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Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (; July 3, 1854 in Hukvaldy, Moravia – August 12, 1928 in Ostrava) was a Czech composer. He is particularly remembered for his orchestral piece Sinfonietta and his operas, and is generally recognised as one of his country's foremost composers.
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 ÂŁ93,000 to build.
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.
Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler Leon (Ndugu) Chancler (born 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.
Leon A. Green Leon Green (born in Louisiana, March 31,1888) was a long-tenured dean of Northwestern University School of Law (1929 – 1947) and professor at Yale Law School (1926 – 1929) and the University of Texas School of Law (1915 – 1918, 1920 – 1926, and 1947 – 1977). Green earned an A.
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.
Leon Arena Leon Arena is an arena in LeĂłn, Spain It is primarily used for musical concerts and bullfighting, however it has been used for handball and basketball too. The arena opened in 1948 as a Bull Ring, but in 2000 it was covered becoming it in a modern arena.
Leon Bankoff Leon Bankoff (December 13, 1908–February 16, 1997) was an American dentist and mathematician born in New York City, New York. He attended the City College of New York and dental school at New York University before relocating to Los Angeles, California, where he studied at the University of Southern California.
Leon Barzin Leon Eugene Barzin was a Belgian-born American conductor and founder of the National Orchestral Association (NOA), the first training orchestra in America. He also served as the founding musical director of the New York City Ballet.
Leon Benois Leon Benois (Russian: Леонтий Николаевич БенŃĐ°, 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 of Russia in the Peter and Paul Fortress, and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw, among many other works.
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.
Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne 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 at the Financial Times and financial journalist.
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 in 1983.
Leon C. Phillips Leon Chase "Red" 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.
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.
Leon Cooper Leon N 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, work he did in his 20s. The concept of Cooper electron pairs was named after him.
Leon County Emergency Medical Services Leon County Emergency Medical Services is located in Tallahassee, Florida beginning service January 1, 2004. LCEMS provides emergency medical services to 657 square miles and all citizens and visitors of Leon County regardless of social economic status.
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 Washington Post series for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.
Leon Dierx Leon Dierx (March 31 , 1838 - 1912) was a French poet born in the island of RĂ©union 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.
Leon Duray Leon Duray (April 30, 1894 Cleveland, Ohio - May 12, 1956 San Bernardino, California) was an American racecar driver active in the 1920's. Born George Stewart, he legally changed his name in tribute to fellow driver Arthur Duray.
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, he managed a traveling vaudeville troupe and gave a young comedian named Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle his first professional opportunity.
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, 1957). Festinger earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York in 1939.
Leon Fink (historian) Leon Fink (January 9, 1948) is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A historian, his research and writing focuses on labor unions in the United States, immigration and the nature of work.
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.
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, and is a contributing editor to The American Conservative.
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 world championship, then racing a 500cc Honda in 2001, and a 250cc Honda in 2002.
Leon Henkin Leon Henkin (19 April 1921–1 November2006) was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for the "Henkin Completeness Proof": his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic.
Leon High School Leon High School is a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida. For the 2005-2006 school year, the Florida Department of Education gave the school an "A" rating after its students scored well above the state average on standardized tests in reading and in math.
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.
Leon J. Wood Leon James Wood (1918-1977) is the author of one of the few books 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 lies mainly in two directions. One is that these people lived in a way possible only for those who had experienced regeneration, and the other is the avenue of logical deduction that argues back from New Testament truth.
Leon Jay Williams Leon Jay Williams (, born July 30 1976) is Singaporean-born singer and actor who frequently lives and works in Taiwan. In addition to Mandarin Chinese, he speaks English; he sometimes displays this ability in his work on television shows.
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.
Leon Kass Leon Kass (born February 12 1939) is an American bioethicist, best known as a leader in the effort to stop human embryonic stem cell and cloning research as former chair of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002–2005.http://www.
