Top Celebrity Names Starting With Leon

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   Leon Russell

   Age 70 Male
   

   Musician, Songwriter, Composer

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   Claude Russell Bridges, known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, he began playing piano at the age of four. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At this time he was already performing at Tulsa nightclubs.… read more

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   Leon Jackson

   Age 23 Male
   

   Scottish Singer

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   Leon Jackson is a Scottish singer. He won the fourth series of British talent show The X Factor in 2007. Following his win, Jackson was the main star of his on-web series entitled Leon's Life, which ran from 2007 until 2008. Jackson's début album, Right Now (2008) finished the year as the 75th best-selling album in the UK, and included the singles, "Don't Call This Love", "Creative" and "Stargazing".… read more

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   Leon Trotsky

   1879 - 1940 Male
   

   Ukraine-russian Revolutionary, Politician and Founder of the Red Army

   
   

   Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party.… read more

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   Leon Panetta

   Age 73 Male
   

   Politician, Secretary of Defense

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   Leon Edward Panetta is the 23rd and current United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama since 2011. Prior to taking office, he served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.… read more

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   Leon Lai

   Age 45 Male
   

   Singer, Actor, Musician

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   Leon Lai is a Hong Kong-based actor and Cantopop singer. The media refer to Aaron Kwok, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings. He uses the stage name "Li Ming" or "Lai Ming" which literally means "dawn."… read more

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   Leon Spinks

   Age 58 Male
   

   United States Marine

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   Léon M'ba

   1902 - 1967 Male
   

   Politician, Agent, President

   
   

   Gabriel Léon M'ba (9 February 1902 – 27 November 1967) was the first Prime Minister (1959–1961) and President (1961–1967) of Gabon. A member of the Fang ethnic group, M'ba was born into a relatively privileged village family. After studying at a seminary, he held a number of small jobs before entering the colonial administration as a customs agent.… read more

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   Leon Koudelak

   Age 50 Male
   

   Guitarist, Showman, Composer

   
   

   Leon Koudelak classical guitarist. Leon Koudelak has toured internationally in most parts of Europe, Asia and the Americas. He inspired famous composers such as Tom Pegram, Apostolos Paraskevas or Michael Buchrainer to write guitar music. In addition to his notable concert career, he founded the Liechtenstein Guitar Festival, Ligita, the Asia International Guitar Festival in Bangkok and the Pattaya Classical Guitar Festival.… read more

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   Leon Botstein

   Age 65 Male
   

   Conductor, Bard, Musician

   
   

   Leon Botstein is an American conductor and the President of Bard College.

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    Leon Kass

    Age 73 Male
    

    Scientist

    
    

    Leon Richard Kass is an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, best known as proponent of liberal education via the "Great Books," as an opponent of human cloning and euthanasia, as a critic of certain areas of technological progress and embryo research, and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005.… read more

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    Leon Haslam

    Age 29 Male
    

    Regular, Front Runner

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    Leon Lloyd Haslam is a motorcycle racer from England. He began racing at an early age and by the time he was in his late teens, he had raced in most of the significant British and international championships. Between 2005 and 2008 he was a regular front-runner in the British Superbike Championship. For 2009 he switched to the Superbike World Championship, remaining there in 2010 (his third full season in the class) on a factory Suzuki.… read more

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    Leon Schidlowsky

    Age 80 Male
    

    Composer, Instrument, Musician

    
    

    Leon Schidlowsky is a well known Chilean-Israeli composer and painter. He has written music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and instruments including the piano, violin, cello, flute, mandolin, guitar, harp, organ, as well as about sixty-five pieces of music with graphic notation.… read more

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    Leon Rosselson

    Age 77 Male
    

    Politician, Songwriter, Writer

    
    

    Leon Rosselson is an English songwriter and writer of children's books. After his early involvement in the folk music revival in Britain, he came to prominence, singing his own satirical songs, in the BBC's topical TV programme of the early 1960s, That Was The Week That Was. He toured Britain and abroad, singing mainly his own songs and accompanying himself with complex arrangements for acoustic guitar.… read more

