| Lamar Leachman | |
| Position: | Center |
| Birth Date: | 7 August 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Cartersville, Georgia, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 1 |
| Weight Lbs: | 220 |
| High School: | Cartersville (GA) |
| College: | Tennessee |
| Draftyear: | 1955 |
| Draftround: | 30 |
| Draftpick: | 360 |
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Lamar Leachman (August 7, 1932 – October 27, 2012) was an American football coach. He served as an assistant coach for the Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes, New York Giants and Detroit Lions.[1] He was the defensive line coach when the Giants won Super Bowl XXI.[2]
He died on October 27, 2012, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at age 80.[3] His death from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was chronicled in The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen: A Daughter's Tale of Family and Football, a 2018 memoir about growing up in the South with a football coach father authored by Duke University economics professor Lori Leachman.[4]