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Leçons de Ténèbres
Leçons de Ténèbres is the debut album of the neoclassical band Elend. It was the first in the Officium Tenebrarum trilogy. The lyrics to four songs (Chanting, Into Bottomless Perdition, Lucifer and The Emperor) are texts adapted from John Milton's Paradise Lost. Track listing "Leçon de tén�..
Leo
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Leo click for larger image Abbreviation Leo Genitive Leonis Symbology the Lion Right ascension 11 h Declination 15° Area Ranked 12th Number of stars(magnitude < 3) 3 Brightest star App. magnitude 1.4) Meteor showers Leonids..
Leo-Cedarville, Indiana
Leo-Cedarville is a town in Allen County, Indiana, United States. The population was 2,782 at the 2000 census. Major items in town are Cedarville Elementary School, Leo Elementary School, and Leo Junior/Senior High School. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 External..
Leoba
Leoba (also Lioba and Leofgyth) (c. 710 - September 28, 782) was an Anglo-Saxon nun who was part of Boniface's mission to the Germans, and a saint. Her birth date is unknown, but she was born Leofgyth in Wessex to a noble family. Her mother was related to Boniface, and Boniface was a friend of h..
Leoben
The toll tower (1280) and the church of Holy Xaver (1660-1665). Leoben is a city in Styria, in central Austria, located on the Mur river. With a population of about 25,000, Leoben is a local industrial center and hosts the University of Leoben which specialises in mining. The armistice preli..
Leoben (district)
Bezirk Leoben is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. Municipalities Towns (Städte) are indicated in boldface; market towns (Marktgemeinden) in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. EisenerzGai*Edling, Gausendorf, Gimpla..
Leoben Conoy
Leoben Conoy is a character in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Conoy is a humanoid Cylon agent with a bizarre demeanour. He portrays himself as having philosophical and religious enlightenment. Meanwhile ..
Leobersdorf
Emblem Location Basic Facts (Stand 2004) Bundesland: Lower Austria County: Baden Area: 12,34 km² Population: 4.151 (2001) Population density: 336 inhabitants/km² Buildings: 1030 (1991) Elevation: 267 above MSO Postal code: 2544 City Prefix: 02256 Coor..
Leoblaze
The Leoblaze is a type of Zoid, a race of mechanical lifeforms from the fictional Zoids universe. Leoblaze Contents 1 Overview2 Battle Story appearances3 Media Appearances3.1 Anime3.1.1 Fuzors3.2 Video games4 Models4.1 New Japanese Release - Blox4.2&n..
Leobreaker
Leobreaker is fictional character in the Transformers Cybertron cartoon series. In Galaxy Force, he is referred to as Jackshot and Liger Jack. Overhaul is the character's original identity, and he is later up-graded into Leobreaker. In both forms, he is an Autobot. In the English version, Ove..
Leocereus bahiensis
Leocereus bahiensis is a species of cactus and the only species of the genus Leocereus. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] ..
Leochares
Leochares was an Greek sculptor, who lived in the 4th Century B.C. He is theorised as the creator of Apollo Belvedere, which is currently housed in Vatican City. ..
LEOC JAPAN Co.
LEOC JAPAN Co., Ltd. (レオックジャパン) is Japan's most famous catering service company. It serves meals throughout Japan. In J. League, LEOC has been the main sponsor of pro soccer team Tokyo Verdy 1969. In August 2003 LEOC was established as a holding company of Sodexho Japan Co., Ltd. by ..
Leodegar
Saint Leodegar or Leger, Bishop of Autun (ca 615 – Sarcing, Somme October 2, 679), was the great opponent of Ebroin— the mayor of the Palace of Neustria— and the leader of the faction of Austrasian great nobles in the struggles for hegemony over the waning Merovingian dynasty. His..
Leodegrance
King Leodegrance (sometimes Leondegrance or some other minor variation) is the father of Queen Guinevere in Arthurian legend. His kingdom of Cameliard is located somewhere in the south of England. Leodegrance had served Uther Pendragon, King Arthur's biological father and regnal predecessor, and was..
Leodis
This is currently a database of 45,000 images based in Leeds, Yorkshire. Set up by Leeds City Council and paid for by Lottery money. Photographs through the years are displayed for all parts of the city. If anyone has photographs of the city and the out lying areas Leodis will be happy to except ..
Leofric
Leofric was a common name in Anglo-Saxon England and may refer to: Leofric, Bishop of ExeterLeofric, Earl of Mercia ..
Leofric, Bishop of Exeter
Leofric (1016 - 1072) was born in Devon, England, and died there, in Exeter, on 10 February, 1072. His parents may have been Saxons, as modern historians doubt they were Celts, as William of Malmesbury said they were. Leofric received his training in Lotharingia. When Bishop Lyfing died in 1046, ..
Leofric, Earl of Mercia
Leofric (died 31 August or 30 September 1057) was the Earl of Mercia and founded monasteries at Coventry and Much Wenlock. Leofric is best remembered as the husband of Godiva. Contents 1 Life and political influence2 Religious works3 Family4 Notes Life and political influence..
Leofwine, Earl of Mercia
Leofwine Earl of Mercia (born about 950 - died 1028), was also the Ealdorman of Hwicce. His father was Eadulph of Mercia and his mother was Elfwina of Mercia. He married Alwara. Their only recorded child was Leofric, Earl of Mercia. ..
Leofwine Godwinson
Leofwine Godwinson (1035 – 1066) was a younger brother of Harold II of England, the fifth son of Godwin. When the Godwin family was exiled from England in 1051 he went with Harold to Ireland. After the death of his father in 1053 he was made earl of Kent. He was killed alongside Harold and Gyr..
Leola
Leola may refer to: Leola, Adams County, WisconsinLeola, South DakotaLeola, ArkansasLeacock-Leola-Bareville, PennsylvaniaThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to p..
Leola, Adams County, Wisconsin
Leola is a town in Adams County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 265 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 96.4 km² (37.2 mi²), all land. Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there were 265 people, 107 househ..
Leola, Arkansas
Leola is a town in Grant County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 515 at the 2000 census. Geography Leola is located at [34°10′16″N, 92°35′24″W] (34.171094, -92.590133)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has..
Leola, South Dakota
Leola is a city in McPherson County, South Dakota, USA. The population was 462 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of McPherson County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Geography Leola is located at [45°43′16″N, 98°56′19″W] (45.721238, -98.938503)[Geographic ref..
Leoline Jenkins
Sir Leoline Jenkins (1625 - 1 September 1685) was a lawyer and diplomat, originally from Cowbridge in south Wales. As Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1661-1673, he was responsible for much construction work, including the college library. The position was one of several rewards he receiv..
Leoluca Bagarella
Leoluca Bagarella (born 1941) is an Italian criminal and member of the Sicilian Mafia. He is from the town of Corleone and was a member of the Corleonesi, the local Mafia Family. Bagarella sided with Luciano Leggio in the late 1950s when Leggio wiped out the former Corleonesi boss Michele Navarra a..
Leoluca Orlando
Leoluca Orlando (born august 1, 1947), is an Italian politician, who was mayor of Palermo from 1985 to 2000. He is also best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian mafia. Biography Orlando was born in Palermo. He studied in Germany and England, he graduated in jurisprudence and worked as l..
Leomil
There are parishes that have the name Leomil in Portugal: Leomil, a parish in the municipality of AlmeidaLeomil, a parish in the municipality of Moimenta da Beira This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this..
Leominster
redirect [[Template:Infobox England place]] For the city of Leominster, Massachusetts, see Leominster, Massachusetts. Leominster (pronounced [ˈlɛmstə]) is a market town at Grid reference in Herefordshire, England. It has a population of approximately 11,000 and is on the R..
Leominster, Massachusetts
Leominster is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 41,303 at the 2000 census. Leominster is located north of Worcester and west of Boston. Contents 1 History1.1 Villages1.2 Nicknames2 Demographics3 Landmarks3.1 Sholan Farms4&n..
Leominster (district)
Leominster was a local government district in England from April 1, 1974 to April 1, 1998. Its main town was Leominster. It was one of two districts in the newly-formed county of Hereford and Worcester to cross the traditional border between Herefordshire and Worcestershire, the other being Malve..
Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)
Leominster County constituency Leominster shown within Herefordshire and part of Worcestershire, and Herefordshire shown within England Created: 1295 MP: Bill Wiggin Party: Conservative Type: House of Commons County: Herefordshire, Worcestershire EP constituency: West Midlands Le..
Leominster Canal
The Leominster canal ran just over 18 miles from Mamble to Leominster through 16 locks and a number of tunnels, some of which suffered engineering problems even before the canal opened. It cost £93,000 to build. Originally the canal was part of a much more ambitious plan to run 46 miles from Stourp..
Leominster railway station
Leominster is a station on the Welsh Marches Line serving the Herefordshire town of Leominster in England. External links [Train times] and [station information] for from National Rail[Street map] and [aerial photo] of from Multimap.com {| class="wikitable"..
Leominster State Forest
Leominster State Forest is a Massachusetts state forest located in Leominster, Fitchburg, Princeton, Sterling and Westminster. The park is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Contents 1 Description2 History3 Recreational Opportunities4 External Links5&nb..
Leomon
Leomon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise. Courageous and noble and a firm believer that every living being has their own destiny to live out, Leomon is a master of the secret styles of martial arts. From his fist, he can summon a powerful flaming projectile known as the Fist of th..
Leomund
In the Dungeons and Dragons World of Greyhawk campaign setting, Leomund is an archmage, and former member of the Circle of Eight. He is sometimes known as "Leomund the Red." He was created and originally played by Len Lakofka. Spells Leomund is responsible for developing the following spells: Leomu..
Leon
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LEON
LEON is an open source 32-bit RISC CPU. It is SPARC V8 (1987) instruction compatible, and designed by Gaisler Research. It is described in synthesizable VHDL available under the GNU GPL license. See also OpenRISC External links [Gaisler Research] ..
Leon's
Leon's (Léon in Quebec) is a Canadian furniture superstore which first opened its store in 1909. The controlling interest in the company is owned by the Leon family, while some shares are traded publicly on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It has consistently ranked among the top furniture chains i..
Leon's Frozen Custard
Leon's Frozen Custard is a classic 1950s family owned drive-in located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the inspiration for the original Arnold's Drive-In from the television sitcom Happy Days. [link] [link] [link] External links [Leon's Frozen Custard]�..
Leon, Iloilo
Leon is a 4th class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 43,729 people in 8,072 households. Barangays Leon is politically subdivided into 85 barangays. Agboy NorteAgboy SurAgtaAmbulongAnonangApianAvanzadaAwisAyabangAyuboBacol..
Leon, Iowa
Leon is a city in Decatur County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,983 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Decatur County[Geographic references#6GR6]. The city is located near the Little River Lake Recreation Area. Leon is home to a major rodeo. Geography Leon is locate..
Leon, Kansas
Leon is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States. The population was 645 at the 2000 census. Geography Leon is located at [37°41′22″N, 96°46′59″W] (37.689516, -96.783109)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a..
Leon, Monroe County, Wisconsin
Leon is a town in Monroe County, Wisconsin, USA. The population was 858 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 92.6 km² (35.8 mi²), all land. Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there were 858 people, 301 households, and 247 ..
Leon, New York
Leon is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, USA. The population was 1,380 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from the former Kingdom of León in Spain. The Town of Leon is on the western border of the county, northwest of the City of Salamanca. Contents 1 History2 Geograp..
Leon, Oklahoma
Leon is a town in Love County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 96 at the 2000 census. Geography Leon is located at [33°52′43″N, 97°25′43″W] (33.878618, -97.428710)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a t..
Leon, Waushara County, Wisconsin
Leon is a town in Waushara County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,281 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 94.0 km² (36.3 mi²). 93.2 km² (36.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it (0.85%) is water. ..
Leon, West Virginia
Leon is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 132 at the 2000 census. Geography Leon is located at [38°44′58″N, 81°57′29″W] (38.749501, -81.958135)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau,..
Leon, Wisconsin
Leon is the name of two towns in the U.S. state of Wisconsin: Leon, Monroe County, WisconsinLeon, Waushara County, Wisconsin This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referre..
Leon-Jefferson Culture
The Leon-Jefferson Culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in Leon and Jefferson counties in north Florida in the Southeastern United States from approximately 1100-1550 AD. The Leon-Jefferson Culture was a part of the Fort Walton Culture and appeared to come about due..
Leona
Leona is the name of two places in the United States: Leona in KansasLeona in Texas Leona is also the name of a well-known female character in The King of Fighters videogame series. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an ..
Leona, Kansas
Leona is a city in Doniphan County, Kansas (see map). Geography Leona is located at [39°47′9″N, 95°19′20″W] (39.785798, -95.322158)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²), all land...
Leona, Texas
Leona is a city in Leon County, Texas, United States. The population was 181 at the 2000 census. Geography Leona is located at [31°9′17″N, 95°58′33″W] (31.154763, -95.975703)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a to..
Leonard
Leonard may refer to: People First name Leonard Cohen, musicianLeonard McCoyLeonard NimoyLeonard PeikoffLeonard Suransky, winner of Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at Webster UniversityLeonard Woolf Last name Emery Clarence Leonard, botanistSugar Ray LeonardTom Leonard, Glasgow..
Leonard, Michigan
Leonard is a village in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 332. The village is within Addison Township Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.5 km² (1.0 mi²), all land. Demographics..
Leonard, Minnesota
Leonard is a city in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 29 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.2 km² (0.4 mi²), all land. Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there were 29 people, 17 househol..
Leonard, Missouri
Leonard is a village in Shelby County, Missouri, United States. The population was 66 at the 2000 census. Geography Leonard is located at [39°53′43″N, 92°10′51″W] (39.895264, -92.180921)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the ..
Leonard, North Dakota
Leonard is a city in Cass County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 255 at the 2000 census. Leonard was founded in 1882. Geography Leonard is located at [46°39′4″N, 97°14′44″W] (46.651034, -97.245694)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the ..
Leonard, Oklahoma
Leonard is a small community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. The post office was established August 22, 1908. External links ..
Leonard, Texas
Leonard is a city in Fannin County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,846 at the 2000 census. Geography Leonard is located at [33°22′59″N, 96°14′43″W] (33.383165, -96.245248)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city..
Leonard-Duran II
Leonard Duran II was the second of three boxing matches between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran and took place in the New Orleans Superdome on November 25, 1980. In boxing shorthand, it became known as the No Más Fight after Duran uttered the infamous words while quitting the fight in the eigh..
Leonardo's Bride
Leonardo's Bride is a four piece band from Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia. They released two albums, Angel Blood in 1997 and Open Sesame in 2000. A track from Angel Blood titled Even When I'm Sleeping was a hit in Australia. On 23 September 2000 they performed the song in front of a sold out crow..
Leonardo's robot
Model of Leonardo's robot with inner workings Leonardo's robot refers to a humanoid automaton designed by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1495. It is considered the first known design for a robot. The design notes for the robot appear in sketchbooks that were rediscovered in the 1950s. It ..
Leonardo, New Jersey
Leonardo is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 2,823. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Trivia4 External links Geography Leonardo..
Leonardo (disambiguation)
Leonardo can refer to: Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer and painterLeonardo (TMNT), fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles seriesLeonardo Nascimento de Araujo, former Brazilian football (soccer) playerLeona..
Leonardo (TMNT)
Leonardo (original movie incarnation) Leonardo (or "Leo"), a fictional character, is the unofficial leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). His bandanna is blue, although originally all four Turtles had red bandannas, and his weapons are two katana. He is named after Leonardo da ..
Leonardo Agostini
Leonardo Agostini (1593-1669) was an Italian antiquary of the 17th century, born at Siena. After being employed for some time to collect works of art for the Barberini Palace, he was appointed by Pope Alexander VII superintendent of antiquities in the Roman states. He issued a new edition of Filip..
Leonardo Antonelli
Leonardo Antonelli was a Cardinal, b. at Sinigaglia, 6 November 1730; d. 23 January, 1811. He was the nephew of Cardinal Nicolo Maria Antonelli. During the early part of his long diplomatic career he held among other offices those of canon of the Vatican Basilica, Prefect of archives in the Castle ..
Leonardo Araújo
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Leonardo Arguello Barreto
Leonardo Argüello Barreto (August 29, 1875, Leon, Nicaragua – December 15, 1947, City of Mexico) was a Nicaraguan politician who, after several attempts, became President of Nicaragua in 1947. He served from May 1 to May 26, 1947 A member of the Constitutional Liberal Party, his presidency w..
Leonardo Astrada
Leonardo Astrada (born 6 January, 1970) is an Argentine football player. He played almost all his life for River Plate. He has also played for Brazilian club Grêmio in 2000. He played for the Argentina national football team and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. After retirement in J..
Leonardo Balada
Leonardo Balada (born September 22, 1933 in Barcelona) is a Spanish composer. He graduated from Conservatorio del Liceu in Barcelona and in 1956 emigrated to the United States, where in 1960, he graduated from the Juilliard School in New York. He studied composition with Vincent Persichetti and Aa..
Leonardo Boff
Leonardo Boff. Leonardo Boff was born 14 December 1938 in Concórdia, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. He is a theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded. He became one of the best known (along with Gustavo Gutierrez) of the early L..
Leonardo Bonucci
Leonardo Bonucci (born 1 May 1987 in Viterbo) is an Italian football defender, currently playing for Inter Milan Bonucci made his Serie A debut in the last match of 2005/2006 season, against Cagliari Calcio.[INTER HOLD CAGLIARI TO DRAW] inter.it 14 May, 2006[GERMINALE, ALOE & BONUCC..
Leonardo Bruni
Leonardo Bruni Leonardo Bruni (c.1370 – 1444) was a leading humanist, historian and a chancellor of Florence. He has been called the first modern historian. Contents 1 Biography2 Significance3 Bibliography4 External links5 Latin texts online Biography Born ..
Leonardo Carrera
Leonardo Carrera , born July 9, 1961 in Tijuana, Baja California is a professional wrestler that wrestles in the Independent circuit in Mexico and is better known by his stage name of Damián 666. He is known in Japanese feds for his ability to mimic other famous japanese wrestlers, their manneris..
Leonardo Carson
Leonardo Carson, (born February 11, 1977 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American football defensive tackle who played collegiately at Auburn University. A former member of the San Diego Chargers, he most recently played for the Dallas Cowboys. Carson was acquired by the Cowboys on October 18, 2003, aft..
Leonardo Ciampa
Leonardo Ciampa (born January 17, 1971 in Orient Heights (East Boston)) is a composer, organist, pianist, and author. Ciampa is the first composer to write significant compositions in a Sicilian genre, most notably Suite Siciliana (Op. 145), for two violins, piano, and chamber orchestra. He has al..
Leonardo Cimino
Leonardo Cimino is an Italian film and television actor. Arguably, Leonardo's most well known role is in the 1983 NBC mini series V as Abraham Bernstein. Leonardo Cimino has made guest appearances on tv shows,some of those appearances range from Naked City, Kojak, The Equalizer and Law & Order. Fi..
Leonardo Conti
Leonardo Conti (24 August, 1900 – 6 October 1945) was, as the "Reich Health Leader" ("Reichsgesundheitsführer"), head of the Reich Physicians' Chamber (Reichsärztekammer), Leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League (Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Ärztebund or NSDÄB) and as main..
Leonardo Dati
Leonardo Dati (1360–16 march 1425) was an italian friar and humanist. Prior of Santa Maria Novella from 1401, who took part in the Council of Constance, as General of Preachers and a representative of the Republic of Florence. We note the co-operation of men familiar of science, theology, the ..
Leonardo da Vinci
"Leonardo" and "Da Vinci" redirect here. For other uses, see Leonardo (disambiguation) and Da Vinci (disambiguation). Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an immensely multi-talented Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic[Adherents.com article on Leonardo Da Vi..
Leonardo da Vinci's workshop
Journeyman Franchise The Journeyman Project [[The Journeyman Project#The_Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime|TJP: Pegasus Prime]] [[The Journeyman Project_2: Buried in Time|TJP 2: Buried In Time]] [[The Journeyman Project_3: Legacy of Time|TJP 3: Legacy of Time]] TJP 4 (unreleased) Gage Blackwo..
Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute
The Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute was an Italian art institute located in Cairo, Egypt during World War II. It was named after Leonardo da Vinci. External link [Human Rights Watch: The Repression of Academic Freedom in Egyptian Universities including the American University in Cairo.] ..
Leonardo da Vinci High School
Leonardo Da Vinci High School (DVHS) has been located in Davis, California at 1602 Oak Avenue since fall of 2004. DVHS has about 250 students, and is expected to grow to 350 students. This school is a member of the New Tech Foundation, an organization that promotes the integration of technology and ..
Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport
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Leonardo da Vinci in popular culture
Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance artist and genius, has appeared in many fictional works, such as novels, television shows and movies, and various characters have been named after him. This article is about those fictional representations of or appearances by Leonardo in popular culture. ..
Leonardo Del Vecchio
Leonardo Del Vecchio (1935-) is the founder and chairman of Luxottica, a $3 billion (sales) designer and manufacturer of high-quality eyeglass frames. See also List of billionaires External links [Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People] ..
Leonardo de Lozanne
Leonardo de Lozanne is a Mexican singer-songwriter, member of the Mexican rock band Fobia. After the brief break up of the band in the late 1990s he released two solo albums. He dated Mexican model and TV presenter Rebecca de Alba (the long-time girlfriend of Ricky Martin) and is currently married ..
Leonardo de Mango
A painter through whom the East spoke An Orientalist painter who lived almost half a century in Istanbul up to his death, Leonardo de Mango is described by the art commentator Thalasso as, a painter through whom the East spoke. De Mango was born on 19 February 1843, the eldest child of a large fam..
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor well known for roles in blockbuster movies like Titanic (1997) and The Aviator (2004), and was famed for his far reaching global celebrity influence dubbed as 'Leo-Mania' in the late 1990s. Contents ..
Leonardo Domenici
Leonardo Domenici. Leonardo Domenici (born July 12, 1955) has been the Mayor of Florence, Italy since June 13, 1999. Domenici was born in Florence, from where he graduated in moral philosophy. He began his political career in 1976, later becoming the Secretary of the Florentine branch of the F..
Leonardo Fea
Leonardo Fea. Leonardo Fea (1852 - 1903) was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter and naturalist. Fea was born in Turin, and became an assistant at the Natural History Museum in Genoa. He made several foreign trips to collect specimens, including visits to Burma (1885) and the Cape Verde I..
Leonardo Fioravanti
Leonardo Fioravanti (b. 1938) is an Italian automobile designer, and he is the C.E.O. of Fioravanti Srl. He studied mechanical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, specializing in aerodynamics and car body design. Before founding Fioravanti Srl, he worked twenty-four years with Pininfarina, fol..
Leonardo Gagliano
In 1938 Leonardo Gagliano Neto made history in Brazilian communication, at that year's French world cup broadcast, as Brazil's Radio Club sports commentator . Through radio sets as well as loudspeakers installed in parks and public thoroughfares throughout the country, he thrilled the Brazilian popu..
Leonardo García
Leonardo García Vale (born December 27, 1972 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) is a Mexican actor. He is the son of actor Andrés García and Sandra Vale, and the brother of actor Andrés García Jr. and actress Andrea García. External links ..
Leonardo González
Leonardo González Arce (born November 211980) is a professional Costa Rican football (soccer) player. He plays his club football for Club Sport Herediano and has been selected in the squad for Costa Rica in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He has 35 caps as of May 18 2006. ..
Leonardo Henricksen
Leonardo Henricksen, Swedish-Argentinian journalist working for Swedish television network SVT who was shot to death by an Argentinian soldier in Santiago in 1973, after Henricksen had aimed his camera at him, filming. ..
Leonardo III Tocco
Leonardo III Tocco, last ruler of Epirus from 1429 to 1479, died c. 1499. Life Leonardo III Tocco was the son of Carlo II Tocco (count of Cephalonia and Zante, duke of Leukas, and ruler of Epirus) and Ramondina of Ventimiglia. On his father's death in October 1448, Leonardo succeeded as a minor t..
Leonardo Is Caught in the Grip of an Outbreak of Randal's Imagination and Patrick Swayze Either Does or Doesn't Work in the New Pet Store
Leonardo Is Caught In The Grip Of An Outbreak Of Randal's Imagination And Patrick Swayze Either Does Or Doesn't Work In The New Pet Store is the third episode of [[Clerks: The Animated Series]]. It was never aired. Contents 1 Plot summary2 Trivia3 Running jokes4 References ..
Leonardo José Aparecido Moura
Leonardo José Aparecido Moura or simply Leonardo (born March 19, 1986 in Guarulhos, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk. Honours Team Ukrainian Premier League: 2006 with Shakhtar DonetskBrazilian Série A: 2004 with Santos In..
Leonardo Lavalle
Leonardo Lavalle (born July 14, 1967 in Mexico City) is a former tennis player from Mexico, who turned professional in 1985. He represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the quarter finals by Spain's eventual runner up Jordi Arrese. The lefthan..
Leonardo Leo
Leonardo Leo (August 5, 1694 – October 31, 1744), more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo was an Italian Baroque composer. Biography Leo was born in San Vito degli Schiavoni (current San Vito dei Normanni, province of Brindisi), then part of the Kingdom of Naples. He became a student..
Leonardo Leonardo
Leonardo Leonardo is a character from the short-lived animated television series [[Clerks: The Animated Series]] created by Kevin Smith. Leonardo Leonardo is voiced by Alec Baldwin. Leonardo Leonardo was specially created for the television show. He is a local millionaire who frequently visits the ..
Leonardo Leonardo Returns and Dante Has an Important Decision to Make
Leonardo Leonardo's Return And Dante Has A Very Important Decision To Make is the pilot episode of [[Clerks: The Animated Series]]. It was going to air as the third episode before the show was cancelled. Contents 1 Plot summary2 Trivia3 Running jokes4 References Plot summary..
