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Les Six Les Six is a name, inspired by The Five, given in 1920 by critic Henri Collet in an article titled ‘Les cinq russes, les six français et M. Satie’ (Comoedia, 16 January 1920)Paul Griffiths: 'Six, Les', Grove Music Online ed.
Les Soirées de Médan Les Soirées de Médan ("Evenings at Médan") is a collection of six short stories by six different writers associated with Naturalism, first published in 1880. All the stories concern the Franco-Prussian War.
Les Sorcières de Salem Les Sorcières de Salem (The Witches of Salem) is a 1956 joint Franco-German film production directed by Raymond Rouleau with a screenplay adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre from the 1953 play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. Miller's play was meant to be an allegory of the McCarthy fame and notoriety anti-communist trials taking place in America.
Les Steckel Les Steckel (born July 1, 1946) was a coach of the Minnesota Vikings for one brief season in 1984. He has also worked as an assistant coach with the San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots, Denver Broncos, Tennessee Titans and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Les Straker Lester Paul Straker Bolnalda (born October 10, 1959 in Ciudad BolĂ­var, BolĂ­var State, Venezuela), best known as Les Straker, is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the Minnesota Twins.
Les Strongman Les Strongman (born August 23, 1924 in Winnipeg) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player. Strongman played professional hockey in Europe between 1946 to 1968 with Malmo IFF (Sweden), Zurich SC (Switzerland) and British Elite Ice Hockey League teams Nottingham Panthers and Wembley Lions.
Les Sucettes "Les Sucettes" song (from French "the lollipops") is one of France Gall's most important hits along with "Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son", both written by Serge Gainsbourg. The 1966 single proved a great success and became a classic in French pop music.
Les tours de cristal Les tours de cristal (The Crystal Towers) is a collection of Bob Morane comic books written by Henri Vernes and illustrated by Dino Attanasio. It is volume 3 in the Bob Morane collection (60 pages, black and white).
Les Taylor Leslie Brian Taylor (born October 25, 1953, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire) is a former English cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 2 ODIs in 1985 following a three year ban for joining Graham Gooch's rebel tour to South Africa (where Taylor was the leading bowler). Taylor won selection to the winter tour to the West Indies, but was dubbed Lord Lucan by certain members of the press due to his lack of matches on tour.
Les Têtes Brulées Les Têtes Brulées are a Cameroonian band known for a mellow pop version of the bikutsi dance music. Their name literally means the burnt heads in French, but more likely is meant to imply mindblown or hot heads.
Les Temps modernes Les Temps modernes (French for Modern Times) is a political, literary and philosophical French magazine (named after the Charlie Chaplin film) founded in 1945 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Les Tuniques Bleues Les Tuniques Bleues is a series of bandes dessinées (comic books in the Franco-Belgian tradition) which follows two cavalrymen through a series of battles and adventures. The first album of the series was published in 1970.
Les Twentyman Leslie Jack "Les" Twentyman is a prominent social worker and community activist in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. He is one of Victoria's best known social campaigners, on issues ranging from homelessness, drug abuse, prison reform and social welfare.
Les vêpres siciliennes Les vêpres siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers) is an opera in five acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to a French libretto by Charles Duveyrier and Eugène Scribe from their work Le duc d'Albe. It is based on a historical event, the 1282 Sicilian Vespers.
Les voleurs du Marsupilami Les voleurs du Marsupilami, written and drawn by Franquin, is the fifth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, resuming development of the Spirou universe where the previous Spirou et les héritiers left off. After serialisation in Le Journal de Spirou, it was released as a complete hardcover album in 1954.
Les Vandyke Les Vandyke (born Yani Panakos Paraskeva Skoradalides, 21 June 1931, in Battersea, South London, England) was a popular singer/songwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as Johnny Worth, and John Worsley.