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    Leon Breeden

    1921 - 2010 Male
    

    Clarinetist, Musician, Composer

    
    

    Harold Leon Breeden, known as Leon Breeden, was a jazz studies educator at the collegiate level, a classical and jazz clarinetist, a saxophonist, a prolific composer and arranger, a music clinician, and jazz festival judge. The Associated Press release of Breeden's death referred to him as, "legendary director of the University of North Texas' jazz program who made its 'One O'Clock Lab Band' internationally famous."… read more

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    Leon Sylvers III

    Age 59 Male
    

    Musician, Singer, Producer

    
    

    Leon Frank Sylvers III is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He was a member of the family group The Sylvers and became one of the most successful producers in black music in the late 1970s to the mid 1980s through his association with Dick Griffey's SOLAR Records.… read more

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    Leon Brittan

    Age 72 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Sir Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, QC, PC, DL is a British barrister, politician and former Conservative Member of Parliament, as well as former member of the European Commission and former Home Secretary of the United Kingdom. His brother is Sir Samuel Brittan, an economics commentator at the Financial Times and financial journalist.… read more

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    Leon Cooke

    Age 20 Male
    

    Actor, Singer, Dancer

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    Leon Dominic Cooke is an English stage actor, singer, dancer and all round musical performer.

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    Léon Theremin

    1896 - 1993 Male
    

    Inventor, Instrument, Scientist

    
    

    Lev Sergeyevich Termen; Russian: Ле́в Серге́евич Терме́н (27 August 1896 – 3 November 1993 was a Russian and Soviet inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments. He is also the inventor of interlace, a technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal, widely used in video and television technology. His invention of "The Thing", an espionage tool, is considered a predecessor of RFID technology.… read more

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    Leon Ware

    Age 72 Male
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Producer

    
    

    Leon Ware is a soul music singer, songwriter and producer. Best known for crafting the hit album, I Want You, originally recorded for Ware, until friend and Motown icon Marvin Gaye was assigned to the album in 1976. Ware also is notable for writing the Top 5 R&B single, "I Wanna Be Where You Are", for a young Michael Jackson in 1972, and creating the Body Heat album along with Quincy Jones. He also collaborated with Maxwell on his debut album Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite.… read more

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    León de Greiff

    1895 - 1976 Male
    

    Poet, Civil Servant, Eclectic

    
    

    Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler, was a Colombian poet of the 20th century he is notable for his stylistic innovations and eclectic deliberate use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names of which the most popular were Leo le Gris and Gaspar de Nuit.… read more

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    Leon Sullivan

    1922 - 2001 Male
    

    Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

    
    

    Leon Howard Sullivan was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African-Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist. Sullivan died on April 24, 2001, of leukemia at a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital. He was 78.… read more

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    Leon Eisenberg

    1922 - 2009 Male
    

    Psychiatrist, Educator, Writer

    
    

    Leon Eisenberg was a child psychiatrist, social psychiatrist and medical educator who "transformed child psychiatry by advocating research into developmental problems" (David DeMaso). He was credited with a number of "firsts" in medicine and psychiatry - in child psychiatry, autism, and the controversies around autism, randomized clinical trials (RCTs), social medicine, global health, affirmative action, and evidence-based psychiatry.… read more

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    León Gieco

    Age 60 Male
    

    Composer, Interpreter, Musician

    
    

    Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco, better known as León Gieco is a pop-folk music composer and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular folkloric genres with Argentine rock, and for lyrics with social and political connotations. This has led to him being called "the Argentine Bob Dylan".… read more

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    Leon Wilkeson

    1952 - 2001 Male
    

    Musician

    
    

    Leon Russell Wilkeson was the bassist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death in 2001.

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    Leon Czolgosz

    1873 - 1901 Male
    

    Steel Worker and Assassin of U.S. President William Mckinley

    
    

    Leon Czolgosz was the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley. In the last few years of his life, he claimed to have been heavily influenced by anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman.… read more