Leonardo Loredano
A 1501 portrait of Leonardo Loredano by Giovanni Bellini Leonardo Loredano or Leonardo Loredan (1436 – 1521; reign 1501-1521) was the doge of the Republic of Venice during its conflict with the League of Cambrai. Upon the death of Pope Alexander VI in 1503, Venice occupied several terr..
Leonardo Lourenço Bastos
Leonardo Lourenço Bastos commonly known as Leo (b. 6 july 1975) is a Brazilian football (soccer) player in the role of defender, who currently plays for SL Benfica. He is a major part of Benfica. He has also played 201 games for Santos Futebol Clube of Brazil. Teams and clubs 1996: Americano FC19..
Leonardo Manco
Leonardo Manco is a comic book artist and penciller, best known for his dark and gritty style on such titles as Hellstorm (1994), Blaze of Glory (2000, #1-4), Apache Skies (2002, #1-4), Deathlok Vol.3 (1999-2000) and Hellblazer (2004). Other work by Manco has included Archangel #1 (1996), Werewolf..
Leonardo Mansueti
Leonardo Mansueti Italiana friar and librarian. Master General of the Dominican Order (1474 - 1480). |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Leonardo Marquez
Leonardo Marquez (c. 1820 - ? ) was a Mexican general. He served against the United States in the Mexican War, and was a prominent supporter of Santa Anna in the revolutionary movement of 1849. After the fall of that dictator Marquez espoused the cause of Miramón and Zuloaga against Ju&a..
Leonardo Medeiros
Leonardo Medeiros is a Brazilian actor (born in 1964). He's one of Selton Mello's favorite actors. Before Os Maias (a 2001 TV series), they had worked together in Lavoura Arcaica (To the left of the father) (2001), a film directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, based on the homonym novel by Raduan Nass..
Leonardo Muraro
Leonardo Muraro is President of the Province of Treviso for the Liga Veneta-Lega Nord. After having succeeded to Luca Zaia, swon in as Vice-President of the Veneto Region, in 2005 as acting President, he was elected on 29 May 2006 with the 57,3% at the first round, despite the desturbing presence on..
Leonardo Noeren Franco
Leonardo Noeren Franco (born May 29, 1977 in San Nicolás, Argentina), commonly known as Leo Franco is a professional Argentine football goalkeeper who currently plays for Spanish Atletico Madrid. Franco started his career at Independiente before moving to Spanish Mérida UD. In 1998 he transferre..
Leonardo Ortolani
Leonardo Ortolani, better known as Leo, is an Italian comics author, creator of the popular comic strip series Rat-Man and Venerdì 12. Other minor creations The ending of Fantastic Four's first 100 issues.L'ultima burbaMorgan ..
Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2006, he is one of Cuba's best known writers internationally. In English and some other languages, he is often referred to as Leonardo Padura. Born in Havana, Padura took a degree in Latin American literature at the Uni..
Leonardo Pereznieto
Leonardo Pereznieto is a Mexican artist, sculptor, and painter. Along with writer Claudia Moscovici, he is the co-founder of the cultural movement of post-romanticism. Leonardo Pereznieto has studied in Mexico, Italy and the United States and has mastered engraving, serigraphy, watercolor, ..
Leonardo Piepoli
Leonardo Piepoli (born September 29, 1971 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Italian professional road racing cyclist. He rides on the UCI ProTour for the Saunier Duval-Prodir Team. He is a record four-time winner (1995, 1999, 2003, 2004) of the Subida a Urkiola. 2006 – Saunier Duval-Pro..
Leonardo Pisculichi
Leonardo Nicolás Pisculichi (born 18 January 1984 in Rafael Castillo, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football striker. Pisculichi started his career by playing for Argentinos Juniors, team which made him to debut on 2002-02-20 vs Talleres de Córdoba. He has played for RCD Mallorca since 2006-01-04..
Leonardo Polo
Leonardo Polo (born February 1, 1926 in Madrid, Spain) is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Navarra (Spain) since 1954, he has also taught in the University of Granada (Spain), the University of the Holy Cross (Italy), the University of La Sabana (Colombia), the University of Piura (P..
Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine
Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine (May 1, 1919 – August 6, 2005) was a Mexican trade union leader and a long-serving legislator of the Revolutionary Institutional Party. He presided over the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) from July 21, 1997 until his death at the age of 86. Born in Texco..
Leonardo Sandri
Leonardo Sandri (born November 18, 1943) is the Titular Archbishop of Cittanova (Aemonia), Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico, and Substitute for General Affairs of the Holy See's Secretariat of State. At the Secretariat his duties include organizing the activities of the Roman Curia and appointments to cur..
Leonardo Santiago
Leonardo Vitor Santiago (born March 9, 1983 in Rio de Janeiro), is a football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Feyenoord Rotterdam. He started playing for Feyenoord in the 2000/2001 season. He scored his first goal in the match vs SC Heerenveen, which ended 2-0, and he scored his second goal..
Leonardo Sciascia
Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Agrigento 1921 - Palermo 1989) was an Italian writer and politician. Sciascia, (pronounced Shasha), was a councillor in Sicily, a deputy in the national assembly and, later, a member of the European parliament. Trained as a teacher, it was only later in life that he dev..
Leonardo Sinisgalli
Leonardo Sinisgalli (b. Montemurro, Potenza 1908, d. Rome 1981) was an Italian poet and art critic active from the 1930s to the 70s. His early education and careers led to him being called the "engineer poet". In 1925, Sinisgalli moved to Rome where he studied engineering and mathematics. After c..
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936), usually Leonardo Torres Quevedo in Spanish-speaking countries, was a Spanish engineer and mathematician of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contents 1 Biography2 Work2.1 Aerostatics2.2 Che..
Leonardo Vetra
Leonardo Vetra is a fictional character in the 2000 novel Angels and Demons. Leonardo was a scientist that was working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland. Background Before joing CERN, Leonardo was a priest and often attended Vittoria's orphanage. Leonardo ..
Leonardo Vinci
Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730), not to be confused with Leonardo da Vinci, was an Italian musical composer, best known for his operas. He was born at Vinci near to Florence and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He first became known for his comic ..
Leonardo Vitale
Leonardo Vitale (June 27, 1941 - December 2 1984) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia who was one of the first to become an informant, or pentito, although originally his confessions were not taken seriously. Confession He walked in to a Palermo police station one night in 1973 and declared that..
Leonardo Vitetti
Leonardo Vitetti served the Italian government diplomatically both before World War II and after. He was the Italian ambassador to the United Nations. Commendatore Leonardo Vitetti of Italy married Natalie Mai Coe the only daughter of William Robertson Coe and Mai Huttleston Rogers Coe on May 19..
Leonardo World Canada
Leonardo World Canada is a Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel. It is an all-lifstyle channel showcase of Italian arts and culture ranging from cuisine to travel. It is a Canadian version of the Italian channel Leonardo World. It is primarily distributed through a package with 2..
Leonardsville
There multiple places called Leonardsville. Leonardsville Township, MinnesotaLeonardsville, New York This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to t..
Leonardsville, New York
Leonardsville is a hamlet on the Unadilla River in the Town of Brookfield in Madison County, New York, USA. The community started as a number of small factories deriving power from a dam on the Unadilla River during the first decade of the 1800s. These were known locally as the shops and included ..
Leonardsville Township, Minnesota
Leonardsville Township is a township in Traverse County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 150 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 99.8 km² (38.5 mi²), all land. Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there were..
Leonardtown, Maryland
Leonardtown is the county seat of St. Mary's County, Maryland[Geographic references#6GR6]. The population was 1,896 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Demographics4 External links Geography Leonardtown is located at [38°17′43″N, 76°38′17..
Leonardtown High School
Leonardtown High school |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Motto | |- ! Established | 1978 |- ! Type | Public Secondary |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Affiliations | |- class="hiddenStructure" ! President | |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Principal | |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Headmaster | |- cla..
Leonardus Achates
Leonardus Achates de Basilea, born Leonhard Agtstein in Basel, was a compositor who worked in the time from 1472 to 1491. He is one of the first to introduce the art of printing books in Italy. In 1472 he published a folio edition of the Virgil in Venice. In the same year, he appears in Vicenza whe..
Leonardus Lessius
Leonardus Lessius, or Leys, Flemish moral theologian, was born in Brecht, near Antwerp, now in Belgium, in 1554. He entered the Jesuits in 1572, and after study in Rome under Suarez, he became professor of theology at Louvain. He died in Louvain in 1623. In his early years, he contributed to the de..
Leonardville, Kansas
Leonardville is a city in Riley County, Kansas, United States. The population was 398 at the 2000 census. Geography Leonardville is located at [39°21′48″N, 96°51′34″W] (39.363273, -96.859571)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, ..
Leonard A. Scheele
Leonard Andrew Scheele (1907-1993) was the Surgeon General of the United States from 1948 to 1956. Scheele was born on July 25, 1907 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. While in high school, he worked in his father's pharmacy and planned to enter medicine. For his undergraduate education, Dr. Scheele chose M..
Leonard Abramson
Leonard Abramson (born 1932, Pennsylvania) was the founder and CEO of U.S. Healthcare, and has become a major philanthropist in the Philadelphia area. Abramson attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science, driving a taxi for cash to cover his expenses. After graduating, he worked as a s..
Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of ..
Leonard Alea
Leonard Alea was a French polemical writer of the early years of the nineteenth century, b. in Paris, date unknown; d. 1812. He came from a family of bankers. He published anonymously in 1801 his first book, L'antidote de l'athéisme, and the following year a new edition appeared, enlarged to two ..
Leonard Allan Lewis
Leonard Allan Lewis was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2 Further information3 The medal4 Reference5 See als..
Leonard Arthur Kitz
Leonard Arthur Kitz (April 9, 1916 - January 30, 2006) was the first Jewish mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia (1955-1957). Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Harry and Yetta (Lesser) Kitz, he grew up with older sister Hildred Kitz (Silver) and younger brother Joe. He attended Dalhousie University, where..
Leonard Asper
Leonard Asper (born May 31, 1964, in Winnipeg, Manitoba), is a Canadian businessman and lawyer. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian media company CanWest Global Communications Corp. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Toronto Law Scho..
Leonard B. Jordan
Leonard Beck "Len" Jordan (born May 15, 1899 in Mount Pleasant, Utah - died May 30, 1983 in Boise, Idaho) was a Republican Governor and United States Senator from Idaho. Jordan served in World War I as an Army officer. He was a sheep rancher in Hell's Canyon during the Great Depression. He settle..
Leonard B. Meyer
Leonard B. Meyer (b. 1918) was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory, and compositional analysis. Born in 1918, Meyer studied at Columbia Univeristy, where he received both a B.A. in Philosophy, and an M.A. in Music. He continued on to stu..
Leonard B. Stern
Leonard Stern is one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the word games mad libs. According to the website for MSN movies, he was born December 23 1923 in New York, NY. [link] According to the author website of his publisher, Penguin Books [link], and the Internet Movie Datab..
Leonard Bacon
Leonard Bacon (1802-1881), American Congregational preacher and writer, was born in Detroit, Michigan, on the 19th of February 1802, the son of David Bacon (1771-1817), missionary among the Indians in Michigan and founder of the town of Tallmadge, Ohio. The son prepared for college at the Hartford (..
Leonard Bahr
Leonard Marion Bahr (May 12, 1905 - July 25, 1990) was a prolific portrait painter as well as a painting professor for 52 years at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Of German descent in the Fox/Bahr line, Leonard was the second son of Leonard Bahr and Caroline Elizabeth Fox, and the grandson o..
Leonard Baichan
Len BaichanWest Indies (WI) Batting style Left-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests First-class Matches 3 63 '''Runs scored 184 4,504 Batting average 46.00 51.18 100s/50s 1/0 13/23 Top score 105* 216* Balls bowled 0 42 Wickets 0 0 ..
Leonard Bailey
Leonard Bailey (born 1825-05-08 in Hollis, New Hampshire; died 1905-02-05 in New York City) was a toolmaker/inventor from Massachusetts who in the mid-to-late nineteenth century patented several features of woodworking equipment. Most prominent of those patents were the planes manufactured by th..
Leonard Bairstow
Leonard Bairstow was a son of Uriah Bairstow, a wealthy Halifax, West Yorkshire man and keen mathematician. Leonard was born in 1890 in Halifax he is best remembered for is work in aviation and for Bairstow's method for arbitrarily finding the roots of polynomials. As a boy, Leonard went to Queens ..
Leonard Barden
Leonard William Barden (born 20 August 1929, Croydon, London) is an English chess columnist and promoter. The son of a dustman, he was educated at Whitgift School, South Croydon, and Balliol College, Oxford. He was a strong player, jointly winning the British Chess Championship in 1954 at Nottingham..
Leonard Barkman
Leonard A. Barkman (born July 12, 1920 in Steinbach, Manitoba, died January 5, 1979) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Manitoba legislature from 1962 to 1973, sitting as a member of the Liberal Party. Barkman was educated in Steinbach-area schools, and operated a small b..
Leonard Barr
Leonard Barr (September 27, 1903 - November 22, 1980) was an old-style, one-liner standup comic in the tradition of Henny Youngman. He was allegedly an uncle of Dean Martin, or at least was introduced that way on some appearances on Martin's TV shows in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Thanks to Mart..
Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor and artist. Contents 1 History and accomplishments2 Awards3 Trivia4 External links History and accomplishments detail from the FDR Memorial Washington D.C. Born in 1922, Baskin was an accomplished sculptor, book illustrator, print..
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmon..
Leonard Beyers
Lieutenant-General Leonard Beyers (1894-1959) was a South African military commander. Beyers joined the Union Defence Forces as a staff officer in 1913. From 1932 to 1939 he was detached to the Department of Justice as director of prisons. During World War II he served as adjutant-general of th..
Leonard Birchall
Air Commodore Leonard Joseph Birchall, CM, OBE, DFC, O.Ont, CD (July 6, 1915 - September 10, 2004 ), "The Saviour of Ceylon" S/L Leonard Birchall. Map indicates location of Japanese encounter during Ceylon incident. Leonard Joseph Birchall was born on July 6, 1915, in St. Catharines, Ontario...
Leonard Bisaku
Leonard Bisaku (born 22 October, 1974 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian football midfielder who currently plays for the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer. He has spent most of his professional career playing in Croatia with clubs including, Hajduk Split and NK Rijeka. He signed with the Crew ..
Leonard Blavatnik
Leonard Blavatnik Age: 48 Marital Status: Married Hometown: New York, NY Education: Raised in Russia, immigrated to U.S. with family at age 21. Worked way through college, founded industrial holding company Access Industries in 1986. Later teamed with Russian school chum Viktor Vekselberg, then Ru..
Leonard Blomefield
Leonard Jenyns, later known as Leonard Blomefield (25 May 1800-1 September 1893) was a clergyman-naturalist. He was the youngest son of George Leonard Jenyns and his wife Mary (1763-1832) the daughter of Dr. William Heberden (1710-1801). The Jenyns lived on Bottisham Hall property which his father ..
Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 - April 18, 1949) was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and the 1950s. He is especially known for his book Language (1933), describing the state of the art of linguistics at its tim..
Leonard Blumenthal
Leonard Mascot Blumenthal (b. 1901) is an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in 1927 from Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation was titled Lagrange Resolvents in Euclidean Geometry. He taught for the majority of his professional career at the University of Missouri. He was the aut..
Leonard blush
Leonard Blush was a fictitious musician mentioned on The Andy Griffith Show. Blush had a radio show that was enjoyed by Barney Fife and Andy Taylor. See also Freddy Fleet And His Band With A Beat ..
Leonard Bocour
Leonard Bocour (born 1910, New York City) was the co-developer of Magna paint. External link [Interview from the 1970s] ..
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is, with his ex-wife Sandra Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems. Len Bosack's business card, ca. 1984. Boscak attended La Salle College High School in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1969. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his ba..
Leonard Boswell
Leonard L. Boswell (born January 10 1934) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing the 3rd District of Iowa ([map]). Boswell was born in Missouri, was educated at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. He spent twenty years in the..
Leonard Boyarsky
Leonard Boyarsky is an American computer game designer and visual artist. He is well known as one of the three major creators of Interplay's classic RPG, Fallout, on which he worked as art director, lead artist, designer and writer. He also contributed to Interplay's sequel Fallout 2, until leaving ..
Leonard Boyle
Father Leonard Eugene Boyle (November 13, 1923 – October 25, 1999) was an Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography and was first Irish and North American Prefect of the Vatican Library in Rome from 1984 to 1997. Born in Ballintra, County Donegal, Ireland. Boyle spent ..
Leonard Braithwaite
Leonard Austin Braithwaite (born October 23, 1923) is a lawyer and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1975, as a member of the Liberal Party. He was the first Black Canadian to be elected to a provincial legislature in Canada. Braithwaite ..
Leonard Brockington
Leonard Walter Brockington KC (QC), LLD (1888 – 1966) was a Canadian lawyer, and the first head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Born in Cardiff, Wales, Brockington was educated at the University of Wales and arrived in Canada in 1912. Settling in Edmonton, Brockington becam..
Leonard Brody
Leonard Brody (born June 4, 1971 in Calgary, Alberta) is one of Canada’s most respected[[Citing sources citation needed]] young technology entrepreneurs, business advisors and authors. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of th..
Leonard Burt
Leonard Burt, CVO, CBE was a British police officer, involved in several high-profile cases and investigations. In May 1938, Suffolk businessman William Murfitt was murdered by poisoning. Burt was one of a pair of detectives sent from Scotland Yard to investigate the sensational murder. The killer ..
Leonard Calvert
Leonard Calvert (1606 - 1647) was the younger son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore. When his older brother Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore received a charter for the colony of Maryland in 1632, Leonard was appointed the colony's first governor. He landed there in the spring of 1634, arr..
Leonard Carmichael
Leonard Carmichael (1898 — 1973) was a U.S. educator and psychologist. Born on November 9, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received his B.S. from Tufts University in 1920 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1924. He was a brother in the Theta Delta Chi fraternity during his time at..
Leonard Chang
Leonard Chang is a Korean-American writer of short stories and novels. His short stories have been published in a variety of literary journals. His novels include Fruit 'N Food (1996, winner of the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction), a story about a loner who finds employment in a New Yor..
Leonard Cheshire
Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO and 2 Bars, DFC (7 September 1917–31 July 1992) was a British RAF pilot during the Second World War who received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be aw..
Leonard Chess
Leonard Chess (March 12, 1917 - October 16, 1969) was a record company executive, founder of Chess Records. Born in Poland, Chess was influential in the development of electric blues. He and his brother, Philip, were pivotal in the Chicago, Illinois nightclub scene by 1947. They soon became associa..
Leonard Clark
Leonard Clark (1905-1981) was a British poet and anthologist. His best-known anthology was All Things New, a collection of poems for children; it includes a short essay before each poem, explaining it. ..
Leonard Claydon
Leonard Harold Claydon (born December 31, 1915 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, died 1971) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Manitoba legislature as a Progressive Conservative from 1969 until his death. Claydon was educated at Winnipeg public schools and St. Johns College. He worked as..
Leonard Cockayne
Dr Leonard Cockayne (7 April 1855 – 8 July 1934) was born in Sheffield, England where he attended Wesley College. He travelled to Australia in 1877 and shortly moved on to New Zealand where he became established as a botanist. In June 1901, he attended the first conference of horticulturists..
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is among the most distinguished and influential songwriters of the twentieth century. His musical career has largely overshadowed his prior work as a poet and novelist, al..
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man is a 2006 film by Lian Lunson about the life and career of Leonard Cohen. The film is based on a January, 2005 tribute show at the Sydney Opera House called "Came So Far For Beauty" and organized by Hal Willner. Performers at this show included Rufus Wainwright, Nick Ca..
Leonard Cohen (attorney)
Leonard Cohen was an attorney who worked in the United States Department of the Interior during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cohen at the time was allegedly a contact with the Soviet Military Intelligence GRU Illegal apparatus. Cohen, according to FBI reports, exchanged i..
Leonard Compagno
Leonard Compagno is an international authority on shark taxonomy and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject, best known of which is his 1984 catalogue of shark species produced for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Contents 1 Career2&nb..
Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney (July 6, 1832 - 1918), English politician and man of letters, eldest son of JS Courtney, a banker, was born at Penzance. At Cambridge, Leonard Courtney was second wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, and was elected a fellow of his college, St John's. He w..
Leonard Covington
Leonard Covington (October 30, 1768–November 11, 1813) was a United States Army Brigadier General and a member of the United States House of Representatives. Born in Aquasco, Maryland, Covington served in the American Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812, where he was killed in the Battle..
Leonard Crane
Dr. Leonard Crane (born February 7, 1964) is an author of hard science fiction. He is known to have attended the California Institute of Technology as a research fellow in theoretical physics during the early 1990s, and holds a Ph.D. in the same area. To date (July, 2005) he has produced only one k..
Leonard D. White
Leonard D. White is the great historian of the field of public administration in the United States. His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped U.S. presidential periods. An important founder of the field, White worked at the University of Chicago after service in the admi..
Leonard Darwin
Leonard Darwin Leonard as a boy with his mother, Emma Darwin Major Leonard Darwin (15 January 1850 — 26 March 1943), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician, economist, eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist R...
Leonard Davis
Leonard Davis (born: September 5 1978) is a National Football League offensive tackle for the Arizona Cardinals. He was selected 2nd overall in the 2001 NFL draft. References ..
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California, a leader in the field of gerontology, has pioneered educational programs including the world's first Ph.D. in Gerontology, the first joint Master's degree in Gerontology and Business Administration, and the first under..
Leonard Dembo
Leonard Dembo (1961-1996) was a Zimbabwean guitar-band musician who became extremely popular in Zimbabwe in the 1990s with his band the Barura Express. Incorporating traditional Shona sayings in his lyrics, his musical style was rhumba-based, played on electric guitars tuned to emulate the character..
Leonard Digges
Leonard Digges (1520 - 1559), father of Thomas Digges, was a well-known mathematician and surveyor, credited with the inventions of the theodolite and telescope, and a great populariser of science through his publications in English. In a way, his son followed in his footsteps and was a pivotal pla..
Leonard Doroftei
Leonard Dorin Doroftei (born April 10, 1970), a.k.a. Leonard Dorin, was a Romanian boxer, and Canadian citizen, WBA lightweight world champion from January 5, 2002 to October 24, 2003. Born in Ploieşti, Romania, Doroftei began boxing at the age of 14 at the Prahova Ploieşti boxing club. From 19..
Leonard Downie, Jr.
Leonard Downie, Jr. (born May 1, 1942) is the executive editor of The Washington Post. Before this, he served as managing editor for seven years. Downie grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and received his BA and MA degrees in journalism and political science from Ohio State University. He received an Ho..
Leonard E. Merrell Center
The Leonard E. Merrell Center, also known just as the Merrell Center, is a 5,600-seat multi-purpose arena in Katy, Texas. It was built in 2005. It is home to the Katy Copperheads arena football team. As a concert venue the arena seats 1,500 for theater shows and up to 7,200 for arena concerts. Th..
Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns
Canon Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns D.D. (1885 - 1963) was an English historian and theologian, whose works covered a broad range of topics in English and Western church history, as well as the history of the Biblical era. Born at Manchester on September 18th 1885, he was educated at Cambridge as a ..
Leonard Eugene Dickson
Leonard Eugene Dickson (22 January1874, Independence, Iowa – 17 January1954, Harlingen, Texas) (often called L. E. Dickson) was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also r..
Leonard Evans
Leonard Salisbury Evans (born August 19, 1929) is a retired politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Manitoba legislature from 1969 to 1999, and was a Cabinet Minister in the governments of New Democratic Premiers Edward Schreyer and Howard Pawley. Early life and career Evans was bo..
Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
redirect[[Template:Portal]] Leonard Fielding Chapman, Jr. (November 3 1913 - January 6 2000) was the 24th Commandant of the Marine Corps and served in that capacity from 1968 to 1972. Contents 1 Early life2 Military career3 Military honors4 External link Early life Chapman w..
Leonard F. Mason
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Leonard Foster Mason (22 February 1920 – 22 July 1944) served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Mason, born Middleboro, Kentucky, 22 February 1920, enlisted in the Marine Corps in April 1943. Promoted to private first class in March 1943, Mason..
Leonard F. Plugge
Captain Leonard F. Plugge (1889–1981) was a British Member of Parliament from 1935 to 1945 who created the International Broadcasting Company in 1931 as a commercial rival to the British Broadcasting Corporation by buying airtime from European radio stations such as Radio Normandy in the 193..
Leonard Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Festival
Contents 1 Nature and goals of the festival2 Developments in the festival3 The competition process4 Prestige of the Festival and famous alumni Nature and goals of the festival The [Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival] ("Falcone Festival" for sh..
Leonard Farbstein
Leonard Farbstein, a Representative from New York, was born in New York City on October 12 1902. He graduated from High School of Commerce and attended City College of New York, New York, Hebrew Union Teachers College and graduated from New York University Law School, in 1924. He worked as a lawyer ..
Leonard Feather
Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914– 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer who was best known for his music journalism and other writing. Feather was born in London. He learnt to play the piano (though was not formally trained), and had started w..
Leonard Feeney
Contents 1 Early life2 Early Conflicts3 Major conflict3.1 Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary3.2 Communal Raising of Children3.3 Suspension and Excommunication3.4 The Authority of the Holy Office3.5 Reconciliation4 External links Father Leonard..
Leonard Fenton
Leonard Fenton is a British actor best known for his role as Dr. Harold Legg in EastEnders. The character was originally one of the main focal points of the programme in its early years, but over time he became less central. After the character's retirement, Fenton's appearances have been fewer and ..
