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Leo Howard
Leo Howard (born 1997) is an American actor, director, and martial artist from Newport Beach, California, known for Jack Brewer on Disney XD's Kickin' It, Ethan on Legacies, and Tate Black on Days of Our Lives.
Leo Marks
Leo Marks (1920-2001), also Leopold Samuel Marks, was SOE's wartime codes and ciphers chief, author of silk-based one-time WOK codes for agents, screenwriter of Peeping Tom, and author of the memoir Between Silk and Cyanide.
Leo McGarry
Leo McGarry (Leopold Thomas McGarry) is the fictional White House Chief of Staff, later 2006 Democratic vice presidential nominee, on NBC's The West Wing, played by John Spencer; a Chicago-born Vietnam veteran and recovering alcoholic who dies on election night.
Leo McKern
Leo McKern (Reginald McKern, 1920–2002) was an Australian-born character actor based in Britain, famous as Horace Rumpole in Rumpole of the Bailey, Number 2 in The Prisoner, and Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons.
Leo Penn
Leo Penn (1921–1998), American actor and television director, father of Sean Penn. Blacklisted in the 1950s, he directed over 400 hours of prime-time TV including Ben Casey, Star Trek, and Columbo, winning a 1973 Emmy.
Leo Reich
Leo Reich is a British stand-up comedian and writer whose debut show Literally Who Cares?! satirizes a narcissistic Gen Z persona, earning a 2022 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nomination.
Leo the Lion (MGM)
Leo the Lion is the roaring-lion mascot of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Goldwyn Pictures, shown in a film-ribbon logo with the motto Ars Gratia Artis. Seven lions played the role from 1916; the current Leo dates to 1957, with a CGI lion introduced in 2021.
Leo Woodall
Leo Woodall (born 1996) is an English actor known as Jack in The White Lotus season 2 and Dexter in Netflix's One Day, later starring in Prime Target and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Leo Wu
Leo Wu (吴磊, Wu Lei, born 1999, Shanghai) is a mainland Chinese actor, a former child star of Nirvana in Fire, lead of Love Like the Galaxy and Nothing but You, and BFA graduate.
Leon Askin
Leon Askin (Leo Aschkenasy, 1907–2005), Austrian-Jewish actor and director; fled the Nazis to the USA, played General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971), and returned to Vienna in 1994.
Léon Bakst (Леон Бакст)
Léon Bakst (Леон Бакст), born Leib-Khaim Rosenberg (1866–1924), Russian painter and stage designer, co-founder of Mir Iskusstva and chief designer of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; his Schéhérazade costumes set Paris fashion trends.
Leon Lai (黎明)
Leon Lai (黎明), Hong Kong singer-actor born in Beijing, one of the 1990s 'Four Heavenly Kings' of Cantopop; debut album Leon (1990), Golden Horse Best Actor for Three: Going Home (2002).
Leon Morin, Priest
Léon Morin, prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest) is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1961 French-Italian drama starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, adapted from Béatrix Beck's Goncourt-winning novel about an atheist widow and a priest in occupied France.
Leon Robinson
Leon Robinson (Leon Preston Robinson IV), American actor, singer, and producer born 1962 in New York City, known for The Five Heartbeats, Cool Runnings, Above the Rim, The Temptations, and Little Richard; distinct from Leonard Robinson and Leon Robson.
Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster, also known as Leon Ernest Schuster, is a South African filmmaker and comedian known for his slapstick, candid-camera prank comedies and massive local success.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 Frey
Leonard Frey (1938–1988), American character actor from Brooklyn, played Harold in The Boys in the Band on stage and screen and earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination as Motel in Fiddler on the Roof (1971).
Leonard Hofstadter
Leonard Hofstadter, also Leonard Leakey Hofstadter, is the fictional Caltech experimental physicist and Sheldon Cooper's roommate in The Big Bang Theory, played by Johnny Galecki, Penny's eventual husband.
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin (born 1950) is an American film critic and historian, editor of Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (1969–2014) and Entertainment Tonight's movie reviewer for 30 years, author of a dozen film books.
Leonard McCoy
Leonard "Bones" McCoy, fictional chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek, played by DeForest Kelley (TOS, animated series, first seven films) and Karl Urban (2009 reboot); Georgia-born, transporter-averse foil to Spock.
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 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 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 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 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.
Leonarda Jonie
Leonarda Jonie (born Leonarda Gjoni), Montenegrin-American stand-up comedian based in Austin, Texas, formerly of the Bronx; anti-woke free-speech comic, Fordham graduate, actress in Jersey Shore Massacre, banned from Comedy Mothership.