Lees (surname)

Lees is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andrew Lees (environmentalist) (1949–1994), British environmentalist
• Andrew Lees (neurologist) (born 1947), English neurologist
• Benjamin Lees (1924–2010), American classical music composer
• Brian Lees (born 1923), Massachusetts politician
• Charles Lees (1837–1892), British colonial administrator and governor
• Edwin Lees (1800–1887), British botanist and antiquarian
• Gabriel Lees (born 1990), French-British ski mountaineer
• Geoffrey Lees (born 1920), English cricketer
• George Harmon Lees (fl. 1911–1912), mayor of Hamilton, Ontario
• Harcourt Lees (1776–1852), Irish political pamphleteer
• Harrington Clare Lees (1870–1929), Anglican archbishop of Melbourne
• James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English writer and expert on country houses
• Jim Lees (1919–2004), Commissioner of the New South Wales Police
• Joanne Lees (born 1973), girlfriend of Peter Falconio (murder victim)
• Meg Lees (born 1948), member of the Australian Senate
• Merv Lees, Australian rugby league footballer
• Nathaniel Lees (born ?), New Zealand born actor and theatre director
• Paris Lees, British journalist and activist
• Robert Lees (1912–2004), American television and film screenwriter
• Robert Lees (linguist) (1922–1996), American linguist
• Robert James Lees (1849–1931) British spiritualist and medium
• Simon Lees (born 1970), Welsh guitarist
• Tom Lees (born 1990), English footballer
• Walter Lees (1875–1924), English Test cricketer
• Walter Edwin Lees (1887–1957), American aviator
• Warren Lees (born 1952), New Zealand Test cricketer