Leonard Francolini
Leonard Francolini is a gun engraver who works out of Santa Fe. ..
Leonard Frank Meares
Leonard Frank Meares (February 13,1921 - February 4,1993) was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700 Westerns for the Australian paperback publishers Cleveland and Horwitz using the pseudonym "Marshall McCoy", "Marshall Grover" "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell". Among his most ..
Leonard Freeman
Leonard Freeman (died January 20, 1974) was an American television writer and producer whose most famous achievement was the creation of the CBS television network series Hawaii Five-O in 1968. In 1960, he wrote for the series Route 66; in 1962, he produced The Untouchables. ..
Leonard French
Leonard French OBE (born 1928 Brunswick, Victoria) is an Australian artist. He is known principally for the stained glass ceiling he did at the National Gallery of Victoria. He also won the Sulman Prize in 1960 with The Burial, and the Blake Prize in 1963 and in 1980. He was also awarded a Harkness..
Leonard Frey
Leonard Frey (born September 4, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York; died August 24, 1988 in New York) was an American actor. As Motel, the tailor, Frey earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor in the lush roadshow version of Fiddler on the Roof, primarily because of his tour-de-force song number..
Leonard Funeral Home and Crematory
The Leonard Funeral Home and Crematory is a funeral home and cremation service located in Key West (rural Dubuque, Iowa). The funeral home is located at 2595 Rockdale Road. Pat Leonard is the owner and operator of this funeral home, he also manages the nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery. Leonard opened..
Leonard Gansevoort
Leonard Gansevoort (1751-1810) was an American political leader from New York who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1788. He was born to Harmen (1712-1801) Gansevoort and Magdalena Douw (1718-1796) Gansevoort on July 14, 1751 in Albany County, New York. He represented Albany Coun..
Leonard Gardner
Leonard Gardner was born in Stockton, California, in 1934. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, the Southwest Review, and a number of other magazines. He lives in Marin County in northern California and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Originally published in 1969, Gard..
Leonard Garment
Leonard Garment was acting special counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency. A noted attorney, he is the author of the 2000 book In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time, which supported the theory that Deep Throat was John Sears. ..
Leonard George
Leonard George is a psychologist from Vancouver, British Columbia best known for his writing and lectures on anomalous phenomenon. He is the author of two extensively annotated reference works on paranormal experience and religious history. The Washington Post included his Crimes of Perception: An E..
Leonard Gerald Labine
Leonard Gerald 'Leo The Lion' Labine (July 22 1931–February 25 2005) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A native of Haileybury, Ontario, Labine played for teams in the NHL, WHL, EPHL, and the AHL. At 5'10", and 178lbs, Labine has had a long and varied career. He played with the fo..
Leonard Gibbs
Leonard "Doc" Gibbs is a percussionist from the USA. Gibbs studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1970s. He has toured with artists such as Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Bob James, Ricki Lee Jones, Al Jarreau, Grover Washington, Jr, Wyclef Jean, Erykah Badu, Eric Bennett, and ..
Leonard Goldberg
Leonard J. Goldberg (born January 24, 1934 in New York) is an American film producer and television producer. He has his own production company, Mandy Films. He has served as Head of Programming for ABC, and was president of 20th Century Fox. As a television producer he is known for producing sever..
Leonard Goldenson
Leonard H. Goldenson (December 7 1905 - December 27 1999) was the first president of ABC. External links [Leonard Goldenson at the Museum of Broadcast Communications] ..
Leonard Griffin
Leonard Griffin (born September 11, 1982 in Pasadena, California) is an American soccer player, who currently plays for the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. High School Years Griffin attended Littlerock High School (Littlerock, California) and was a four-year leterman in soccer. He was a thre..
Leonard Gustafson
Leonard Gustafson The Honourable Leonard Joe Gustafson (born November 10 1933) is a Canadian Senator and former Member of Parliament. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Gustafson was a farmer, contractor and businessman, before he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1979 general electi..
Leonard Gyllenhaal
Leonard Gyllenhaal (3 December 1752 – 13 May 1840), Swedish military officer and entomologist. Born on the Ribbingsberg manor in Västergötland in west Sweden, Leonard Gyllenhaal was son of an army officer and belonged to a family of the lower nobility. He went to school (Skara trivialskola)..
Leonard Hamilton
Leonard Hamilton is the head basketball coach at Florida State University. He is a former coach at Oklahoma State University and the University of Miami (Florida). He also coached the NBA's Washington Wizards for one season. His all-time record is 265-268, while appearing in 6 NITs and 3 NCAA t..
Leonard Hawkes
Leonard Hawkes FRS (6 August 1891 - 29 October 1981) was a British geologist. External links http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=910&inst_id=11 ..
Leonard Hayflick
Leonard Hayflick (born in 1928), Ph.D.., is Professor of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and was Professor of Medical Microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a past president of the Gerontological Society of America and was a founding..
Leonard Helm
Leonard Helm was born around 1720 probably in Stafford County, Virginia. He died while fighting Native American allies of British troops during one of the last engagements of the Revolutionary War around June 4, 1782 in Jefferson County, Virginia (now Kentucky). Helm was commissioned a captain ..
Leonard Henderson
Leonard Henderson (1772 - 1833) was an American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1829 to 1833, and an Associate judge of that court beforehand. Henderson was born in Granville County, North Carolina on October 6, 1772. His father, Richard, was a state S..
Leonard Henry Trent
Group Captain Leonard Henry Trent VC DFC(1915-1986) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2 Further information3 ..
Leonard Hentiu
Headline text Leonard Hentiu - Romanian film and tv director Short Movies: " Lucian Blaga " " This is how I imagine Paradise " Tv film : " Someone Like You " Tv show : " Late Night Show with Mircea Badea " ..
Leonard Hoar
Leonard Hoar (1630 – November 28, 1675) was an early American clergyman and educator. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1650, and later studied medicine at Cambridge University. He occupied various ecclesiastical positions in England and produced works on biblical scholarship..
Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann
Leonard Hubert Hoffmann, Lord Hoffmann of Chedworth (born 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a senior British Judge, serving as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He is perhaps best known for his involvement in the controversial Pinochet case, in which his wife's directorship of Amnesty International ..
Leonard Horner
Leonard Horner (January 17, 1785 – March 5, 1864), Scottish geologist, brother of Francis Horner, was born in Edinburgh. His father, John Horner, was a linen merchant in Edinburgh, and Leonard, the third and youngest son, entered the university of Edinburgh in 1799. There in the course of the..
Leonard Howell
Leonard Percival Howell (16 June 1898 – 1981) is a founder of the Rastafarian religious movement. Howell was born in May Crawle River, a town in Jamaica in 1898. In 1933 he began preaching about what he considered as the symbolic portent for the African diaspora – Ras Tafari's crowning as..
Leonard Huxley
Leonard Huxley may refer to a writer or a physicist (note they are second cousins): Leonard Huxley (1860 - 1933) British writer and editor and member of the famous Huxley family.Leonard Huxley (1902 - 1988) Australian physicist, and also a peripheral member of the Huxley family. This is a [di..
Leonard Huxley (physicist)
Sir Leonard George Holden Huxley KBE (May 29, 1902 – 4 September 1988) was an Australian physicist. Huxley was born in London, the eldest son of George Hamborough and Lilian Huxley. He was a second-cousin once removed of Thomas Huxley. His family migrated from England to Australia in 1905 w..
Leonard Huxley (writer)
Leonard Huxley (December 11, 1860 - May 2 1933) was a British writer and editor. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Family1.2 Work2 External links Biography Family Family tree His father was the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at University College School, Londo..
Leonard I. Garth
Judge Leonard I. Garth (born 1921 in Brooklyn, New York) is a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Garth graduated with a bachelor of arts from Columbia University in 1942. He served during World War II as a United States Army Lieutenant from 1943 to 1946. Upon ..
Leonard Ingrams
Leonard Ingrams (1 September 1941 – 27 July 2005), merchant banker and opera festival founder/impresario. Leonard Ingrams was the youngest of four sons. His parents were Leonard St Clair Ingrams and Victoria (née Reid). His mother was musical and he started to learn the violin at the age of ..
Leonard J. Arrington
Leonard J. Arrington (July 2 1917 - February 11 1999) was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. He earned a doctorate in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in March 1952. In 1958 Harvard University Press published his Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Sain..
Leonard J. Buck Garden
The Leonard J. Buck Garden (33 acres) is a public botanical garden operated by the Somerset County Park Commission, and located at 11 Layton Road, Far Hills, New Jersey. It is open daily; a small fee is requested. The garden is one of the premier rock gardens in the United States. It features nativ..
Leonard J. Farwell
Leonard James Farwell (January 5, 1819 – April 11, 1889) was an American politician and the second governor of Wisconsin. Farwell was born in Watertown, New York, and moved to Wisconsin in the 1840s, prior to its statehood. He first settled in Milwaukee and later in Madison, where he owned a ..
Leonard James Akaar
In the fictional Star Trek-universe, Leonard James Akaar was the son of Teer Akaar and Eleen. He was born in 2267, shortly after his father was killed in a struggle with the Klingons. He was named after Captain James T. Kirk and chief medical officer Leonard McCoy, who helped to resolve the conflict..
Leonard James Keyworth
Leonard James Keyworth (12 August 1893 - 19 October 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details He was 21 years old, and a Lance-Corporal in the 2..
Leonard James Spencer
Leonard James Spencer CBE FRS (7 July 1870 - 14 April 1959) was a British geologist. External links http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/collectors_corner/arc/roebling3.htm ..
Leonard Jeffries
Leonard Jeffries (born January 19, 1937) is a professor in the Black Studies department at the City College in Harlem who achieved national prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his anti-Semitic views. He was quoted in the New York Times saying that "rich Jews who financed the development..
Leonard Jerome
Leonard Walter Jerome (November 3, 1817 – March 3, 1891) was a Brooklyn, New York entrepreneur and grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill. Early Life and Background Leonard Jerome was the son of Aurora Murray and Isaac Jerome. Leonard was born on a farm in upstate Pompey, New York, and went o..
Leonard Jimmie Savage
Leonard Jimmie Savage (20 November 1917 – 1 November 1971) was a US mathematician and statistician. He was graduated from the University of Michigan and later worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the University of Chicago, and the Statistical Research Group at Colu..
Leonard Jones
Leonard C. Jones (June 4, 1924 - June 23, 1998) was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of the city of Moncton, New Brunswick between 1963 and 1974, and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Moncton between 1974 and 1979. Jones was elected to Moncton City Council in 1957, and was vote..
Leonard Joseph Matchan
Leonard Joseph Matchan (d. 1987) was the Tenant of Brecqhou in the English Channel from 1966 until his death. Mr Matchan was associated with the cosmetics firm Max Factor. Six years after his death, David Barclay became Second Tenant. ..
Leonard K. Elmhirst
Leonard K. Elmhirst 6 June, 1893 – 16 April, 1974, a Yorkshire clergyman's son was an agronomist working in India, and was co-founder with his wife Dorothy Straight of the Dartington Hall project in progressive education and rural reconstruction. Elmhirst had a grounding in farming and land ..
Leonard Katzman
Leonard Katzman (September 2, 1927 – September 5, 1996) was an American film and television screenwriter, producer, and director. Born in New York City, New York, he was the nephew of Hollywood producer, Sam Katzman. Although an outstanding baseball player with the potential for perhaps makin..
Leonard Keeler
Leonarde Keeler is the co-inventor of the polygraph. On February 2, 1935, Detective Leonarde Keeler conducted the first use of his invention, the Keeler polygraph - otherwise known as the lie detector. Keeler used the lie detector on two criminals in Portage, Wisconsin, who were later convicted of ..
Leonard Keysor
Lt. Leonard Keysor, VC (1917). Leonard Keysor (also known as "Keyzor")(3 November 1885 - 12 October 1951) was an British recipient in the Australian Imperial Force of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Brit..
Leonard Kibrick
Leonard Kibrick (September 6, 1924 - January 4, 1993), was an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1934 to 1936, usually portraying the villain. His role as the bully in the series was taken over by Tommy Bond (as "Butch") in 1937, and Le..
Leonard Kirk
--> Leonard Kirk is an American born comic book artist living in Canada. He has worked on such properties as Supergirl, JSA, Star Trek, Batman, and Witchblade. Leonard is currently exclusively signed to work for Marvel Comics. Kirk first broke into the comics field pencilling issue #5 of Malibu Co..
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock and the first IMP. source: (http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/personal_history.html) Leonard Kleinrock, Ph.D. (born 1934) is a computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at UCLA, who made several extremely important contributions to the field of computer networking, in..
Leonard Knight
Leonard Knight is the builder and chief architect of Salvation Mountain. He was born in November 1st, 1931 in Vermont. He lives at the mountain near Slab City, a few miles from Niland, California, and approximately 150 miles from San Diego. Contents 1 Childhood2 Early Adulthood3 L..
Leonard Koppett
Leonard Koppett (born 15 September 1923 in Moscow, died 22 June 2003 in San Francisco) was one of the most prolific and influential sportswriters of the 20th century. Koppett's family moved from Russia to the United States when he was five years old. They lived in The Bronx, New York a block away..
Leonard Kornoš
Leonard Kornoš is a Slovak astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. ..
Leonard Krasulski
Leonard Krasulski (born November 08, 1950 in Sopot) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7777 votes in 34 Elbląg district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list. See also Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2009 External links [Leonard Krasulski - par..
Leonard Kriegel
Leonard Kriegel is an author and self-proclaimed “cripple.” Kriegel contracted polio as a child and was confined to steel braces and crutches shortly after. Among the books he has written are Working Through (1972) and Falling Into Life (1991). ..
Leonard Krupnik
Leonid Krupnik (born July 15, 1979) is a Jewish American footballer who plays for Maccabi Netanya in Israel. Contents 1 Childhood and early career2 High School3 University4 Major League Soccer and the United Soccer Leagues5 2005 Maccabiah6 Aliyah7 Maccabi Netan..
Leonard Kwan
Leonard Kwan (1931-2000) was one of the most influential Hawaiian slack-key guitarists to emerge in the period immediately preceding the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance of the 1970s. He made the first LP of slack key instrumentals, co-wrote the second slack key instruction book, and composed a number ..
Leonard L. Amburgey
Asteroids discovered: 1 ..
Leonard Labatt
Leonard Labatt (Stockholm December 4, 1838–Christiania, Norway, March 7, 1897) was a Swedish dramatic tenor. Labatt was born in a Jewish family in Stockholm and studied under Julius Günther at the Stockholm Conservatory and Jean Jacques Masset at the Paris Conservatory. He made his début in..
Leonard Lake
Leonard Lake (July 20, 1946 - June 6, 1985) was an alleged American serial killer. The crimes he committed together with Charles Ng came to light when Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill shortly after being arrested for a firearms offense. Contents 1 Early life2 Discovery3&n..
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance (born June 25, 1952) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served as a member of the New Jersey Senate since 2002, where he represents the 23rd Legislative District. Before entering the Senate, Lance served in the New Jersey General Assembly for 10 years (1991-2001), whe..
Leonard Lauder
Leonard Lauder (1934-) was chief executive of Estée Lauder Companies until 1999; now he serves as chairman of the board. Today Estee Lauder dominates the prestige cosmetics industry with such brands as Estee Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C., Aveda, Bobbi Brown and Stila. Son William takes over as CEO in 20..
Leonard Law
The Leonard Law is a California law passed in 1992 that applies the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to private colleges and universities. The law also applies Article I, Section 2 of the California Constitution to private colleges and universities. California is the only state to g..
Leonard Lee
Leonard G. Lee, C.M., is a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963 from Queen's University. In 2002, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for "being a successful entrepreneur". [link] He is the author of The Complete Gu..
Leonard Leo
Leonard Leo (1965 - ) is director of the Lawyers Division and executive vice president of the Federalist Society, and head of "Catholic Outreach" at the Republican National Committee. He also served as an advisor to President George W. Bush on judicial nominees, including the unsuccessful nominatio..
Leonard Liggio
Leonard Liggio (born July 5, 1933) is a self-described classical liberal author, research professor of law at George Mason University, and executive vice president of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia. Contents 1 Present positions2 International activities3&nb..
Leonard Limousin
For St. Leonard of Limousin go to Saint Leonard of Noblac Leonard Limousin (or Limosin) (c. 1505C. 1577) was a French painter, the most famous of a family of seven Limoges enamel painters, the son of a Limoges innkeeper. He is supposed to have studied under Nardon Pénicaud. He was certainly at t..
Leonard Little
Leonard Antonio Little (born October 19, 1974 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American football defensive end who currently plays for the St. Louis Rams of the NFL. He attended the University of Tennessee. On October 19 1998 Little ran a red-light in his Lincoln Navigator, killing another mot..
Leonard Long
Leornard Long (1911- ) is an Australian painter of the Australian School of landscape painters. Born the son of a baker in 1911, Leonard Hugh Long AOM is a highly respected and successful Australian landscape artist in oils. He was raised in Mittagong on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales a..
Leonard Lopate
Leonard Lopate is host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC. He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University, where he was a student, then, later, at WBAI, before ultimately moving to WNYC. [[Citing sources citation need..
Leonard Lord
Leonard Percy Lord, 1st Baron Lambury KBE (15 November 1896–13 September 1967) was a captain of the British motor industry. He was educated at Bablake in Coventry. Between 1914 and 1918 he worked in a munitions factory in Coventry, then after the War he worked in a manufacturing plant for Da..
Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell
Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell on Wheels Bt (21 October 1850 - 18 September 1926) was a Scottish Liberal politician. The eldest son of Colonel Henry Lyell and Katherine Horner, he was a nephew of Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, the geologist. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney an..
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
The Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine is the school of medical education at the University of Miami. The school is located in downtown Miami, Florida. The renowned Jackson Memorial Hospital serves as its major teaching facility. In December of 2004, the University of Miami School of Medicine r..
Leonard Macnally
Leonard Macnally (1752- 13th February, 1820), Irish was one of the most important government informants against members of the Society of United Irishmen. He was born in Dublin, the son of a merchant and studied law. In 1776 he was called to the Irish bar, and in 1783 to the English bar. He support..
Leonard Maffei
Leonard Maffei was a champion bicycle racer in the United States during the 1930s. Born Leonardo E. Marzigliano in Providence, Rhode Island, he raced under his mother's maiden name because his own name was too long to fit on a jersey. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Maffei raced throughout the Nort..
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin Leonard Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is a widely known American film critic. Maltin was born in New York City. He began his writing career at age 15, editing and publishing the Film Fan Monthly. After receiving a journalism degree at New York University, Maltin went on to ..
Leonard Mandel
Leonard Mandel was the Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester, having become emeritus only a few months before he died, at the age of 73, at his home in Pittsford, New York. Born on 9 May 1927 in Berlin, Germany, where his father had emigrated from Ea..
Leonard Marchand
Leonard Stephen Marchand, PC , CM (born November 16 1933) is a former Canadian politician. He was the first person of First Nations ethnicity to serve in the federal cabinet, and was the first Status Indian to serve as a Member of Parliament. Marchand was born in Vernon, British Columbia as a memb..
Leonard Marshall
Leonard Marshall is a former NFL defensive lineman for the New York Giants. Leonard Marshall is famous for knocking out Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana during the 4th quarter of the 1990 NFC Championship game. He hit Joe Montana so hard in that game, Montana suffered a bruised sternum, bruised..
Leonard Matlovich
Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988) was a Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. He fought the US military in 1975 for the right to serve as an openly gay man. He won his case in 1980 when a federal judge ordered the Air ..
Leonard McCoy
Mean anomaly (M) Physical characteristics Dimensions Surface area Volume Mass Density (ρ) Surface gravity Escape velocity Rotation period Rotation velocity Obliquity Right ascensionof north pole Declination Absolute magnitude Albedo..
Leonard Michaels
Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933- May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays. He was born in New York City and earned a B.A. from New York University and a M.A. as well as a PhD in English Literature from the University of Michigan. He was a professor of English at t..
Leonard Mins
Leonard Emil Mins was an American who worked in the Russian Section of the Research and Analysis Division of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Mins also worked for Soviet Militiary Intelligence (GRU). Mins joined the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) in 1919 an..
Leonard Miron
Leonard Miron (born April 11, 1969) is a Romanian television and radio presenter and journalist and works for Televiziunea Română (Romanian National Television). He was born in Galaţi, Romania but was brought up in Piteşti and studied to be a physician at Bucharest University before starting a ..
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954 in Chicago) is a physicist and writer. While a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, and on the faculty at Caltech, he developed (with N. Papanicolaou) a new type of perturbation theory for eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics. Later, as an Alexande..
Leonard Monk Isitt
Leonard Monk Isitt may refer to: Leonard Monk Isitt (1855 - 1937) - a methodist ministerSir Leonard Monk Isitt (1891 - 1976) - a military aviator, and the son of the above This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred yo..
Leonard Monk Isitt (aviator)
Sir Leonard Monk Isitt KBE (born July 27 1891 in Christchurch, New Zealand - died January 21 1976 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) was a famous New Zealand military aviator. He was the New Zealand signatory for the Japanese Instrument of Surrender marking the formal surrender of Japanese forces so ending..
Leonard Monk Isitt (minister)
Leonard Monk Isitt (born January 4 1855 in Bedford, England - died July 29 1937 in Christchurch, New Zealand) was a Methodist minister. References [Davidson, Allan K. 'Isitt, Leonard Monk 1855 - 1937'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 16 December 2003] ..
Leonard Moon
Leonard MoonEngland (Eng) Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB) Bowling type n/a Tests First-class Matches 4 96 '''Runs scored 182 4,166 Batting average 22.75 26.87 100s/50s 0/0 7/18 Top score 36 162 Balls bowled 0 96 Wickets 0 1 Bowlin..
Leonard Mudie
Leonard Mudie (11 April 1883–14 April 1965) was a British-born character actor whose career ran many decades. His first film appearance was in 1921, and his last on-screen performance was in the Star Trek classic TV series. Fans of the TV series The Adventures of Superman remember him for sev..
Leonard Myers
Leonard Myers (November 13, 1827 - February 11, 1905) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Leonard Myers was born in Attleboro, PA (now Langhorne, PA). He attended the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and studied law. He was a major of the Nin..
Leonard Myles-Mills
Leonard Myles-Mills (born May 9 1973) is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres. He has won a gold medal at the 1999 All-Africa Games, a silver medal at the 2003 All-Africa Games and a bronze medal at the 1998 African Championships. In 1999 he set a new African indoor record in 60 metres..
Leonard N. Stern
Founder of Hartz Mountain Industries [link], Leonard N. Stern oversees operations of the extensive Hartz real estate portfolio as chairman and CEO. Under his forty plus years of leadership, Hartz has built and currently owns over 38 million square feet of office, industrial, hotel and reta..
Leonard Naidin
Leonard Toni Naidin (born September 15, 1979 in Timişoara) is a Romanian football player who currently plays for FCU Politehnica Timişoara. He is a defensive midfielder. Although born in Timişoara, Naidin first played for FC Bihor Oradea during the 1995/1996 season in the Divizia B. He moved ..
Leonard Neale
Styles of Leonard Neale Reference style The Most Reverend Spoken style Your Excellency Religious style Monsignor Posthumous style none Leonard Neale (1745 or 1746 — 1817) became, in 1800, the first bishop ordained in the US where he devoted almost all his time on the Visitation..
Leonard Nelson
Leonard Nelson (July 11, 1882, Berlin - October 29, 1927, Göttingen) was a German mathematician and philosopher. He was part of the Neo-Friesian School and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert, and devised the logical paradox which bears his name with Kurt Grelling. During his doctorate at ..
Leonard Nicholson
Leonard Hanson Nicholson (June 8 1904 - March 22, 1983) served as the tenth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from May 1, 1951 to March 31, 1959. In 1955 he received an honorary LL.D. from the University of New Brunswick. In 1967 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He i..
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer best known for playing the character Spock in the Star Trek franchise, beginning in 1966 with [[Star Trek: The Original Series|the original television series]]. Contents 1 Life2&n..
Leonard Nimoy discography
In December 1966 - when it became apparent that the original [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]] was in spite of low Nielsen Ratings developing a strong following - Dot Records was approaching the producers of the show. The result was the signing of Leonard Nimoy to that label. Incidentall..
Leonard Ochtman
Leonard Ochtman (October 21, 1854 – 1935), American painter, was born in Zonnemaire, Netherlands. He was the son of a decorative painter. His family removed to Albany, New York in 1866. He worked with a group of artists who were important in the development of the impressionist movement in..
Leonard of Blakemore
Leonard of Blakemore has a church in St Leonards near Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom dedicated to him, yet it is unclear which saint this actually refers to. ..
Leonard of Quirm
Characters fromTerry Pratchett's Discworld series Character details Full name: Leonard of Quirm Description: Eccentric genius Associations: Havelock Vetinari Location: Quirm, Ankh-Morpork Story appearances First seen: Wyrd Sisters (mentioned) Men At Arms (appearance) Also in..
Leonard Oprea
Leonard Oprea (born December 1953) is a contemporary Romanian writer. He was born in Prejmer, a village in Braşov County in the eastern part of Transylvania, central Romania. He made his studies at the University of Braşov, Romania, and in 1990 he specialized in mass-media communication at th..
Leonard Orr
Leonard Orr (born circa 1938) is an American spiritual leader best known for developing Rebirthing-Breathwork, a 'system' or technique of breathing that can help one to overcome the "trauma" of being born. Leonard claims to have met twelve immortal yogis, including Babaji or Herakhan Baba, the Mahav..
Leonard Outerbridge
Sir Leonard Cecil Outerbridge CC (May 6, 1888 – September 6, 1986) was the Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland from 1949 to 1957. In 1967, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. External link [Biography at Government House The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador] |..
