Elbert Luther Little, Jr. (born October 15, 1907 in Fort Smith, Arkansas; died June 23, 2004) was an American botanist whose career spanned 70 years and largely concerned forest botany. Although he was born in Arkansas, and died in Oregon, he lived in Muskogee, Oklahoma from the age of two. In life he was honored by the Oklahoma Forestry Association and the Oklahoma Academy of Science.