Leslie Pinckney Hill (14 May 1880 – 15 February 1960) was an American educator, writer, and community leader.

From 1913 to 1951, he served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and oversaw the institution's move to Cheyney, Pennsylvania, and its establishment as Cheyney State Teachers College.

His family moved to East Orange, New Jersey, where he attended high school.

[4] Hill also wrote poems and essays and published a play about Toussaint L'Ouverture in 1928.

Other notable accomplishments include his founding of the now Charles A Melton Arts & Education Center in 1918.