Leonard P. Zakim
Leonard P. "Lenny" Zakim (1953 - December 2, 1999) was a religious and civil rights leader in Boston. Zakim died in 1999 after a 5-year battle with cancer. Contents 1 Civil Rights Advocacy2 Political Participation3 Honors4 External links Civil Rights Advocacy Lenny Zakim bega..
Leonard Parker
Leonard Parker is a Distinguished Professor of physics and director of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Education 1967 PhD, Harvard University (advisor: Sidney Coleman) Awards/Honors 1984 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society 2000 [The Park..
Leonard Part 6
Leonard Part 6 is a 1987 comedy film, directed by Paul Weiland and starring Bill Cosby, who also produced and co-wrote the film. Contents 1 Synopsis2 Criticism3 See also4 External links Synopsis [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow..
Leonard Peikoff
Leonard Peikoff circa 1970 Leonard Peikoff (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher and athor. He befriended Ayn Rand in 1951 and became heir to her estate after she died in 1982. In 1985 Peikoff founded the Ayn Rand Institute. Contents 1 Early life2 Ear..
Leonard Peltier
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Leonard Pennario
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Leonard Pennario is an American classical pianist. He was born July 9, 1924 in Buffalo, New York. He grew up in Los Angeles, and remained there his entire career. Pennario retired from active concertizing and recording in the 1990's. Because of the nature of the..
Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley
Leonard P. D. Tilley speaking on Parliament Hill in 1927 Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley (May 21, 1870-December 28, 1947) was a New Brunswick politician and premier. Tilley was elected to the provincial legislature in 1916 as a Conservative MLA and became a cabinet minister in 1925 under Premie..
Leonard Piatek
Leonard Franciszek Piatek (birth name: Leonard Piontek) (October 13, 1913 - July 1, 1967) was an interwar Polish soccer player of Upper Silesian origin. Born in Królewska Huta (now: Chorzów) on October 13, 1913. A top scorer of the AKS Chorzów, which in 1937 was the vice-champion of Poland, 1938..
Leonard Pitts
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a nationally-syndicated American columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but within a few years he received his own column in which he dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture. He li..
Leonard Pope
Leonard Pope is a current American football tight end for the Arizona Cardinals. He was drafted in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Georgia. ..
Leonard Porter Ayres
Leonard Porter Ayres (1879 - 1946) was a U.S. statistician. Ayres apparently tallied a count of the US Army battle deaths for World War I. He served as a Major during the war, or shortly thereafter. ..
Leonard R. Lenihan
Leonard R. Lenihan is the Chairman of the Erie County Democratic Committee. He previously served as an Erie County Legislator from 1977 to 1996 and then appointed Erie County's Personnel Commissioner. ..
Leonard Ratzlaff
Leonard Ratzlaff is the choral conductor for Edmonton's Richard Eaton Singers. He obtained his graduate degree in choral conducting from the University of Iowa, and his doctoral dissertation on Anton Bruckner's Te Deum earned him the American Choral Directors Association Julius Herford Dissertation ..
Leonard Raven-Hill
Leonard Raven-Hill (March 10, 1867 - March 31, 1942), English artist and illustrator. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and the Devon county school, and studied art at Lambeth and then in Paris under MM. Bougereau and Aim Morot. He began to exhibit at the Salon in 1887, and in the Royal Aca..
Leonard Read
Part of the Politics series onLibertarianism Factions Agorism Geolibertarianism Left-libertarianism Minarchism Neolibertarianism Paleolibertarianism Influences Austrian School Anarchism Anarcho-capitalism Classical liberalism Objectivism Ideas Civil liberties Free markets Laissez-faire Libe..
Leonard Riggio
Leonard Riggio is owner of Barnes & Noble, the largest specialty retailer in the world. As of January 31 2004, the company operated 840 stores in 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Leonard Riggio purchased Barnes & Noble in 1971 and is the company's current chairman. Leonard Riggio is t..
Leonard Rogers
Sir Leonard Rogers FRS (1868–1962) was a founder member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and its President from 1933 to 1935. Rogers had a wide range of interests in tropical medicine, from from the study of kala-azar epidemics to sea snake venoms, but is best known for..
Leonard Rose
Leonard Rose (July 27, 1918 – November 16, 1984) is considered one of the greatest American cellists of the 20th century. Born in Washington, D.C., Rose took lessons from Walter Grossman, Frank Miller and Felix Salmond and after completing his studies at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Mus..
Leonard Rosenman
Leonard Rosenman (born September 7, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film, television and concert composer. Awards Recipient of two Academy Awards: Bound for Glory (1976) for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score; and Barry Lyndon (1975) Best Music, ..
Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter (21 October, 1926 – 5 October, 1984) was a distinguished British actor, most widely known for his comedy roles in two British television series of the 1970s. Rossiter was born in Liverpool, England. He began acting when he picked up a girlfriend from her amateur dramatics class ..
Leonard Rudling
Leonard George "Len" Rudling (25 February 1935 - 25 January 2003) was the co-coordinator of the Apprenticeship Department at Mohawk College at Hamilton, Ontario. He established plumbing apprenticeship programs for the province of Ontario, and wrote three textbooks on plumbing (Basic, Intermediate,..
Leonard Russell
Leonard Russell is a former American football running back who played for the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos. ..
Leonard Sachs
Leonard Sachs (born 26 September 1909 in Roodeport, Transvaal, died 15 June 1990) was a British actor. He had many television and film roles from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Rosencrantz in the 1938 version of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Mowbray in the 1950 version of Richard II, John..
Leonard Sainer
Leonard Sainer, British, enjoyed two very successful careers, as a solicitor and a retailer. He was born 12 October 1909 and died 30 September 1991. After education at University College London, he became a solicitor in 1933. He was a founding partner of the firm of Titmuss Sainer and Webb in 193..
Leonard Saxon
Leonard Saxon (Born October 30, 1929) is an American psychologist born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is the founder of Static Phase therapy which is intended to return patients to a static or neutral mental state. Saxon's work was influential in therapeutic circles and adopted by many of his disciple..
Leonard Schapiro
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Leonard Bertram Schapiro (22 April 1908, Glasgow - 2 November 1983, London) was a British academic and scholar ..
Leonard Scott
Leonard Ewing Scott was convicted in 1959, in California, of having murdered his wife. This is notable because it is one of the first cases to establish a "bodyless" murder, that is, a murder in which no body had been discovered to bear out that there had been a crime. Leonard Scott (born Febru..
Leonard Shayo
Leonard Shayo (born 1948) is a Tanzanian politician and member of the Demokrasia Makini party. Running as the party's presidential candidate in the 14 December 2005 elections, Shayo placed ninth out of ten candidates, receiving 0.15% of the vote. ..
Leonard Shlain
Leonard Shlain is a surgeon and author of three books. He is the Chairman of Laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF. He lives in Mill Valley, California, is married to [Ina Gyemant] and has three chi..
Leonard Shoen
Leonard Samuel Shoen (1916 - 1999) was an American entrepreneur, who founded the U-Haul truck and trailer organization in Ridgefield, Washington. After growing up in the farm belt of the United States during the Great Depression, he envisioned the market for rental vehicles for families who wished ..
Leonard Singer
Leonard Ian Singer MR Pharm S MLC is a current member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man. Mr Singer was born in Manchester and has lived in Portugal and Tenerife. He moved to the island in 1989 and set up Singer's Pharmacy in Ramsey. He was involved in local politics as a district co..
Leonard Skinner
Leonard Skinner is a former high school gym coach and the inspiration for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's band name. The name Lynyrd Skynyrd was inspired as a mocking tribute to Skinner, who was guitarist Gary Rossington's and drummer Bob Burns' gym coach at Robert E. Lee High School in Ja..
Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor. Slatkin was born in Los Angeles, California into a musical family - his father was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, Felix Slatkin, and his mother was Eleanor Aller, the cellist with the quartet...
Leonard Spigelgass
American producer and screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass (1908 - 1985) got his start collaborating on the script of Erich Von Stroheim's "Hello Sister" (1933). He signed on as a staff writer for Universal in 1938 and was a colonel in the US Army Signal Corps. In 1950, Spigelgass received an Oscar n..
Leonard Starr
Leonard Starr who was born October 28 1925 was an advertising artist and cartoonist. In 1957 he created the comic strip On Stage, later titled Mary Perkins, On Stage. Characterized by equal parts soap opera and humor it featured tight slickly realistic graphics and, from the beginning, both a stro..
Leonard Stern
Leonard Stern is the name of several people: Leonard N. Stern, (fl. 2000), American financierLeonard B. Stern, (fl. 1950s), American game creator & publisher This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page,..
Leonard Stone
Leonard Stone (born 3 November 1923) is an American actor who has played supporting roles in over 120 television shows and 35 films since 1956. Between 1988 and 1994 he appeared in twelve episodes of the television series L.A. Law as Judge Paul Hanson. Filmography Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Fac..
Leonard Stone (jurist)
Leonard Stone (November 1896 - unknown) was the last British Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay, serving from September 30, 1943 until 1948. See also List of Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court References [Chief Justice Sir Leonard Stone - from the Bombay High Court website] ..
Leonard Strickman
Leonard P. Strickman (born April 14, 1942, Brooklyn, New York) has been the Dean of three law schools. Most recently, he has served as the founding Dean of the Florida International University College of Law. Strickman was born and raised in New York. His father, a chemist who had lacked the mea..
Leonard Strong
Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896-17 August 1958) was an English writer, known as a novelist, journalist, and poet. He was a director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. from 1938. He was born in Plymouth of a half-Irish father and Irish mother; he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, He was a ver..
Leonard Suransky
--> Leonard Suransky is currently the Head of the Department of International Relations at Webster University in Leiden, The Netherlands. Contents 1 Early life and education2 Research interests3 Awards4 Lectures given5 Publications6 See also Early life and educati..
Leonard Susskind
Lenny Susskind at Stanford University Leonard Susskind is a theoretical physics professor at Stanford University who is widely considered to be one of the most entertaining mavericks in the field of string theory. Contents 1 Background2 Career3 Contributions to physics4 ..
Leonard Sweet
Leonard I. Sweet is a Christian preacher, an E. Stanley Jones Professor of evangelism at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey, and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. He also founded and was president of SpiritVenture Ministries. He writes on the su..
Leonard T. Connors
Sen. Leonard Connors Leonard T. Connors Jr. (born April 11, 1929) is an American Republican Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1982, where he represents the 9th Legislative District. While maintaining his long standing in the Senate, Connors served on the..
Leonard T. Gerow
Major General Leonard T. Gerow July 13, 1888 - October 12, 1972 was commander of the V Corps in the D-Day assault on Normandy on June 6, 1944. The V Corps was comprised of two infantry divisions: the U.S. 29th Infantry Division and the U.S. 1st Infantry Division. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Leonard Talmy
Leonard Talmy is a professor of linguistics and philosophy at the University at Buffalo in New York. He is most famous for his pioneering work in cognitive linguistics, more specifically, in the relationship between semantic and formal linguistic structures and the connections between semantic typol..
Leonard Teale
Leonard Teale (born September 26, 1922 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — died May 14, 1994 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), was a well-known Australian actor of radio, television and films. Radio roles included the voice of 'Superman' in the 1950's. Major television roles included ..
Leonard Thompson
Leonard Thompson is regarded as the very first person to have received injection of insulin as a treatment for diabetes. He received his first injection on January 11, 1922, at 14 years of age. The first injection had an apparent impurity which was the likely cause for the allergic reaction he dis..
Leonard Tose
[] at NFL.comLeonard Hyman Tose (March 6, 1915 to April 15, 2003) Born in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, made a fortune in the trucking industry and was owner of the Philadelphia Eagles. He was known for his lavish lifestyle and eventually lost his fortune because of a gambling addiction and ..
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (September 8, 1864 - June 21, 1929) was a British liberal politician, one of the theorists of modern liberalism. He worked as an academic and a journalist: he was the first professor of sociology appointed in a British university. He was born in Liskeard, Cornwall. Conte..
Leonard Tremeer
Bronze medal Athletics Men's 400 metres hurdles Leonard Francis "Jimmy" Tremeer (August 1, 1874) was an Olympic bronze medallist in the men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He competed on the Great Britain and Ireland team. Tremeer had no competition in the first round..
Leonard Trent
Leonard Trent (1915-1986) was a New Zealand pilot and Victoria Cross winner. A pilot of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Trent was attached to the Royal Air Force on initially flying Bristol Blenheims. He test flew the Douglas DB-7 Boston, which he strongly recommended to the RAF. He was appointed..
Leonard Uhr
Leonard Uhr (died October 5 2000) was an American computer scientist, and one of the early pioneers in computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, and cognitive science. He was quite an expert in many aspects of human neurophysiology and perception, and a central theme of much of his re..
Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.
Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., 88 F.Supp.2d 116 (S.D.N.Y. 1996), more widely known as the Pepsi Points Case, is a famous case tried in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1996, in which the plaintiff, Leonard, sued Pepsico in an effort to enforce an "offer" to redeem 7,000,00..
Leonard van Munster
Leonard van Munster (born February, 1972), is an Dutch contemporary artist and sculptor. Contents 1 Life and art1.1 ''Private room 02'' - 2004-20061.2 Recent work2 External links Life and art Private room 02 - 2004-2006 During this time, he was commissioned in 2004, to cr..
Leonard Volk
Leonard Wells Volk (7 November 1828 - 19 August 1895) was an American sculptor. He was born at Wellstown (now Wells), Hamilton County, New York. He first followed the trade of a marble cutter with his father at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1848 he opened a studio at St Louis, Missouri, and in 1855..
Leonard W. Levy
Leonard W. Levy is the Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History at Claremont Graduate School, California. He was born in 1923 in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of The Establishment Clause, Religion and the First Amendment, Origins of..
Leonard Warren
The American opera singer Leonard Warren (April 21, 1911 - March 4, 1960) was a famous baritone who was associated for many years with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Soprano Renata Tebaldi said of his voice: "it was a very, very soft, velvety voice...He was truly stupendous." Born Leonard War..
Leonard Weaver
Leonard Weaver (born September 23, 1982 in Melbourne, Florida) is an American football fullback for the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL. He was signed as an undrafted free agent out of Carson-Newman College. ..
Leonard Weinglass
Leonard I. Weinglass is a U.S. lawyer and civil rights activist. Weinglass graduated from Yale Law School in 1958. he served as a Captain, Judge Advocate, United States Air Force from 1959 to 1961. He was admitted to the bar in the states of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. He taught cri..
Leonard Weir
Leonard Weir is a stage actor best known for his role of Freddy Einsford-Hill in the London production of My Fair Lady along with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. He replaced Michael King who played Freddy in the Broadway production of the play. ..
Leonard Welsted
Leonard Welsted (baptised June 3, 1688 - August 1747) was an English poet and "dunce" in Alexander Pope's writings (both in The Dunciad and in Peri Bathos). Welsted was an accomplished writer who composed in a relaxed, light hearted vein. He was associated with Whig party political figures in his..
Leonard White
To meet Wikipedia's , this article may require rewriting and/or reformatting. The current version of the article was [WikiProject U.S. Congress/Bioguideimported] in part or in full from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Please discuss this issue on the [[Talk:|tal..
Leonard Whiting
Leonard Whiting (born June 30, 1950 in London, England) is a British actor who starred as Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of Romeo and Juliet opposite Olivia Hussey's Juliet. Leonard Whiting as Romeo in the 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet Whiting was born in the Wood Green ar..
Leonard Wibberley
Leonard Francis Wibberley (April 9,1915-November 22,1983) was a prolific Irish author who wrote under several pseudonyms. He is best known for his comic novels about the imaginary country Grand Fenwick, particularly The Mouse That Roared. Wibberley is also remembered for writing more than 50 child..
Leonard Wilcox
Leonard Wilcox (January 29, 1799 - June 18, 1850) was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1817, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practiced in Orford. He was a member of the New Hampshire House of..
Leonard Wolf
Leonard Wolf is an author, teacher and father of Naomi Wolf. He is known for his authoritative annotated versions of classic gothic horror novels, including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Phantom of the Opera. ..
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson
Leonard Gordon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson (born 11 November 1927) is a British businessman, the former Chairman of GUS, and son of GUS magnate Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet. He is a trustee of the Wolfson Foundation. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Wolfson, of Marylebone in the City of Westminste..
Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood (October 9, 1860 – August 7, 1927) was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Governor General of the Philippines. He later became a recipient of the Medal of Honor. Contents 1 Early life and career2 Army Chief of Staff3 Legac..
Leonard Woodcock
Leonard Freel Woodcock (February 15, 1911 – January 16, 2001) was an American labor union leader and diplomat who was the president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from 1970 to 1977. Woodcock was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1911, the son of machinist Ernest Woodcock and Mary Freel...
Leonard Woods
This article is about the theologian. For the U.S. Army general, see Leonard Wood. Leonard Woods (June 19, 1774 - August 24, 1854) was an American theologian. He was widely known for upholding orthodox Calvinism over Unitarianism. In 1796, Woods graduated from Harvard, and was soon ordained pastor..
Leonard Woolf
Leonard Sidney Woolf (November 25, 1880 – August 14, 1969) was a noted British political theorist, author, and civil servant, but perhaps now best known as husband to author Virginia Woolf. Woolf was born in London, the third of ten children of the Jewish barrister Solomon Rees Sydney and Ma..
Leonard Woolley
Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April, 1880–20 February, 1960) was a British archaeologist, best known for his excavations at Ur in Sumer, ancient Mesopotamia. He was knighted in 1935 for his services to archaeology. Woolley was born in London, and educated at New College, Oxford. In 1905, h..
Leonard Zhakata
Leonard Zhakata is a Zimbabwean musician very popular in his home country, though not as well known internationally. Zhakata writes and performs songs mainly in his native Shona tongue. Zhakata is best known for his hits Upenyu Mutoro and Matai Manzwi. However, it was his 1994 smash Mugove which pr..
Leonatos
Captain Leonatos is a character from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. He is the hero of the Bloodquest series of comic books (Rennie and MacNeil, 2005), in which he and a group of followers travel into the Eye of Terror to retrieve a lost Blood Angels artifact, the Blade Encarmine. The popul..
Leonay, New South Wales
Leonay, New South Wales, Australia is located on the western side of the Nepean River, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. This suburb is bounded by the M4 Motorway, the western railway line, and the Nepean River. Once the vineyard of Leo Buring, Leonay is now a residential suburb nestled on the Blue..
Leona Aglukkaq
Leona Aglukkaq is from the Gjoa Haven, Nunavut area of Canada. Aglukkaq is currently the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Nattilik having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election. She is currently the Minister of Health and Social Services and the Minister Resp..
Leona Brown
Leona Brown (born July 27, 1960) is a female boxer who is the WIBC world Bantamweight champion. Because of her age, many consider her to be "the George Foreman of women's boxing". Brown's nickname, "Downtown", is both a homage to actress Downtown Julie Brown, and it also serves as name play, such ..
Leona Czwartkowski
Leona Czwartkowski, photographed by Apelles Noel Leona Czwartkowski (born May 14, 1949) is a Canadian author, poet, and eMedia artist. She was born in South River, Ontario, Canada. In 1969 she graduated from North Bay Teacher's College (now part of Nipissing University), was hired by The Sudbu..
Leona Dombrowsky
Leona Dombrowsky (born April 29, 1957) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty. Dombrowsky was born in Belleville, Ontario, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree fr..
Leona Florentino
Leona Florentino (April 19, 1849-October 4, 1884) was a celebrated Filipino poet in the Spanish and Ilocano languages. Born to a wealthy and prominent family in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, the young Florentino's intelligence and lyricism was obvious at an early age when she began to write her first verses i..
Leona Gom
Leona Gom (born October 11, 1946) is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in White Rock, British Columbia. In recent years she has become known for her Vicky Bauer series of mystery novels. Gom received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her first novel, Housebroken (1986). Bibliography Fiction..
Leona Graham
Leona Graham is a radio broadcaster and voiceover artist. She presents shows for Virgin Radio. External links [Leona's website][Leona's profile at VirginRadio.co.uk] ..
Leona Heidern
Leona Heidern is a video game character who made her first appearance in the Neo Geo fighting gameseries, The King of Fighters. Contents 1 History1.1 Rugal / Orochi Saga1.2 NESTS saga1.3 Ash / Sacred Treasures saga2 Personality3 Trivia4 External links5 Re..
Leona Helmsley
Leona Helmsley (born Lena Rosenthol July 4, 1920 in Ulster County, New York) is a New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was convicted of Federal income tax evasion in 1989 and served 18 months in prison. Contents 1 Early life2 Business success and controversy3&nb..
Leona Mitchell
Leona Mitchell (b. 13 October 1948 in Enid, Oklahoma), known worldwide as one the greatest African-American sopranos to ever perform in opera houses and an Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee. Leona Mitchell started singing at an early age in the choir of the Antioch Baptist Church in Enid where..
Leona Naess
Leona Kristina Naess, born in New York City, New York on July 31, 1974, is the singer/songwriter daughter of Norwegian mountaineer Arne Næss Jr. and ex-stepdaughter of Diana Ross. She was educated at Institut Le Rosey during her childhood. Naess's releases on label MCA are "Comatised" (2000) and ..
Leona Ozaki
[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. --> --> Leona Ozaki is the central character of Masamune Shirow's [[Dominion: Tank Police]] anime and manga series. She is approximately 23 years old, stands 5 ft 6 in, weighs 117 lb, has type B blood, has the ast..
Leona Valley, California
Leona Valley is a town located in the geographic Leona Valley of Los Angeles County, California, just west of Palmdale, California. The town has a population of about 2,200. Geography Leona Valley is located about 12 miles Southwest of the Palmdale Civic Center in Southern California. Leona Valley ..
Leona Vicario
Leona Vicario, also less commonly known as Leona Vicario de Quintana Roo (April 10, 1789 – August 24, 1842) was an active supporter of the Mexican War of Independence. From her residence in Mexico City she was able to provide intelligence and money to the rebel movement. She married fellow i..
Leonberg
Leonberg is a town in the district of Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated about 13 km west of Stuttgart. The town is most famous for being the birth place of the dog breed the Leonberger. ..
Leonberger
The Leonberger is a giant breed of dog. The breeds name derives from the city of Leonberg in south-west Germany. Due to this breed's large size, its love of muddy water, and the amount of attention and exercise it needs, the Leonberger is not commonly seen in large cities or towns. Contents ..
Leoncio Basbaum
Leôncio Basbaum (1907 – 1969) was born in the state of Pernambuco the child of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He qualified as a Medical doctor in Rio de Janeiro in 1929. He become involved in the Brazilian Communist Party after graduating and dedicated the rest of his life to the cause. He wrot..
Leonding
Coat of arms Map Statistics State: Upper Austria District: Linz-Land Area: 24.05 km² Population: 24,842 (2006) Population density: Elevation: 287 mhighest point 393 m (Tower XIII) Postal code: A-4060 (A-4020: Friesenegg and Zaubertal) Area/distance code..
Leonello d'Este
Leonello d'Este (1407 - 1450) was marquis of Ferrara and Duke of Modena and Reggio Emilia from 1441 to 1450. Biography Leonello was one of the three illegitimate sons of Niccolò d'Este III and Stella de' Tolomei. He received a military education under the condottiero Braccio da Montone, and was ..
Leonel Álvarez
Leonel de Jesús Álvarez (born July 30, 1965 in Remedios, Colombia) is a Colombian football defensive midfielder, one of the best in the country's history. Álvarez began his career with Independiente Medellín in 1983. He has also played for Veracruz (Mexico), América de Cali, Atlético Naciona..
Leonel Brizola
Leonel Brizola. Leonel Brizola (Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, January 22, 1922 — Rio de Janeiro, June 21 2004) was a Brazilian politician . He was governor of Rio Grande do Sul from 1959 to 1962, as well as serving two terms as governor of Rio de Janeiro state (1983–1987 and 199..
Leonel Cota Montaño
Leonel Cota Montaño (b. in 1956) is a Mexican politician. He is a former governor of Baja California Sur and current president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Cota Montaño studied political sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He began his political career..
Leonel Fernández
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican politician and the current president of the Dominican Republic. He was born in Santo Domingo but spent his childhood and formative years in New York City, USA. He joined the PLD (see further below) at its inception in 1973, wh..
Leonel Godoy
Leonel Godoy Rangel (b. June 5, 1950 in Michoacán) is a Mexican lawyer and politician. He is a former president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Godoy Rangel began his political career in his native Michoacán serving in various positions during the governorship of Cuauhtémoc Cá..
Leonel Mário d'Alva
Leonel Mário d'Alva is a São Toméan politician. He served as Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 21 December 1974 until 12 July 1975, when the country gained independence from Portugal. From late 1975 to 1980, D'Alva was President of the São Toméan National Assembly. After the coun..
Leonel Power
Leonel Power (1370 to 1385 – June 5, 1445) was an English composer of the late Medieval and early Renaissance eras. Along with John Dunstaple, he was one of the major figures in English music in the early 15th century. Power is the composer best-represented in the Old Hall Manuscript, one of..
Leonel Sánchez
Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros (born April 25, 1936 in Santiago de Chile) is a former professional footbal player. He played at left midfielder for over 20 years between 1953 and 1973. 17 of those 20 were in Universidad de Chile, where he was the icon of the Ballet Azul (Blue Ballet), a team t..
Leonel Vieira
Leonel Vieira (born 1969) is a Portuguese film director. He directed films such as Zona J (1998), A Bomba (2001), The Forest (2002). External links ..
Leonese cuisine
Leonese cuisine refers to the typical dishes and ingredients of the region of Leon in Spain. This cuisine is known for its cooked dishes ("guisos") and its grilled or roasted meats ("asados"), its high-quality wines, the variety of its desserts, its sausages ("embutidos"), and its cheeses. In additi..
