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Leogrand
Leogrand (now JRW Welmond Hotel & Casino) was a five-star hotel-casino in Batumi, Georgia, opened 2015 with a $40 million, 20-story, 180-room tower; site of the deadly November 2017 fire that killed 11.
Leomie Anderson
Leomie Anderson is a British model, activist, and entrepreneur, scouted at 14 and founder of LAPP (Leomie Anderson the Project the Purpose), known for Victoria's Secret runway appearances and advocacy for representation in fashion.
Leon
Leon (Provincia de León, Asturian Llión) is a province of Castilla y León, Spain, capital León city; 446,771 inhabitants (2025), 211 municipalities, 15,568 km², marked long-term depopulation since 1983.
LEON (microprocessor)
LEON is a family of fault-tolerant 32-bit SPARC V8 microprocessor cores developed by ESA and Gaisler, distributed as open-source VHDL and used as the standard core for European spacecraft.
Léon (Swedish singer)
LÉON (Lotta Lindgren, born 1994) is a Swedish pop singer from Stockholm, distinct from Leon Bridges and the Luc Besson film, who broke through with 2015's SoundCloud single "Tired of Talking" and released the albums Léon (2019), Apart (2020), and Circles (2022).
Leon A. Heppel
Leon A. Heppel (1912–2010) was an American biochemist who pioneered RNA enzymology and developed the osmotic shock method for releasing enzymes from bacteria, working at NIH and Cornell.
Leon Askin
Leon Askin (Leo Aschkenasy, 1907–2005), Austrian-Jewish actor and director; fled the Nazis to the USA, played General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971), and returned to Vienna in 1994.
Leon Avdullahu
Leon Avdullahu, born 2004 in Solothurn, is a Swiss-born defensive midfielder who came through FC Basel, won the 2024/25 Swiss double, joined TSG Hoffenheim in 2025, and plays internationally for Kosovo after 22 Swiss youth caps.
Leon Avery
Leon Avery is a biologist who studies feeding, starvation, and behavior in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, working at UT Southwestern and later Virginia Commonwealth University.
Leon Bailey
Leon Patrick Bailey Butler, Jamaican right winger born 1997 in Kingston; played for Genk, Bayer Leverkusen, Aston Villa (Europa League 2025-26 winner), Roma loan, then Olympiacos; 41 Jamaica caps.
Léon Bakst (Леон Бакст)
Léon Bakst (Леон Бакст), born Leib-Khaim Rosenberg (1866–1924), Russian painter and stage designer, co-founder of Mir Iskusstva and chief designer of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; his Schéhérazade costumes set Paris fashion trends.
Leon Balents
Leon Balents, born 1967, is an American theoretical physicist at UC Santa Barbara known for spin liquids, topological insulators, and his 2010 Nature review of frustrated magnets.
Leon Balogun
Leon Balogun, German-Nigerian centre-back (born 1988), not the US striker Folarin Balogun; played for Mainz, Brighton, two Rangers spells (2021 title, 2022 Scottish Cup, Europa League final), QPR, Aris Limassol; 36 Nigeria caps, 2018 World Cup.
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), Italian humanist, architect, and theorist; wrote De pictura/Della pittura (1435/1436), the first theory of linear perspective, and De re aedificatoria, first architectural treatise since Vitruvius.
Léon Bel
Léon Bel was a French cheese industrialist from the Jura who registered the Laughing Cow trademark in 1921 and founded the Bel cheese company in 1922.
Léon Binet
Léon Binet was a French physician and physiologist who held the chair of physiology at the Paris Faculté de médecine and served 17 years as its dean.
Leon Black
Leon Black is an American billionaire private equity investor who co-founded Apollo Global Management in 1990 and stepped down as its CEO in 2021.
Léon Blum
Léon Blum (1872–1950), French socialist leader of the SFIO and first Jewish prime minister of France, headed the Popular Front government of 1936–37, enacted the Matignon agreements, paid holidays, and the 40-hour week, refused Pétain full powers, was deported, and briefly led a 1946–47 government.
Léon Bourgeois
Léon Bourgeois was a French Radical statesman and theorist of solidarism who served as Prime Minister in 1895 and became the first president of the League of Nations Council, winning the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize.
Leon Bridges
Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges, born 1989), Fort Worth soul singer whose 2015 debut Coming Home revived 1960s R&B; later albums Good Thing, Gold-Diggers Sound, Leon, and Happiness Anytime; one Grammy win.
Léon Brillouin
Léon Brillouin (1889–1969) was a French-born physicist who helped found solid-state theory, contributed to quantum mechanics and information theory, and named Brillouin zones and Brillouin scattering.
León Cathedral
León Cathedral, Nicaragua (Basílica Catedral de la Asunción), built 1747 to early 1800s by Diego José de Porres Esquivel; largest Central American cathedral, UNESCO World Heritage 2011; distinct from the Gothic León Cathedral in Spain.
Léon Charles Thévenin
Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who published Thévenin's theorem in 1883, letting a linear circuit be replaced by a voltage source and resistance.
Leon County, Florida, United States
Leon County, Florida: county whose seat Tallahassee is the state capital; created December 29, 1824 from Gadsden County, named for Ponce de Leon; council-manager government, Home Rule Charter since 2002, population about 299,000.
Leon Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz (1873-1901), American anarchist and Detroit-born factory worker who assassinated President William McKinley at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition's Temple of Music in Buffalo; executed by electric chair at Auburn Prison on October 29, 1901.
León de Greiff
León de Greiff, born Francisco León de Greiff Häusler, was a Colombian poet born in Medellín in 1895 whose musical, obscure verse made him central to Colombian poetry.
Leon De Lathouwer
Leon De Lathouwer (1929-2008), Belgian road cyclist, fourth in the 1948 Olympic road race and team gold medalist at London; professional 1952-1959, twice winner of Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen; never received his Olympic gold medal.
Léon Degrelle
Léon Degrelle (1906-1994), Belgian Rexist leader and Nazi collaborator; led Rex, fought on the eastern front with the Walloon Legion and SS, sentenced to death in 1945, died in exile in Malaga, Spain.
Leon Draisaitl
Leon Draisaitl, German NHL center born 1995 in Cologne, Edmonton Oilers, drafted 3rd overall 2014; first German Art Ross, Hart, and Ted Lindsay winner (2020), highest-scoring German in NHL history.
Leon E. Borgman
Leon E. Borgman (1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer and University of Wyoming professor, called the father of modern ocean-wave statistical analysis and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.