Leslie Richard Sillitoe (August 1915 – 10 October 1996) was a British trade union leader and politician. Sillitoe served in the British Army during World War II and took part in the Normandy Landings. After the war, he found work at the Campbell Tile Factory in Stoke on Trent, and joined the National Society of Pottery Workers (NSPW). Sillitoe retired from his trade union posts in 1980, and was Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent in 1981/82. He was made a freeman of the city, and in 1976 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.