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 murdered by Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro, an attack planned by Abu Abbas.
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 desire, and less polemical than Gordin's.
Leon Lazarus 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 predecessors of Marvel Comics. The uncredited author of countless comic-book stories from 1947 through at least 1965 — with his name long considered a possible pseudonym on the rare occasions it appeared — the 85-year-old Lazarus was located in 2005 by comics historians who then initiated efforts to document his credits and fill some of the many gaps in the medium's record.
Leon Lett Leon Lett (born October 12, 1968) is a former American Football defensive tackle who played for the Dallas Cowboys (1991-2000) and the Denver Broncos (2001), after playing college ball at Emporia State University. Lett is a two-time Pro Bowler, with selections in 1994 and 1998.
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.
Leon Levy Leon Levy (1926–2003) was, according to his obituary in Forbes magazine, a "Wall Street investment genius and prolific philanthropist," who helped create both mutual funds and hedge funds. He co-founded the mutual fund manager Oppenheimer & Co.
Leon Lopez Leon Lopez (born 30 August 1979, in Liverpool) is a British actor, best known for the role of Jerome Johnson in the British soap opera Brookside from 1998 to 2002, and currently stars in the television show Hollyoaks: In the City as "Tank Top".
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.
Leon Magnus , or Lion Magnus in Japan, is a character from the Tales series, specifically Tales of Destiny and its sequel, Tales of Destiny 2. A cold-hearted, brooding young prodigy of a swordsman from Seinegald, Leon is the youngest master swordsman to become a captain of the Kingdom of Seinegald.
Leon McKenzie Leon McKenzie (born 17 May, 1978 in Croydon) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Coventry City. He is the son of former British and European boxing champion Clinton McKenzie and nephew of flyweight boxing champion Duke McKenzie.
Leon Panetta Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is a former White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, and the founder and director of the Panetta Institute.
Leon Parker Leon Parker, not to be confused with baritone saxophonist Leo ParkerAll Music,(born August 21, 1965 in White Plains, New York) is a jazz drummer. He studied drums from age 11 and had classical training in his teens.
Leon Piniński Leon Piniński (1857-1938) was a Polish scientist, diplomat, art historian and politician. A professor of Roman law and one-time rector of the Lwów University (1928-1929), he devoted most of his life to political career in his hometown of Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine), initially in Austria-Hungary and then in Poland.
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.
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 Royals (1983-84). He attended the University of Michigan and batted and threw right-handed.
Leon Rochefort Leon Joseph Fernand Rochefort (born May 4, 1939 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada) is a retired Canadian professional ice 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 and Vancouver Canucks. He won a Stanley Cup in 1971 with Montreal.
Leon Scott 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 1857.
Leon Sedov [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 having led the first Soviet in the Revolution of 1905.
Leon Schiller Leon Schiller, born Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld (14 April, 1887 - March 25, 1954), was a Polish director, film critic, and theoretician. In addition, he was a composer, songster, and wrote theatre and radio screenplays.
Leon Sullivan Reverend Dr. Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 - April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African-Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an important part of the dismantling of Apartheid in South Africa.
Leon Sylvers III Leon Sylvers wrote and produced a slew of hits for Shalamar ("The Second Time Around"), the Whispers (the gold single "And the Beat Goes On," "I Can Make It Better"), Dynasty ("I've Just Begun to Love You"), Gladys Knight the Pips ("You're Number One (In My Book)"), Evelyn "Champagne" King ("Flirt," "Hold on to What You Got"), Stacy Lattisaw, the Spinners, Gina Foster, Krystol, the Brothers Johnson, Glenn Jones, Howard Hewett, Gene Page, Lakeside, and Real to Reel.
Leon Uris Leon Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. His two bestelling books were Exodus, published in 1958, and Trinity, in 1976.
