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Leandro Faggin
Leandro Faggin (1933–1970), Italian track cyclist from Padova, pursuit specialist; double 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medalist (1 km time trial, team pursuit) and professional world pursuit champion 1963, 1965, 1966.
Leandro Karnal
Leandro Karnal, born 1963 in São Leopoldo, is a Brazilian historian and Unicamp professor, a bestselling author of more than twenty books and a television and YouTube commentator.
Leandro Leviste
Leandro Antonio Legarda Leviste, born in 1993, is a Filipino businessman and politician representing Batangas's 1st congressional district since 2025, and the son of Senator Loren Legarda.
Leandro Lo
Leandro Lo (Leandro Lo Pereira do Nascimento, 1989–2022) was a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor from São Paulo who won eight IBJJF world titles at black belt, the most of his generation.
Leandro N. Alem
Leandro N. Alem, born Leandro Antonio Alen Ponce, was an Argentine lawyer and politician who founded the Radical Civic Union and led the 1890 revolution against President Juárez Celman.
Leandro Paredes
Leandro Daniel Paredes (born 1994, San Justo) is an Argentine defensive midfielder and Boca Juniors captain, formerly of Roma, Zenit, PSG, and Juventus; World Cup winner 2022, 2026 runner-up, Copa América 2021 and 2024 winner.
Leandro Ríos
Leandro Ríos, known as "El Penco", is a Mexican norteño singer-songwriter from Los Ramones, Nuevo León, who broke through nationally in 2015 with "Debajo del Sombrero".
Leandro Torres
Leandro Torres is a Brazilian banking executive and co-founder of C6 Bank, the São Paulo digital bank founded in 2018 by former BTG Pactual partners, where he runs the brokerage.
Leandro Trossard
Leandro Trossard, Belgian forward/left winger for Beşiktaş and Belgium; ex-Genk captain, Brighton, and Arsenal (174 games, 36 goals, 2025/26 Premier League title); 47 Belgium caps, 10 goals; two-footed finisher.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Torre pendente di Pisa) is the freestanding bell tower of Pisa Cathedral in Pisa, Italy, famous for its unintended tilt.
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes (Margaret LeAnn Rimes, born 1982) is an American country and pop singer who broke through at 13 with "Blue," became the youngest Grammy winner at 14, and has sold over 48 million records.
Leanna Creel
Leanna Creel (born 1970) is an American retired actress, producer, director, and photographer, identical triplet of Joy Creel and Monica Lacy, known as Tori Scott on Saved by the Bell and for Ignite Entertainment films like But I'm a Cheerleader.
Leanne (TV series)
Leanne is a Netflix multi-camera sitcom co-created by and starring comedian Leanne Morgan with Chuck Lorre and Susan McMartin, premiering July 31, 2025. It follows a Southern grandmother whose husband of 33 years leaves her; Season 2 arrived August 27, 2026.
Leanne Battersby
Leanne Battersby (Leanne Anika Battersby) is a fictional Coronation Street character played by Jane Danson since 4 July 1997; Battersby family member, married Nick Tilsley and Peter Barlow, mother of Oliver, now at Speed Daal.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar, and musician of Alderville First Nation; author of Dancing on Our Turtle's Back, Noopiming, and Theory of Water (2025 Hilary Weston Prize winner); developer of land-as-pedagogy theory.
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams is a Stanford psychiatrist and neuroscientist who founded its Center for Precision Mental Health and identified six brain-circuit biotypes of depression and anxiety.
Leap (夺冠)
Leap (夺冠), also known as China Women's Volleyball Team, is Peter Chan's 2020 sports drama starring Gong Li as Lang Ping, covering the Chinese women's volleyball team from 1981 to Rio 2016; Golden Rooster Best Feature Film and China's 2021 Oscar submission.
Leap Finance
Leap Finance is a Bengaluru-based fintech startup, founded in 2019 by Vaibhav Singh and Arnav Kumar, offering collateral-free US dollar education loans and study-abroad services for Indian students.
Leap Frog
Leap Frog (leapfrog, leap-frog, Froglet): a children's vaulting game played since at least the 18th century, and an English clearance-type abstract board game described by H. J. R. Murray, played on 15x15 to 18x18 grids with capture-by-jumping.
LEAP Hand
LEAP Hand is a low-cost, dexterous robotic hand developed at Carnegie Mellon University for machine learning research, with 16 actuated degrees of freedom on four fingers.
Leap of faith
Leap of faith: a commitment to religious belief without rational assurance, associated with Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (1843), the Abraham and Isaac story, and the teleological suspension of the ethical.
Leap Scholar
Leap Scholar is the study-abroad brand of Leap, an Indian international student mobility platform founded in 2019, offering test preparation, admissions and visa counseling, and student financing.
Leap second
A leap second is a one-second adjustment occasionally inserted into Coordinated Universal Time to keep atomic clocks aligned with Earth's rotation; it was adopted in 1972.
Leap year
A leap year, also called an intercalary or bissextile year, is a year with an extra day, February 29, added to keep the calendar aligned with the seasons.
Leap Year (2010 film)
Leap Year (2010) is an American romantic comedy directed by Anand Tucker, starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, about an Irish leap-day proposal tradition. Released January 8, 2010 by Universal; grossed $32.7 million but scored 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Leapfrog Capital
Leapfrog Capital is a venture capital fund manager based in Palo Alto, California, associated with investor Meyer Malka, whose Cayman Islands fund raised $331.5 million in 2025.
Leapfrogging (strategy)
Leapfrogging, or island hopping, was the Allied Pacific War strategy of seizing islands usable as airfields and bases while bypassing and isolating fortified Japanese garrisons such as Rabaul, advancing toward Japan from 1943 to 1945.
Leapmotor
Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., Ltd. (零跑) is a Chinese electric vehicle maker in Hangzhou, founded by Zhu Jiangming in 2015, which delivered 596,555 vehicles in 2025.
Leapmotor A05
The Leapmotor A05 (零跑A05), sold globally as the Leapmotor B03, is a compact all-electric hatchback from Chinese manufacturer Leapmotor, launched in Hangzhou in August 2026.
Leapmotor B03X
The Leapmotor B03X, sold in China as the Leapmotor A10, is a compact electric crossover SUV built by Chinese manufacturer Leapmotor, first shown in November 2025 and launched in 2026.