Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (born January 27, 1956) is an American journalist. He is one of the three original founders of the seminal Punk magazine; as well as being a former editor at Spin and editor-in-chief of Nerve Magazine.

At the age of 19, McNeil gathered with two high school friends, John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn, and decided to create "some sort of media thing" for a living. Holmstrom had an idea of combining comics with rock n roll.

In 1985, McNeil became a SPIN magazine staff writer.

In December 1991, Legs McNeil wrote about the Los Angeles rave culture/scene in "A Woodstock of Their Own", published by Details.

In 1993, Legs was the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Nerve.

McNeil is the co-author (with Gillian McCain) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which has been published in 12 languages and helped launch the oral history trend in music books. The New York Times called the book "lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching."

McNeil is also co-author of The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry. As Publishers Weekly said, "This compulsively readable book perfectly captures the pop culture zeitgeist. It doesn't hurt that the history of American pornography is inextricably intertwined with all the subjects that captivate us: sex, drugs, beauty, fame, money, the Mafia, law enforcement and violence."

McNeil is also the co-author of I Slept with Joey Ramone (A Punk Rock Family Memoir) with Mickey Leigh, Joey Ramone’s brother.