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Leo Styppis
Leo Styppis, also rendered Leo Styppes or Leo Styppeiotes, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1134 until his death in 1143, presiding over the 1140 synod that condemned Constantine Chrysomalus.
Leo Szilard
Leo Szilard (Leó Szilárd, born Leó Spitz) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction, co-patented the first nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and drafted the Einstein letter that launched the Manhattan Project.
Leó Szilárd
Leó Szilárd, born Leo Spitz, was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933 and helped demonstrate the first self-sustaining one in 1942.
Leo T
Leo T is a faint dwarf galaxy in the constellation Leo, a Local Group member discovered in 2007 that still contains neutral hydrogen and forms stars.
Leo T. Sorokin
Leo Theodore Sorokin, born in 1961 in Hartford, Connecticut, is a United States district judge in Massachusetts since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed 91 to 0.
Léo Taxil
Léo Taxil, pen name of Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pagès (1854-1907), was a French journalist whose 1885-1897 Palladium hoax fabricated a Luciferian inner circle of Freemasonry and the convert Diana Vaughan, confessed in 1897.
Leo Terrell
Leo James Terrell is an American civil rights attorney, former Fox News contributor, and since 2025 Senior Counsel at the DOJ Civil Rights Division and chair of its Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, investigating universities under Title VI.
Leo the Lion (MGM)
Leo the Lion is the roaring-lion mascot of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Goldwyn Pictures, shown in a film-ribbon logo with the motto Ars Gratia Artis. Seven lions played the role from 1916; the current Leo dates to 1957, with a CGI lion introduced in 2021.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (Лев Николаевич Толстой, 1828–1910), Russian count and novelist of Yasnaya Polyana; author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, later founder of the nonviolent Tolstoyan doctrine that influenced Gandhi.
Leo V
Leo V was the 118th pope, reigning about two months in 903 between Benedict IV and Sergius III; he was deposed and imprisoned by the antipope Christopher.
Leo V of Armenia
Leo V of Armenia (Levon V, Լեւոն Ե) was the last king of Armenian Cilicia, of the House of Lusignan, reigning from 1374 until the kingdom fell in 1375.
Leo Varadkar
Leo Varadkar, Irish Fine Gael politician, Taoiseach 2017 to 2020 and December 2022 to April 2024; Ireland's first gay and biracial and youngest Taoiseach; resigned 20 March 2024, succeeded by Simon Harris.
Leo VI
Leo VI was the 123rd pope, a Roman elected in 928 through the influence of Marozia; his seven-month pontificate left only a single letter to Dalmatian bishops.
Leo VI the Wise
Leo VI the Wise (Λέων ὁ Σοφός, 866–912) was Byzantine emperor 886–912, second Macedonian ruler, scholar-legislator who completed the Basilica, issued 113 novellae, wrote the Taktika, and fought the church over his four marriages.
Leo VII
Leo VII was pope from January 936 until his death in 939, elevated by Alberic II of Spoleto and known for granting privileges to monasteries.
Leo Visser
Leo Visser (Leendert Visser), Dutch long-track speed skater born 1966 in Haastrecht; four Olympic medals at Calgary 1988 and Albertville 1992, 1989 European and World allround champion, 3000 m and 5000 m world record holder in 1987, later KLM pilot.
Leo von Thun und Hohenstein
Leo von Thun und Hohenstein (1811–1888) was a Bohemian nobleman and Austrian statesman who reformed the Austrian education system as Minister of Worship and Education.
Leo Vroman
Leo Vroman (1915–2014) was a Dutch-American poet, biologist, and artist who fled the Netherlands in 1940, later researched blood coagulation in Brooklyn, and won the P.C. Hooftprijs.
Leo Woodall
Leo Woodall (born 1996) is an English actor known as Jack in The White Lotus season 2 and Dexter in Netflix's One Day, later starring in Prime Target and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Leo Wu
Leo Wu (吴磊, Wu Lei, born 1999, Shanghai) is a mainland Chinese actor, a former child star of Nirvana in Fire, lead of Love Like the Galaxy and Nothing but You, and BFA graduate.
Leo XII
Leo XII, born Annibale della Genga, was the 252nd pope of the Catholic Church, reigning from 1823 to 1829 and remembered for a strict, restorationist program.
Leo Young (electrical engineer)
Leo Young (1926–2006) was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who led microwave filter research at Stanford Research Institute, directed research at the Pentagon, and co-authored the 1964 filter handbook.
Leo/need
Leo/need (レオニード) is a four-member childhood-friend band unit in Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku, a SEGA and Colorful Palette rhythm game released in 2020. Its J-rock singles are released through Bushiroad Music.
Leo1-like protein
Leo1-like protein (LEO1) is a subunit of the conserved Paf1/PAF1 complex associated with RNA polymerase II. It binds RNA through Paf1, is phosphorylated by CDK12, and links transcription elongation to DNA repair and development.
Leoben
Leoben is Styria's second largest city and the district capital of Upper Styria, Austria, on the Mur river. Known for the Montanuniversität mining university (founded 1840) and the voestalpine Donawitz steelworks; about 24,500 main-residence residents.
Leobendorf
Leobendorf: name of two football clubs, the German Sportverein Leobendorf (founded 1971, Laufen, Bavaria, multi-sport, 1,097 members) and the Austrian SV Leobendorf (founded 1933, Lower Austria, Regionalliga Ost).
Leocare
Leocare is a French insurtech company founded in 2017 in Rennes by Christophe Dandois and Noureddine Bekrar, offering fully digital home, car, and pet insurance through a mobile app.
Leodegar
Leodegar (Latin Leodegarius, French Léger) was Bishop of Autun from 662 to 676 and a martyr beheaded in 678 or 679 on the orders of Ebroin.
Leofoo Village Theme Park
Leofoo Village Theme Park (六福村) is an amusement park and open-range safari zoo in Guanxi, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It opened in 1979 and became a themed park in 1994.
Leofric, Earl of Mercia
Leofric (d. 1057), Earl of Mercia, one of the three great earls of eleventh-century England under Cnut and Edward the Confessor, husband of Lady Godiva and founder of Coventry Abbey.