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Leonard Nelson
Leonard Nelson (1882–1927) was a German neo-Friesian philosopher and mathematician at Göttingen, a friend of David Hilbert, known for the regressive method, the Grelling-Nelson paradox, and founding a socialist movement.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy (Leonard Simon Nimoy, 1931-2015), American actor, director, and photographer famous as Mr. Spock in Star Trek; creator of the Vulcan salute, director of Star Trek IV and Three Men and a Baby, and fine-art photographer.
Leonard Ornstein
Leonard Ornstein, also known as Leonard Salomon Ornstein, was a Dutch theoretical physicist who held the Utrecht chair of mathematical physics from 1915 and gave his name to the Ornstein–Zernike equation and the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process.
Leonard P. Freedman
Leonard P. Freedman is a molecular biologist known for research on nuclear hormone receptors, chief science officer of the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research since 2018.
Leonard P. Stark
Leonard P. Stark, born 1969, is a US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit judge since 2022, previously a Delaware district judge appointed by Obama.
Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge
The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, often called the Zakim Bridge, is a ten-lane cable-stayed bridge carrying I-93 across the Charles River in Boston, opened in 2003.
Leonard Part 6
Leonard Part 6 is a 1987 Columbia Pictures spy spoof starring, produced by, and story-written by Bill Cosby, directed by Paul Weiland. It flopped with $4.6 million gross, three Razzies, and Cosby publicly disowned it before release.
Leonard Patrick Komon
Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan distance runner born 1988, set road world records of 26:44 for 10 km (Utrecht 2010) and 41:13 for 15 km (Nijmegen 2010), first man under 27 minutes for 10 km, and 2008 World Cross Country silver medallist.
Leonard Petrucelli
Leonard Petrucelli is an American neuroscientist known for research on TDP-43 and the C9orf72 mutation in ALS and frontotemporal dementia, and founding director of the University of Miami's Neuroscience Institute.
Leonard Pinchuk
Leonard Pinchuk is a biomedical engineer and inventor at the University of Miami, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and known for the polymer SIBS and the TAXUS drug-eluting stent.
Leonard Prescott
Leonard Prescott (born 2009, New York City) is a German-American goalkeeper at Bayern Munich; Union Berlin youth product, Germany U17 international, called up to the senior Champions League squad in March 2026.
Leonard R. MacGillivray
Leonard R. MacGillivray is a Canadian supramolecular chemist and crystal engineer known for template-controlled solid-state reactions, and a Canada Excellence Research Chair at Sherbrooke since 2023.
Leonard Rogers
Sir Leonard Rogers (1868–1962) was a British parasitologist and tropical physician in the Indian Medical Service who introduced emetine for amoebic dysentery and antimony for kala-azar.
Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter (1926–1984), English stage and screen actor, star of the sitcoms Rising Damp (Rigsby, ITV, 1974–78) and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (BBC, 1976–79); also in Kubrick's 2001 and Barry Lyndon; died aged 57 during Loot in London.
Leonard S. Grasz
Leonard S. Grasz, also known as Leonard Steven Grasz, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Eighth Circuit since 2018.
Leonard Schleifer
Leonard S. Schleifer is an American physician and pharmaceutical executive who founded Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in 1988 and has served as its CEO since, building it into a biotech giant.
Leonard Siffleet
Leonard George Siffleet (1916-1943), Australian sergeant of M Special Unit, executed by beheading at Aitape, New Guinea, on 24 October 1943; his execution photograph, found on a dead Japanese soldier, became one of WWII's best-known images.
Leonard Skierski
Leonard Kazimierz Skierski (1866–1940) was a Polish general who served in the Imperial Russian Army, commanded the 4th Army after the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, and was murdered in the Katyn massacre in 1940.
Leonard Skinner
Leonard Skinner (Forby Leonard Skinner, 1933-2010), Jacksonville gym teacher and basketball coach at Robert E. Lee High School, namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd after disciplining members for long hair; later a realtor.
Leonard Stone
Leonard Stone, born Leonard Steinbock, was an American character actor with over 120 television credits, best remembered as Violet's father in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind, also known as Lenny Susskind, is an American theoretical physicist and Felix Bloch professor at Stanford, known for string theory, black hole complementarity, and the holographic principle.
Leonard T. Kurland
Leonard T. Kurland (1921–2001) was an American physician and epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic who founded neuroepidemiology and created the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a records-linkage system covering Olmsted County, Minnesota.
Leonard T. Strand
Leonard Terry Strand, born 1965 in Sioux City, Iowa, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Iowa since 2016.
Leonard T. Troland
Leonard T. Troland, also known as Leonard Thompson Troland, was an American physicist who coined "photon" as a unit of retinal illumination and led the Optical Society of America.
Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.
Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., 88 F. Supp. 2d 116 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), the Pepsi Harrier jet case: Judge Kimba Wood held a TV ad offering a fighter jet for 7,000,000 Pepsi Points was a joke, not an offer, and affirmed on statute of frauds grounds.
Leonard W. Cronkhite Jr
Leonard Wolsey Cronkhite Jr. (1919–1996) was an American physician and health-services leader, president of Children's Hospital Boston from 1962 to 1977 and co-describer of Cronkhite–Canada syndrome.
Leonard Whiting
Leonard Whiting (born 1950), British actor, Romeo in Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet opposite Olivia Hussey; Golden Globe New Star of the Year winner; later film, stage, and voice roles and the 2023 Paramount lawsuit.
Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood (1860–1927), American physician-general, Medal of Honor recipient in the Geronimo campaign, commander of the Rough Riders, military governor of Cuba, Army Chief of Staff 1910–1914, and 1920 Republican presidential contender.
Leonard Woolf
Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880–1969), English political theorist, publisher and former Ceylon civil servant; author of International Government, co-founder of the Hogarth Press, husband of Virginia Woolf.
Leonarda Cianciulli
Leonarda Cianciulli, the Soap-Maker of Correggio (la saponificatrice di Correggio), Italian killer convicted in 1946 of murdering three women in 1939-1940, boiling their remains with caustic soda; died 1970 in Pozzuoli.