Tobias Lear V (born 1762 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire - died October 11 1816 in Washington, D.C.) was an American who served as President George Washington's personal secretary. Lear would serve as Washington's secretary from 1784 until Washington's death in 1799. Through Lear's journal entries, we receive the account of Washington's final moments and his last words: 'Tis well.

Tobias Lear also served as President Thomas Jefferson's peace envoy in the Mediterranean during the Barbary Wars and was responsible for concluding a peace that ended the first Barbary War.