Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930^[1]) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed in August 1979.^[2] Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Computing Laboratory of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined the Computing Laboratory in 1964. Before that, since 1951, he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Dunfermline.^[2]

He has written four books in computer science and combinatorics. His book Comparative Programming Languages was regarded among the major textbooks on programming languages^[3] and has received positive reviews since its first edition.^[4] This book was translated into French in its second edition.^[5] As a researcher, he is best known for his contributions to extensions of the stable marriage problem.^[6][7]

He was the doctoral advisor of Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter.^[8]

Leslie Blackett Wilson got a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Durham University in 1951 and a D.Sc. degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980.^[1]

• Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Comparative programming languages (second ed.). Boston, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-201-56885-1.. Translated into French.^[5]
• Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1983). Information Representation and Manipulation Using Pascal. Cambridge Computer Science Texts. Vol. 15. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-521-24954-6.
• Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1979). An introduction to computational combinatorics. Cambridge Computer Science Texts. Vol. 9. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-521-29492-8.
• Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1978). Information, Representation and Manipulation in a Computer (second ed.). New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29357-0.