Leopoldo Navarro (1862 – July 12, 1908) was a Dominican Republic painter, educator, mathematician, and sculptor born in Santo Domingo in 1862.

The son of a Dominican mother and Spanish father, at seven years old he became an orphan and entered in San Luis Gonzaga School, founded by the religious philanthropist Priest Francisco Xavier Billini, who became his guardian and mentor.

The young Navarro participated in the pioneering Art Salon of 1890, organized by the Friends of the Country Society, exhibiting an oil landscape.

[4] Throughout the last decade of the 19th century, Navarro's activism revolved around developments in teaching and art; upon the death of his mentor, Father Billini (1896), he immersed himself fully in the San Luis Gonzaga School, of which he was a full professor of various practical and theoretical subjects, also participating as newspaper editor of the campus paper, El Colegial (1895).

[4] He had already joined the Friends of the Country Society (1894) and had established his Academy of Drawing and Painting (1893), assuming chairs at the Professional Institute and, simultaneously, in the Directorate of the Normal School.