The Last of the True Believers is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Nanci Griffith, released in 1986 by Philo Records.

It also includes two songs which were later hits for Kathy Mattea, "Love at the Five and Dime" from Walk the Way the Wind Blows (1986) and "Goin' Gone", her first number one, from Untasted Honey (1987).

A couple can be seen dancing behind Griffith standing in front of a Woolworth's store as described in "Love at the Five and Dime".

The man standing at far left is John T. Davis, at the time a music writer for the Austin American-Statesman.

On the front cover, she is holding a copy of The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto.