Leon Marie Hubert (Leo) Penders (Voerendaal, July 1, 1914 - Bergen-Belsen, April 24, 1945) was a Dutch chaplain and resistance fighter.

Penders, the chaplain of Gulpen, was one of the founders of the resistance department LO (Limburg Submerged Organization, joined the National Organization) in Gulpen and was involved in various resistance activities such as housing people in hiding and helping to maintain the pilot line with which English and American pilots who came from the north of the Netherlands were channeled to the free part of France.

After his resistance group was betrayed by the infiltration of a German provocateur who posed as a German non-commissioned officer who was tired of war and supposedly wanted to go into hiding, he was arrested at home on July 21, 1944 and taken to the Maastricht police station. Ten other leaders from the Gulpen District were arrested with him as a result of this action, which would later become known as De Slap van Wittem. From here he was transferred to the concentration camp in Vught on August 1, together with eight other priests who were with him in the resistance and five civilians from the resistance. On September 6 he was transported to Oranienburg and from there he ended up in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Here he finally died of the hardships of typhus at the end of the war.