Lord Evelyn Oakleigh is a major character in Cole Porter's 1934 musical Anything Goes. A wealthy Englishman intrigued by American idioms and customs, he is engaged to Hope Harcourt and is to wed her upon the S.S. American's arrival in England. He has been played by Leslie Barrie, Kenneth Mars, Adam Godley, Edward Staudenmayer, Joey Sorge, and Haydn Oakley, among others.