Letya Zeya Thingyan (, ) was governor of Toungoo (Taungoo) from 1408/09 to 1412.Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 26
Brief Born Khin Nyo, he was a childhood tutor of King Minkhaung I of Ava. Minkhaung appointed him governor of Toungoo in 1408/09 to replace Min Nemi, who had just died.Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 235Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 1
His appointment came at the height of the Forty Years' War against the Hanthawaddy kingdom. He commanded the Toungoo Regiment in the 1410–1412 campaigns of the war. During the war in early 1411, he was appointed governor of Launggyet, the capital of Arakan.Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 28–29Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 237–238Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 5–6 He was driven out of Launggyet a year later by a Hanthawaddy army.Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 30Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 6–7Pan Hla 2005: 274
At Ava, Minkhaung moved Letya to Pyinzi because the king was concerned that Letya was getting too old to be governor of Toungoo, a frontier town, during the war. He lost his Pyinzi post in 1426 when the new king Mohnyin Thado appointed his son-in-law Thihapate governor of Pyinzi.Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 61
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