| Leonid Sharayev | |
| Birth Date: | 12 April 1935 |
| Birth Place: | , Beryslav Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality: | Ukrainian |
| Party: | CPSU KPU |
| Office: | First Secretary of the Mykolaiv Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine |
| Term Start: | 16 October 1980 |
| Term End: | 25 May 1990 |
| Education: | Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee Academy, of Sciences |
Leonid Sharayev (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Гаври́лович Шара́єв; 12 April 1935 – 13 December 2021) was a Soviet-Ukrainian politician.[1] A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1957, he served as First Secretary of the Mykolaiv Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1980 to 1990.[2] He was part Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Auditing Commission since 1981.