- Leon (given name)
Leon is a name in several
Germanic languages meaning "thunder," and is used as both a given name and a surname. In a Greek or Spanish context, the name Leon means "lion".A common
Francophone given name and surname, it comes from the Latin "leo" meaning lion. The Italian version of the name is still Leo, whereas in French-speaking areas, Léo is a diminutive for Léonard or Léopold.Leon (unaccented English version) or Léon (French version) or León (Spanish version) may refer to:
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Léon Abel Provancher , (1820-1892), French-Canadian Catholic parish priest and naturalist
*Léon Aillaud , French Interim Governor of Veracruz México (1911)
*Léon Arthur Elchinger , French Catholic priest, Bishop of Strasbourg from 1967 to 1984
*Léon Augustin Lhermitte , (1844-1925), French painter and etcher of the 19th century
* Leon E. Bates,Leon Bates (UAW Leader) was UAW union orginizer, he was one of the first african americans to ever serve in that position
*Leon Battista Alberti , Italian Renaissance humanist polymath
*Léon Bloy , French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet
*Léon Blum , French politician, founder of the Popular Front, formerPrime Minister of France
*Léon Boëllmann , French composer for the organ
*Léon Breitling, Swiss watchmaker and businessman
*Léon Dierx , French poet of the "Parnasse" movement
*Léon Dion , French-Canadian political scientist
*Leon Durham , baseball player
*Leon Doucette, American born illustrator
*Leon Edel , literary critic and Pulitzer Prize winning biographer
*León Felipe , León Felipe Camino Galicia (1884 - 1968), Spanish poet
*Léon Foucault , born Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868), French physicist invented the Foucault pendulum, made an early measurement of the speed of light, invented the gyroscope, and discovered eddy currents
*Léon Gambetta , French statesman, 45thPrime Minister of France
*Léon Gaumont , French inventor, engineer and industrialist, pioneer of the motion picture industry, founder of theGaumont Film Company
*Léon Gérin, French-Canadian scientist who gave his name to thePrix Léon-Gérin
*León Gieco , born "Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco" (November 20, 1951, Santa Fe, Argentina), pop-folk music composer and interpreter
*Leon Jackson , winner of X-Factor 2007
*Leon Lai , Cantopop singer, and also his 1990 debut album, Leon
*Leon Lederman , American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos
*Leon Lentic , Bosnian playwright
*Leon Edward Panetta , (born June 28, 1938), former White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
*Léon Pétillon , Belgian civil servant and governor-general of Belgian Congo from 1952 to 1958
*Leon Robinson , African-American actor and singer, often credited simply as Leon
*Leon Russell , Claude Russell Bridges (born 1942), singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
*Léon Say , French economist and statesman
*Léon Schlienger, French WWI veteran and songwriter known as Noël Regney
*Léon Schwartzenberg , French oncologist, leading cancer specialist, former government minister
*Léon Spilliaert , Belgian painter
*Leon Spinks , boxer
*Leon Sullivan (1922-2001), civil rights leader and social activist
*Leon Trotsky , (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий), Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist
*Leon Uris , (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003), American novelist
*Léon Walras , Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (1834 - 1910), French mathematical economist
*Leon White, Vader, American wrestler
*Léon Zitrone , French journalist and television presenter*
Tony Leon , South African politician
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