Colonel Lester Bascom Wikoff (1893–1978) served as the fifth Superintendent of Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri, from 1960 to 1971.
He arrived at Wentworth fresh out of college, teaching Latin and English and coaching football, basketball and baseball.
Beyond Wentworth, Wikoff served as president of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce, as district governor of Rotary International, and as an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
He was a district chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, receiving the Silver Beaver Award and being named Chieftain of the Mic-O-Say Tribe.
He also organized one of the first Civil War re-enactments in the United States, when the Wentworth Cadet Corps re-fought the Battle of the Hemp Bales before a huge crowd in Lexington in 1955.