Dovid Leibowitz (1889-1941) was a leading rabbi and disciple of prewar Europe's Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania who went on to found the Rabbinical Seminary of America, better known today as "Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen" or the "Chofetz Chaim yeshiva", as its first rosh yeshiva (dean) in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York.