Wilfrid Laurier Heighington,[2] KC (July 30, 1897 – 23 March 1945)[3] was a Canadian soldier, writer, lawyer and politician.

[4] Heighington attended Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, leaving in 1915 to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I.

[1] He became a lawyer following the war, was called to the bar in 1920, and was appointed King's Counsel eleven years later.

[6] He was re-elected in 1934 despite the province wide landslide that brought the Ontario Liberal Party to power under Mitchell Hepburn.

Heighington was a prolific writer authoring articles and poems for Saturday Night, The Star Weekly and other periodicals, many of which were reissued in a book, Whereas and Whatnot (1934).