Top Celebrity Names Starting With Leonid

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   Leonid Kuchma

   Age 73 Male
   

   Second President of Ukraine

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   Leonid Danylovych Kuchma was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994, to 23 January 2005. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent Leonid Kravchuk. Kuchma won re-election for an additional 5-year term in 1999. His presidency was surrounded by numerous corruption scandals and the lessening of media freedoms.… read more

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   Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov

   Age 78 Male
   

   Bass, Soloist, Baritone

   
   

   Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov is a Russian bass-baritone singer, born 18 September 1933 in the village of Golumet, Irkutsk Oblast. He has been honoured with: People's Artist of Russia and Honoured Artist of Russia. In the West he is noted for his 1965 video of the Song of the Volga Boatmen.… read more

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   Leonid Brezhnev

   1906 - 1982 Male
   

   Soviet Politician

   
   

   Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in length.… read more

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   Leonid Yatsenko

   Age 58 Male
   

   Physicist

   
   

   Yatenko Leonid is a Ukrainian physicist, professor, Doctor of Science, Director of The Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.… read more

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   Leonid Chernovetskyi

   Age 60 Male
   

   Mayor, Incumbent, Businessman

   
   

   Leonid Mykhaylovych Chernovetskyi is the incumbent Mayor of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Before his political career, he was a successful businessman, founder and controlling stakeholder of the Pravex Group and Pravex Bank, one of the largest banks in Ukraine.… read more

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   Leonid Kravchuk

   Age 78 Male
   

   Politician, Deputy, President

   
   

   Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk is a Ukrainian politician, the first President of Ukraine serving from December 5, 1991 until his resignation on July 19, 1994, a former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and People's Deputy of Ukraine serving in the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine faction. After a political crisis involving the President and the Prime Minister, Kravchuk resigned from the Presidency, but ran for a second term as President in 1994.… read more

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   Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov

   1930 - 1987 Male
   

   Actor

   
   

   Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov was a Soviet actor whose stage name was Leonid Kharitonov. He was notable for his part in the films Private Ivan, Ivan Brovkin na tseline and Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey. He was awarded Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1972).… read more

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   Leonid Skirko

   Age 73 Male
   

   Bass, Baritone, Singer

   
   

   Leonid Skirko Ukr. Леонід Миколайович Скірко is a Canadian bass-baritone opera singer of Ukrainian origin.

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   Leonid Hurwicz

   1917 - 2008 Male
   

   Economist, Mathematician and Nobel Laureate

   
   

   Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science. Interactions of individuals and institutions, markets and trade are analyzed and understood today using the models Hurwicz developed.… read more

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    Leonid Kogan

    1924 - 1982 Male
    

    Violinist, Virtuoso, Musician

    
    

    Leonid Borisovich Kogan was a violin virtuoso and one of the 20th century's most famous Soviet violinists. He ranked among the greatest representatives of the Soviet School of violin playing.

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    Leonid Afremov

    13 AD - Male
    

    Painter

    
    

    Leonid Afremov is a Russian - Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils. He developed his own unique technique and style which is unmistakable and cannot be confused with other artists. Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries.… read more

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    Leonid Gaidai

    1923 - 1993 Male
    

    Scriptwriter, Writer, Director

    
    

    Leonid Iovich Gaidai was one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR & modern Russia. His movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.… read more

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    Leonid Kuravlyov

    Age 75 Male
    

    Actor

    
    

    Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov is a Soviet/Russian actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1976). Leonid Kuravlyov was born in Moscow in 1936. He lost his father when he was still a little boy. In 1941, Kuravlyov's mother was falsely accused and exiled to the Russian North, where they would spend several years until their return to Moscow. In 1955, Leonid Kuravlyov was accepted to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and began studying the art of acting.… read more

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    Leonid Nevzlin

    Age 52 Male
    

    Politician, Businessman, Engineer

    
    

    Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin is a Russian-Israeli businessman. Nevzlin was a high ranking executive at Yukos, once a Russian oil firm before it was extinguished by the Russian government. That government is requesting his extradition due to hotly disputed criminal allegations against him and other former executives in Yukos. In 2008 he was tried in absentia and found guilty of several counts of conspiracy to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.… read more