Leonese People's Union
Leonese People's Union (in Spanish: Unión del Pueblo Leonés) is a regional political party in Castilla y León, Spain. UPL strives to establish a separate autonomous community (Comunidad Autónoma de León or Autonomous Community of León) for the provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca (parts o..
Leonessa
Leonessa is also the name of a frazione of Bassano Romano. Leonessa is a town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Province of Rieti in the Lazio region of Italy. Its population in 2003 was around 2,700. Situated in a small plain at the foot of Mt. Terminillo, one of the highest mountain..
Leones del Caracas
The Leones del Caracas are a baseball team from the Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League). From its inception the Leones have played in the Estadio Universitario in Caracas. From 1942 through 1953 it was called Cervecería Caracas. In the latter year, th..
Leones de Escogido
Leones de Escogido Is a professionalbaseball team establish in 1921 located in Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic. Leones de Escojido (Lions of the Chosen One) has a long history in the island. The Leones are one of the best team in the island winning a few Dominican titels and 2 Caribbean World Serie..
Leonetto Cappiello
--> Cognac advertisement Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942) was an Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris. He started as a caricaturist illustrating in journals like Le Rire, Le Cri de Paris, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au Beurre, La Baionnette, Femina, and others. Cappiello made his name du..
Leone Allacci
Leone Allacci (Leo Allatius) (1586-1669), Greek scholar and theologian, was born in the island of Chios. His early years were passed in Calabria and at Rome, where he finally settled as teacher of Greek at the Greek college, at the same time devoting himself to the study of classics and theology. I..
Leone Bagnall
Flora Minnie Leone Bagnall CM OPEI is a farmer, teacher and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island. She was first elected on April 23, 1979 to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, representing the 1st Queens district. She was re-elected in 1982, 1986 and 198..
Leone Battista Alberti
Leone Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian painter, poet, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, musician, architect, and general Renaissance polymath . His life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. In Italy, his first name is usually spelled Leon. Conten..
Leone Bouvier
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Leone Bouvier (1929-) was a French prostitute and murderer who shot her boyfriend in the head because he..
Leone Caetani
Leone Caetani (1869-1935) was born into Italian family, a very prominent one. He was the child of the Prince of Teano, and the Duke of Sermoneta. He was not a self learned Oriental languages, because he studied in the University of Rome, under proff. Ignazio Guidi and Giacomo Lignana, with an inte..
Leone Ginzburg
Leone Ginzburg (April 4, 1909, Odessa – February 5, 1944, Rome) was an influential Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. He was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg, and the fath..
Leone Levi
Leone Levi (June 6, 1821-May 7, 1888) was an English jurist and statistician. Born to a Jewish family in Ancona, Italy, he worked in commerce there before emigrating to Liverpool in 1844. There he obtained British citizenship and joined the Presbyterian church. At the time, English law regarding..
Leonforte
Leonforte is a town in the province of Enna, Sicilia, Italy. It is located at around [37°39′0″N, 14°24′0″E]. Sicilia · Communes of the province of Enna Agira | Aidone | Assoro | Barrafranca | Calascibetta | Catenanuova | Centuripe | Cerami | Enna | Gagliano ..
Leongatha, Victoria
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 133 kilometres south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland Highway. The town is the commercial, educational and civic centre of the region, with some 6,500 people living in the tow..
Leongatha Airport
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Leonhalt Domador
Leonhalt Domador(レオンハルト　ドマドール) is a fictional character designed for the Aggressors of Dark Kombat fighting game. Contents 1 Profile2 Special Moves3 Appearances4 See also Profile Age: 32 yearsHeight: 230 cmWeight: 180 kg Special Moves Shin-BakuSas..
Leonhard Euler
Euler redirects here; another notable person named "Euler" is Carl Euler. Leonhard Euler (pronounced oiler) (IPA /ˈɔɪlər/) (April 15, 1707 Basel, Switzerland - September 18, 1783 St Petersburg, Russia) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. He is considered to be the preeminent mathematici..
Leonhard Gall
--> Professor Leonhard Gall was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. Gall worked for Paul Troost and he designed a new chancellery for Munich. He helped to complete the House of German Art after Troost's death. See also Nazi architecture ..
Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal
Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (July 20, 1810 - December 21, 1900), Prussian generalfeldmarschall, son of Captain Ludwig von Blumenthal (killed in 1813 at the battle of Dennewitz), was born at Schwedt-on-the-Oder. General von Blumenthal. Educated at the military schools of Culm and Berlin, he en..
Leonhard Hess Stejneger
Stejnegger. Leonhard Hess Stejneger (October 30, 1851 - February 28, 1943) was a zoologist. Stejneger was born in Bergen, Norway, and studied law and philosophy at the University of Christiania. He got a Ph.D. and started a brief career as a lawyer. However, his naturalist interests proved str..
Leonhard Hutter
Leonhard Hutter (January, 1563 - October 23, 1616), was a German Lutheran theologian. He was born at Nellingen near Ulm. From 1581 he studied at the universities of Strasbourg, Leipzig, Heidelberg and Jena. In 1594 he began to give theological lectures at Jena, and in 1596 accepted a call as profe..
Leonhard Kleber
Leonhard Kleber (c.1495 – March 4, 1556) was a German organist, and probably composer, of the Renaissance. He was born in Göppingen. He graduated from Heidelberg University in 1512, and was probably a pupil of the famous blind organist and composer Arnolt Schlick around that time. He is known ..
Leonhard Lechner
Leonhard Lechner (c. 1553-1606) was a German composer and music editor who worked with Orlando de Lassus. ..
Leonhard Ragaz
Leonhard Ragaz (1868-1945) was a Swiss Lutheran theologian and, with Hermann Kutter, one of the founders of Christian Socialism in Switzerland. He was influenced by Christoph Blumhardt. ..
Leonhard Rauwolf
Leonhard Rauwolf (also spelled Rauwolff) (Augsburg, June 21 in either 1535 or 1540 – September 15, 1596, Waitzen, Hungary) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He was a pupil of Guillaume Rondelet in 1560. In 1565 he set up a medical practice in Augsburg. In that year he married R..
Leonhard Seppala
Seppala sleddog team in the Yukon. Seppala monument in Skibotn, Norway, his birthplace. Memorial plaque on the Skibotn monument. Leonhard Seppala (September 14, 1877 – 1967) was a Norwegian of Finnish-speaking (Kven) descent who had emigrated to Alaska during the Nome gold ru..
Leonhard Stock
Leonhard Stock (born March 14, 1958 in Finkenberg) is a former Austrian skier who won a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Stock could not repeat his surprise win at the Lake Placid Olympics on the World Cup tour until almost a decade later, winning Downhill races in 1989, 1990..
Leonhard Tietz
Leonhard Tietz (born 3 March 1849 in Birnbaum an der Warthe (Kreis Birnbaum, today Międzychód), Poland - died November 14th 1914) was a German merchant of Jewish origin. Biography On August 14th 1879, he opened a first little department store in Stralsund, with not much more than the idea that it..
Leonhart Fuchs
160px Leonhart Fuchs (17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566) was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, with Hieronymus Bock, called Tragus and Otto Brunfels. Contents 1 Biography2 Scientific views3 Eponymy4 Publications5 External links6&n..
Leoni
Leoni can refer to: Leoni Township, MichiganLeoni (formerly Assenbuch) in Bavaria Giacomo Leoni otherwise James Leoni, architect in EnglandTéa Leoni, American actress This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to..
Leoni's Own
Leoni's Own is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards shuffled together. This game, which has an alternate name of Weavers, uses an ingenious method called weaving, which is explained below in this article. First, an ace and a king of each suit is removed from the dec..
Leonia, New Jersey
Map highlighting Leonia's location within Bergen County. Inset: Bergen County's location within New Jersey. Leonia is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 8,914. It is located near the western approach to the Geo..
Leonia (plant)
Leonia is a genus of tropical small trees or shrubs. ..
Leonia High School
Leonia High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in Ninth through Twelfth grade from the Borough of Leonia in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Leonia Public Schools. Students from Edgewater attend the school as part of a sending receiving ..
Leonia Public Schools
Leonia Public Schools is a school district in Leonia in Bergen County, New Jersey. The district serves students in Kindergarten through Twelfth grade. Enrollment in the district is 1,752, of which, 289 are Edgewater students in grades 7-12. An Early Childhood Learning Center is available for 4-ye..
Leonida
Leonida can mean several things: The homeplanet of a fictional alien race of LeonidersAn alternate spelling of the Greek name Leonidas This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to chang..
Leonidaion
The Leonidaion was the lodging place for athletes taking part in the Olympic Games at Olympia. It was loacted to the southwest of the sanctuary. ..
Leonidas, Minnesota
Leonidas is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 60 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²). 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (4.32%) is water. D..
Leonidas (chocolate maker)
Leonidas is a chocolate manufacturer based in Belgium, with an international presence. The company's focus is pralines (chocolate shells with soft fillings); it also sells marzipan, solid chocolates, and other confections. Leonidas has 1700 retail outlets in most continents of the world. External ..
Leonidas (disambiguation)
Leonidas can refer to: Leonidas I, king of Sparta, ruled c. 489–480 BC., leader at the battle of Thermopylae.Leonidas II, king of Sparta, ruled c. 254–235 BC.Leonidas of Tarentum, Greek poet.Leonidas (chocolate maker), a manufacturer of Belgian chocolates established by a Greek immigran..
Leonidas (ship)
The Leonidas was the first ship to bring indentured Indian laboutrers to Fiji. The ship is actually named after a famous Spartan King, kille din battle with the Persians. ..
Leonidas C. Dyer
Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer was an American politician who served as a Republican Representative from Missouri. He proposed the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. He was in Congress from the 62nd Congress to the 72nd Congress. ..
Leonidas C. Houk
Leonidas Campbell Houk was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district of Tennessee. He was born near Boyds Creek, Tennessee in Sevier County on June 8, 1836. He attended the common schools for less than three months and learne..
Leonidas I
Leonidas at Thermopylae, by Jacques-Louis David (1814) Leonidas (Greek: Λεωνίδας) was a king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line. He was one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, descendant of Heracles. He succeeded, probably in 489 or 488 BC, his half-brother Cleomenes I..
Leonidas II
Leonidas II was Agiad King of Sparta from 254 to 235 BC. In that capacity, he opposed the attempted reforms of his Eurypontid co-regent, Agis IV. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Leonidas Kavakos
Leonidas Kavakos (born 1967) is a Greek violinist. He has established himself as one of the most sought after young virtuoso violinists and appears regularly with leading orchestras and in recital throughout the world. Contents 1 Beginnings2 Performances2.1 America2.2 Europ..
Leonidas L. Polk
This is about the agrarian leader and North Carolina's first Commissioner of Agriculture. There is a separate article about the 'Fighting Bishop', General Leonidas Polk. Leonidas Lafayette Polk (April 24, 1837 - June 11, 1892), or L.L. Polk, was an American farmer, journalist and political figure. ..
Leonidas Langakis
Leonidas Langakis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Langakis competed in the free rifle event. He did not finish the competition. ..
Leonidas Lent Hamline
Leonidas Lent Hamline (1797-1865) was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop, born in Burlington, Connecticut, USA. Hamline studied for the ministry, but afterward studied law, and practiced for a while in Ohio. He became a preacher in the Methodist church in 1830. In 1844, when the Methodist chu..
Leonidas Morakis
Leonidas Morakis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Morakis competed in the free pistol event. He placed fourth, though his score is unknown. ..
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk, The Fighting Bishop For the agrarian leader and North Carolina's first Commissioner of Agriculture, see Leonidas Lafayette Polk. Leonidas Polk (April 101806 – June 14, 1864) was a Confederate general who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a third cousin of..
Leonidas Pyrgos
Leonidas Pyrgos, born in Martineia, was a Greek fencer. He was the first Greek Olympic medallist in the history of the modern Olympic Games, winning his fencing event of the 1896 Summer Olympics on 7 April, 1896. His competitor in the event, which consisted of a single bout of foil fencing to th..
Leonidas Township, Michigan
Leonidas Township is a township in St. Joseph County, Michigan, United States. The population was 1,239 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 93.8 km² (36.2 mi²). 92.5 km² (35.7 mi²) of it is land and 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) of..
Leonidas Tsiklitiras
Leonidas Tsiklitiras was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Tsiklitiras competed in the horizontal bar event. He did not win a medal, though his exact placement is unknown. ..
Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Moukhranskaya
Leonida Georgievna of Russia, Leonida Georgiyevna Romanova (Леонида Георгиевна Романова) (born 6 October 1914) is the widow of HIH Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich, Titular Emperor of Russia. The Grand Duchess was born as Her Illustrious Highness Princess Leonida Georgievna..
Leoniders
Leoniders (леонидяне) are a fictional alien race from the Noon Universe created by the Strugatsky brothers. Their homeworld is Leonida (Леонида), a planet discovered in 2133 AD by Leonid Gorbovsky. Leoni..
Leonidoff Field
Leonidoff Field is a 2,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Poughkeepsie, New York. It is home to the Marist College Red Foxes football team. The facility opened in 1972. ..
Leonids
The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The meteor shower is visible every year around November 17 when the Earth moves through the Leonid meteor stream. The stream comprises solid particles, known as meteoroids, ejected by the comet as it passes by the Su..
Leonids Beresnevs
Leonīds Beresņevs (born 6 July 1958) is a Latvian former ice hockey player, who played in defence. Born in Rīga he is currently assistant coach of the Latvian national team. His first term of coaching the Latvian national team was from 1996 till 1999. In the 1996 world championships, when Latvi..
Leonid Abalkin
Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin (born 1930) is a Russian economist. He was born in Moscow and became director of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986. He later worked as an advisor to President Boris Yeltsin. ..
Leonid Andreyev
Portrait of Leonid Andreev Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (Russian: , August 9, 1871-September 12, 1919) was a Russian playwright who led the Expressionism movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the ..
Leonid Bobylev
Leonid Borisovich Bobylev, also Bobylyov (Леони́д Бори́сович Бобылё́в, born October 15, 1949) is a Russian composer. Bobylev graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied composition with Mikhail Chulaki, a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Contents 1&nb..
Leonid Borisovitch Kogan
right Leonid Borisovitch Kogan (14 November 1924 - 17 November 1982) was a violin virtuoso. He is one of the 20th century's most famous Soviet violinists. Together with David Oistrakh and Eduard Grach, Leonid Kogan ranked among the best representatives of the Russian-Jewish tradition of violi..
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (Russian: , Leonid Il'ič Brežnev; December 19 [O.S. January 1 1907] 1906 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, though at first in partnership with ..
Leonid Bunimovich
Leonid Bunimovich is a Russian mathematician, currently residing in the USA, who specializes in dynamical systems and known for his discovery of focusing chaotic billiards. He received his bachelor's degree in 1967 and doctorate in 1973 from the University of Moscow. His thesis advisor was Sinai. ..
Leonid Chernovetskyi
Leonid Chernovetskyi (Ukrainian: Леонід Черновецький; b. November 25, 1951 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is the Mayor-elect of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. He is a successful businessman, founder and controlling stakeholder of the "Pravex Bank", one of the largest banks in Ukraine, and the..
Leonid Desyatnikov
Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (Russian: Леони́д Арка́дьевич Деся́тников, born: October 16, 1955, Kharkiv) is a Russian composer. Desyatnikov graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1978. In recent years he has worked closely with Gidon Kremer. He has written the..
Leonid Dukhvalov
Leonid Dukhvalov is a Belarusian mathematician known for his work in calculus. Leonid Dukhvalov has a Masters in mathematics from Belarusian State University in Minsk. He currently resides in New York City with his family. ..
Leonid Feodorov
Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov (Russian: ; 1879 - 1935) was a priest, Exarch, and reputed bishop for the Russian Catholic Church, in addition to being a survivor of the GULAG. After painstaking investigation, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 27 2001. Feodorov was born in Saint Petersburg..
Leonid Filatov
Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov (Russian: Леонид Алексеевич Филатов) (24 December 1946 - 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, pamphleteer, who reached popularity acting in the Taganka Theatre run by Yury Lyubimov. Despite severe illness that haunted ..
Leonid Gaidai
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леонид Иович Гайдай) (1923–1993) is one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR & modern Russia. His movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of ..
Leonid Gobyato
Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato (Russian: ; 6 February 1875 – 21 May 1915) was a Russian lieutenant-general (posthumously in 1915) and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar. Leonid Gobyato was born in the city of Taganrog into the noble family of Gobyato. His father, Nikolai Konstantinovi..
Leonid Gorbovsky
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Leonid Govorov
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Russian Леонид Александрович Говоров) (February 22, 1897 - March 19, 1955), Soviet military commander, was born in the village of Butyrki in central Russia (now in Kirov Oblast). His father was a sailor. He attended a technical high school i..
Leonid Grabovsky
Leonid Grabovsky (Hrabovsky) (1935-) is the most famous and influential contemporary Ukrainian composer to emerge in Kiev during the 1950s. External links [Bio and Compositions] ..
Leonid Kadeniuk
Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк), born 28 January, 1951 in Klishkivtsi, Chernivetska oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the first and as of 2005 the only astronaut of independent Ukraine. He made his flight on NASA's Columbia in 1997 a..
Leonid Kantorovich
Leonid V. Kantorovich. Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (January 19, 1912 in Petersburg – April 7, 1986 in Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist. He is famous for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He was the winner of the ..
Leonid Khachiyan
Leonid Khachiyan (May 3, 1952 – April 29, 2005) was a Russian-born mathematician who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous for his Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this a..
Leonid Kizim
Leonid Denisovich Kizim (born August 5, 1941 in Krasny Liman, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a former Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He was selected as a cosmonaut on October 23, 1965. Kizim flew as Commander on Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10 and Soyuz T-15, and also served as backup commander f..
Leonid Korotkov
Leonid Viktoryvich Korotkov (born January 10 1965) is the governor of Amur Oblast in Siberia in Russia. He was born in Zavitinsk. He graduated from Far Eastern University in 1987.[Governor of Amur Oblast], Government of Amur Oblast website. () He is a member of the Communist Party of Russi..
Leonid Koshelev
Leonid Koshelev (born 1979) is an Uzbekistani football midfielder. He is a member of the national team, and has been played 34 matches and scored 5 goals since 1999 [link]. Clubs PakhtatorFC Shinnik Yaroslavl External link [Career history] at National Football Teams ..
Leonid Krasin
Leonid Borisovich Krasin (Russian: , 1870 – 1926) was a Russian Bolshevik leader. Two famous icebreakers memorialize his name. Krasin joined the Social Democratic movement in Tsarist Russia in the 1890s and in the split in 1903 into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, he supported the Bolsheviks and w..
Leonid Kravchuk
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук born 10 January 1934) is a Ukrainian politician. He was the first President of Ukraine from early December 1991 to July 1994. Biography Kravchuk was born in Velyky Zhytyn (now Volyns'ka oblast'), which was part o..
Leonid Kreutzer
Leonid Kreutzer (St. Petersburg, 13 March 1884 - Tokyo, 30 October 1953) was a classical pianist. Kreutzer was born to a family of German Jewish parents. He was a highly influential piano teacher at the Berlin Academy of Music (Berliner Hochschule für Musik), together with Egon Petri. He also gave..
Leonid Kubbel
Leonid Iwanowitsch Kubbel (1891 – 1942) was a Russian problem composer. He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad (currently, Saint Petersburg again). ..
Leonid Kuchma
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukrainian: Леонід Данилович Кучма; born August 9, 1938) was the second President of Ukraine from July 19, 1994, to January 23, 2005. Contents 1 Early life2 Political career2.1 Role in the Crisis of 20043 Post-Presidency4 R..
Leonid Kulik
Leonid Kulik Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik (Russian: Леонид Алексеевич Кулик, August 19, 1883, Tartu–April 24, 1942) was a Russian mineralogist who is noted for his research into meteorites. He was educated at the Saint Petersburg Forestry Institute and the Kazan Univer..
Leonid Kvasnikov
Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov (2 June 1905 – 15 October 1993) Graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Machine-Building in 1934 and worked as an engineer in a chemical plant for several years in the Tula region. Continued postgraduate engineering studies and joined the KGB in 19..
Leonid Leonidov
Leonid Mironovich Leonidov (Russian: , 22.5(3.6).1873 - 6.8.1941) was a Russian actor and stage director. Born in a Jewish family in Odessa (his real last name was Volfenzon, Russian: ), he worked in the Moscow Art Theatre since 1903. Among his roles are Dmitri Karamazov, Othello, Lopakhin and oth..
Leonid Leonov
Leonid Maximovich Leonov (Russian: Леонид Максимович Леонов) (1899-1994) was one of the most notable Soviet novelists, styled the 20th-century Dostoyevsky for the deep psychologism of his prose. During the Russian Civil War, he worked as a reporter. His dark novel The Thief (1..
Leonid Levin
Leonid Levin (born November 2, 1948, USSR) is a computer scientist. He studied under Andrey Kolmogorov. He obtained his first Ph.D. in 1972 at Moscow University. Later, he emigrated to the USA in 1978 and earned another Ph.D at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. He is well known..
Leonid Mandelstam
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam (Леонид Исаакович Мандельштам, last name more often spelled as Mandelstam) (May 4, 1879 - November 27, 1944) was a Russian/Soviet physicist of Jewish background. Mandelshtam was born in Mogilev, Russian Empire (now Mahilyow, Belarus). He was..
Leonid Markelov
Leonid Igorevich Markelov (Леонид Игоревич Маркелов) (born 1963) is the President of the Mari El republic in Russia. He took office on January 14 2001. Markelov was elected in December 2000 in one of the most contentious elections that occurred in the period between 1991 and 20..
Leonid Moiseev
Ambassador Leonid Moiseev with a veteran from the former Soviet Union, Melbourne, 1 May 2005 Leonid P. Moiseev (born 1948) has been the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Australia since December 2001. Moiseev was born in Vladivostok in the Maritime Province of the then Soviet Union. He ..
Leonid Myasin
Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin or Léonide Massine (August 9 1896 Moscow - March 15 1979 Cologne) was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. He studied at the Bolshoi Theater school in Moscow. From 1915 to 1921 he was the principal choreographer of the Les Ballets Russes de Diaghilev. Following th..
Leonid Nevzlin
Leonid Nevzlin is the former CEO of the Russian oil company Yukos. In November 2003, he [was granted the Israeli citizenship.] On 14 July 2005, the Russian Government asked the United States Government to hand over Nevzlin to face prosecution in Russia. [Nevzlin has been charged�..
Leonid Nikolaev
Leonid Nikolaev (1904–December 29, 1934) was the assassin of Sergei Kirov, the first secretary of the Leningrad branch of the Communist Party. He was a troubled young Soviet Communist Party member in Leningrad. He was a small, thin man, about five foot tall and even as an adult showing the ef..
Leonid Pasternak
Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (Russian: , April 4 1862 N.S. - May 31 1945) was a Russian Impressionist painter. Biography Leonid Pasternak was born in Odessa to the family of a Jewish inn-keeper on April 4 1862. He was the youngest of the six children in the family. He started to draw very early..
Leonid Pavlovski
Leonid Pavlovski (born May 29, 1949) is a former field hockey player from the Soviet Union, who won the bronze medal with his national team at the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. ..
Leonid Polezhayev
Leonid Polezhayev is the governor of Omsk Oblast. He was born in 1940. He is a hydro-engineer. In 1991 he became head of the administration of Omsk Oblast. redirect [[Template:Not verified]]..
Leonid Popov
Leonid Ivanovich Popov (born August 31, 1945) is a former Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. Popov was born in Aleksandriya, Kirovograd Oblast, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). He was selected as a cosmonaut on April 27, 1970, and flew as Commander on Soyuz 35, Soyuz 40 and Soyuz T-7, logging 200..
Leonid Potapov
Lieonid Vasil'ievitch Potapov (Леонид Васильевич Потапов) (born July 4 1935) has been the President of the Buryat Republic in Russia since 1991. He has been reelected three times, lastly in 2002 when he received 68% of the vote. External links [Official presidential webs..
Leonid Roshal
Leonid Mikhailovich Roshal (b. April 27, 1933 in Livny) is a noted pediatrician from Moscow, Russia, expert for World Health Organization, chairman of International Task Force of Pediatric Disaster Medicine in World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Roshal has been leading the Em..
Leonid Sandalov
Leonid Mikhailovich Sandalov (Russian: Леонид Михайлович Сандалов) (April 4, 1900 - ?) was a Soviet military leader. Leonid Sandalov was awarded three Orders of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov (1st Class), Order of Kutuzov (1st Class), Order of the Red..
Leonid Savin
Leonid Savin is a Ukrainian journalist and political activist. He edits the book series New Policy (so far three books: one dedicated to globalization process, a toolkit for activists, ana third dedicated to problems of nationalism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination). He is also chairpers..
Leonid Shamkovich
--> Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Ша́мкович, June 1, 1923 – April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster. He was born in a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. He became a Grandmaster in 1965 and won several tournaments, with ..
Leonid Shebarshin
Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin (b. Moscow, March 24, 1935) became head of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB in January 1989, when the former FCD chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov was promoted to KGB chief. Prior to that, Shebarshin had served as Kryuchkov's deputy from April 1987. Most of Shebarshin'..
Leonid Slutsky
Leonid Eduardovich Slutskii (Russian: Леонид Эдуардович Слуцкий, also transliterated Leonid Slutsky or Slutskiy; born January 4, 1968) is a member of the State Duma of Russia. Slutsky is First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Committee on International Affairs. He is dean..
Leonid Sobinov
For Asteroid 4449 Sobinov 1987 RX3 named after Leonid Sobinov, Russian opera singer, see: Meanings of asteroid names (4001-4500) Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov (Russian: Леони́д Вита́льевич Со́бинов, June 7 [OS May 26] 1872, Yaroslavl – October 14, 1934, Riga) was ..