Les Visiteurs Les Visiteurs (English: "The Visitors") is a French film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and released in 1993. In this comedy, a 12th-century knight and his servant travel in time to the end of the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society.
Les Visiteurs du soir Les Visiteurs du Soir (The Night Visitors, aka The Devil's Envoys) is a 1942 film by French film director Marcel Carné, famous for his romantic tragedy, Les Enfants du Paradis. The film, which debuted on 5 December 1942 during the Nazi occupation of France, is an allegory of the eternal struggle between good and evil as fourteenth-century lovers defy the Devil.
Les Visiteurs II Les Visiteurs II: Les Couloirs du temps (The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time) is a sequel to the original French film, Les Visiteurs. It was released to poor perception, because some actors had changed and there were advertisements for brands in the film.
Les XX Les XX was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur Octave Maus. For ten years these 'vingtistes', as they called themselves, held an annual exhibition of their art; each year twenty international artists were also invited to participate in the exhibition.
Les Zapartistes Les Zapartistes are a group of Quebecois humourists in Canada, founded in 2001 and specialising in political humour. The group works live and for television, generally in the context of special events such as the annual Fête nationale du Québec as well as in various comedy programmes.
Lesa Lewis Lesa Lewis (born March 9 1967 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a female bodybuilder from the United States. At a height of 5'10" and a contest weight around 180 lbs, Lesa is one of the largest women ever to compete in bodybuilding.
Lesbi Lesbi or Lesvi is a Roman Catholic titular bishopric in the former Roman Catholic province of Mauretania Sitifensis, suffragan of Sitifis, or SĂ©tif, in modern Algeria. It is not, as is sometimes stated, the Island of Lesbos, which never was a titular bishopric, but possesses two titular archbishoprics: Mytilene and Methymna.
Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps (LGBAC) is a community band based in New York City. Founded on September 24, 1979 as the New York Gay Community Marching Band, LGBAC is the third oldest community band in the United States dedicated to serving the LGBT community.
Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal Foundation The Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that builds and supports groups and individuals in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual (LGBT) communities in Ontario.
Lesbian and Gay Inter-University Organization The Lesbian and Gay Inter-University Organization (Turkish: Üniversitelerarası Lezbiyen ve Gey Topluluğu - LEGATO) is an LGBT organization in Turkey aimed at university students. It is Turkey's largest LGBT organization.
Lesbian American history Lesbian American history is the history of women who are attracted to other women, or lesbians, in the United States. This is a relatively new field of historical inquiry, but has advanced significantly since the beginning of the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement.
Lesbian Avengers The Lesbian Avengers is an activist group for queer women who want to promote lesbian issues and perspectives. The group aims to empower lesbians and all women to become experienced and effective organizers to take back their power and rights to live freely and unharmed.
Lesbian Connection Lesbian Connection is worldwide forum of news and ideas for, by, and about lesbians. Founded in 1974 and run by the Michigan-based nonprofit Elsie Publishing Institute, Lesbian Connection is notable for offering subscriptions on a sliding scale basis (asking for flexible donations based on each subscriber's ability to pay).
Lesbian feminism Lesbian feminism is a cultural movement and critical perspective, most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s (primarily in North America and Western Europe) that questions the position of women and homosexuals in society. Key thinkers and activists are Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Frye, Mary Daly, Sheila Jeffreys and Monique Wittig (although the latter is more commonly associated with the emergence of queer theory).
Lesbian literature Lesbian literature includes works by lesbian authors, as well as lesbian-themed works by heterosexual authors. Even works by lesbian writers that do not deal with lesbian themes are still often considered lesbian literature.
Lesbian pulp fiction Lesbian pulp fiction refers to any mid-century pulp novel with overtly lesbian themes and content. Lesbian pulp fiction was published in the 1950s and 60s by many of the same publishing houses that other subgenres of pulp fiction including Westerns, Romances, and Detective Fiction.
