Lucian Louis Watts (1888–1974) was a leader in efforts to improve the social welfare of blind Virginians.

His early years were spent at home on the family farm with his four sisters and one brother, with whom he was initially educated by a governess.

After spending one year at Fork Union Military Academy, he started working as a contractor in railroad construction at the age of 18, rising to be superintendent before he was 21.

[4] He was transported from the rural construction site to the hospital at the University of Virginia, where he spent months recovering before returning to his parents' home.

In 1930, Watts helped to pass a bill that ensured that, if there were six or more students with impaired vision in any county in the state, sight-saving classes were established.

[6] In 1929, Watts married Hazel Birkenmeyer, the first teacher of sight-saving classes for the Virginia Commission for the Blind.

[11] Lucian Louis Watts died at his home on April 30, 1974, and was buried at Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia.