Samuel Edward Lichtenhein (October 24, 1870 – June 21, 1936) was an American-Canadian businessman and sports executive.

[2] Lichtenhein bought a share of the Montreal Wanderers from Eddie McCaffery in December 1910, and became its president.

Lichtenhein had trouble icing a full team as players enlisted to fight.

This was compounded in 1917 when Lichtenhein and the other NHA owners folded the league and founded the NHL.

[5] Lichtenhein was later quoted as stating that he lost over $150,000 in the last five years of owning the Royals and Wanderers.

[citation needed] In 1917, he led the campaign to kick Eddie Livingstone and his Toronto Blueshirts out of the NHA for "unethical business practices".

One of his father's department stores was destroyed in the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, after which the family moved to Montreal.