery, she remained in Tianjin, in practice with the use of a temple being given to her for the purpose.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, Dr. Howard opened her hospital to wounded soldiers as opposed to women and children.

[3] At the close of the war, King the first Western woman, was made a Mandarin[specify] an honour of the Imperial Chinese Order of the Double Dragon.