Leonid Sobolev
Leonid Nikolayevich Sobolev (Russian: ) (1844-1913) was a Russian general who also served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He served his term of office during the effective dictatorship of Bulgaria by Alexander of Bulgaria and was removed on 19 September 1883 when military rule was brought to an end. ..
Leonid Solovyov
Leonid Vasilyevich Solovyov (Russian: ) (August 19, 1905–April 9, 1962) was a Russian writer. He is famous for such novels as The Book of My Youth and The Jester of Bokhara (about Hodja Nasreddin), but he also wrote many screenplays including one based on Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat. ..
Leonid Stadnik
Leonid Stadnik (Ukrainian: Леонід Стадник, Leonid Stadnyk; born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine) is a controversial claimant to the status of the world's tallest living man. He is a certified veterinarian and veterinary surgeon and lives with his mother in the village of Podoliantsy, U..
Leonid Stein
Leonid Stein (November 12 1934 – July 4 1973), Soviet chess player from Ukraine. Leonid Stein achieved the Master title for chess at the relatively late age of 24. At that age he competed for first time in the USSR Chess Championship and most amazingly tied for 3rd in that event, gaining the ..
Leonid Stolovich
Leonid Naumovitsh Stolovich (Russian: Леонид Наумович Столович Estonian: Leonid Stolovitš) (*July 22, 1929 Leningrad) is a Russian – Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966), professor (1967). Stolovich graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on h..
Leonid Taranenko
Leonid Taranenko (born 1956) is a former weightlifter from Belarus. Taranenko's first major success took place at the 1980 Olympics, when, competing for the Soviet Union, he won the gold medal in the 110 kilogram class with a 422.5 kg total. He was unable to compete in the 1984 Olympics in Los Ang..
Leonid Tsypkin
Leonid Tsypkin (1926—1982) was a Russian writer, best known for his book Summer in Baden-Baden. Tsypkin was born in Minsk, capital of Belarus, to a Russian-Jewish couple. His family suffered during the German invasion in 1941. His father Boris Tsypkin was arrested by the police. Boris Tsypkin's m..
Leonid Utyosov
Leonid Osipovich Utyosov (Леонид Осипович Утёсов in Russian; real name - Леонид Осипович Вайсбейн, or Leonid Osipovich Weissbein) (21 March [O.S. March 9] 1895 in , Odessa - 9 March 1982, Moscow) was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor,..
Leonid Varpakhovsky
Leonid Varpakhovsky Leonid Viktorovich Varpakhovsky (Russian: Леонид Викторович Варпаховский ) - (29 March 1908, Moscow - 12 February 1976, Moscow), director, scenarist. A theatre in Montreal (Canada) that bears his name has been opened in 1995. ..
Leonid Voloshin
Leonid Voloshin (born March 30, 1966 in Krasnodar) is a retired triple jumper from Russia. He won the European Championships in 1990 as well as two European Indoor titles. He also won two World Championship silvers, in 1991 and 1993. In Tokyo 1991 he achieved a personal best jump of 17.75 metres, wh..
Leonid Yakubovich
Leonid Arkadyevich Yakubovich (b. 1945) is a Russian television host, best known for hosting the game show Pole Chudes (the Russian version of the Wheel of Fortune, literally, Field of Wonders). Yakubovich is one of the most well-known television personalities in Russia. In his youth, Yakubovich so..
Leonid Yengibarov
Leonid Georgievich Yengibarov (Russian: ; March 15, 1935 - July 25, 1972) was a Soviet clown and actor of an Armenian (father) and a Russian (mother). Leonid Yengibarov was born in Moscow. He started his career as a boxer. In 1955 he joined the State School of Circus Art, Clownship department. Afte..
Leonid Yudasin
Leonid Grigoryevich Yudasin (born Leningrad, August 8, 1959) is a prominent jewish grandmaster of chess now living in Israel. Awarded the International Master title in 1982 and the International Grandmaster title some time later, he was Leningrad Champion in 1984 and won at Albena in 1985. Those..
Leonid Zhabotinsky
Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky (Russian: Леонид Иванович Жаботинский; born January 28, 1938 in village Uspenka, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) was an outstanding Soviet weightlifter who set 17 world records in the superheavyweight class and won gold medals at the 1964, and 1968..
Leonie Brinkema
Courtroom sketch by Bill Hennessy Leonie M. Brinkema (born 1944, in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a United States District Court judge, in the Eastern District of Virginia. From Dutch descent, judge Brinkema received her B.A. from Douglass College in 1966 and undertook graduate studies in philosophy..
Leonie Duquet
Leonie Duquet (1916 – 1977) was a French nun who was killed within the Dirty War that took place during the military regime of Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla. Biography Leonie Duquet dedicated most of her life to religion, becoming interested in the Catholic ministry since she was..
Leonie Frieda
Leonie Frieda Leonie Frieda (born 1956) is a Swedish-born former model, translator, and writer, working and living in the United Kingdom. Educated in the UK, France and Germany, Ms. Frieda speaks five languages. Her first book was a biography of Catherine de' Medici for which her exhaustive r..
Leonie Rysanek
Leonie Rysanek Leonie Rysanek (November 14, 1926–March 7, 1998) was an Austrian soprano. Rysanek was born in Vienna and made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1959 as Lady Macbeth replacing Maria Callas. She made her farewell performance as the Countess in The Queen of Spades. Over her ..
Leonie Schaller
Leonie Schaller (b. 1978 in Pinnenberg, Germany) is a professional saxophonist. She has performed in concerts throughout Europe, with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, the Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn and the Staatstheater Braunschweig. She began learning to play..
Leonie Short
Leonie Marjorie Short (b. January 1 1956) briefly served as Member for Ryan in 2001. Short was elected to the House of Representatives in March 2001 at a by-election following the resignation of John Moore, however she was defeated at the 2001 general election. Reference [Leonie Short, Parliam..
Leonie Swann
Leonie Swann (*1975 near Munich, Germany) is the nom de plume of a German crime writer. She studied philosophy, psychology and English literature in Munich, and lives now in Berlin. Her first novel, Glenkill (published as Three Bags full in English), was sold over 100.000 times in the first half y..
Leonie Wood
Leonie Wood (born 18 December, 1961) is an Australian journalist who is one of the most senior editorial staff at The Age newspaper, in Melbourne. She worked as a business reporter for The Age for over ten years before being moved to general news by editor Andrew Jaspan, where she focused on court..
Leonila Garcia
Leonila Dimataga Garcia (1906-1994) was the wife of Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia and was the eighth First Lady of the Philippines shortly after the tragic death of Ramon Magsaysay as President that lead to her husband then Vice President Carlos Garcia to succeed the presidency. She is known..
Leonilde Iotti
Leonilde Iotti, commonly known as Nilde Iotti (April 10, 1920 - December 4, 1999) was an Italian politician, president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for three consecutive legislatures from 1979 to 1992. Life Born in Reggio Emilia, she took part to the resistance movement against the Nazi Ger..
Leonine City
The Leonine City (in Latin Civitas Leonina) is that part of the city of Rome around which Pope Leo IV commissioned the construction of a wall for military defense during the 9th century. It is on the opposite side of the Tiber from the seven hills of Rome. The Vatican City is within that area, but..
Leoni Township, Michigan
Leoni Township is a township in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 13,459 at the 2000 census. Leoni is a small, unincorporated community within the township, several miles east of Jackson. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a tot..
Leonnatus
Leonnatus (356 BC - 322 BC), Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great and one of the diadochi. He was a member of the royal house of Lyncestis, a small kingdom that had been included in Macedonia by King Philip II of Macedon. Leonnatus was the same age as Alexander and has been very close to Alexa..
Leonnorius
Leonnorius was one of the leaders of the Celts in their invasion of Macedonia and the adjoining countries. When the main body under Brennus marched southwards into Macedonia and Greece (279 BC), Leonnorius and Lutarius led a detachment, twenty-thousand strong, into Thrace, where they ravaged the cou..
Leonora
Leonora is a feminine given name, originating from the Greek word for "light". Other meanings: Leonora was the original title of Beethoven's opera, Fidelio, in which the heroine is named Leonora (or "Leonore" in German).Leonora is an opera by William FryLeonora, novel by Maria Edgeworth.Leonora, ..
Leonora, Western Australia
Leonora in 1899 Leonora's location within Western Australia Leonora is a town and shire in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The town of Leonora is located at [28°53′S 121°20′E], 833 kilometres north east of Perth and 237 kilometres north of Kalgoorl..
Leonora Anson, Countess of Lichfield
Leonora Anson, Countess of Lichfield LVO (born 1 February 1949) was born Lady Leonora Mary Grosvenor, a daughter of the 5th Duke of Westminster. On 8 March 1975, she married the 5th Earl of Lichfield and became Countess of Lichfield. The couple were divorced in 1986 and as she has not re-married, th..
Leonora Braham
Leonora Braham (February 3 1853 – November 23 1931) was an English opera singer and actress primarily known as the creator of principal soprano roles in the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas. Contents 1 Life and career1.1 Early career1.2 Principal D'Oyly Carte soprano1.3 ..
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington (born April 6 1917 in Clayton Green, Lancashire, England - ) is a British-born Mexican novelist and surrealist painter. Educated by governesses, tutors and nuns, she was expelled from many schools for her rebellious behavior until her family sent her to Florence where she learned ..
Leonora Christina
Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (July 8, 1621-March 16, 1698) was the daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and wife of Steward of the Realm Corfitz Ulfeldt. She was one of the most outstanding female historical figures of Danish 17th century. She is known for her post-humously published autobiograph..
Leonora Christine
Leonora Christine is a fictional spaceship appearing in Poul Anderson's novel Tau zero, published in 1970. This spaceship travels first between stars and later between galaxies. One of the few famous fictional sharships in literature that leave not only our solar system, but also our own galaxy, the..
Leonora Jakupi
--> Leonora Jakupi (born March 3, 1978 in Skenderaj, Kosovo) is one of the most popular singers among Albanians in Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro. Today Leonora lives in Kosovo's capitol Prishtina. She lost her father during the Kosovo war (1998-1999). Her repertoire includes a wide va..
Leonora Jiménez
Leonora Jiménez Monge of Costa Rica is the 2005 Miss Asia Pacific International. She also represented her country in the Miss World pageant in the same year, by relinquishing her Asia Pacific crown. She hails from Santa Ana and started modeling at the age of 15. She is a national karate champion, ..
Leonora Knatchbull
The Honourable Leonora Louise Marie Elizabeth Knatchbull (June 25, 1986 – October 22, 1991) was the youngest of the three children of the 8th Baron Brabourne, who was styled Lord Romsey during her lifetime. Five years old, she died after a one-year battle against a kidney tumour. The Leonora Child..
Leonora O'Reilly
Leonora O’Reilly (1870 - 1927) was an American feminist, suffragette, and trade union organizer. She was a founding member of the Women's Trade Union League. ..
Leonora of Castile
Eleanor of Castile was a regular name of infantas of Castile, namesakes of Queen Leonora and her mother, Alienor of Aquitaine, the first Eleanor ever. Besides daughters died young and minor relatives, there have been: Leonor or Eleanor of Castile (1202-1244), queen consort of Aragon: youngest daugh..
Leonora of England
House of Plantagenet Henry II Children    William, Count of Poitiers Henry, Count of Anjou Richard I Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany John Matilda, Duchess of Saxony Leonora, Queen of Castile Joan, Queen of Sicily Richard I John Children Henry III Richard, Earl ..
Leonora Sanvitale
Leonora Sanvitale (Contessa di Scandiano) (c.1558 – 1582) was a noblewoman and singer at the Este court at Ferrara, and along with her stepmother Barbara Sanseverino, was among the most "brilliant" noblewomen at the court. She joined the court in 1576 when she maried Giulio Tiene, Count of Scandia..
Leonore, Illinois
Leonore is a village in La Salle County, Illinois, United States. The population was 110 at the 2000 census. Geography Leonore is located at [41°11′22″N, 88°58′53″W] (41.189377, -88.981384)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the..
Leonor F. Loree
Leonor Fresnel Loree (April 23 1858 – 1940) was an executive of many railroads in the United States. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: president 1901 - 1904Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad president - 1904Kansas City Southern Railway: president 1918 - 1920Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad: c..
Leonor Fini
Leonor Fini Leonor Fini (1908-1996) was an Argentine surrealist painter. She was born in Buenos Aires to an Italian mother and an Argentine father, who left the family, when she was still very young. She grew up in Trieste, then went to Paris to become a painter. There, she became acquainted..
Leonor Michaelis
Leonor Michaelis (January 16, 1875 – October 8, 1947) was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Born in Berlin (Germany), he studied medicine in Freiburg, where he graduated in 1897. He then moved to Berlin, wh..
Leonor of Aragon (1402-1445)
Eleanor of Aragon was the daughter of Ferdinand I of Aragon and Leonor Urraca of Castile. She was born c. 1402 and died February 19, 1445. She married Duarte (Edward), King of Portugal on September 22, 1428. They had nine children, of which five survived to adulthood. Issue Prince John, October 14..
Leonor of Portugal
Leonor of Portugal is the name of three Portuguese Princesses. Leonor is sometimes used as Eleonor and usually translated to English as Eleanor. Leonor, Princess of Portugal (1211-1231), daughter of Afonso II of Portugal and wife of Waldermar of Denmark, son of Valdermar II.Leonor, Princess of Port..
Leonor of Portugal (1211-1231)
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Leonor of Portugal (1328-1348)
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Leonor of Viseu
Leonor of Viseu (1458-1525), pron. IPA: /li.u.'noɾ dɨ vi.'zew/, was a Princess and later Queen of Portugal. She married Prince João (John) in 1473. João later became King João II of Portugal She founded what became the city of Caldas da Rainha, which is named in her honor, rainha meaning "que..
Leonor Orosa Goquingco
Leonor Orosa Goquingco is a pioneer choreographer of the Philippines. One of the foundations of Philippine dance, Goquingco helped establish the Philippine Ballet Theater and founded the Filipinescas Dance Company. (National Artist, 1976) Major works Trend: Return to Native, 1941Filipinescas: Phili..
Leonor Oyarzún
Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic is the wife of former chilean president Patricio Aylwin. ..
Leonor Sullivan
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (born August 21, 1902 in St. Louis, Missouri - died September 1, 1988 in St. Louis) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri. She was a Democrat. Sullivan attended Washington University and was a teacher and director at St. Louis Comptomete..
Leonor Varela
Leonor Varela (born December 29, 1972) is an actress from Chile. She was born in Santiago, Chile. Her parents are the famous Chilean biologist Francisco Varela and Leonor Palma, a French-Hungarian dancer. She has one sister Alejandra and two brothers, Javier and Gabriel. Varela's family fled to ..
Leonotis
The genus Leonotis (Lion's Ear or Lion's-Tail) consists of about 30 species of plants in the family Lamiaceae, all but one native to southern Africa; the one other species (Leonotis nepetifolia) is native to tropical Africa and southern India. Leonotis leonurus (Wild Dagga) and L. nepetifolia are..
Leonov
Leonov may refer to one of the following: Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in spaceLeonid Leonov, prominent Soviet novelistYevgeny Leonov, popular Soviet actorNikolai Leonov, Soviet KGB OfficerLeonov (fictional spacecraft) in the novel [[2010: Odyssey Two]] This is a [disambiguationdisa..
Leonov (crater)
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Leonov (fictional spacecraft)
The Leonov was the fictional Soviet spaceship in the novel [[2010: Odyssey Two]], and its film adaptation [[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]. In the book Leonov is described as being equipped with a Sakharov drive, a new method of propulsion that makes it possible for the craft to make a round-t..
Leonson Lewis
Leonson Lewis (born 30 December 1966) is a football coach and former player from Trinidad and Tobago. The striker got 30 caps and scored 21 goals for the national team between 1988 and 1996 [link]. He currently coaches W Connection. Clubs Port Morant UnitedAssociação Académica de Coim..
Leontari
For another Leontari in Karditsa, see Leontari (Karditsa), Greece Leontari (Greek, Modern: Λεοντάρι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older form Leotnario, Leontarion, rarely Liontari is a town and is the seat of the municipality of Falaisia. of in the southwester..
Leontiasis Ossea
Leontiasis Ossea, also known as leontiasis or lion face, is a rare disease, found in patients who have advanced lepromatous leprosy, characterized by an overgrowth of the facial and cranial bones. The common form is that in which one or other maxilla is affected, its size progressively increasing bo..
Leontia Flynn
Leontia Flynn (born 1974) is an Irish poet born in County Down, Northern Ireland. Flynn won an Eric Gregory Award in 2001, and her first collection, These Days, was published in 2004. It won that year's Forward Poetry Prize for 'Best First Collection'. In the same year Flynn was named as one the ..
Leontief paradox
Leontief's paradox in economics was the result of an attempt to test the Heckscher-Ohlin theory by Professor Wassily W. Leontief in 1954. Leontief found that the US (the most capital abundant country in the world by any criteria) exported labor-intensive commodities and imported capital-intensive co..
Leontief production function
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Leontien van Moorsel
Leontien van Moorsel (born March 22 1970, Boekel) is a Dutch cyclist. She is also known under her married name, Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel. Van Moorsel started her professional career in the late 1980s, and soon was one of the best cyclists in the world. She won major races both on the track, a..
Leontiev
Leontjev (Leontjew, Leontiev, Leontyev, Leontief, Leont'ev etc - Russian: ): Konstantin Leontiev (1831-1891) was a maverick Russian philosopherWassily Leontief (1906-1999), was an economistAlexei Nikolaevich Leont'ev (1903-1979), is the founder of activity theory.Mikhail Leontyev - A Russian Repor..
Leontine Cooper
Leontine Mary Jane Buisson (22 April 1837 - 12 March 1903), better known by her married name, Leontine Cooper, was a teacher, a pioneer trade union organiser, suffragist and campaigner for women's rights in Queensland, Australia. Leontine was born in Battersea, Surrey to Frenchman Jean François (a..
Leontine Sagan
Leontine Sagan, true name Leontine Schlesinger (February 13, 1889 - May 20, 1974) was an Austrian actress and theatre director. Born in Vienna, Sagan trained with Max Reinhardt. The first and most widely known of her two films is Madchen in Uniform (1931). It had an all-female cast and was ground-b..
Leontine T. Kelly
Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church. She was born 5 March 1920 in Washington, D.C., one of eight children. He father, David D. Turpeau, Sr., was a prominent Methodist minister, who later served four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives. ..
Leontion
Some of the information in this has not been [Verifiabilityverified] and might not be reliable. It should be checked for inaccuracies and modified as needed, [cite sourcesciting sources]. Leontion (sometimes rendered "Leontium") apparently was a follower of Epicurus and his phil..
Leontios
''For the theological writer, see Leontius (writer) Leontios, showing the symbols of power: the crown, the globus cruciger, and the akakia. On the reverse, a potent cross on three steps. Leontios or Leontius (Greek: Λεόντιος), (d. 705), was Byzantine emperor from 695 to 698. His act..
Leontios Makhairas
Leontios Makhairas (in Greek: Λεόντιος Μαχαιράς) was a medieval Cypriot historian. The main source of information on him is his chronicle, written in the medieval Cypriot dialect. The chronicle documents events from the visit of saint Helena in Cyprus to the times of the Kingdom o..
Leontios of Neapolis
Leontios was Bishop of Neapolis (Limassol) in Cyprus in the 7th century A.D. Works: Life of St. John the Merciful, commissioned by the archbishop of Constantia Arcadius, Life of Symeon the holy fool,a lost "Life of Spyridon and an apologia against Jews. He was probably present at the Lateran coun..
Leontius (writer)
Leonitus (c. 485 — c. 543), theological writer, born at Byzantium, flourished during the 6th century. He is variously styled Byzantinus, Hierosolymitanus (as an inmate of the monastery of St. Saba near Jerusalem) and Scholasticus (the first "schoolman," as the introducer of the Aristotelian defini..
Leontiy Sivstov
Leontiy Ivanovich Sivstov (1872-1919) was a church reader who lived in Unalaska. Along with Aleksey Yachmenev, who like Sivstov was Aleut himself, Sivstov accompanied Waldemar Jochelson on his 1909-1910 ethnological studies on the Aleut. ..
Leonti Mroveli
Leonti Mroveli (Georgian: ლეონტი მროველი) was the 11th-century Georgian historian and priest. Mroveli is not his last name, but comes from the title of bishop at Ruisi (near Urbnisi), a post he held as of 1066. Hence, another modern English transliteration of his name is Le..
Leontodon pyrenaicus
Leontodon pyrenaicus is a species of hawkbit found in the Alps, Pyrenees, Cantabrian Mountains, northern Apennines and northern parts of the Balkan Peninsula. It grows in meadows and on stony slopes from the treeline to over 3000 m, usually on acidic soild. It is perennial, and flowers from J..
Leontopolis
This article is about the large ancient city of Lower Egypt; for other uses of Leontopolis, see Leontopolis (disambiguation) Leontopolis (Greek: Λεόντων πόλις, Ptol. iv. 5. § 51, Strabo xvii. pp. 802, 812) or Leonto (Λεόντω, Hieronym. ad Jovian. ii. 6) or Latin: Leontos Oppidum (..
Leontopolis (disambiguation)
Leontopolis may refer to several different ancient cities, including: Leontopolis, capital of the 11th nome of Lower EgyptLeontopolis (Heliopolis), a city of the 13th nome of Lower EgyptNicephorium, in Syria, was called LeontopolisZaliches, near Sinop, Turkey, was called LeontopolisBizana, in easte..
Leontopolis (Heliopolis)
Leontopolis (Egyptian: Ney-ta-hut) is the Greek name for the modern area of Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya. It was an ancient city of Egypt in the 13th nome of Lower Egypt (the Heliopolite nome), on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. To be found is some earthwork enclosure of the late Middle K..
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price as Aida Permission of Metropolitan Opera Archives Mary Violet Leontyne Price (b. February 10, 1927) is an American opera singer (soprano). She was best known for her Verdi roles, above all Aida, a role that she is said to have "owned" for almost 30 years. Her rise to internati..
Leonty Andrianovich Gagemeister
Leonty Andrianovich Gagemeister (Russian: Леонтий Андрианович Гагемейстер, 1780–1833) was a Russian seafarer and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, Captain of the 1st rank. In 1806-1807, Gagemeister journeyed from Kronstadt to Russian America, crossing the Atlantic, Indi..
Leonurus
Leonurus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. Species Leonurus artemisia - synonym for L. japonicusLeonurus cardiaca - Common motherwort*Leonurus cardiaca subspecies cardiaca - Common motherwortLeonurus heterophyllus - synonym for L. japonicusLeonurus macranthusLeonurus sibiricu..
Leonville, Louisiana
Leonville is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,007 at the 2000 census. Geography Leonville is located at [30°28′12″N, 91°58′57″W] (30.470031, -91.982407)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bur..
Leon "Chu" Berry
Leon "Chu" Berry (September 13, 1908 – October 30, 1941) was an American jazz saxophonist. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, he is perhaps best known for his tenor saxophone work with Cab Calloway's Cotton Club Orchestra. Prior to joining Calloway's orchestra, Berry worked with Sammy Stewart, Ben..
Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler
Leon (Ndugu) Chancler (July 1, 1952 - ) is a drummer, percussionist, studio musician, composer and producer. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Southern California as of 2006. Chancler was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and began playing drums when he was thirtee..
Leon (Dead or Alive)
Nationality: Italian Gender: Male Birthdate: March 14th Age: 42 Blood type: B Height: 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) Weight: 128 kg (282 lb) Measurements: B135 W120 H123 cm (B53 W47 H48 in) Fighting Style: Command Sambo Occupation: Mercenary Soldier Favorite Food(s): Pizza Hobbies..
Leon A. Edney
Note: This is a brief placeholder biography largely adapted from: [National Defense University] Contents 1 Service History2 NATO Role3 Awards and Decorations4 Current Activities Service History Admiral Leon A. "Bud" Edney was commissioned as an Ensign in 1957, follo..
Leon Abbett
Leon Abbett (October 8, 1836 – December 4, 1894) was an American Democratic Party politician who served two terms as Governor of New Jersey, from 1884-1887 and from 1890-1893. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Ezekiel and Sarah (Howell) Abbett, on his 26th birthday, he married Ma..
Leon Abbey
Leon Abbey (7 May 1900 - September 1975) was an American jazz violinist and bandleader. In the 1920s his eleven-piece band, known successively as the Charleston Bearcats, the Savoy Bearcats, and Leon Abbey's Band, was considered one of the best in jazz. Abbey took successors to this band, also kno..
Leon Alva
Leon Alva (born Mexico City 1963) is a Mexican artist currently residing in Cancun, Mexico. From an early age, as far back as his memory takes him, Alva had a powerful affinity to all forms of artistic expression. He grew up surrounded by art, particularly, the profound paintings of Ramon Sanch..
Leon Ames
Leon Ames (born January 20, 1902 in Portland, Indiana; died October 12, 1993 in Los Angeles, California), born Leon Wycoff to a Russian family, was an American film and television actor. He is most widely remembered for playing a number of fatherly figures in such titles as Meet Me in St. Louis (19..
Leon Andreasen
Leon Hougaard Andreasen (born 23 April 1983) is a Danish professional football player who currently plays for Werder Bremen. Born in Aidt Thorsø, Aarhus, he started at local club Hammel GF, before moving to the youth team of Aarhus GF in 1999. He signed his first contract in 2001, and went on to pl..
Leon Arena
Leon Arena is an arena in Leon, Spain. It is primarily used for basketball and volleyball. The arena opened in 1948 and holds 14,000 people. ..
