diff --git a/ports/lightgbm/portfile.cmake b/ports/lightgbm/portfile.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..86550dc17fcced
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/lightgbm/portfile.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO microsoft/LightGBM
+    REF v${VERSION}
+    SHA512 295ea23ec55164232f1dde6aa46bcfa616e2fe4852eb2e3492e681477a8d7757875d60379c4d463a35a6a9db56b1f4bce86b3a03bed56ea3d36aadb94a3b38eb
+    PATCHES
+        vcpkg_lightgbm_use_vcpkg_libs.patch
+)
+
+vcpkg_check_features(OUT_FEATURE_OPTIONS FEATURE_OPTIONS
+    FEATURES
+        gpu USE_GPU
+)
+
+if(VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE STREQUAL "dynamic")
+    set(BUILD_STATIC_LIB "OFF")
+else()
+    set(BUILD_STATIC_LIB "ON")
+endif()
+
+
+vcpkg_cmake_configure(
+    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    OPTIONS
+        -DBUILD_STATIC_LIB=${BUILD_STATIC_LIB}
+        ${FEATURE_OPTIONS}
+)
+
+vcpkg_cmake_install()
+
+vcpkg_copy_tools(TOOL_NAMES lightgbm AUTO_CLEAN)
+
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include")
+vcpkg_install_copyright(FILE_LIST "${SOURCE_PATH}/LICENSE")
diff --git a/ports/lightgbm/vcpkg.json b/ports/lightgbm/vcpkg.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..5715f8d6a6df2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/lightgbm/vcpkg.json
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+  "name": "lightgbm",
+  "version": "4.4.0",
+  "description": [
+    "A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms.",
+    "Designed to be distributed and efficient and comes with faster training speeds, higher efficiency, lower memory usage and support of parallel, distributed, and GPU learning."
+  ],
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "supports": "!android & !osx & !uwp",
+  "dependencies": [
+    "eigen3",
+    "fast-double-parser",
+    "fmt",
+    {
+      "name": "vcpkg-cmake",
+      "host": true
+    }
+  ],
+  "features": {
+    "gpu": {
+      "description": "GPU support using Boost.Compute",
+      "dependencies": [
+        "boost-compute",
+        "opencl"
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/ports/lightgbm/vcpkg_lightgbm_use_vcpkg_libs.patch b/ports/lightgbm/vcpkg_lightgbm_use_vcpkg_libs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..65f69548f1356e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/lightgbm/vcpkg_lightgbm_use_vcpkg_libs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index 3492289b..6284b6e0 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -115,18 +115,17 @@ if(USE_SWIG)
+   endif()
+ endif()
+ 
+-set(EIGEN_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external_libs/eigen")
+-include_directories(${EIGEN_DIR})
++find_package(Eigen3 CONFIG REQUIRED)
+ 
+ # See https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/blob/master/COPYING.README
+ add_definitions(-DEIGEN_MPL2_ONLY)
+ add_definitions(-DEIGEN_DONT_PARALLELIZE)
+ 
+-set(FAST_DOUBLE_PARSER_INCLUDE_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external_libs/fast_double_parser/include")
+-include_directories(${FAST_DOUBLE_PARSER_INCLUDE_DIR})
++find_package(fmt CONFIG REQUIRED)
++get_target_property(VCPKG_INCLUDE_DIR fmt::fmt INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
++set(FMT_INCLUDE_DIR ${VCPKG_INCLUDE_DIR}/fmt)
+ 
+-set(FMT_INCLUDE_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external_libs/fmt/include")
+-include_directories(${FMT_INCLUDE_DIR})
++find_path(FAST_DOUBLE_PARSER_INCLUDE_DIR fast_double_parser.h)
+ 
+ if(__BUILD_FOR_R)
+     find_package(LibR REQUIRED)
+@@ -181,15 +180,13 @@ if(USE_OPENMP)
+ endif()
+ 
+ if(USE_GPU)
+-    set(BOOST_COMPUTE_HEADER_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external_libs/compute/include)
+-    include_directories(${BOOST_COMPUTE_HEADER_DIR})
+     find_package(OpenCL REQUIRED)
+     include_directories(${OpenCL_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+     message(STATUS "OpenCL include directory: " ${OpenCL_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+     if(WIN32)
+         set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
+     endif()
+-    find_package(Boost 1.56.0 COMPONENTS filesystem system REQUIRED)
++    find_package(Boost 1.56.0 COMPONENTS filesystem system compute REQUIRED)
+     if(WIN32)
+         # disable autolinking in boost
+         add_definitions(-DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB)
+@@ -458,9 +455,11 @@ endif()
+ 
+ add_library(lightgbm_objs OBJECT ${SOURCES})
+ 
++target_link_libraries(lightgbm_objs PUBLIC Eigen3::Eigen fmt::fmt)
++
+ if(BUILD_CLI)
+     add_executable(lightgbm src/main.cpp src/application/application.cpp)
+-    target_link_libraries(lightgbm PRIVATE lightgbm_objs)
++    target_link_libraries(lightgbm PRIVATE lightgbm_objs Eigen3::Eigen fmt::fmt)
+ endif()
+ 
+ set(API_SOURCES "src/c_api.cpp")
+@@ -471,6 +470,7 @@ if(__BUILD_FOR_R)
+ endif()
+ 
+ add_library(lightgbm_capi_objs OBJECT ${API_SOURCES})
++target_link_libraries(lightgbm_capi_objs PUBLIC Eigen3::Eigen fmt::fmt)
+ 
+ if(BUILD_STATIC_LIB)
+   add_library(_lightgbm STATIC)
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index f8ed87ef239332..5fd50b540df786 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -5368,6 +5368,10 @@
       "baseline": "2020-11-24",
       "port-version": 0
     },
+    "lightgbm": {
+      "baseline": "4.4.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     "lightningscanner": {
       "baseline": "1.0.1",
       "port-version": 0
diff --git a/versions/l-/lightgbm.json b/versions/l-/lightgbm.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0a452be61e7f9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/versions/l-/lightgbm.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "e8a4ff8e712c8794cc650c722dfd9d65581c68bb",
+      "version": "4.4.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    }
+  ]
+}