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Leonidas family
Leonidas family (FIN 528), a central main-belt asteroid family of about 135 members named after 2782 Leonidas; CX-type, albedo ~0.07, identified by Nesvorný et al. 2015 and identical to the Vibilia family (FIN 529).
Leonidas Guibas
Leonidas Guibas is a Stanford computer scientist known as a founder of computational geometry, for the quad-edge data structure, and for shape analysis and geometric deep learning.
Leonidas I
Leonidas I (Λεωνίδας, died 480 BCE), Agiad king of Sparta who succeeded Cleomenes I and married Gorgo; commanded the Greek defense at Thermopylae in 480 BCE, died there with his 300 Spartans, and became the enduring symbol of heroic sacrifice.
Leónidas Lamborghini
Leónidas Lamborghini (1927–2009) was an Argentine poet, playwright, and novelist, a renovator of 1960s Argentine lyric poetry whose work drew on parody, rewriting, and the gauchesca tradition.
Leónidas Plaza
Leónidas Plaza was an Ecuadorian military officer and Liberal politician who served two terms as president of Ecuador, 1901 to 1905 and 1912 to 1916.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk (1806–1864), Episcopal bishop of Louisiana and Confederate lieutenant general, West Point classmate of Jefferson Davis; led corps at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and the Atlanta campaign; killed at Pine Mountain, Georgia, June 14, 1864.
Leonidas Sampanis
Leonidas Sampanis, also spelled Sabanis, is a Greek weightlifter born in Albania in 1971 who won Olympic silver at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 and world titles in 1995 and 1998.
Leonidas Squadron
The Leonidas Squadron, also known as Selbstopfer, was a late-World War II Luftwaffe suicide unit intended to fly the piloted Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg, a manned V-1 flying bomb.
Leonids
The Leonids are an annual meteor shower peaking in mid-November, produced by debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle and radiating from Leo, capable of meteor storms every 33 years.
Leonie Bottcher
Leonie Böttcher (born 2004) is a German ice hockey defenseman, ECC Preussen Berlin, who won the first German gold of Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympics in women's Mixed NOC 3-on-3 with Team Yellow; a same-name SCC Berlin sprinter was born 2005.
Leonie Felk
Leonie Felk (born 2004), German barebow archer for SV Kadeltshofen; holds the European barebow women's team 50 m record (1612 points, 2023, with Stephanie Felk and Diana Wiesner) and won German barebow youth titles.
Leonie Gebers
Leonie Gebers is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who has served as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs since 2018.
Leonie M. Brinkema
Leonie M. Brinkema, born 1944, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 1993, appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Leonie Taylor
Leonie Taylor (Lenora Josephine Taylor, 1870-1936), American archer of the Cincinnati Archers; won gold in the women's team round at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, sister of Olympian Mabel Taylor.
Léonin
Léonin (Magister Leoninus, c. 1135–1201), Parisian canon, poet, and composer of the Notre-Dame school, credited by Anonymous IV with the Magnus liber organi, the earliest named body of measured two-voice polyphony.
Leonine city (Civitas Leonina)
Leonine City (Civitas Leonina, Città Leonina): the Vatican quarter of Rome, walled by Pope Leo IV in 848–852 after the Saracen raid of 846; a separately governed enclave whose Leonine Wall partly survives.
Leonor Michaelis
Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949) was a German-born biochemist and physician who, with Maud Menten, derived the Michaelis–Menten constant in 1913 and later worked at the Rockefeller Institute.
Leonor Varela
Leonor Varela (Leonor Magdalena Varela Palma), Chilean actress and writer born 1972 in Santiago, daughter of biologist Francisco Varela. Starred as Cleopatra (ABC 1999) and Nyssa in Blade II (2002), wrote Ir al Cielo y Volver, and is an ocean-conservation activist.
Leonor, Princess of Asturias
Leonor de Borbón y Ortiz, Princess of Asturias, Girona and Viana, is heir presumptive to the Spanish throne; born 2005, swore the Constitution in 2023, completing three-service military training.
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), British-born Mexican painter, sculptor, and writer of the Surrealist movement; partner of Max Ernst, wartime exile, and major figure of Latin American Surrealism in Mexico City.
Léonora Miano
Léonora Miano is a Cameroonian-born French-language writer of novels, theater, and essays who won the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2006 and the Prix Femina in 2013.
Leonore A. Herzenberg
Leonore A. Herzenberg, also published as L. A. Herzenberg, is an American immunologist and geneticist who co-led Stanford's Herzenberg Laboratory for over 50 years and helped develop FACS flow cytometry.
Leonore Gewessler
Leonore Gewessler is an Austrian Green Party politician from Graz who served as Federal Minister for Climate Protection from 2020 to 2025, then became the Greens' federal spokesperson and parliamentary group chairwoman in 2025.
Leons Briedis
Leons Briedis (1949–2020) was a Latvian poet, novelist, essayist, critic, publisher, and translator from Latin, Russian, English, Romance languages, Swahili, and Albanian, whose vast translation work shaped Latvian literary culture.
Leontief paradox
The Leontief paradox is Wassily Leontief's 1953 finding that the United States, though capital-abundant, exported more labor-intensive goods than it imported, contradicting the Heckscher–Ohlin model.
Leontien Zijlaard van Moorsel
Leontien Zijlaard van Moorsel, also Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist born 1970 in Boekel; four Olympic golds including three at Sydney 2000, multiple road and track world titles, 46.065 km hour record, comeback from anorexia.
Leontine Alkema
Leontine Alkema is a Dutch biostatistician and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who develops Bayesian models used by UN agencies to estimate stillbirths and maternal mortality worldwide.
Leontion
Leontion (Λεόντιον), also Leontium, an ancient polis of Achaea on Kastritsi hill near Kato Vlasia, Kalavryta, Greece; an Achaean League border city destroyed by Philip V, with a 1958-excavated theatre and ongoing Austrian-Greek fieldwork.
Leontius of Byzantium
Leontius of Byzantium (Λεόντιος), ca. 485 to ca. 543, was a Greek Chalcedonian monk-theologian of Constantinople known for polemical christological treatises and the concept of enhypostasia.
Leontius of Rostov
Leontius of Rostov (Леонтий Ростовский) was Bishop of Rostov in Kievan Rus', the first Kiev Caves monk raised to bishop, venerated for evangelizing the pagan Rostov land.