Howard Charles Lincoln (born February 14, 1940) is an American lawyer and businessman, known primarily for being the former chairman of Nintendo of America and the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, representing absentee majority owner Hiroshi Yamauchi until he died on September 19, 2013. (In August 2004, Yamauchi's shares were transferred to Nintendo as an estate planning measure, but as he remained chairman emeritus of Nintendo's board of directors, he was still considered the team's owner until Yamauchi's death in September 2013.)