Leon von Schroeder Leon von Schroeder, known in Japan as Leonhart von Schroider (ă¬ă‚ŞăłăŹă«ăă»ă•ă‚©ăłă»ă‚·ăĄă¬ă‚¤ă€ăĽ Reonharuto fon ShureidÄ) is the a fictional character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh!
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, 1969), St. Louis Cardinals (1960), Los Angeles Angels (1961-63), Cleveland Indians (1964-68) and Chicago White Sox (1968).
Leon Ware Leon Ware (born February 6, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan) 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 and creating the "Body Heat" Album along with Quincy Jones.
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.
Leon 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 University-Fullerton, Wood played in six NBA seasons for six different teams.
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 Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936) was one of the top painters of the Young Poland period, as well as a primary representative of Realism in Polish contemporary art. Born in 1852 in Huta Miastowska near Siedlce, died in 1936 in Warsaw.
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.
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.
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 and other crimes in 1989 and served 18 months in prison.
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 Swedish designer Filippa Kumlin D'Orey and ex-stepdaughter of Diana Ross.
Leona Ozaki 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 astrological sign Leo, and, in the first series she sports flaming red hair with blue eyes.
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.
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 DNA computing.
Leonard Allan Lewis Leonard Allan Lewis (28 February 1895-21 September 1918) 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.
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 (Conn.
Leonard Bailey (inventor) 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 the Stanley Rule & Level Co.
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.
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.
Leonard Betts "Leonard Betts" is the twelth episode of the fourth season of The X-Files. The disappearance of a man's body from a hospital morgue leads Mulder and Scully to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the man's death.
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 time.
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 computer role-playing game Fallout, on which he worked as art director, lead artist, designer and writer.
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 the first Irish and North American Prefect of the Vatican Library in Rome from 1984 to 1997.
Leonard Brody Leonard Brody (born June 4, 1971) is a Canadian technology entrepreneur, business advisor and author. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date.
Leonard Calvert Leonard Calvert (1606 - 1647) was the younger son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore. On the female line, he had some blood of Plantagenet Kings of England (Plantagenet - Mortimer - Wroth - Mynne - Calvert).
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.
Leonard Cleaver Leonard Harry Cleaver (27 October 1909 - 7 July 1993) was a British Conservative politician. He was elected a Member of Parliament in 1959 by gaining the marginal Birmingham Yardley constituency from Labour in 1959.
Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963.
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 titled "Came So Far For Beauty", which was produced by Hal Willner.
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.
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 of Crysler's Farm.
Leonard Crofoot Leonard John Crofoot (born 20 September 1948 in Utica, New York) is an American actor and dancer whose work includes three minor roles in the Star Trek science fiction television franchise. Except for early roles and a songwriting credit noted below, he is typically credited as "Leonard Crofoot".
Leonard Dalton Abbott Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878–1953) was an American publicist and radical thinker, born in Liverpool, England. He emigrated to the United States in 1897, involved himself in the socialist movement, and remained an active worker up to 1905.
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 characteristic sounds of the mbira.
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 player in the popularisation of Copernicus's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
Leonard Digges (II) Leonard Digges (1588 – 1635) was a seventeenth-century poet and translator, a member of the prominent Digges family of Kent—son of the astronomer Thomas Digges (1545-95), grandson of the mathematician Leonard Digges (1520-59), and younger brother of statesman Sir Dudley Digges (1583-1639).
Leonard Edelen Leonard ("Buddy") Edelen (born September 22, 1937 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky – died February, 1997) was an American marathoner. Based in England for most of his prime competitive years, in 1963 Edelen became the first man to run a marathon faster than 2 hours and 15 minutes when he set a world record of 2:14:28.
Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns Canon Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns (September 18 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.
Leonard Evans Leonard Salusbury 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.
Leonard Ewing Scott Robert 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 Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Festival The Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival ("Falcone Festival" or simply "Falcone" for short) is an amateur tuba and euphonium festival and competition, held annually the second week in August at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp at Twin Lake, Michigan.