Leon Askin
Leon Askin (left) and Paulus Manker in a café in Vienna. Leon Askin (September 18, 1907 – June 3, 2005) was an Austrian actor. Born as Leo Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, Askin already wanted to be an actor as a child. His dream came true, and in the 1930s he worked as a cabaret..
Leon Barmore
Leon Barmore (born June 3, 1944, in Ruston, Louisiana, United States) is a college women's basketball coach. He coached at Louisiana Tech University from 1985 to 2002. Upon his retirement his .869 winning percentage was the best in women's basketball history. Barmore led Tech to 20 straight winning..
Leon Belleth
Leon Belleth was a popular announcer with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. He presented a range of radio programs including Holiday Choice. Listeners enjoyed his free and easy style of broadcasting. Leon Belleth now lives in Australia. See also Radio Ceylon ..
Leon Benois
Leon Benois (Russian: Леонтий Николаевич Бенуа, 1856-1928) was a Russian architect, son of Nicholas Benois, brother of Alexandre Benois and grandfather of Sir Peter Ustinov. He built the Roman Catholic cathedral of Notre-Dame in St Petersburg, the mausoleum of the Grand Dukes o..
Leon Benoit
Leon Earl Benoit (born July 7, 1950, Lloydminster, Alberta) is a Canadian politician. Benoit is currently a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Vegreville—Wainwright since 2004, Lakeland from 1997 to 2004 and Vegreville from 1..
Leon Best
Leon Best is an English footballer, who was born on 19 September, 1986. He is a powerful, tall striker who is good at holding up the ball and whose pace makes him a major threat on the break. As a young player, Leon started his career at Notts County before being signed as a trainee by then Premi..
Leon Bibb
Leon Bibb is a news anchor for WEWS-TV in Cleveland and a member of the BGSU Board of Trustees. Prior to his arrival at WEWS, he had worked for WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio and WKYC-TV in Cleveland. ..
Leon Bibb (musician)
Leon Bibb is a folk singer and actor who grew up in Kentucky, worked in New York, and has lived in Vancouver, BC since 1969. He is the father of the London based acoustic blues singer/songwriter Eric Bibb. External links [Record label] biography[Illustrated Leon Bibb discography&#..
Leon Bibel
Leon Bibel (1913-1995) was a Polish-American painter and printmaker during the Great Depression. His themes were the social condition of workers and the politics of protest and war, although cityscapes and landscapes were included among his works. He later developed works in wood of especially Jewi..
Leon Bignell
Leon Bignell, Australian politician, is the member for Mawson for the Australian Labor Party. He finished ahead of incumbent Liberal member Robert Brokenshire by 3.9% on first preference and 2.2% of two party preferred in the 2006 state election, delivering the seat to Labor for the first time since..
Leon Billewicz
Leon Billewicz (1870-1940) was a Polish officer and a General of the Polish Army. Initially serving with the Imperial Russian Army, in November of 1918 he joined the Polish forces. In the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1920 he commanded the Polish 13th Infantry Brigade. In 1919 he was promoted to the ..
Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein during a February 2004 interview with WXBC Radio Bard. Leon Botstein (born 1946) is an American conductor and the President of Bard College (since 1975). Botstein currently serves as the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem ..
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Leon Bourjade
Leon J-P Bourjade (1889-1924) was a leading French fighter pilot in World War I. Though studying for the priesthood in 1914, he entered the army and served as an artilleryman for nearly three years. He transferred to aviation in 1917 and joined Escadrille 152, where he led all of France's balloon ..
Leon Brittan
The Right Honourable Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, QC, PC (born 25 September 1939 in London) is a barrister, a British politician, and a former Conservative Member of Parliament and former member of the European Commission. His brother is Sir Samuel Brittan, an economics commentator a..
Leon Britton
Leon Britton (born 16 September 1982 in London, England) is a professional footballer, currently playing for Swansea City in League One. A member of the England Development School at Lilleshall where he was a year behind Joe Cole, Britton began his career as an Arsenal trainee. When he signed fo..
Leon Brogden
Leon Brogden was an American high school football, basketball and baseball coach in Edenton, Wilson and Wilmington, North Carolina. His most famous products are two quarterbacks: Roman Gabriel, who spent 16 seasons in the NFL, and Sonny Jurgensen, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame..
Leon C. Phillips
Leon Chase Phillips was a governor of Oklahoma, he was born December 9, 1890, in Worth County, Missouri, Phillips moved to Oklahoma at an early age. While a student at Epworth University in Oklahoma City, he studied for the ministry, but changed to law and received his LL.B. from the University of O..
Leon Caffrey
Most famous for drumming in Space, taking over from Andy Parle, one of the founding members who left the band in 1998. He is currently playing drums in The Drellas with Tommy Scott, who was the lead singer and guitarist of Space until their split in 2005. ..
Leon Cameron
--> Leon Cameron (born September 2, 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer in the AFL. Cameron was the 7th pick in the 1988 National Draft for the Footscray Bulldogs. Recruited from South Warrnambool, Cameron played 172 games for the club between 1990 and 1999 before being traded to Richmo..
Leon Campbell
Leon Campbell (1881–May 10, 1951) was an American astronomer. He is noted for his observations of variable stars at the Harvard College Observatory. He served as Recorder of Observations for the AAVSO from its earliest days in 1915, and continued until his retirement in the 1940s. (The title ..
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Leon Charney
Leon Charney was in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and part of the Camp David accord with Egypt. He has a weekly TV talk show Leon Charney Report which deals with foreign affairs, especially the Middle East, politics and Jewish issues. His show is seen weekly on WNYE-TV broadcast b..
Leon Chwistek
Leon Chwistek Leon Chwistek (b. January 13, 1884 in Kraków, Poland - August 20, 1944 near Moscow, Russia) was a Polish Avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician. In the 1920s-30s many philosophers in Europe attempted to reform t..
Leon Cladel
Léon Cladel (March 13, 1835-July 20, 1892), French novelist, was born at Montauban (Tarrf-et-Garonne). The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a reputation in a limited circle by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules (1862), a novel for..
Leon Clarke (footballer)
Leon Clarke (Born 10 February 1985) is a 'professional' footballer, currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Afer a loan period at Kidderminster Harriers, he made his breakthrough into the Wolves first team in 2004, and made 31 appearances in the 2004/05 season. During the 2005/06 season h..
Leon Clarke (NFL player)
[] at NFL.com Leon Clarke is a retired american football Tight End who played in the National Football League between 1956 and 1963. Professional Career He played in the Pro Bowl in 1956 and 1957. College Career Carmichael played college football at the University of Southern Californ..
Leon Collins
Leon Collins (February 7, 1922 - April 16, 1985) was a famous black American tap dancer. Collins was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began tap dancing at an early age, and later worked professionally with various groups, with partners and later big bands (Jimmie Lunceford) until the 1960s when tap ..
Leon Conrad
Leon Conrad, UK embroidery designer known particularly for historically-styled blackwork embroidery designs. In 1997 he founded the New Elizabethans embroidery arts group. He has participated in over 20 exhibitions and has taught at embroidery seminars in the UK and the United States. Married to ..
Leon Cooke
Leon Cooke is one of the actors who play Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot the Musical. He has joined the musical on 19 September 2005 replacing James Lomas and emerged from the Billy Elliot Academy where he started rehearsals in February. He is from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and has 7 siblings..
Leon Cooper
Leon Niels Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity. The concept of Cooper electron pairs was ..
Leon Cort
Leon Cort (born 11th September 1979 in Southwark) is a professional footballer currently playing for Crystal Palace. He is a defender who wears shirt number 6. Leon joined Palace on 30th June 2006 from Hull City, following his former manager Peter Taylor to the south-London club, of which he lives ..
Leon County
Leon County is the name of several counties in the United States: Leon County, FloridaLeon County, Texas This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly t..
Leon County, Florida
Leon County is a county located in the state of Florida. As of 2000, the population was 239,452. The principal place in Leon County is Tallahassee, the county seat and state capital. Leon County is home to two of Florida's major public universities, Florida State University and Florida A&M Universi..
Leon County, Texas
Leon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population is 15,335. Its county seat is Centerville6. Contents 1 History2 Geography2.1 Adjacent counties3 Demographics4 Cities and towns5 External links History The legislature of the Re..
Leon County in the Civil War
Leon County, Florida participated heavily in the Civil War. Leon County had 3 Confederate army camps: Camp Leon located in what is now Belair on the south side of Tallahassee, Camp Lay, and Camp Mary Davis. Leon County sent several of its sons off to the Civil War. Below is a list of soldiers that s..
Leon County Schools
This article describes the public schools in Leon County, Florida, USA. Contents 1 History2 Funding Through The Years3 Current Schools3.1 Elementary schools3.2 Middle schools3.3 High schools3.4 Special and Alternative Schools3.5 Charter Schools4 Refere..
Leon Czolgosz
Photograph of Leon Czolgosz. Leon Czolgosz shoots President McKinley with a concealed revolver, at the Pan-American Exposition. Police booking photograph (mug shot) of Leon Czolgosz. Leon Frank Czołgosz (1873 – October 29, 1901) was the assassin of U.S. President William McK..
Leon Dash
--> Leon Dash (born March 16, 1944, in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is a professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A former reporter for the Washington Post, he is the author of Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America, which grew out of the eight-part Was..
Leon David
Leon David was an alleged assassin of Malcolm X, but was never convicted of this crime. A member of the Nation of Islam, he lives in New Jersey. Talmadge Hayer, who had been convicted in the murder of Malcolm X and sentenced to life in prison, signed two affidavits that his charged co-conspirators..
Leon Davis
Leon Davis may refer to: Leon J. Davis, Polish-born politicianLeon Davis (footballer), Aboriginal Australian rules footballer ..
Leon Davis (footballer)
'Neon' Leon Davis (born June 17, 1981) is an australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Drafted to Collingwood in 1999 as a small aboriginal forward, Davis made an early impression at the Pies and played Round 1 in his debut season. He showed what he was capable of, turning ..
Leon Day
Leon Day (October 30 1916 - March 13 1995) was an American right-handed pitcher in the Negro Leagues. He played for the Baltimore Black Sox, the Brooklyn & Newark Eagles, and the Baltimore Elite Giants. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia. Day is noted for pitching a perfect season in 1937 (13-0) w..
Leon Dehon
Leon Gustav Dehon (March 14, 1843 in La Capelle (Soissons), France - August 12, 1925 in Brussels, Belgium) was a Catholic clergyman. Raised in a pious family, Leo Dehon's mother was especially devoted to the Sacred Heart, and passed this on to Leo. As a young man he felt a call to the priesthood, b..
Leon de Winter
Leon de Winter (February 24, 1954) is a Dutch writer and columnist. Contents 1 Early life2 Writing career3 Criticism4 External links Early life Leon de Winter was born on February 24, 1954 in Den Bosch, the capital of the Dutch province Noord-Brabant, in the south of The Ne..
Leon Dierx
Leon Dierx (1838-1912) was a French poet born in the island of Réunion in 1838. He came to Paris to study at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures and subsequently settled there, taking up a post in the education office. He became a disciple of Leconte de Lisle and one of the most distingui..
Leon Durham
Leon Durham (born July 31, 1957 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former first baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for 10 seasons. Durham played with the St. Louis Cardinals (1980,1989), Chicago Cubs (1981-1988), and Cincinnati Reds (1988). Durham batted and threw left-handed. Durha..
Leon Edel
Cover of volume one of Leon Edel's five-volume biography of Henry James, Avon Books paperback edition 1978 Joseph Leon Edel (9 September 1907 – 5 September 1997) was a North American literary critic and biographer. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he who grew up in Saskatchewan. Edel ..
Leon Errol
Leonce Errol Simms (July 3, 1881 - October 12, 1951) known by the stage name "Leon Errol," was an Australian-born comedian and actor in the United States popular in the first half of the 20th Century. Born in Sydney, in America he became a well-known vaudevillian who played skits with such notables..
Leon F. Litwack
Leon F. Litwack is an American historian and professor of history emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history for his book ''Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.'' [link] Contents 1 Biography2 ..
Leon Festinger
Leon Festinger (May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989) was a social psychologist from New York City who became famous for his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Festinger earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York in 1939. After completing his undergraduate studies, he attended..
Leon Fink
Leon Fink is an Australian businessman, property developer and company director. He is the husband of noted Australian visual artist Margaret Fink. Fink began his career as a solicitor but in 1960 he moved into property and hotel development, becoming one of Australia's most prominent developers...
Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher Leon Fleisher (born July 23, 1928) is a Jewish-born, American pianist and conductor. He was born in San Francisco, California, where he started studying the piano at age 4. He made his public debut at age 8 and played with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Monteux at 16. ..
Leon Fortunato
Leonardo Fortunato is the False Prophet in the Left Behind series of Christian novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Fortunato is a key member of the inner circle of Nicolae Carpathia, businessman, financier, politician and Antichrist. In his native Italy, Leon grew up fascinated with the tra..
Leon Frissen
Leonardus Johannes Petrus Maria Frissen (Beek, 24 June, 1950) is the present Queen's Commissioner of the province of Limburg, Netherlands. Career 1971-1975 Council officer of the municipality Bingelrade (presently the municipality Onderbanken).1975-1979 Chief executive of the municipalities Bingel..
Leon Fuerth
Leon Sigmund Fuerth (born 1939) was a former diplomat and national security adviser to Vice President Al Gore. He was succeeded by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in 2001. He has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in History from New York University. He also holds an M.P.A. from Harvard. Mr. Fuerth spent m..
Leon Garfield
Leon Garfield (14 July 1921, Brighton, Sussex, England – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for his historical novels for children, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books, and scripted [[Shakespeare: the Animated Tales]] for television. In his..
Leon Garrick
Leon GarrickWest Indies (WI) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests ODIs Matches 1 3 '''Runs scored 27 99 Batting average 13.50 33.00 100s/50s -/- -/1 Top score 27 76 ..
Leon Goldensohn
Leon N. Goldensohn (October 19, 1911 – October 24, 1961) was an American psychiatrist charged with caring for the mental health of the twenty-one Nazi defendants awaiting trial at Nuremburg in 1946. He joined the U.S. army in 1943 and was posted to France and Germany, where he served in batt..
Leon Golub
Leon Golub (January 23, 1922 - August 8, 2004) was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively. He was married to and collaborated ..
Leon Gordon
Leon Gordon, originally Judar Loeb Ben Asher, (1831-1892) was a Russian-Jewish poet and novelist (Hebrew). He was born at Wilna in 1831 and died at St. Petersburg in 1892. He took a leading part in the modern revival of the Hebrew language and culture. His satires did much to rouse the Russian Jew..
Leon H. Gavin
Leon Harry Gavin (February 25, 1893–September 15, 1963) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Leon H. Gavin was born in Buffalo, NY, and moved to Oil City, PA, in 1915. During the First World War he served in the United States Army as a sergeant in ..
Leon Hadar
Leon T. Hadar is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy, international trade, the Middle East, and South and East Asia. He is the former United Nations bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post and is currently the Washington correspondent for the..
Leon Hale
Leon Hale is an author and award winning columnist for the Houston Chronicle. Hale is a member of The Texas Institute of Letters, a literary group in Austin, which recognized the writer with the Lon Tinkle Award for Excellence Sustained Throughout a Career. He has also won awards for fiction and n..
Leon Harmon
Leon D. Harmon (1922 - ?) was a cyberneticist who worked at Bell Labs. Harmon started his career as a radio serviceman and electronics hobbiest. In 1950, he went to work as a wireman on the IAS machine at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he worked for Julian Bigelow and encountered John von..
Leon Harris
Leon Harris on WJLA-TV's ABC 7 News in 2005. Leon Harris is a former anchor for CNN. He now works for ABC-7/WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, USA. Harris graduated cum laude from Ohio University, majoring in communications. He has received numerous awards, including several Emmy Awards for his cov..
Leon Hart
Leon Hart (November 2, 1928 near Pittsburgh - September 24, 2002) was an American football player. He played End for the University of Notre Dame. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1949 and became the first End to be drafted #1 overall in the NFL Draft, in 1950. Leon Hart is famous for being the only off..
Leon Haslam
'Pocket Rocket' Leon Haslam, son of 'Rocket' Ron Haslam, is a motorcycle racer from Smalley, Derbyshire, England. He had raced in most of the significant British and international championships whilst still in his teens, spending the whole 2000 season with the underprepared ItalJet team in the 125cc..
Leon Haywood
Leon Haywood (born 11 February 1942, in Houston, Texas) is an American funk and soul singer, best known for his song "I Want a Do Something Freaky To You". The song was sampled on two of Dr. Dre's singles, "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang" and "The Wash". Haywood remains a one-hit wonder in the UK due to, ..
Leon Henkin
Leon Henkin is a logician, currently Emeritus Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He is principally known for the "Henkin Completeness Proof": his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic. Henkin's result was not novel — it..
Leon High School
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Leon J. Davis
For the Australian rules footballer, see Leon Davis (footballer). Leon J. Davis, Polish-born U.S. labor leader, November 26, 1906, Obecz, Poland - September 14, 1992, New Hyde Park, New York. At the age of 15 he settled with his Russian-speaking family in Hartford, Connecticut where he attended ..
Leon J. Wood
Leon James Wood (1918-1977) is the author of the only known book on the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) as portrayed in the Tanakh as opposed to the B'rit Chadashah (New Testament), in which work he writes, "The evidence that spiritual renewal, or regeneration, was true of such Old Testament people ..
Leon Jaworski
Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski on the cover of Time magazine. Leon Jaworski (September 19, 1905, in Waco, Texas - December 9, 1982) was the Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. Jaworski was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, shortly after the Saturday Night Massacre ..
Leon Jay Williams
Profile Name: 立威廉 / Li Wei LianName (English): Leon Jay WilliamsProfession: ActorDate of birth: 1976 July 30Height: 180 cmNationality: Singaporean External Link [Leon Jay Williams] at [Asian Hunk] ..
Leon Joe
Leon Maurice Joe (born October 26, 1981 in Fort Washington, Maryland) is an American football linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the NFL. He was originally selected with the 16th pick of the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft out of the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also played bri..
Leon Johnson
Leon Johnson (born 10 May 1981 in London) is an English professional footballer currently playing for Gillingham. Leon Johnson came through the youth ranks at his first professional club, Southend United. Johnson made his professional debut when he started the Football League Trophy match for So..
Leon Josephson
Leon Josephson was an American attorney and longtime Communist who allegedly aided the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) in their false-passport operation on behalf of Soviet intellignece in the 1930s. Josephson represented the Café Society as a business attorney. References Elizabeth..
Leon Kamin
Leon Kamin Leon J. Kamin (born December 29, 1927 in Taunton, Massachusetts) is an American psychologist. Kamin became sceptical of the claims of Cyril Burt regarding the heritability of IQ, and published his findings in a 1974 book The Science and Politics of IQ. He co-authored the controver..
Leon Kass
Leon Kass Leon Kass (born February 12 1939) is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including, Toward A More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs; The Hungry Soul: Eating an..
Leon Kieres
Leon Kieres was the president of a Polish institute called Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance) (8 june 2000 - 22 december 2005). Leon Kieres was born on May 25, 1948 in Kolonia Zielona, Poland. He graduated from the University of Wrocław, the Department of Law. Since 19..
Leon Kirchner
Leon Kirchner (born January 24, 1919 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American composer of classical music. Member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kirchner studied at the University of California, Berkeley with Ernest Bloch, Arnold Schoenberg, and Ro..
Leon Klinghoffer
Leon Klinghoffer (September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985) was a retired appliance manufacturer from New York who was disabled (from a stroke) and used a wheelchair for mobility. Klinghoffer was killed by Palestinian militants who hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Leon and Marilyn Klinghof..
Leon Knight
Leon Leroy Knight (born 16 September 1982 in Homerton, London) is a English footballer currently playing for Swansea City. He joined the club from Brighton and Hove Albion in January 2006 for a fee of £125,000, after a series of arguments with Brighton manager Mark McGhee. Knight began his career..
Leon Kobrin
Leon Kobrin (18731–1946) was a playwright in Yiddish theater, writer of short stories and novels, and a translator. As a playwright he is generally seen as a disciple of Jacob Gordin, but his mature work was more character-driven, more open and realistic in its presentation of human sexual des..
Leon Kozłowski
Leon Kozłowski (1892-1944) was a Polish archaeologist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1934 to 1935. Biography Leon Kozłowski was born in 1892 in the village of Rembieszyce near Małogoszcz. Prior to 1914 he moved with his family to Lwów in Galicia, where he joined the..
Leon Krier
Leon Krier (born 1946) is an architect and urban planner from Luxembourg. He is known for his development of Poundbury 'village' in Dorchester, England for the Prince of Wales. Leon Krier has been one of the most important neo-classical architects and planners of the end of the 20th century. Publ..
Leon L. Van Autreve
Leon L. Van Autreve was the fourth Sergeant Major of the Army. He was sworn in on July 1, 1973 and served until June, 1975. He was born in Eeklo, Belgium, on January 29, 1920 and died March 14, 2002, in San Antonio, Texas. He entered the U.S. Army in August 1941 from Delphos, Ohio. After basic t..
Leon Lai
Leon Lai (黎明; pinyin: Lí Míng; Cantonese: lai4 ming4 (born December 11, 1966) is a Cantopop singer and star of several Hong Kong movies. Contents 1 Biography2 Filmography, as actor, includes3 TV Drama, as leading actor, includes4 See also5 Albums5.1 Cantones..
Leon Larsson
Leon Larsson (1883—1922) was a Swedish anarchist and political poet, born in Skutskär. Leon Larsson’s fascination with fire is very prominent in all of his writings. As a 15-year-old, he was even sentenced to penal labor for arson after burning down the blacksmith where he worked in Mid..
Leon Lazarus
This article is about the writer-editor. For other uses of the name Lazarus, see Lazarus (disambiguation). Leon Lazarus (born Summer 1920) was a writer-editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company, as well as for Goodman's Timely and Atlas comic book companies, the two predec..
Leon Lett
This article may not be compliant with the content policies of Wikipedia.To be compliant, it must be written from a [Neutral point of viewneutral point of view] and must not include [Verifiabilityunverifiable], [What Wikipedia is notunsuitable] material, or [..
Leon Levine
Leon Levine (born 1938) founded the successful Family Dollar chain of discount stores. He was born in Rockingham, NC and currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. Leon, along with his wife Sandra, has been involved in numerous charitable and philanthropic causes, donating huge sums of money to..
Leon Leviţchi
Leon Leviţchi (27 August 1918 – 16 October 1991) was a Romanian philologist and translator who specialised in the study of the English language and literature. He is best remembered for translating a quasi-complete set of the works of William Shakespeare into Romanian. Together with fellow..
Leon Levy
Leon Levy (1926–2003) founded the mutual fund manager Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. in 1959. In 1982 he sold Oppenheimer to the U.K.'s Mercantile House for $162 million and founded Odyssey Partners, a private investment partnership. Levy and his wife Shelby White are known for their philanthropic ef..
Leon Lloyd
Leon David Lloyd (born 22 September 1977 in Coventry) is an English rugby union footballer who plays wing or outside centre for Leicester Tigers. Prior to making his debut for the Tigers first team Leon was a successful try scorer for the Tigers Youth XV and Development XV before a serious car acc..
Leon M'Ba International Airport
Leon M'Ba International Airport is the airport of Libreville, Gabon. ..
Leon M. Lederman
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. He founded the Illinois Mathematics..
Leon MacDonald
Leon Raymond MacDonald (born 21 December 1977 in Blenheim) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He plays first five-eighths (fly-half) and fullback. He made his provincial debut for Marlborough against Buller in 1994. He plays for the Crusaders in the Super 14 and for Canterbury in the National..
Leon Mandrake
Leon Mandrake (1911–1993) was a Canadian-born magician. He began his magic career in 1922 performing a magic act in vaudeville, in New Westminster, British Columbia. He later joined the Ralph Richards touring Magic show in 1927. In the late 1930s, he toured extensively in the U.S. with his f..
Leon Marchlewski
Leon Paweł Marchlewski (December 15, 1869 in Włocławek – January 16,1946 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish chemist. He was one of the founders in the field of chlorophyll chemistry. ..
Leon McKenzie
Leon McKenzie (born May 17, 1978 in Croydon), nephew of flyweight boxing champion Duke McKenzie, is a professional footballer who currently plays for Norwich City F.C. McKenzie began his career with his local club making his debut for Crystal Palace during 1995-96. He scored 7 goals in 85 appearanc..
Leon Mestel
Leon Mestel Leon Mestel (born 5 August, 1927) is a British astronomer who has won both the Eddington Medal (1993) and Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2002). He was born in Melbourne, Australia, and came to England at the age of three, where he lived in Forest Gate, East London. ..
Leon Moisseiff
Leon Moisseiff was an American architect. He was a respected designer of the famed Golden Gate Bridge, completed in 1937, but he lost his good reputation when his design for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge across Puget Sound provided inadequate strength against winds. The collapse of the bridge in 1940,..
Leon Morris
Leon Morris is a New Testament scholar who is currently retired. He previously served as Principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia (where they have named a library in his honour), and Visiting Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He received his Ph.D. at th..
Leon O. Jacobson
Dr. Leon Orris Jacobson (December 16, 1911 — September 20, 1992), was a researcher and educator who made tremendous contributions to hematology, with major impacts on chemotherapy and radiotherapy. ..
Leon of Modena
Leon de Modena or Yehudah Aryeh de Modena (1571-1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice of a notable French family, which had migrated, to Italy after the expulsion of the Jews from France. He was a precocious child, and grew up to be a respected Rabbi in Venice. However, his enduring reputation..
Leon Orbeli
Leon Orbeli (1882-1958) was an Armenian physiologist. Orbeli was born in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia. He graduated from the Gymnasium in Tbilisi in 1899 and entered the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. While still a student in the second course he began to work in the laboratory of Ivan Petrovi..
