Gleason is a masculine given name borne by:
Gleason Archer Sr. (1880–1966), founder and first president of Suffolk University and Suffolk Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, writer and radio broadcaster Gleason Archer Jr. (1916–2004), American biblical scholar, theologian, educator and author, son of the above Gleason Belzile (1898–1950), Canadian politician Gleason Fournier (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey player