Top Celebrity Names Starting With Leopold

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   Leopold Stokowski

   1882 - 1977 Male
   

   Conductor

   
   

   Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted. In America, Stokowski performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others.… read more

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   Leopold III of Belgium

   1901 - 1983 Male
   

   Monarch

   
   

   Leopold III reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the heir apparent, his son Baudouin.

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   Léopold Sédar Senghor

   1906 - 2001 Male
   

   Politician, Poet, Theorist

   
   

   Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century.… read more

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   Leopold Mozart

   1719 - 1787 Male
   

   Composer

   
   

   Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.… read more

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   Leopold and Loeb

   1971 Male
   

   Scholar, Bobby

   
   

   Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb (June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), more commonly known as "Leopold and Loeb", were two wealthy University of Michigan alumni and University of Chicago students who murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 and were sentenced to life imprisonment. The duo were motivated to murder Franks by their desire to commit a perfect crime.… read more

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   Leopold Auer

   1845 - 1930 Male
   

   Violinist, Teacher, Conductor

   
   

   Leopold Auer was a Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer.

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   Leopold II of Belgium

   1835 - 1909 Male
   

   King of the Belgians

   
   

   Leopold II was the king of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second (but eldest surviving) son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death. Leopold is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken on his own behalf.… read more

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   Leopold von Ranke

   1795 - 1886 Male
   

   Historian

   
   

   Leopold von Ranke was a German historian, considered one of the founders of modern source-based history. Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources, an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics.… read more