Lesbian science fiction Lesbian science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, in which the protagonist is likely to be a lesbian. Some lesbian science fiction is targeted specifically to a lesbian audience, published by small feminist or lesbian presses such as Naiad Press (defunct) and Bella Books.
Lesbian Sex Mafia The Lesbian Sex Mafia, founded in 1981, is an information and support group in New York City for lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, and transexual women. As one of the oldest women's BDSM groups, it played an important part in the history of BDSM culture.
Lesbian teen fiction Lesbian teen fiction is a subgenre of young adult fiction and LGBT literature. Books that fall under this category include themes of romance or attraction between female teenagers, including bisexual teenagers.
Lesbian until graduation The slang terms "lesbian until graduation" (LUG) or alternatively "bisexual until graduation" are occasionally applied to high-school or college age women who are said to be experimenting with or with adopting a temporary lesbian or bisexual identity, but whom it is assumed will ultimately adopt a strictly heterosexual identity. The term is considered pejorative or sometimes humorous.
Lesbian vampire Lesbian vampirism is a trope in 20th century exploitation film that has its roots in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla (1872) about the predatory love of a vampire (the title character) for a young woman (the narrator):
Lesbian-identified A lesbian-identified is a person who identifies in whole or in part as a lesbian. Because of the diversity of experiences of individuals who self-identify as lesbian, the term encompasses a wide range of individual life histories, as well as genders.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community of Brighton and Hove Brighton and Hove has long had a large gay and lesbian community, estimated to include around 35,000 people, or 13% of the total population, slightly above the 10% that is usually taken as an average LGBT population percentage.
Lesbonax Lesbonax, of Mytilene, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the time of Caesar Augustus. According to Photius I of Constantinople he was the author of sixteen political speeches, of which two are extant, a hortatory speech after the style of Thucydides, and a speech on the Corinthian War.
Lescudjack Hill Fort Lescudjack Hill fort is the name given to the unexcavated Iron Age settlement located in Penzance, Cornwall. The name probably originates from the Cornish words lan (enclosure) and scosek (shielded)- shielded enclosurePool, P.
Leser-Trelat sign The sign of Leser-Trelat, the explosive onset of multiple pruritic seborrheic keratoses, often with an inflammatory base, can be an ominous sign of internal malignancy. In addition to the development of new lesions, preexisting ones frequently increase in size and become symptomatic.
Lesewut Die Lesewut, German for the reading mania or the reading craze, is a term that describes a period in German history beginning in the Eighteenth century when the number of German authors, books, and readers surpassed that of France to become the leader in published and read literature (e.i.
Leshan Giant Buddha The Leshan Giant Buddha () is the tallest stone Buddha statue in the world. It is carved out of a cliff face that lies at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in the southern part of Sichuan province in China, near the city of Leshan.
Leshya Leshya in Jainism refers to the state of mind a being can be in during different moods, different times of the day or during different actions. Jainism puts a great deal of importance on the concept of Leshya and the different types of Leshya that a being can gain.
Leschea Leschea is an R&B/hip-hop performer who had minor success in 1995 and 1996 with her debut album Rhythm & Beats, and the singles "How We Stay" and "Fulton St". On December 6, 2005 her album was re-released to iTunes.
Leschi, Seattle, Washington Leschi is a neighborhood in east central Seattle, Washington, named after Chief Leschi of the Nisqually tribe. It is bounded on the east by Lake Washington; on the south by Interstate 90, beyond which is Mount Baker; on the west by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lesiëm Lesiëm is a German musical project created in 1999 by the producers Sven Meisel and Alex Wende. The project's music combines elements of rock, pop, electronica, new age, enigmatic and ambient music, as well as Gregorian chant and other choral music.
Lesion beyond moiety Lesion Beyond Moiety is a civil law term used to describe the ability of a seller of immovable property to rescend that sale if the price paid for the property is less than (usually half) of the actual value of the property at the time of the sale.
