Brigadier Lionel Peter Collins, CB CSI DSO OBE (27 November 1878 – 28 September 1957) was an English cricketer and British Indian Army officer.

Born in Reading, Collins was educated at Marlborough College, a public school in Wiltshire, and first played minor counties cricket for his native Berkshire in 1897.

In 1904, playing for a Gurkha Brigade team, he made two centuries in the same match, and repeated this achievement twice in the span of ten days: a feat described by Wisden as "quite without parallel in the history of the game".

[1] Collins made his final first-class appearances before the First World War, playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club, for the Army and Navy, and for the Free Foresters.

[10][11] Collins toured India with a Gurkha Brigade cricket team in February 1904 and three times in ten days made two centuries in the same match.

[1] Collins returned to England in 1907, when he played eight first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), including two on their 1907 tour of North America.

[5] Collins served with the Gurkhas in the First World War, during which he received the Distinguished Service Order in May 1915 for gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack on a German trench during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.

[18] Shortly after the conclusion of the war, he was again made a temporary lieutenant colonel while in change of a battalion in January 1919,[19] but relinquished the rank the following month.

[27][28] For conspicuous gallantry throughout the campaign, especially on 12th March, 1915, when he took the initiative with his Company in the attack at Bios de Biez and captured a German trench, took 100 prisoners, killing or wounding a considerable number of the remainder of the occupants.