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León E. Rosenberg
León E. Rosenberg (1933–2022) was an American physician-scientist who defined the biochemical basis of inherited metabolic disorders and founded the first US human genetics department at Yale.
Leon Edwards
Leon Edwards, Jamaican-born British MMA fighter nicknamed "Rocky", UFC welterweight champion 2022-2024, won the title by head-kick KO of Kamaru Usman at UFC 278, defended twice, lost the belt to Belal Muhammad at UFC 304, trains in Birmingham.
Leon Eisenberg
Leon Eisenberg (1922–2009) was an American child psychiatrist who moved the field from psychoanalysis to empirical trials, running the first studies of Ritalin in overactive children at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
Leon Emry Borgman
Leon Emry Borgman (1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer called the father of modern ocean-wave statistical analysis, a University of Wyoming professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
León Febres Cordero
León Febres Cordero was an Ecuadorian engineer, businessman, and right-wing politician who served as President of Ecuador from 1984 to 1988 and later as mayor of Guayaquil.
Leon Festinger
Leon Festinger (1919–1989) was an American social psychologist who trained under Kurt Lewin, taught at MIT, Michigan, Minnesota, and Stanford, and created the theory of cognitive dissonance.
Leon Flameng
Leon Flameng (Marie Léon Flameng, 1877–1917), French track cyclist; won 1896 Olympic 100 km gold, 10,000 m silver, sprint bronze; later WWI sergeant-pilot killed when his parachute failed.
Leon Gillespie
Leon Gillespie (born 1984) is a British private equity executive who co-founded Goldenpeak, a London firm investing £25–75 million in B2B services across the UK and Ireland.
Leon Golub
Leon Golub (1922–2004) was an American figurative expressionist painter and printmaker known for politically charged paintings of mercenaries, torturers, and dictators, made by scraping paint with a meat cleaver.
Leon Goretzka
Leon Goretzka (Leon Christoph Goretzka) is a German midfielder who won seven Bundesliga titles and the 2020 Champions League with Bayern Munich before joining Aston Villa in 2026.
Leon Grochowski
Leon Grochowski (1886–1969) was a Polish-American bishop who served as second Prime Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church from 1953 to 1969, after founding Bishop Francis Hodur.
LEON HELLMAN
Leon Hellman was an American endocrinology researcher at Sloan-Kettering and Montefiore Hospital who showed that cortisol is secreted episodically and that luteinizing hormone secretion synchronizes with sleep during puberty.
Léon Huybrechts
Léon Huybrechts (1876–1956), Belgian Olympic sailor, four-time Olympian 1908–1928; silvers in the 6-metre class 1908 and 1920, gold in the 1924 Olympic monotype; first sailor medaled at two Games.
Leon I. Goldberg
Leon I. Goldberg (1927–1989) was a cardiovascular pharmacologist and physician at Emory University who introduced dopamine for shock and congestive heart failure and characterized peripheral dopamine receptors.
Leon Jakirović
Leon Jakirović, Croatian centre-back born 2008 in Požega, son of Sergej Jakirović; Dinamo Zagreb to Inter Milan U23 in January 2026 for €2.5 million plus bonuses; left-footed, 1.91 m, Croatia youth international also eligible for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Leon James (composer)
Leon James (born 1991, Chennai) is an Indian film composer and singer working in Tamil and Telugu cinema. Debuting with Kanchana 2 (2015) and known for Ko 2, Oh My Kadavule, and Dragon (2025), he is the son of A. R. Rahman's former manager Noel James.
Léon Jouhaux
Léon Jouhaux was a French trade unionist who led the CGT from 1909 to 1947, helped create the International Labour Organization, and won the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize.
Leon K. Kirchmayer
Leon K. Kirchmayer (1924–1995) was an American electrical engineer at General Electric, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for power-system control and planning.
Leon Kass
Leon Kass, born in 1935, is an American physician, biochemist, and bioethicist at the University of Chicago known for his 1997 essay against human cloning, "The Wisdom of Repugnance."
Leon Knopoff
Leon Knopoff (1925–2011) was an American geophysicist at UCLA for 60 years, known as the father of statistical seismology and for the spring-block model of earthquake faulting.
Leon Lagnado
Leon Lagnado is a neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sussex since 2013, known for pioneering optophysiology and imaging synapses in the zebrafish retina; elected FMedSci in 2014.
Leon Lai (黎明)
Leon Lai (黎明), Hong Kong singer-actor born in Beijing, one of the 1990s 'Four Heavenly Kings' of Cantopop; debut album Leon (1990), Golden Horse Best Actor for Three: Going Home (2002).
León Larregui
León Larregui (León Rubén Larregui Marín), Mexican singer-songwriter born 1973, frontman and guitarist of neo-psychedelic rock band Zoé and solo artist with Solstis (2012), Voluma (2016), Prismarama (2023), and Manifiesto de un Tremendo Delirio (2026).
Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is the Israel Antiquities Authority's free online library of multispectral images of the Dead Sea Scrolls, launched in 2012.
Leon Lucy
Leon B. Lucy (1938–2018) was an astrophysicist who founded the modern theory of radiation-driven stellar winds, co-invented smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, and won the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2000.
Leon M. Lederman
Leon M. Lederman (Leon Max Lederman) was an American experimental particle physicist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the muon neutrino.
Léon M'ba
Léon M'ba, also written Léon Mba, was a Gabonese statesman who became the first president of independent Gabon, serving from 1961 until his death in 1967.
Léon Marchand
Léon Marchand (born 2002, Toulouse) is a French swimmer, quadruple 2024 Olympic champion, world-record holder in the 400 m and 200 m individual medley, coached by Bob Bowman at ASU and Texas.
Leon Marchlewski
Leon Marchlewski (1869–1946) was a Polish chemist who proposed a chemical kinship between chlorophyll and hemoglobin, helped found comparative biochemistry, and led the Jagiellonian University as rector.
Leon Meredith
Leon Meredith (Lewis Leon Meredith, 1882-1930), British track and road cyclist; seven-time amateur motor-paced world champion (1904-1913), 1908 Olympic team pursuit gold medalist, 1912 team road time trial silver medalist, and British roller skating champion 1911-1912.