Top Celebrity Names Starting With Leo

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   Leo Sayer

   Age 64 Male
   

   Singer-songwriter, Musician, and Entertainer

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   Leo Sayer is a British singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the UK all reached the Top 10 – a feat first registered by his one-time manager, Adam Faith.… read more

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   Leo Ryan

   1925 - 1978 Male
   

   Politician of the Democratic Party

   
   

   Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. Representative from California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until he was murdered in Guyana by members of the Peoples Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre in 1978. After the Watts Riots of 1965, then-Assemblyman Ryan took a job as a substitute school teacher to investigate and document conditions in the area.… read more

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   Leo Frank

   1884 - 1915 Male
   

   Mill Hand

   
   

   Leo Max Frank was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob, planned and led by prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to antisemitism in the United States. The superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank was convicted on August 26, 1913, of the murder of one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan.… read more

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   Leo Ornstein

   1893 - 2002 Male
   

   Composer, Pianist and Teacher

   
   

   Leo Ornstein (ca. December 2, 1893 – February 24, 2002) was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic. Ornstein was the first important composer to make extensive use of the tone cluster. As a pianist, he was considered a world-class talent.… read more

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   Leo Strauss

   1899 - 1973 Male
   

   Classical Philosophy Specialist and Father of Neoconservativism

   
   

   Leo Strauss was a political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.… read more

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   Leo Abse

   1917 - 2008 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Leopold Abse was a Welsh lawyer, politician and gay rights campaigner. He was a Welsh Labour Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years, and was noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce laws. Following his retirement from Parliament he wrote a number of books about politics based on his interest in psychoanalysis.… read more

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   Leo Brouwer

   Age 73 Male
   

   Composer, Guitarist, Conductor

   
   

   Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona Casado.

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   Leo Tolstoy

   1828 - 1910 Male
   

   Writer

   
   

   Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists.… read more

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   Leo Wyatt

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   Piper, Headliner, Second

   
   

   Leonardo "Leo" Wyatt is a fictional character from The WB television series Charmed, portrayed by Brian Krause. A possible breakout character included in the writing initially as a love interest beginning in the seventh episode of the first season that initially set Phoebe and Piper quarreling and competing for his attentions, he appeared as a guest star in seven episodes of the first season and six episodes of the second season.… read more

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    Leo Klejn

    Age 84 Male
    

    Archaeologist

    
    

    Lev Samuilovich Klejn, better known as Leo Klejn, is a Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist.

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    Leo Kottke

    Age 66 Male
    

    Guitarist, Drawing Card, Musician

    
    

    Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies. Kottke has overcome a series of personal obstacles including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand to emerge as a widely-recognized master of his instrument.… read more

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    Leo McKern

    1920 - 2002 Male
    

    Actor, Military Person

    
    

    Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO was an Australian-born English actor who appeared in numerous British and Australian television programmes and movies, and more than 200 stage roles.

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    Leo Berman

    Age 76 Male
    

    Businessman, Politician, Congressman

    
    

    Leo C. Berman is a retired businessman and military officer who has been a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 6 since January 1999. Berman announced a challenge to Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio for the presiding officer's position in January 2011. Berman subsequently withdrew from the race, and Representative Warren Chisum of Pampa filed his candidacy for Speaker.… read more

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    Leo K. Thorsness

    Age 80 Male
    

    United States Air Force Medal of Honor Recipient

    
    

    Leo Keith Thorsness is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War. He was awarded the medal for an air engagement on April 19, 1967. He was shot down two weeks later and spent six years in captivity in North Vietnam as a prisoner of war. After his military service, Thorsness served one term in the Washington State Senate.… read more

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    Leo Fuld

    1912 - 1997 Male
    

    Singer, Voice, Musician

    
    

    Lazarus 'Leo' Fuld was a Dutch singer who specialised in Yiddish songs. Prior to World War II, Leo Fuld was one the most popular recording and concert artists in Europe. Possessing an instantaneously recognizable voice, Fuld recorded throughout Europe and the Americas in many languages, including Yiddish, English, German, French, Hebrew and Dutch.… read more

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    Leo Fortune-West

    Age 41 Male
    

    Footballer

    
    

    Leopold Paul Osborne "Leo" Fortune-West (born 9 April 1971) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Armthorpe Welfare. Fortune-West started his career with Eastern Counties League side Tiptree United, and played for four more non-League sides before securing a move to the Football League with Gillingham for a fee of £5,000.… read more

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    Leo Burke

    Age 63 Male
    

    Wrestler

    
    

    Leonce Cormier is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. He was born in Dorchester, New Brunswick. He competed across Canada, in several American promotions, and wrestled internationally for both Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council (WWC) and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in New Zealand. In Canada, where he spent the majority of his career, Cormier used the ring name Leo Burke. In the United States, however, he competed as Tommy Martin.… read more

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    Leo Ku

    Age 39 Male
    

    Singer, Actor, Musician

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    Leo Ku Kui Kei is a famous China and Hong Kong artist, Cantonese and Mandarin pop singer, actor, host, cartoonist, MV Director and Producer, and designer; he is one of the highest visibility and Greater China Pop Male Artist, a major figure in popular music culture. Leo had earned the "Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong" in 2005, one of the few artists to receive this award. Leo is one from New Heavenly King of Cantopop with Hacken Lee,Andy Hui,and Edmond Leung.… read more

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    Leo Varadkar

    Age 33 Male
    

    Fine Gael Politician

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    Leo Varadkar is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since June 2007. He is currently the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, being appointed on 9 March 2011.… read more

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    Leo Gordon

    1922 - 2000 Male
    

    Actor

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    Leo Vincent Gordon was an American movie and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer and novelist. He specialized in playing brutish bad guys during more than forty years in film and television.… read more

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    Leo Gorcey

    1917 - 1969 Male
    

    Actor

    
    

    Leo Bernard Gorcey was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs he participated in, young Leo was the filmic prototype of the young punk. He was the shortest and the oldest of the original gang.… read more

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    Leo Amery

    1873 - 1955 Male
    

    Politician and Journalist

    
    

    Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery CH, usually known as Leo Amery or L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist, noted for his interest in military preparedness, India, and the British Empire.… read more

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    Leo Wetzels

    Age 61 Male
    

    Full Professor, Editor, Scientist

    
    

    Willem Leo Marie Wetzels (born 1951) is a full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Directeur de recherche at Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP), CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris. He is Editor-in-Chief of Probus International, the Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics.… read more

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    Leo Wolman

    1890 - 1961 Male
    

    Economist

    
    

    Leo Wolman was a noted American economist whose work focused on labor economics. He also served on a number of important boards and commissions for the federal government.

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    Leo Durocher

    1905 - 1991 Male
    

    Infielder, Major, Second

    
    

    Leo Ernest Durocher (July 27, 1905 – October 7, 1991), nicknamed Leo the Lip, was an American infielder and manager in Major League Baseball. Upon his retirement, he ranked fifth all-time among managers with 2,009 career victories, second only to John McGraw in National League history. Durocher still ranks tenth in career wins by a manager.… read more