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.
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".
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 Gardner Leonard Gardner (born 1933) is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, The Southwest Review, and other publications, and he has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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 ÂŁ93,000 to build.
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.
Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler Leon (Ndugu) Chancler (born 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.
Leon A. Green Leon Green (born in Louisiana, March 31,1888) was a long-tenured dean of Northwestern University School of Law (1929 – 1947) and professor at Yale Law School (1926 – 1929) and the University of Texas School of Law (1915 – 1918, 1920 – 1926, and 1947 – 1977). Green earned an A.
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.
Leon Arena Leon Arena is an arena in LeĂłn, Spain It is primarily used for musical concerts and bullfighting, however it has been used for handball and basketball too. The arena opened in 1948 as a Bull Ring, but in 2000 it was covered becoming it in a modern arena.
Leon Bankoff Leon Bankoff (December 13, 1908–February 16, 1997) was an American dentist and mathematician born in New York City, New York. He attended the City College of New York and dental school at New York University before relocating to Los Angeles, California, where he studied at the University of Southern California.
Leon Barzin Leon Eugene Barzin was a Belgian-born American conductor and founder of the National Orchestral Association (NOA), the first training orchestra in America. He also served as the founding musical director of the New York City Ballet.
Leon Benois Leon Benois (Russian: Леонтий Николаевич БенŃĐ°, 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 of Russia in the Peter and Paul Fortress, and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw, among many other works.
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.
Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne 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 at the Financial Times and financial journalist.
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 in 1983.
Leon C. Phillips Leon Chase "Red" 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.
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.
Leon Cooper Leon N 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, work he did in his 20s. The concept of Cooper electron pairs was named after him.
Leon County Emergency Medical Services Leon County Emergency Medical Services is located in Tallahassee, Florida beginning service January 1, 2004. LCEMS provides emergency medical services to 657 square miles and all citizens and visitors of Leon County regardless of social economic status.
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 Washington Post series for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.
Leon Dierx Leon Dierx (March 31 , 1838 - 1912) was a French poet born in the island of RĂ©union 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.
Leon Duray Leon Duray (April 30, 1894 Cleveland, Ohio - May 12, 1956 San Bernardino, California) was an American racecar driver active in the 1920's. Born George Stewart, he legally changed his name in tribute to fellow driver Arthur Duray.
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, he managed a traveling vaudeville troupe and gave a young comedian named Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle his first professional opportunity.
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, 1957). Festinger earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York in 1939.
Leon Fink (historian) Leon Fink (January 9, 1948) is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A historian, his research and writing focuses on labor unions in the United States, immigration and the nature of work.
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.
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, and is a contributing editor to The American Conservative.
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 world championship, then racing a 500cc Honda in 2001, and a 250cc Honda in 2002.
Leon Henkin Leon Henkin (19 April 1921–1 November2006) was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for the "Henkin Completeness Proof": his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic.
Leon High School Leon High School is a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida. For the 2005-2006 school year, the Florida Department of Education gave the school an "A" rating after its students scored well above the state average on standardized tests in reading and in math.
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.
Leon J. Wood Leon James Wood (1918-1977) is the author of one of the few books 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 lies mainly in two directions. One is that these people lived in a way possible only for those who had experienced regeneration, and the other is the avenue of logical deduction that argues back from New Testament truth.
Leon Jay Williams Leon Jay Williams (, born July 30 1976) is Singaporean-born singer and actor who frequently lives and works in Taiwan. In addition to Mandarin Chinese, he speaks English; he sometimes displays this ability in his work on television shows.
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.
Leon Kass Leon Kass (born February 12 1939) is an American bioethicist, best known as a leader in the effort to stop human embryonic stem cell and cloning research as former chair of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002–2005.http://www.
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 murdered by Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro, an attack planned by Abu Abbas.
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 desire, and less polemical than Gordin's.
