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Leslie M. Thompson
Leslie M. Thompson is an American neuroscientist at UC Irvine who helped identify the Huntington's disease gene in 1993 and now leads a stem cell therapy trial for it.
Leslie Manigat
Leslie François Manigat (1930–2014) was a Haitian political scientist and statesman who served as President of Haiti for 133 days in 1988 before being overthrown in a military coup.
Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann, American comedy actress born 1972 in San Francisco, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40, and Blockers; wife of producer-director Judd Apatow, with daughters Maude and Iris Apatow.
Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silko, born 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is an American novelist and poet of Laguna Pueblo ancestry, a leading figure in the Native American literary renaissance.
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen (1926–2010), Canadian-born actor and comedian, spent three decades as a dramatic leading man before Airplane! (1980), Police Squad!, and the Naked Gun trilogy made him the master of deadpan parody.
Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr. (born 1981, Queens, New York) is an American actor and singer, Tony and Grammy winner as Broadway's original Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Oscar-nominated for One Night in Miami….
Leslie P. Kaelbling
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science at MIT, known for reinforcement learning and POMDP research and for founding the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
Leslie P. Weiner
Leslie P. Weiner, also cited as L. P. Weiner, is a retired American neurologist and virologist who identified the JC papovavirus as the cause of PML.
Leslie Parrish
Leslie Parrish, born Marjorie Hellen, American actress known for Li'l Abner, The Manchurian Candidate, and Star Trek, later an activist and environmentalist who died in 2025.
Leslie Phillips
Leslie Phillips (Leslie Samuel Phillips, 1924-2022) was an English comic actor of the Carry On and Doctor films, The Navy Lark radio star, voice of the Harry Potter Sorting Hat, and BAFTA-nominated for Venus.
Leslie Rutledge
Leslie Rutledge is an American Republican politician, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 2023 and previously the state's attorney general from 2015 to 2023, the first woman to hold either office.
Leslie S. Ritter
Leslie S. Ritter is an American nurse scientist and stroke researcher, Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona and director of the Stroke Resource Center of Southern Arizona.
Leslie Southwick
Leslie Southwick, born 1950 in Edinburg, Texas, is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
Leslie speaker
The Leslie speaker, also called the Leslie cabinet, is a rotating loudspeaker invented by Donald Leslie in the late 1930s to add vibrato and tremolo to the Hammond organ.
Leslie Spier
Leslie Spier (1893–1961) was an American anthropologist known for ethnographic studies of American Indian peoples of the Plains, the Southwest, and the Pacific Northwest, and professor at the University of New Mexico from 1939 to 1955.
Leslie Stevens
Leslie Stevens (1924–1998), American playwright, producer, writer, and director, creator of The Outer Limits, Stoney Burke, and Search; also wrote Marriage-Go-Round and the Esperanto film Incubus; distinct from the 1964-born actress, folk singer, and writer of the same name.
Leslie T. Cooper
Leslie T. Cooper is an American cardiologist who chairs cardiovascular medicine at Mayo Clinic in Florida and is known for defining the natural history and immunosuppressive treatment of myocarditis.
Leslie Thompkins
Leslie Thompkins, DC Comics Batman character created by Dennis O'Neil and Dick Giordano, debuting in Detective Comics #457 (1976) "There Is No Hope in Crime Alley!"; a pacifist physician modeled on Dorothy Day, surrogate mother to Bruce Wayne, later Gotham TV's Lee Thompkins.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams, American Tony Award-winning actress and singer born 1943 in New York City; star of Hallelujah, Baby!, Roots (as Kizzy), The Leslie Uggams Show, Empire, and Blind Al in the Deadpool films.
Leslie Valiant
Leslie Valiant, born 1949, is a Harvard computer scientist who founded computational learning theory, defined the counting class #P, and shaped parallel computing, winning the 2010 Turing Award.
Leslie Van Houten
Leslie Van Houten (born 1949, Altadena, California) is a former Manson Family member convicted in the 1969 LaBianca murders, sentenced to death then seven years to life, denied parole 20-plus times, and released July 11, 2023 after 53 years, the first Manson follower paroled.
Leslie Voltaire
Leslie Voltaire (born 1949) is a Haitian architect and Fanmi Lavalas politician, former Aristide-era minister, and second rotating president of Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council, October 2024 to March 2025.
Leslie West
Leslie West, born Leslie Weinstein, was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who co-founded Mountain in 1969, played Woodstock, and died in Florida in 2020 at age 75.
Leslie Wilson (cell biologist)
Leslie Wilson is an American cell biologist at UC Santa Barbara known for research on microtubule dynamics, including treadmilling, and how anticancer drugs act on them.
Leslie Wormald
Leslie Graham Wormald (1890-1965), English rower, Magdalen College Oxford and Leander Club; won gold in the men's eights for Great Britain at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; won three Boat Races; Military Cross recipient.
Leslie Zemeckis
Leslie Zemeckis is an American author, actress, and documentary filmmaker, married to director Robert Zemeckis, known for Behind the Burly Q (2010) and books on burlesque and showgirl history.
Leslye Headland
Leslye Headland (born 1980) is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and producer known for the Seven Deadly Plays, Bachelorette, Sleeping with Other People, co-creating Russian Doll, and creating Disney+'s The Acolyte.
Lesman Paredes
Lesman Paredes (Lesman Teodoro Paredes Montano), Bahraini weightlifter born 1996 in Cali, Colombia; two-time 96 kg world champion (2021 Tashkent, 2022 Bogota), 187 kg snatch world record, sixth at Paris 2024 in 102 kg.
Leśno
Leśno (gmina Brusy, Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship) is a Kashubian village in Bory Tucholskie with the Kamienne Kręgi reserve: a multicultural Bronze Age to Roman-period barrow cemetery of the Wielbark culture with four princely graves.
Lesotho
Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho), a mountainous landlocked constitutional monarchy entirely surrounded by South Africa; independent from Britain in 1966, capital Maseru, lower-middle-income economy reliant on SACU revenues, textiles, and Highlands water exports.