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Leslie Frazier
Leslie Frazier (born 1959, Columbus, Mississippi) is an NFL coach, Seattle Seahawks assistant head coach since 2024, former Vikings head coach (2010-13, 21-32-1), Bills defensive coordinator, and 1985 Bears Super Bowl XX cornerback.
Leslie G. Biesecker
Leslie G. Biesecker is an American clinical and molecular geneticist who leads precision health research at the NIH and delineated rare overgrowth syndromes like Proteus syndrome.
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider was an American cognitive neuroscientist who led the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIMH and proposed the two-streams account of visual processing.
Leslie Grace
Leslie Grace (Leslie Grace Martínez), Dominican-American singer and actress born 1995 in The Bronx. Bachata breakout with "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" (2012), Nina Rosario in In the Heights, cast as Batgirl, and 2026 comeback album Amor, ¿Quién Eres?
Leslie Grantham
Leslie Grantham (1947–2018), English actor, played Dirty Den Watts in EastEnders 1985–1989 and 2003–2005; ex-soldier who served about a decade for a 1967 murder conviction in Germany.
Leslie Greengard
Leslie Greengard is an applied mathematician and computer scientist, Silver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute and director at the Flatiron Institute, known for the fast multipole method.
Leslie Grossman
Leslie Erin Grossman (born 1971, Los Angeles) is an American actress known as Mary Cherry on Popular and as Meadow Wilton, Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, Margaret Booth, Ursula, and Barbara Read across American Horror Story seasons Cult through 13.
Leslie Groves
Leslie Groves (1896-1970), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lieutenant general, built the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project from September 1942, selecting Oak Ridge, Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oppenheimer, until the 1947 Atomic Energy Commission takeover.
Leslie H. Blumgart
Leslie H. Blumgart (1931–2022) was a South African-born hepatobiliary surgeon who held the St Mungo professorship at Glasgow and built the hepatobiliary service at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York.
Leslie Hables
Leslie Hables (Leslie I. Hables), American sprinter for Stanford University in the early 1930s; ran third leg on the 1931 world-record 4x440-yard relay (3:12.6) with Shove, Alvin Hables, and Ben Eastman, and placed 2nd in the 220 yards at the 1931 IC4A meet.
Leslie Hammond
Leslie Hammond (Leslie Charles Hammond, 1905–1955) was an Indian field hockey left back who won Olympic gold with British India at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932, later emigrating to Australia.
Leslie Hope
Leslie Hope (Leslie Ann Hope) is a Canadian actress, director, and producer born in 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Known for Teri Bauer on 24 season 1 and for directing episodes of Snowpiercer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Lost in Space, and the One Piece season finale. Distinct from Bob Hope.
Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 1893–1943), English stage and film actor, director, and producer, star of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Pygmalion, and Gone with the Wind's Ashley Wilkes; killed when his airliner was shot down over the Bay of Biscay in 1943.
Leslie Isben Rogge
Leslie Isben Rogge, also spelled Ibsen Rogge, is an American bank robber and FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive #430, first captured via the Internet after surrendering in Guatemala in May 1996.
Leslie J. Berg
Leslie J. Berg is an American immunologist known for research on T cell receptor signaling and the kinase ITK, and chair of immunology at the University of Colorado since 2019.
Leslie J. De Groot
Leslie J. De Groot (1928–2018) was an American endocrinologist who led the University of Chicago's Thyroid Study Unit and was counted among the founders of modern thyroidology.
Leslie J. Schoenfield
Leslie J. Schoenfield (1932–2003) was an American gastroenterologist who pioneered the medical dissolution of gallstones, directing gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from 1970 to 2001.
Leslie Jones (comedian)
Leslie Jones (Annette Leslie Jones), American stand-up comedian and actress born 1967 in Memphis; SNL writer and cast member 2014-2019, three Emmy nominations, Ghostbusters 2016, Daily Show guest host, Paris 2024 Olympics Sports Emmy.
Leslie Jordan
Leslie Jordan (1955–2022), American actor and comedian, Emmy winner as Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace, Sordid Lives' Brother Boy, pandemic Instagram star, gospel album Company's Comin'.
Leslie Knope
Leslie Knope is the fictional deputy parks director of Pawnee, Indiana, played by Amy Poehler on NBC's Parks and Recreation (2009-2015). Known for her optimism, feminism, pit-to-park project, city council seat, and recall over a soda tax.
Leslie L. Iversen
Leslie Lars Iversen, known as Leslie Iversen, was a British neuropharmacologist (1937–2020) who advanced the study of neurotransmitters, led the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit and Merck neuroscience research, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Leslie L. Robison
Leslie L. Robison is an American cancer epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and led the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
Leslie L. Shoemaker
Leslie L. Shoemaker is an American water resources engineer and Tetra Tech executive elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for watershed management technology.
Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport, born 1941 in New York City, is an American computer scientist who developed LaTeX and won the 2013 ACM Turing Award for work on distributed systems.
Leslie Landon
Leslie Landon (Leslie Landon Matthews), born 1962, daughter of Michael Landon, played Etta Plum on Little House on the Prairie, then became a psychologist and co-authored When Children Grieve.
Leslie Law
Leslie Law (Leslie Francis Law), British eventing rider born 1965 in Hereford; Olympic individual gold and team silver at Athens 2004 on Shear L'Eau after a CAS ruling, team silver at Sydney 2000 on Shear H2O.
Leslie Leiserowitz
Leslie Leiserowitz, born 1934 in Johannesburg, is an Israeli chemist and crystallographer at the Weizmann Institute whose work showed how molecular chirality controls crystal shape and nucleation.
Leslie Lemke
Leslie Lemke (born 1952, Milwaukee) is an American musical savant, blind with cerebral palsy and cognitive disability, who played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 flawlessly at 14 after one hearing, without ever taking a piano lesson; raised by May Lemke, famous from 60 Minutes and Rain Man.
Leslie Liao
Leslie Liao is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer from Orange County, based in Los Angeles, who left a Netflix HR job in 2024 after appearing on Verified Stand-Up, Just For Laughs, and The Tonight Show.
Leslie M. Schoop
Leslie M. Schoop is a solid state chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, known for the topological semimetal ZrSiS and the square-net design principle for topological materials.