Leslie

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Leslie (Gaelic, derived from a surname meaning 'garden of hollies', 'grey fortress', or 'garden by the pool') [ [http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=Leslie] Behind the Name] can refer to any of the following:

Places

in Canada:
* Leslie Street, a road in Toronto, Ontario
** Leslie (TTC), a subway station located on the above road
** Leslie Street Spit, an artificial spit in Toronto, south of the above road.

in Scotland:
* Leslie, Fife

in the United States of America:
*Leslie, Arkansas
*Leslie, Georgia
*Leslie, Michigan
*Leslie Township, Michigan
*Leslie Township, Minnesota

in Australia
*Leslie Dam, a dam in Warwick South West Queensland

Other

* The Clan Leslie is a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast".
* The Leslie speaker system, named after its inventor, Donald Leslie

People

The following people bear the first name Leslie:
* the character played by Elizabeth Taylor in the film "Giant"
* Leslie (comedienne), American stand-up comedian and actress
* Leslie (singer), French R&B singer
* Leslie Bohem, a screenwriter who wrote "Dante's Peak" and "Taken", among others
* Leslie Caron, French actress
* Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor-singer (1956—2003)
* Leslie Cochran, famous vagrant transvestite of Austin, Texas
* Leslie Crocker Snyder, American lawyer and former judge
* Leslie Erganian, American artist
* Leslie Feist, Canadian singer
* Leslie Townes Hope, American actor-comedian known as Bob Hope
* Leslie Hornby, British model known as Twiggy
* Leslie Howard (actor), British actor
* Leslie Howard (musician), Australian pianist and composer
* Leslie Lamport, American computer scientist
* Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the birth name of 38th President Gerald R. Ford
* Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS
* Leslie Nielsen, American-Canadian actor
* Leslie Stephen, English author and critic
* Leslie Uggams, American actress

The following people bear the surname of Leslie:
* Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross
* Alexander Leslie (c.1580-1661), First Earl of Leven
* Andrew Leslie (born 1957), Chief of the Land Staff and Commander Land Forces Command of the Canadian Forces
* Cameron Leslie (born 1973) London club owner
* Charles Leslie (1650-1722) British Jacobite nonjuror and controversialist
* Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859), American genre painter
* Delroy Leslie (born 1970), Jamaican boxer
* Edgar Leslie (1885-1976), American songwriter, Lyricist, charter member of ASCAP
* Frank Leslie (1821-80), Publisher of Frank Leslie's Weekly
* Frank Leslie (Medal of Honor), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
* Franklin Leslie Western gunfighter
* Henry David Leslie (1822-1896), English composer and conductor
* John Andrew Leslie (born 1940) Canadian philosopher
* Sir John Leslie (1766-1832), Scottish mathematician and physicist
* Lew Leslie (1886-1963), Broadway producer
* Lisa Leslie (born 1972), female basketball player
* Miriam Leslie (1828-1914), wife of Frank Leslie
* Patrick Leslie (1815-1881), an early settler in Australia
* Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie (1827-82), Irish economist
* Walter Leslie, Lord of Ross
* Lieutenant Leslie, a character from Star Trek, played by Eddie Paskey.

Other famous people with Leslie in their full name:
* Alfred Éric Leslie Satie (1866 – 1925), French composer and pianist

* William Robert Leslie of Ireland, was the first Leslie in America in about 1780's, first settler in Pike County, Ky. He was buried in a hollowed out log on Johns Creek in Pike County. His grave is on land near Snivley Chapel, a Methodist church one of the oldest in Pike County, Kentucky.

References

See also

* Lesley