Leon Osman
Leon Osman (born 17 May 1981 in Billinge) is a professional football player currently playing for Everton. He is a lifelong Evertonian. As part of Everton's youth team Osman won the 1998 FA Youth Cup. He made his Everton debut as a substitute against Tottenham Hotspur in 2003 and has had loan spe..
Leon P. Alford
Leon P. Alford was a mechanical engineer, administrator for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and management-relations innovator. In the early years of 1900, Alford was a practitioner of systematic management and an advocate of this management style within the ASME. His views came to c..
Leon Panetta
--> Job Title: White House Chief of Staff under President Clinton Term of Office: January, 1994 – April 14, 1997 Predecessor: Mack McLarty Successor: Erskine Bowles Date of Birth: June 28, 1938 Political Party: Democrat Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is a ..
Leon Petrazycki
Leon Petrazycki (1867 - 1931) was a famous philosopher and legal scholar. He was famous for his theory of state and law. Biography Petrazycki was born in Witebsk, Poland, which was then under the rule of Russia. He graduated from Kiev University and later undertook graduate research in Berlin. H..
Leon Pierce Clark
Leon Pierce Clark (sometimes L. Pierce Clark) (1870-1933) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was the president of the American Psychopathological Association (APPA) during 1923 and 1924.[#endnote_ref01] His pioneering work in psychobiography was published during the last fo..
Leon Pinsker
Leon Pinsker (1821-1891) was a physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion movement. Born Yehudah Leib Pinsker in Tomaszow, Russian Poland (today's Poland), he inherited a strong sense of Jewish identity from his father, Simchah Pinsker, a Hebrew lan..
Leon Poliakov
Léon Poliakov (Russian: ; 1910-1997) was a historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Born into a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France. During World War II, he initiated establishing the Centre de..
Leon Polk Smith
Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996) was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and his style has been associated with the Hard-edge school, of which he is considered one of the founders.[link] He was born in Oklahoma a year before it b..
Leon Powe
Leon "The Show" Powe (born January 22 1984) is a power forward who played basketball for the California Golden Bears from 2003-2006. Although he was part of Cal men's hoops for 3 seasons, he did not play in his sophomore year due to a serious knee injury. During his freshman season, he earned the ..
Leon Pownall
Leon Pownall (April 26, 1943 – June 2 2006) was a Canadian actor and director. He was born in Wrexham in Wales and came to Hamilton, Ontario with his family in 1957. He performed at the Stratford Festival during the 1960s and returned several times to the Festival over the years to perform, m..
Leon Pryce
Leon Pryce is a Rugby league player who plays for St. Helens RFC and has established himself as an international player, often being selected for Great Britain. His nickname is the 'Fresh Prince'. He made his full debut for England against France in 1999 and has also represented his home county of Y..
Leon Punch
Leon Punch was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. ..
Leon R. Taylor
Leon R. Taylor (October 26, 1883-April 1, 1924) was a New Jersey politician, who was the Acting Governor of New Jersey from October 28, 1913 to January 20, 1914. Taylor took office upon the resignation of James Fairman Fielder, who had stepped down to create a vacancy in the governorship and avoid c..
Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone (born August 26, 1949) is a performer of early 20th-century jazz and blues music who has been called "the most famous non-famous American musician". Supposedly born in Cyprus to Armenian parents (born Dickran Gobalian, according to some sources), Redbone cultivates an aura of mystery..
Leon Ritzenthaler
Leon Ritzenthaler is an American man, notable for being the son of William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. and half-brother of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. He is a "retired owner of a janitorial service, from Northern California". (Bill Clinton, p. 5) Bill Clinton was apparently unaware of his existen..
Leon River
The Leon River is a river in the U.S. state of Texas. It has three primary forks; the North, Middle, and South Leon rivers which meet near Eastland and then run for around 185 miles until it meets up with the Lampasas River and the Salado River to form the Little River near Belton. Reservoirs Belt..
Leon Roberts
Leon Kauffman Roberts (born January 22 1951 in Vicksburg, Mississippi) is a former Major League outfielder (mostly left and right) who played for the Detroit Tigers (1974-75), Houston Astros (1976-77), Seattle Mariners (1978-80), Texas Rangers (1981-82), Toronto Blue Jays (1982), and the Kansas City..
Leon Robinson
Leon as J.T. Matthews in The Five Heartbeats (1991). Leon Preston Robinson, IV (born March 8th 1963 in Manhattan, New York) is an American actor and singer. Robinson, usually credited as simply Leon, made his professional debut on the CBS Afternoon Playhouse production "Journey to Survival" ..
Leon Rochefort
Leon Rochefort (Born - May 4, 1939 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada) is a retired Canadian professional Hockey Centerman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Atlanta Flames a..
Leon Romero
Leon RomeroUnited States (USA) Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB) Bowling type Right-arm medium pace (RM) Tests ODIs Matches 0 2 '''Runs scored - 1 Batting average - 0.50 100s/50s - 0/0 Top score - 1 ..
Leon Rooke
Leon Rooke (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in the 2..
Leon Root
--> Dr. Leon Root is the former Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He was President of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine in 1988. Dr. Root wrote the popular "No More Aching Back" in 1992. Education MD, New York Medical College , Ne..
Leon Roppolo
Leon Roppolo (March 16, 1902 – October 5, 1943) was a prominent early jazz clarinetist, best known for his playing with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Roppolo also played saxophone and guitar Leon Roppolo in the early 1920s Leon Joseph Roppolo (nicknamed "Rap" and sometimes mispelled as..
Leon Rose
Leon Rose is an attorney and sports agent, based in Philadelphia. He represents a number of prominent NBA players, including Allen Iverson and LeBron James. Clients Rose's clients include: Chris Anstey, center.Jamison Brewer, guard.Rick Brunson, guard.Eddy Curry, center, New York Knicks.DeSagana D..
Leon Rosselson
Leon Rosselson (b. 1934) is an English songwriter and writer of children's books. After his early involvement in the folk music revival in Britain, he came to prominence, singing his own satirical songs, in the BBC's topical TV programme of the early 1960s, That Was The Week That Was. He toured Br..
Leon Rupnik
Leon Rupnik (August 10, 1880 – 1946) was a Slovenian general. Rupnik was born in Lokvana, Austria-Hungary (near Nova Gorica, Slovenia. From 1895 to 1899, he studied at the infantry cadet school in Trieste and received the rank of Junior Second Lieutenant. His schooling was continued in Vienna fro..
Leon Russell
Leon Russell Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges on April 2 1942 in Lawton, Oklahoma) is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Known mostly as a session musician, Russell has played with artists as varied as Jerry Lee..
Leon S. Kennedy
Leon Scott Kennedy is a video game character from the Resident Evil survival horror series. He is one of the two main characters in Resident Evil 2, one of the three main characters in Resident Evil Gaiden, and the protagonist of Resident Evil 4. During the events of Resident Evil 2, Leon is a ro..
Leon Sacks
Leon Sacks (October 7, 1902 - March 11, 1972) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Leon Sacks was born in Philadelphia, PA. October 7, 1902. He was graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1923, and from the la..
Leon Sapieha
Leon Sapieha Noble Family Sapieha Coat of Arms Lis Parents Aleksander Antoni SapiehaAnna Zamoyska Consorts Jadwiga Klementyna Zamoyska Children with Jadwiga Klementyna ZamoyskaCecylia Celestyna SapiehaAdam Stanislaw SapiehaJadwiga SapiehaMaria Zofia SapiehaWlodzimierz SapiehaZo..
Leon Schiller
Leon Schiller (officially, Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld; March 14 1887 - March 25 1954) was a Polish theater director who was active in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) and Warsaw, Poland. References Leon Schiller, Na progu nowego teatru, 1908-1924 (On the Threshold of the New Theater, 1908-1924), opraco..
Leon Schlesinger
Leon Schlesinger (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was a producer at the Warner Bros. studio during the golden age of Hollywood animation. --> Schlesinger was born in Philadelphia. After working at a theater as an usher, songbook agent, actor, and manager, he became the head of Pacific Art and T..
Leon Schlumpf
Leon Schlumpf (born on February 3, 1925) is a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 5, 1979 as a member of the Swiss People's Party from the Canton of Grisons. He handed over office on December 31, 1987. During his time in office, he held the Federal Department..
Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster, a filmmaker, comedian and actor, is South Africa's candid camera king. He is well known for his comedic films and his passion for showcasing South Africa's culture. Schuster became the obvious successor to Jamie Uys in the local South African film industry. He was voted 30th in the..
Leon Scieur
Leon Scieur was a Belgian cyclist who finished fourth in the 1919 Tour de France and the 1920 Tour de France. He won the 1921 Tour de France by just over 18 minutes. ..
Leon Scott
Dictionary illustration of a phonautograph. The barrel is made of plaster of paris. Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (1817 – April 26, 1879) was a French printer, librarian, and bookseller who lived in Paris. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, in..
Leon Searcy
Leon Searcy (born December 21, 1969 in Washington, D.C.) is an American football coach and former player. Searcy is a former NFL offensive lineman, who played primarily with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Jacksonville Jaguars in an 11 year career spanning between 1992-2002. He was drafted in the first..
Leon Sedov
For other uses of "", see {{{1. Leon Lvovich Sedov (Russian: Лев Львович Седов; February 1906 - February 16, 1938) was the son of the Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova. Leon Sedov was born when his father was in prison facing life sentence for h..
Leon Shamroy
Leon Shamroy (July 16, 1901 – July 7, 1974) was an American film cinematographer. Together with Charles Lang, he holds the record for most number of Academy Award nominations for Cinematography. Throughout his five-decade career, he garnered eighteen nominations with four wins. ..
Leon Silverberg
Leon Silverberg is member of Silverberg family whose famous for their strategic skills. He is the one who arranged the Kalekka Incident which legitimized Scarlet Moon Empire's act of war against Jowston. When the Gate Rune Wars occurred, he joined Toran Liberation Army and helped them to finish t..
Leon Sinks
The Leon Sinks Geological Area is located in southern and southwestern Leon County, Florida, United States. It's a mature karstic area on the Upper Floridan Aquifer. It is one of the most extensive underwater cave systems in the world and connects to Wakulla Springs. This hydrological system is ext..
Leon Spilliaert
Léon Spilliaert (Ostend, 1881 - Brussels, 1946) was a Belgian outsider artist whose work is often categorized as abstractism with a mix of surrealism and expressionism. Early Life & Art From childhood Léon displayed an interest in art and drawing. A prolific doodler and autodidact, he was predomi..
Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks (born July 11, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former boxer who tasted life's highs and lows more than most other boxers. Spinks went from being Heavyweight champion of the world to being homeless in little more than a decade. Spinks, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, had a stella..
Leon Sterling
Prof. Leon Sterling is a professor at the University of Melbourne's department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. He is co-author along with Ehud Shapiro, of the computer science textbook The Art of Prolog. External links [Leons's home page] (University of Melbourne) ..
Leon Štukelj
Leon Štukelj [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (November 12, 1898 - November 8, 1999) was a Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete. Štukelj was born in Novo mesto, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia). He is a noted figure in the annals of Slovenian sportin..
Leon Sullivan
Reverend Dr. Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 - April 24, 2001), born to Charles and Helen Sullivan in Charleston, West Virginia. He was educated at West Virginia State University, Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. He was the first African American to serve on the Board of ..
Leon Taylor
Leon Taylor (born November 2, 1977) is a British athlete, who competes in diving. He was hyperactive as a child and his parents were advised to channel his energies and enthusiasm into sport. He was a swimmer and gymnast from the age of two and only took up competative diving when he was eight. By..
Leon Thomas
Amos Leon Thomas Jr (born 1937, died May 8 1999) was an American avant garde jazz singer from East St. Louis, Illinois. He changed his name to Leone in 1974. Thomas is best known for his work with Pharoah Sanders, particularly the 1969 song "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from Sanders' Karma album..
Leon Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota
Leon Township is a township in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 345 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 92.6 km² (35.8 mi²). 91.6 km² (35.4 mi²) of it is land and 1.0 km² (0.4 mi²) of it (..
Leon Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota
Leon Township is a township in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 942 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 98.0 km² (37.8 mi²). 97.9 km² (37.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0...
Leon Township, Minnesota
Leon Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Minnesota: Leon Township, Clearwater County, MinnesotaLeon Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, ..
Leon Trotsky
This article is a biography of Leon Trotsky. For modern interpretations and theory of Trotsky, see Trotskyism. Leon Trotsky Born November 7, 1879 Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire Died August 21, 1940 Mexico City, Mexico [Leon Davidovich Trotsky] ([Media helphelp]·..
Leon Underwood
Leon Underwood (born 25 December 1890 in London -- October 9 1975) was a British sculptor, painter, and engraver. He attended the Slade School of Art and founded the magazine The Island in 1931. His work was influenced by African and Cycladic designs. His paintings included portraits and Mexican ..
Leon Uris
Leon Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for the amount of research that went into his novels. Contents 1 Life2 Trivia3 Selected titles4 See also Life Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William..
Leon Valley, Texas
Leon Valley is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States. The population was 9,239 at the 2000 census. It is an independent municipality completely surrounded by the city of San Antonio. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Education4 External links Geography Leon Valley i..
Leon Vance
Leon Vance (August 11, 1916 -July 26, 1944 ) was a Medal of Honor recipient who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Contents 1 Education and Background2 Marriage and Family3 Military service4 Medal of Honor citation5 In memory6 External links E..
Leon von Schroeder
Leon von Schroeder, known in Japan as Leonhart von Schroider (レオンハルト・フォン・シュレイダー Reonharuto fon Shureidā) is the a character in the KC Grand Championship story arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second anime series, which is known as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters in Asia. He does no..
Leon Wagner
Leon Lamar Wagner (May 13, 1934 - January 3, 2004) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the San Francisco Giants (1958-59, 1968), St. Louis Cardinals (1960), Los Angeles Angels (1961-63), Cleveland Indians (1964-68) and Chicago White Sox (1968). He batted left-handed..
Leon Ware
Leon Ware is a soul music singer, songwriter and producer who found his biggest success crafting the hit album, I Want You, for friend and Motown icon Marvin Gaye in 1976. Ware also is notable for writing the Top 5 R&B single, "I Wanna Be Where You Are", for a young Michael Jackson in 1972. Ware h..
Leon Warnerke
Leon Warnerke was a well-known 19th century currency forger who spent most of his career in south-east London. His name may have been a pseudonym. Warnerke's place of birth is unknown, but he is thought to have been from either Russia or Moravia. He lived a double life, maintaining a career as a ph..
Leon Washington
[] at NFL.com Leon Washington is an American football running back who currently plays for the National Football League's New York Jets. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, pick 117. He played college football for Florida State. ..
Leon Wegner
Leon Wegner (1824-1873) was a Polish economist and historian, co-founder of PTPN. Reference Witold Jakóbczyk, Przetrwać na Wartą 1815-1914, Dzieje narodu i państwa polskiego, vol. III-55, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warszawa 1989. ..
Leon Wesley Walls
--> Leon Wesley Walls (born 30 July 1957) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Virgil and Dorothy Walls. The third of four children, Walls was educated in the Covington, Kentucky school system, where he attended Holmes High School. His songs are direct with f..
Leon White
Leon Allen White (born May 14, 1957), better known under his ring names Big Van Vader or Vader, was one of the most successful professional wrestlers of the 1990s. He is famous for being one of the few super-heavyweight wrestlers capable of significant aerial maneuvers. He has long been considered ..
Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier is an American writer, critic, and magazine editor. Since 1983 he has been the literary editor of The New Republic. Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York on 14 Jun 1952. He attended Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and was a member of Harvard's Soc..
Leon Wilkeson
Leon Russell Wilkeson (2 April 1952 - 27 July 2001) was the bass guitarist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death in 2001. Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson was able to dodge death two times (while on tour with the band), but proved not as lucky a third time. Born on Apri..
Leon Williams
Leon Williams is a current American Football linebacker for the Cleveland Browns. He was drafted in the 4th round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Miami. ..
Leon Williams (singer)
Leon Jay Williams (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: , born July 30 1976) is Singaporean singer and actor. Contents 1 Discography1.1 Albums2 Filmography3 References Discography Albums Sweet Inspirations:Leon Jay Williams Filmography La Robe De Mariee Des CieuxBottom Drawer Of He..
Leon Wood
For the author, see Leon J. Wood. Osie Leon Wood III (born March 25, 1962 in Columbia, South Carolina), is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1st round (10th overall) of the 1984 NBA Draft. A 6'3" shooting guard from California State..
Leon Wurmser
Dr Leon Wurmser is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at West Virginia University and a training and supervising analyst of the New York Freudian Society. He was formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program at University of Maryland, Baltimore. ..
Leon Wyczółkowski
Polish stamp commemorating Leon Wyczółkowski Leon Wyczółkowski was one of the top painters of the Young Poland period, representatn of the realism in Polish contemporary art. Born in 1852 in Huta Miastowska near Siedlce, died in 1936 in Warsaw. ..
Leon Xanrof
Leon Xanrof (1867-1953) was a French playwright and songwriter, noted for writing the play The Prince Consort, which was used to create the 1929 film Parade d'amour (The Love Parade). ..
Leon Zolbrod
Leon M. Zolbrod (1930-1991) was a scholar and translator of Japanese literature and history. His interest in studying the literature of Japan developed from his duties as a member of the U.S. army of occupation in 1948. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University (as a graduate student he studied ..
LEOP
Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) In Spacecraft Operations, The Launch and Early Orbit Phase is one of the most critical phases of a mission. Spacecraft operations engineers take control of the satellite after it separates from the launch vehicle up to the time when the satellite is safely positi..
Leopard
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Leopards (Panthera pardus) are one of the four 'big cats' of the genus Panthera. They range in size from one to just over two metres long, and generally weigh between 30 and 70 kg. Some males may grow over 90 kgs. Females are typically around two-thirds t..
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat is a song by Bob Dylan, from his 1966 album Blonde On Blonde. Like many other Dylan songs of the 1965-1966 period, the song features a surreal, playful lyric set to an electric blues accompaniment. Lyrics Dylan's lyrics affectionately ridicule a female "fashion victim"..
Leopardstown
Leopardstown is a suburban district in Dublin 18, Ireland at the foot of the Dublin mountains. A residential suburb of the greater Dublin area, it is divided by the 'South Eastern Motorway' (SEM) section of the M50 motorway and adjoins the neighbouring areas of Sandyford, Stepaside, Ballyogan, Foxro..
Leopardstown Racecourse
Leopardstown Racecourse ([53°15′57″N, 6°11′21″W]) is one of Europe's premier racing venues. Like the majority of Irish courses, it hosts both National Hunt and Flat racing. Located in county Dublin, a few miles south of the Dublin city centre. The course was modelled on Sando..
Leopards (rugby team)
The Leopards, are a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. They play out of Potchefstroom at Olien Park. They draw all their players from the North West Province. External link [sport.iafrica.com profile] Currie Cup Premier Division Blu..
Leopardus
The genus Leopardus consists of small spotted cats native to North and South America. Members of the genus are: Leopardus pardalis, OcelotLeopardus tigrinus, Little Spotted CatLeopardus wiedii, Margay Members of this genus were previously grouped in the genus Felis. ..
Leopard (car)
Leopard 6 Liter Roadster is a Polish classical sport-style luxury car, produced by Leopard Automobile AB in the town of Mielec. The Leopard 6 Liter Roadster was designed by Zbysław Szwaj, the company president and designer of the Gepard car. Contents 1 Construction2 Launch3 Not..
Leopard (DHT)
In computing, Leopard is a distributed hash table searching system written by Yinzhe Yu, Sanghwan Lee and Zhi-Li Zhang, and originally published in NETWORKING, 2005. It creates a DHT which has good locality properties -- not of lookup, but of cached copies which are physically close to the reques..
Leopard (disambiguation)
Leopard can refer to: Leopard, the animalLeopard tankLeopard, Polish luxury carEnglish coin Half Florin or Leopard, the coinLeopard (rocket), the British rocketHMS Leopard, name of several Royal Navy shipsThe Leopard is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusacodename of Mac OS X v10.5Les Leopards, ..
Leopard (programming language)
Leopard is a programming language featuring an integrated development environment for creating Windows applications. Leopard is designed to be easy to learn and it is especially aimed at users who have never programmed before. Leopard is written in Liberty BASIC. External links [Leopard progr..
Leopard (rocket)
Leopard is the name of a British double stage experimental rocket, which was launched between 1959 and 1962 eleven times from Aberporth. The Leopard has a flight altitude of 20 kilometres, a launch mass of 1.5 tons and a length of 6 metres. http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/leopard.htm ..
Leopard 2
Leopard 2A6EX General characteristics Crew 4 Length 7.7 m Width 3.7 m Height 3.0 m Weight 62 tonnes Armour and armament Armour composite; including high-hardness steel, tungsten and plastic filler with ceramic component. Main armament 120 mm L55 smoothbore 42 rou..
Leopard Blow
The "Leopard Blow," "leopard punch," or "leopard fist" is a common term for a specific type of striking blow, associated primarily with the Chinese martial arts. The maneuver involves folding the first two joints of the fingers inward and striking with the foreknuckles. The Leopard Blow is also the..
Leopard Cat
The Asian Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis, sometimes Felis bengalensis) is a small wild cat of Southeast Asia. On average it is as large as a domestic cat, but there are considerable regional differences: in Indonesia the average size is 45 cm, plus 20 cm tail, while it is 60 cm/40 cm in the..
Leopard class frigate
Type 41 Leopard class General Characteristics Displacement: 2,300 tons standard / 2,520 tons full load Length: 340 ft o/a Beam: 40 ft Draught: 16 ft Propulsion: 8 x ASR1 diesels, 12,400 shp, 2 shafts Speed: 24 knots Range: 220 tons oil fuel, 7,500 nm at 16 knots Complement: 235 Armament..
Leopard Cur
The Leopard Cur is a type of cur, a hunting dog from the rural American south. See also CurFeist (dog) ..
Leopard Danio
A spotted colour morph of the Zebra Danio, it is identical in all respects except for its colour markings. The reader should go to Zebra Danio for further details. Golden and long fin varieties are often available. The golden variety is in reality semi albino and the long fin fish have been bred ..
Leopard darter
The leopard darter, Percina pantherina, is a small freshwater fish native to the United States. It has been listed as a threatened species in the United States since 1978, the IUCN lists it as vulnerable. Leopard darters rarely exceed three inches (2 cm) in length. They have 11-14 large, dark spot..
Leopard frog
Leopard frogs, which are also called meadow frogs and grass frogs, are a collection of so-called true frogs within the genus Rana. Once abundant in North America and Canada, their population has declined in recent years due to pollution and deforestation. Leopard frogs are often used as environment..
Leopard gecko
Eublepharis macularius, commonly known as the leopard gecko, is a nocturnal ground dwelling gecko commonly found in the desert areas of Pakistan, Northwestern India and Afghanistan. The etymology of their name is 'eu' = Good (=true) |'blephar' = Eyelid | 'macularius' = Spotted. Contents 1 C..
Leopard Kung Fu
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Leopard style is one of the Five Animal styles, supposedly created by Jueyuan with help from Bai Yufeng and Li ..
Leopard Moth
Leopard Moth can refer to: Ecpantheria scribonia Also called the Giant Leopard MothZeuzera pyrina a member of the family CossoideaA 1933 three seat de Havilland plane, the DH.85 Leopard Moth [link] This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with..
Leopard of Rudraprayag
The Leopard of Rudraprayag is claimed to have killed over 125 people before being killed by famed big cat hunter and author Jim Corbett. For eight years no one dared move along that road between the Hindu shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath for it passed through the leopard's territory. In fact few ..
Leopard Seal
The Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) is one of the "true seals" belonging to the family Phocidae. It is the only species in its genus. Leopard Seals are the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after Southern Elephant Seals), and are near the top of the Antarctic food chain. Orcas are t..
Leopard shark
Leopard shark may refer to: The zebra shark, Stegostoma fasciatumThe Leopard Shark, Triakis semifasciata This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly t..
Leopard tank
Leopard 1 General characteristics Crew 4 (commander, driver, gunner, radio operator/loader) Length 9.54 m Width 3.37 m Height 2.62 m Weight 42.5 tonnes Armour and armament Armour 70 mm Main armament 105mm rifled tank gun Secondary armament 2×7.62 mm MG ..
Leopard Tortoise
The Leopard tortoise (Geochelone pardalis) is a large, grazing species of tortoise that favors semi-arid (not dry), thorny to grassland habitats. On average, they are about 16-18 inches long and weigh 40-50 pounds (although some reach up to 24 inches and 70 lbs). They generally have a life span of..
Leopold
Leopold is a given name from Austrian origin. Leopold originates from the German name Liutbald. "Liut" means "people" in Old High German, and "bald" means "bold" or "brave". Luitpold is an old-fashioned form, sometimes used within the context of the Margraves of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty. ..
Leopold's maneuvers
In obstetrics, Leopold's Maneuvers are a common and systematic way to determine the position of a fetus inside the woman's uterus. Contents 1 Overview and rationale2 Performing the maneuvers2.1 First maneuver2.2 Second maneuver2.3 Third maneuver2.4 Fourth maneuver3&..
Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
Leopold Joseph called le bon (the good) , (Innsbruck, September 11 1679 – Lunéville , March 27 1729), was Duke of Lorraine from 1690 to his death. Before 1697 and from 1702 to 1714, his duchy was occupied by France. He was the son of duke Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, exiled in the Austrian ..
Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden
Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden (29 August 1790 –24 April 1852) succeeded in 1830 as the fourth Grand Duke of Baden. Although a younger child, Leopold was the first son of Margrave Karl Friederich of Baden by his second wife Luise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg. Since Luise Karoline was not of ..