Lesion patterns in multiple sclerosis Since long time ago, it was noticed that some forms of MS were special. Some of them were called Multiple sclerosis borderline forms and were studied appart, but even leaving appart these extreme cases, MS was very heterogeneous.
Lesja Lesja is a municipality in the county of Oppland, Norway. It is bordered in the north by the municipalities of Nesset, Sunndal and Oppdal, in the east by Dovre, in the south by VĂĄgĂĄ and Lom, in the south-west by SkjĂĄk, and to the west by Rauma.
Lesjaskogsvatnet Lesjaskogsvatnet (literally the Lesja woods lake) is a large lake which serves as the headwaters for Gudbrandsdalslågen (literally the Gudbrands valley water course). Gudbrandsdalslågen flows through the Gudbrandsdal valley bottom, ending in lake Mjøsa.
Leskov Island (Antarctica) Leskov Island () is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf, rising to 185 m, 6 miles northwest of Mikhaylov Island, off the coast of Antarctica. Discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who named it for Lt.
Lesley Abdela Lesley Abdela, award-winning feminist campaigner and gender/post-conflict specialist, has worked for over 20 years in the fields of gender development. She has worked as an advisor in 30 different countries, in both governments and NGO's.
Lesley Brooker Lesley Brooker is an Australian ornithologist based in Western Australia following retirement from a career with the CSIRO's Division of Wildlife Research. There she worked, as a database manager and computer modellwr, on developing methodologies for the re-design and restoration of agricultural lands for bird conservation.
Lesley Duncan Lesley Duncan is a British singer-songwriter, most well known for her work during the 1970s. She received a lot of air-play on British radio stations such as BBC Radios 1 and 2, but never achieved great commercial success.
Lesley Elliott Lesley Anne Elliott (born September 26, 1960 in Taumarunui) is a retired field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Her former name is Going.
Lesley Gore Lesley Gore (born May 2, 1946 in New York City as Lesley Sue Goldstein) is an American singer and songwriter, one of the best known performers of the girl group era. She is best known for her 1963 Pop hit "It's My Party", that she scored at the age of 16.
Lesley Judd Lesley Judd (born 20 December 1946, London, UK) is a British actress and TV presenter, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter. Replacing Valerie Singleton in 1972, she presented alongside John Noakes and Peter Purves, a partnership that lasted until 1978 and remains the show's longest-running line-up.
Lesley Magnus Lesley Magnus (born October 6, 1977 in Tisdale, Saskatchewan) is a field hockey player from Canada, who was first selected with the Men's National Team for the 2000 Test Series against the United States. The resident of Vancouver, British Columbia earned her first cap on July 10.
Lesley Murdoch (field hockey) Lesley Murdoch (born March 18, 1956 in Christchurch) is a retired field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Lesley Scott Lesley Scott was the then partner of Paul Erickson and contributed some ideas to his teleplay for Doctor Who in 1965. He rewarded her support by according her a full writing credit on the four-part story The Ark.
Lesley Sharp Lesley Sharp (born in 1964 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is a British actress. She is best known for various starring roles in British television productions, most notably Clocking Off, The Second Coming and Afterlife.
Lesley Strathie Lesley Strathie has been the chief executive of the British Jobcentre Plus since 13 October 2005."Appointment of Jobcentre Plus Chief Executive", Press Release, Department for Work and Pensions, 13 October 2005
Lesley Vainikolo Lesley Vainikolo (born May 5 1979 in Tonga to New Zealand parents) is a New Zealand rugby league player for the Bradford Bulls in the English Super League competition. He also previously played for the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League competition.
Lesley Visser Lesley Visser (born September 11, 1953 in Quincy, Massachusetts) is an American sportscaster. She is the only sportscaster, male or female, who has worked on the network broadcast of the Final Four, NBA Finals, Triple Crown, Monday Night Football, the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Figure Skating Championships and the U.
