Leslie Grade (3 June 1916 – 15 October 1979), born Laszlo (or Lazarus) Winogradsky, was a British theatrical talent agent.

[2] Grade, the youngest of three brothers, was born in London[2] in 1916, four years after his Jewish family had emigrated from Tokmak, Imperial Russia (now Ukraine) in response to pogroms.

[1] While their parents, Isaac and Olga, worked in the textile industry, the brothers left school at the age of 14 to establish themselves in showbusiness.

[1] In the 1950s and 1960s, many artists represented by Grade appeared in the variety show Sunday Night at the London Palladium, broadcast by Lew's ITV franchisee Associated Television (ATV).

[2] Leslie Grade's first wife Lynn Smith left him for the wrestling commentator Kent Walton, whom she married in 1949.