Nicholas Morpeth Hutchinson Lightfoot FRSE (1902–1962) was a British mathematician and academic administrator.
He was born in Jarrow in north-east England on 14 October 1902, the son of Thomas Lightfoot.
He was educated locally, but excelled, winning a place at Cambridge University where he graduated BA in 1923 and continued as a postgraduate, gaining a further MA.
In 1929 he began lecturing in mathematics at Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh.
His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, James Cameron Smail, Sir Charles Galton Darwin, and Edward Thomas Copson.