Lesli Brea Lesli Guillermo Brea (Born October 12, 1973 in San Pedro de MacorĂ­s, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball player. A right-handed relief pitcher, Brea is 5'11" tall, and he weighed 170 pounds during his playing career.
Lesli Linka Glatter Lesli Linka Glatter (sometimes credited as Leslie Linka Glatter) began as a dancer and choreographer before becoming a director. Her first film, Tales of Meeting and Parting (1984), was nominated for an Academy Award in the documentary category.
Leslie '89 Cantopop album by Leslie Cheung released in 1989 by Cinepoly Records of Hong Kong. It was also his supposed penultimate album before the final album Final Encounter (he had planned for retirement from the Cantopop music scene, although he made a return in 1995) also released in 1989.
Leslie (VIVA) Leslie, or Leslie Street is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on September 4, 2005, on the intersection of Leslie Street and Highway 7 in Markham/Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Leslie Alcock Leslie Alcock (born Manchester April 24, 1925, died June 6, 2006) was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Dark Age Britain. His major excavations included Dînas Powys in Wales, South Cadbury in Somerset and a series of major hillforts in Scotland.
Leslie Anderson Leslie Anderson Stephes (born March 30, 1982 in Guantánamo) is a first baseman/outfielder with the Cuban national baseball team and Camagüey of the Cuban National Series. He was part of Cuba's roster at the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
Leslie Ash Leslie Ash (born 19 February 1960 in Clapham, London) is an English actress best known for playing Deborah in the situation comedy Men Behaving Badly. She started out as a model and is sister of Hot Gossip dancer Debbie Ash.
Leslie Barringer Leslie Barringer (1895-1968) was an English editor and fantasy author, best known for the Neustrian Cycle, three fantasy novels set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom). In addition to the Neustrian fantasies he also wrote three historical novels of medieval England.
Leslie Bassett Leslie Bassett (born January 22, 1923 in Hanford, California) is an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition.
Leslie Berlin Leslie Berlin is the Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. Her research interests include the history of the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley and the role of leadership in high-tech business.
Leslie Boghosian Leslie Boghosian is one of the original on-air personalities at the YES Network, starting at its inception in March of 2002. She is the lead reporter for New Jersey Nets telecasts and is the New York Giants beat reporter for New York Football Sunday and This Week in Football.
Leslie Cannon Leslie Cannon (1920 - 1970) was a prominent union official and served as General President from 1963 to 1970. He was a Communist activist, and trade union leader; member of Electrical Trades Union Executive Council, North Lancashire and Merseyside, 1948 - 1954.
Leslie Cecil Maygar Leslie Cecil Maygar VC, DSO, VD (1872 - 1917) was an Australian 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, for service in the Second Boer War.
Leslie Clifford Bateman Tan Sri Leslie Clifford Bateman (March 12, 1915 – October 26, 2005) was the last non-citizen of Malaysia to be appointed to any establishment connected to the government of Malaysia, as the Controller of Rubber Research in 1962. Bateman was a strong proponent of grading rubber, and pushed for the introduction of the process into the Malaysian rubber industry as the Standard Malaysian Rubber (SMR) scheme.
Leslie Cochran Leslie Alicia Cochran (born as Al Leslie Cochran on June 24, 1951) is a vagrant cross-dresser and arguably the most locally famous street person in Austin, Texas. He is an outspoken critic of police treatment of the homeless in the downtown Austin area.
Leslie Collumbine Leslie Collumbine (August 26, 1899 - August 2000) was a British veteran of the First World War who died at the age of 100 years. He served in the York and Lancaster Regiment and the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Leslie Crocker Snyder Leslie Crocker Snyder (born 1942) is an American lawyer and former judge, most notable for her challenge of Robert Morgenthau in the Democratic Party primary for the Manhattan District Attorney election in 2005.