Leon Lazarus 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 predecessors of Marvel Comics. The uncredited author of countless comic-book stories from 1947 through at least 1965 — with his name long considered a possible pseudonym on the rare occasions it appeared — the 85-year-old Lazarus was located in 2005 by comics historians who then initiated efforts to document his credits and fill some of the many gaps in the medium's record.
Leon Lett Leon Lett (born October 12, 1968) is a former American Football defensive tackle who played for the Dallas Cowboys (1991-2000) and the Denver Broncos (2001), after playing college ball at Emporia State University. Lett is a two-time Pro Bowler, with selections in 1994 and 1998.
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.
Leon Levy Leon Levy (1926–2003) was, according to his obituary in Forbes magazine, a "Wall Street investment genius and prolific philanthropist," who helped create both mutual funds and hedge funds. He co-founded the mutual fund manager Oppenheimer & Co.
Leon Lopez Leon Lopez (born 30 August 1979, in Liverpool) is a British actor, best known for the role of Jerome Johnson in the British soap opera Brookside from 1998 to 2002, and currently stars in the television show Hollyoaks: In the City as "Tank Top".
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.
Leon Magnus , or Lion Magnus in Japan, is a character from the Tales series, specifically Tales of Destiny and its sequel, Tales of Destiny 2. A cold-hearted, brooding young prodigy of a swordsman from Seinegald, Leon is the youngest master swordsman to become a captain of the Kingdom of Seinegald.
Leon McKenzie Leon McKenzie (born 17 May, 1978 in Croydon) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Coventry City. He is the son of former British and European boxing champion Clinton McKenzie and nephew of flyweight boxing champion Duke McKenzie.
Leon Panetta Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is a former White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, and the founder and director of the Panetta Institute.
Leon Parker Leon Parker, not to be confused with baritone saxophonist Leo ParkerAll Music,(born August 21, 1965 in White Plains, New York) is a jazz drummer. He studied drums from age 11 and had classical training in his teens.
Leon Piniński Leon Piniński (1857-1938) was a Polish scientist, diplomat, art historian and politician. A professor of Roman law and one-time rector of the Lwów University (1928-1929), he devoted most of his life to political career in his hometown of Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine), initially in Austria-Hungary and then in Poland.
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.
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 Royals (1983-84). He attended the University of Michigan and batted and threw right-handed.
Leon Rochefort Leon Joseph Fernand Rochefort (born May 4, 1939 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada) is a retired Canadian professional ice 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 and Vancouver Canucks. He won a Stanley Cup in 1971 with Montreal.
Leon Scott 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 1857.
Leon Sedov [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 having led the first Soviet in the Revolution of 1905.
Leon Schiller Leon Schiller, born Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld (14 April, 1887 - March 25, 1954), was a Polish director, film critic, and theoretician. In addition, he was a composer, songster, and wrote theatre and radio screenplays.
Leon Sullivan Reverend Dr. Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 - April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African-Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an important part of the dismantling of Apartheid in South Africa.
Leon Sylvers III Leon Sylvers wrote and produced a slew of hits for Shalamar ("The Second Time Around"), the Whispers (the gold single "And the Beat Goes On," "I Can Make It Better"), Dynasty ("I've Just Begun to Love You"), Gladys Knight the Pips ("You're Number One (In My Book)"), Evelyn "Champagne" King ("Flirt," "Hold on to What You Got"), Stacy Lattisaw, the Spinners, Gina Foster, Krystol, the Brothers Johnson, Glenn Jones, Howard Hewett, Gene Page, Lakeside, and Real to Reel.
Leon Uris Leon Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. His two bestelling books were Exodus, published in 1958, and Trinity, in 1976.
Leon von Schroeder Leon von Schroeder, known in Japan as Leonhart von Schroider (ă¬ă‚ŞăłăŹă«ăă»ă•ă‚©ăłă»ă‚·ăĄă¬ă‚¤ă€ăĽ Reonharuto fon ShureidÄ) is the a fictional character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh!
