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Leon van der Torre
Leon van der Torre, also known as Leendert van der Torre, is a Dutch-born computer scientist and professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Luxembourg.
Léon van Hove
Léon van Hove (1924–1990) was a Belgian theoretical physicist who named the van Hove singularities and correlation function, led CERN's Theory Division, and was research director general 1976–1980.
Leon Vynehall
Leon Vynehall is a British house producer and DJ from Pembury, England, known for the 2014 mini-LP Music For The Uninvited and the Ninja Tune album Nothing Is Still.
Léon Walras
Léon Walras (1834–1910) was a French mathematical economist, professor at Lausanne from 1871 to 1892, whose Éléments d'économie politique pure (1874–77) built the first general equilibrium theory.
Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier, American literary critic and editor; Literary Editor of The New Republic 1983-2014; author of Kaddish (1998); later Brookings fellow, Atlantic critic, and founder of Liberties.
Leon Wilkeson
Leon Wilkeson (Leon Russell Wilkeson, 1952-2001) was the bass guitarist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972, survived the 1977 plane crash, rejoined the 1987 reunion, and died of natural causes aged 49; nicknamed the Mad Hatter.
Leon Wood
Leon Wood (Osie Leon Wood III, born 1962), American basketball guard, 1984 Olympic and 1983 Pan-Am gold medalist, 10th pick of the 1984 NBA draft, later a longtime NBA referee.
Leon Zech
Leon Zech (เลออน เซ็ค), also known as Leon Brocco, born 2004, is a Thai-German actor and model. Known for Bua in Gelboys (2025) and Gelboys Season 2 (2026) on One31/iQIYI, single "Noid-Ah" from the GELBOYS OST, and membership in the boy group CIR*CRL.
Leon-Castile (oil field)
Leon-Castile is a pair of deepwater oil fields in the Keathley Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana, which began producing oil in 2025.
Léon-Gontran Damas
Léon-Gontran Damas (1912–1978) was a French Guianese poet who co-founded the Négritude movement with Césaire and Senghor; his first collection, Pigments (1937), confronted colonial racism.
León, Guanajuato
León, also known as León de los Aldama, is a city in Guanajuato, central Mexico, founded in 1576. It produces seven of every ten pairs of shoes made in Mexico.
León, Spain
León, Spain: provincial capital in Castilla y León on the River Bernesga, founded on a Roman Legio VI Victrix camp, former capital of the Kingdom of León, site of Europe's first Cortes in 1188, famed for its Gothic cathedral and the Camino de Santiago.
Léon: The Professional
Léon: The Professional (Léon) is Luc Besson's 1994 French-made English-language crime thriller starring Jean Reno, Natalie Portman in her debut, and Gary Oldman, released in the US as The Professional.
LEON3
LEON3 is a synthesizable VHDL model of a 32-bit SPARC V8 processor, designed at Gaisler Research in Sweden in 2004 for spacecraft, with a fault-tolerant variant flying on satellites such as Spot-6 and Galileo.
Leona Heidern
Leona Heidern (レオナ・ハイデルン), the Silent Soldier, is an SNK fighting game character debuting in The King of Fighters '96 as an Ikari Team member: Heidern's adopted daughter, an Orochi descendant, and a mercenary fighter.
Leona Helmsley
Leona Helmsley, known as the "Queen of Mean," was an American hotel and real estate executive who ran the Helmsley empire and was convicted of tax evasion in 1989.
Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis (born 1985) is a British singer who won The X Factor UK in 2006; her debut album Spirit (2007) and single Bleeding Love, No. 1 in 35 countries, made her the first British female solo artist in over 20 years to top the US Billboard 200.
Leona Lishoy (ലിഷോയ്)
Leona Lishoy (ലിയോണ ലിഷോയ്), born 1991 in Thrissur, is an Indian actress and model in Malayalam cinema, daughter of actor Lishoy, known for Mayaanadhi, Ishq, Anveshanam, and 12th Man.
Leona Naess
Leona Naess (born 1974, London) is a British alternative pop singer-songwriter, daughter of Arne Naess and stepdaughter of Diana Ross, known for Comatised (2000) and the 2022 comeback album Brood X.
Leona Samson
Leona D. Samson is an American biologist known for her work on DNA repair and how cells respond to DNA alkylation damage, now professor emerita at MIT.
Leona Vicario
Leona Vicario, born María de la Soledad Leona Camila Vicario, was a wealthy Mexico City woman who financed and informed the insurgents during the Mexican War of Independence.
Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman, born 1945, is an American computer scientist at the University of Southern California who co-invented the RSA cryptosystem in 1977 and founded DNA computing in 1994.
Leonard Amby Maynard
Leonard Amby Maynard (1887–1972) was an American nutrition scientist at Cornell University who wrote the textbook Animal Nutrition and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.
Leonard and Hungry Paul
Leonard and Hungry Paul, Rónán Hession's 2019 debut novel (Bluemoose Books), about two quiet Dublin friends, a children's encyclopedia writer and a part-time postman; adapted in 2025 into a six-part BBC/RTÉ series narrated by Julia Roberts.
Leonard B. Saltz
Leonard B. Saltz, also known as Leonard Saltz, is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering who specializes in gastrointestinal cancers, especially colorectal cancer.
Leonard B. Seeff
Leonard B. Seeff is a South African-born American physician-scientist in hepatology known for defining the natural history of transfusion-associated hepatitis C through decades of VA cohort follow-up.
Leonard Baum
Leonard E. Baum, known as Lenny Baum, was an American mathematician who co-invented the Baum-Welch algorithm and later traded currencies as Jim Simons's first hire.
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American conductor, composer, and educator; New York Philharmonic Music Director 1958–69, composer of West Side Story, Candide, and Mass, first to record the complete Mahler symphony cycle.
Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), American linguist and founder of American structuralism; author of Language (1933) and the 1926 Postulates; behaviorist on meaning; Yale Sterling Professor; influenced Skinner, the Bloomfieldians, and Chomsky's reaction.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American networking engineer who co-founded Cisco Systems in 1984, building on router work at Stanford, and later founded the optical networking company XKL.