Leslie David Baker Leslie David Baker, born February 19, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American film and television actor who plays Stanley Hudson on The Office. He also had a small role on That '70s Show as a janitor after a concert and played an office worker in several of OfficeMax's "Rubberband Man" series of advertisements.
Leslie Duncan Leslie Duncan (born 1950) is a British female singer-songwriter whose career began in 1963. She sang backup on many albums including Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and the Jesus Christ Superstar original cast album.
Leslie Duxbury Leslie Duxbury (1926-2005) was a British newspaper sports writer and columnist born in Great Harwood, Lancashire. He turned his attention to television and became a prolific writer on the top rated ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street, finally retiring from the series in 1990.
Leslie E. Robertson Leslie E. Robertson (born 1928) is a structural engineer who has designed hundreds of buildings around the world including the World Trade Center in New York, the Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai, the United States Steel Headquarters in Pittsburgh, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, Puerta de Europa in Madrid and the Continental Airlines Arena in the New Jersey Meadowlands, as well as museums in Berlin, Portland (Maine) and Seattle, and the Miho Museum Bridge in Japan.
Leslie Epstein Leslie Epstein (born 1938 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American novelist. He has written nine novels including King of the Jews (1979), Pandaemonium (1997), and San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory (2004), based on his childhood growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s.
Leslie Erganian Leslie Jeanne Erganian, (born in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American artist. Her multi-disciplinary work is influenced by the Surrealists and often incorporates found objects and photographic images into collage and assemblage constructions and installations.
Leslie Ferrar Leslie Jane Ferrar (born July 20 1955) has been Treasurer to the Prince of Wales since January 2005. Her alleged (but unsubstantiated) behaviour in office has led to her being dubbed 'the grasping treasurer' by a couple of members of the 'Tabloid' press.
Leslie Fiedler Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8, 1917–January 29, 2003) was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature.
Leslie Gale Leslie Edward Gale (11 November 1904 - 22 January 1982) was an English cricketer: a slow bowler who played 14 first-class matches for Worcestershire in the 1920s: 11 in 1923 and 1924, then a gap before another three in 1928.
Leslie Gay Leslie Hewitt Gay, born at Brighton on March 24, 1871 and died at Sidmouth, Devon, on November 1, 1949, was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Hampshire, Somerset and England. As a footballer, he played for Cambridge University, Corinthians and England.
Leslie Gelb Leslie (Les) Howard Gelb (born March 4, 1937) is a former correspondent for The New York Times and is currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica that was re-established in 2005 after a 10-year hiatus.
Leslie George Norman Leslie George Norman (3 September 1913–5 July 1997) was an Australian politician. Norman represented Glen Iris in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for four years, and led the Liberal Country Party from 1951–1952.
Leslie George Santos Leslie George Santos, nicknamed Dousi (道士, Taoist priest) by his teammates and fans as the transliteration of his surname (Santos is 山度士("San-dou-si")), born July 20, 1967, was one of the best attacking midfield players in Hong Kong soccer history. He is of Portuguese and British heritage.
Leslie Gonda Leslie Gonda is a business man and entrepreneur and holocaust survivor who moved to South America and later moved to Los Angeles. He started ILFC, the second largest airliner leasing company in the world which pioneered the aircraft operating lease.
Leslie Gordon Chandler Leslie Gordon Chandler (1888-1980) was an Australian jeweller, vigneron, bird photographer and amateur ornithologist. He became a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1911 and was Press Correspondent for the RAOU 1914-1916 and again in 1920, war service and disability intervening.
Leslie Graham Robert Leslie (Les) Graham (September 14, 1911 - June 12, 1953) was a British motorcycle road racer who competed in the 1930s and 1940s. He won the inaugural Grand Prix motorcycle racing 500 cc World Championship in 1949.
Leslie Grantham Leslie Michael Grantham (born April 30, 1947, in Camberwell, England) is a British Actor best known for playing "Dirty" Den Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 1989 and again in 2003 to 2005.

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