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, 1969), St. Louis Cardinals (1960), Los Angeles Angels (1961-63), Cleveland Indians (1964-68) and Chicago White Sox (1968).
Leon Ware Leon Ware (born February 6, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan) 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 and creating the "Body Heat" Album along with Quincy Jones.
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.
Leon 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 University-Fullerton, Wood played in six NBA seasons for six different teams.
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 Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936) was one of the top painters of the Young Poland period, as well as a primary representative of Realism in Polish contemporary art. Born in 1852 in Huta Miastowska near Siedlce, died in 1936 in Warsaw.
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.
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.
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 and other crimes in 1989 and served 18 months in prison.
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 Swedish designer Filippa Kumlin D'Orey and ex-stepdaughter of Diana Ross.
Leona Ozaki 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 astrological sign Leo, and, in the first series she sports flaming red hair with blue eyes.
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.
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 DNA computing.
Leonard Allan Lewis Leonard Allan Lewis (28 February 1895-21 September 1918) 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.
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 (Conn.
Leonard Bailey (inventor) 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 the Stanley Rule & Level Co.
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.
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.
Leonard Betts "Leonard Betts" is the twelth episode of the fourth season of The X-Files. The disappearance of a man's body from a hospital morgue leads Mulder and Scully to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the man's death.
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 time.
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 computer role-playing game Fallout, on which he worked as art director, lead artist, designer and writer.
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 the first Irish and North American Prefect of the Vatican Library in Rome from 1984 to 1997.
Leonard Brody Leonard Brody (born June 4, 1971) is a Canadian technology entrepreneur, business advisor and author. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date.
Leonard Calvert Leonard Calvert (1606 - 1647) was the younger son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore. On the female line, he had some blood of Plantagenet Kings of England (Plantagenet - Mortimer - Wroth - Mynne - Calvert).
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.
Leonard Cleaver Leonard Harry Cleaver (27 October 1909 - 7 July 1993) was a British Conservative politician. He was elected a Member of Parliament in 1959 by gaining the marginal Birmingham Yardley constituency from Labour in 1959.
Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963.
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 titled "Came So Far For Beauty", which was produced by Hal Willner.
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.
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 of Crysler's Farm.
Leonard Crofoot Leonard John Crofoot (born 20 September 1948 in Utica, New York) is an American actor and dancer whose work includes three minor roles in the Star Trek science fiction television franchise. Except for early roles and a songwriting credit noted below, he is typically credited as "Leonard Crofoot".
Leonard Dalton Abbott Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878–1953) was an American publicist and radical thinker, born in Liverpool, England. He emigrated to the United States in 1897, involved himself in the socialist movement, and remained an active worker up to 1905.
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 characteristic sounds of the mbira.
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 player in the popularisation of Copernicus's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
Leonard Digges (II) Leonard Digges (1588 – 1635) was a seventeenth-century poet and translator, a member of the prominent Digges family of Kent—son of the astronomer Thomas Digges (1545-95), grandson of the mathematician Leonard Digges (1520-59), and younger brother of statesman Sir Dudley Digges (1583-1639).
Leonard Edelen Leonard ("Buddy") Edelen (born September 22, 1937 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky – died February, 1997) was an American marathoner. Based in England for most of his prime competitive years, in 1963 Edelen became the first man to run a marathon faster than 2 hours and 15 minutes when he set a world record of 2:14:28.
Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns Canon Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns (September 18 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.
Leonard Evans Leonard Salusbury 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.
Leonard Ewing Scott Robert 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 Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Festival The Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival ("Falcone Festival" or simply "Falcone" for short) is an amateur tuba and euphonium festival and competition, held annually the second week in August at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp at Twin Lake, Michigan.
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.
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".
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 Gardner Leonard Gardner (born 1933) is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, The Southwest Review, and other publications, and he has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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