Michael Leigh (born 25 November 1984) is a Canadian sailor, who specialized in one-person (Laser) and two-person dinghy (470) classes.

Leigh has also been training throughout his sailing career for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club under his Australian-born personal coach Joshua Chant.

[1][3] Leigh made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he sailed into the ninth position in the men's Laser class with a grade of 109, missing out of the medal podium by 34 net points and surpassing Norway's Kristian Ruth by a narrow, ten-point gap based on the total score.

[4] At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Leigh teamed up with skipper Luke Ramsay to challenge the men's 470 class after having achieved a berth and finishing twenty-second from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

[5][6] Sailing with Ramsay in the opening series, the Canadian duo posted a grade of 179 net points to earn a twenty-fifth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.