Leslie Hilton Brown OBE (25 August 1917 – 6 August 1980) was a British agriculturalist and naturalist. Brown was born in Coonoor, India to a Scottish family in 1917, the son of Hilton Brown, novelist, biographer and BBC radio producer. He was educated at Oundle School and St Andrews University where he studied zoology. He then studied courses in tropical agriculture at Cambridge University and the Imperial College of Agriculture in Trinidad. He later earned a PhD from St Andrews in 1973. Obituaries were published in British Birds, Scopus, The Ibis, Scottish Birds, and Raptor Research.