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Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, born Granada, late 15th century) was a Maghrebi diplomat and geographer whose 1526 Description of Africa, published by Ramusio in 1550, dominated European knowledge of North and West Africa for centuries.
Leo Africanus's visit to Timbuktu
Leo Africanus's visit to Timbuktu was a diplomatic journey by al-Hasan al-Wazzan, an envoy of Fez, under Songhay's Askiya Muhammad Ture; his account shaped European knowledge of Africa.
Leo Allatius
Leo Allatius (Leone Allacci, Λέων Ἀλλάτιος, 1586–1669) was a Greek-born Catholic scholar and Vatican librarian who moved the Palatine Library from Heidelberg to Rome in 1623.
Leo August Pochhammer
Leo August Pochhammer (1841–1920) was a German mathematician who taught at the University of Kiel and is known for the Pochhammer symbol, the Pochhammer function, and the generalized hypergeometric function.
Leo Baeck
Leo Baeck was a German Reform rabbi whose 1905 book The Essence of Judaism made him a leading liberal Jewish theologian; he led German Jewry during the Holocaust.
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland, also known as Leo Hendrik Baekeland, was a Belgian-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper and Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic.
Leo Biasiucci
Leo Biasiucci is an American politician and Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives from District 30, who has served as Majority Whip and Majority Leader.
Leo Blitz
Leo Blitz (1945–2022) was an American radio astronomer, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley, and director of its Radio Astronomy Laboratory, known for work on molecular clouds and black-hole masses.
Leo Boatman
Leo Lancing Boatman (born 1986) is an American Florida death-row inmate convicted of four murders: the 2006 Ocala National Forest shooting of two college students, two prison killings, and the 2019 murder of inmate William Chapman with William Wells.
Leo Breiman
Leo Breiman (1928–2005) was an American statistician and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who created bagging and Random Forests, co-created CART, and won the 2005 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award.
Leo Brewer
Leo Brewer (1919–2005) was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, regarded as the founder of modern high-temperature chemistry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.
Leo Burnett
Leo Burnett (1891–1971) was an American advertising executive who founded the Leo Burnett agency in Chicago in 1935; it created the Marlboro Man and Tony the Tiger.
Leo C.M. de Maeyer
Leo C.M. de Maeyer (1927–2014) was a Belgian physical chemist who spent his career at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, developing chemical relaxation techniques with Manfred Eigen.
Leo Chiang
Leo Chiang is an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for process data analytics, after 24 years at Dow Chemical.
Leo De Vries
Leo De Vries (Leodalis De Vries), born 2006 in Azua, Dominican Republic, is a switch-hitting Athletics shortstop and top MLB prospect; signed by San Diego for $4.2 million in 2024, traded for Mason Miller in 2025, had right shoulder surgery in September 2026.
Leo Durocher
Leo Durocher (1905-1991), "Leo the Lip," American baseball shortstop and Hall of Fame manager of the Dodgers, Giants, Cubs, and Astros; 2,008-1,709 record, pennants 1941, 1951, 1954, 1954 World Series title, suspended in 1947, inducted 1994.
Leo Duru
Leo Duru (Leonard Chibueze Duru, born 2005) is an American right-back from Blackburn Rovers' academy, later on loan at Barrow, San Diego FC, and Birmingham Legion, now at Carlisle United.
Leo E. Hollister
Leo E. Hollister (1920–2000) was an American clinical pharmacologist at the VA Hospital in Palo Alto who led early controlled trials of antidepressants and antipsychotics.
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki (江崎玲於奈), born in Osaka in 1925, is a Japanese semiconductor physicist known for the tunnel diode and the semiconductor superlattice, winning the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Leo Fender
Leo Fender (Clarence Leonidas Fender, 1909–1991), American radio repairman and founder of Fender Electric Instrument Company; creator of the Telecaster, Precision Bass, and Stratocaster; later G&L.
Leo Fitzpatrick
Leo Fitzpatrick (born 1978, Orange, New Jersey), also known as Lousy Leo, American actor, DJ, and gallerist; played Telly in Kids (1995) and Johnny in The Wire; founded Public Access gallery in New York.
Leo Frank
Leo Frank (Leo Max Frank) was a Jewish-American superintendent for the National Pencil Company in Atlanta who was lynched in 1915 after being convicted of Mary Phagan's murder.
Leo G. Carroll
Leo G. Carroll (1886-1972), English character actor, appeared in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound and North by Northwest, played Cosmo Topper on TV, and was Alexander Waverly, U.N.C.L.E.'s chief, in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Leo George Rigler
Leo George Rigler (1896–1979) was an American academic radiologist who chaired radiology at the University of Minnesota for 24 years, built diagnostic radiology at UCLA, and described Rigler's sign of pneumoperitoneum.
Leo Goehring
Leo Richard Goehring (1891-1967), American standing-jump specialist of Mohawk AC, New York. Equal fourth in the 1912 Olympic standing high jump, equal fifth in the standing long jump, and holder of the last official standing high jump world record, 1.67 m (1913).
Leo Goldberg
Leo Goldberg (1913–1987) was an American astronomer known for pioneering studies of the sun from space, including the first recognition of coronal holes in solar wind data.
Leo Goodman
Leo Goodman (1928–2020) was an American statistician and sociologist who transformed categorical data analysis, taught at Chicago and Berkeley, and gave his name to Goodman–Kruskal Lambda, Gamma, and Tau.
Leo Gorcey
Leo Gorcey (1917-1969), American actor, original Dead End Kid, star of the East Side Kids as Muggs McGinnis and 41 Bowery Boys films as Slip Mahoney; quit the series in 1956 after his father Bernard's death.
Leo Gordon
Leo Gordon (Leo Vincent Gordon) was an American character actor and screenwriter who played villains in scores of Westerns and crime films from 1953 to 1994.
Leo Graetz
Leo Graetz (1856–1941) was a German physicist at the University of Munich known for the Graetz number, the Graetz problem, and the Graetz bridge rectifier.