Leon (given name)
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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".
Leon or Léon or León may refer to:
- León Aillaud, Governor of Veracruz México (1911)
- Leon Battista Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist polymath
- Léon Boëllmann, French composer for the organ
- 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
- León Gieco, born Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco (November 20, 1951, Santa Fe, Argentina), pop-folk music composer and interpreter
- 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 Edward Panetta, (born June 28, 1938), former White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
- Leon Robinson, African-American actor and singer, often credited simply as Leon
- Leon Russell, Claude Russell Bridges (born 1942), singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
- Leon Spilliaert, Belgian painter
- Leon Spinks, boxer
- 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
- Tony Leon, South African politician
- Leon Lentic, Bosnian playwright
