Leonid

Leonid (Russian: Леони́д) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Léonide.
People with the name include:
Leonid Andreyev (or Andrejew) (1871–1919), a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), political leader of the USSR from 1964 to 1982
Leonid Buryak (b. 1953), USSR/Ukraine-born Olympic-medal-winning soccer player
Leonid Bykov (1928-1979), a Soviet-Ukrainian actor, film director, and script writer.
Leonid Desyatnikov (b. 1955), a Russian opera and film composer
Leonid Gaidai, (1923–1993) a popular Soviet comedy film director and People's Artist of the USSR in 1991
Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs 1,000-meter sprint canoer
Leonid Gobyato (1875–1915), a Russian lieutenant-general and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar
Leonid Feodorov (1879–1935), a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, and survivor of the GULAG
Leonid Filatov (1946–2003), a Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer, and People's Artist of Russia in 1996
Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), Russian-born American economist and mathematician who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics
Leonid Kadeniuk (b. 1951), the first astronaut of independent Ukraine who flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997
Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) a Soviet/Russian mathematician, economist, and only winner from the USSR of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1975)
Leonid Kolumbet (b. 1937), Soviet-Ukrainian Olympic cyclist medalist
Leonid Krasin (1870–1926), Soviet/Russian engineer and politician
Leonid Kravchuk (b. 1934) a Ukrainian politician who was elected the first President of Ukraine in 1991
Leonid Kuchma (b. 1938), the second President of Ukraine (1994–2005)
Leonid Kuravlyov (b. 1936) a Russian actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1976
Leonid Levin (b. 1948), a Soviet-American computer scientist
Leonid the Magnificent, (Leonid Filatov, b. 1973) a Russian performance artist who became known nationwide after his appearances on America's Got Talent
Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin/Léonide Massine (1896–1979), Russian choreographer and ballet dancer
Leonid Mezheritski (1930–2007), USSR and Israeli still-life, portrait and landscape painter
Leonid Moseyev (b. 1952), Soviet-Russian long-distance runner
Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), a Russian Impressionist painter
Leonid Reiman (or Reyman) (b. 1957), a Russian businessman and government official, currently Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation
Leonid Rozhetskin, (b. 1966) an international financier and lawyer credited with bringing significant financial and legal advances to modern Russia
Leonid Sagayduk (1929–1998), a Soviet swimmer
Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), a Russian opera singer and the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1923
Leonid Stadnyk (b. 1971), a Ukrainian man named "world's tallest living man" by Guinness World Records 2008
Leonid Stein (b. 1934) Soviet Grandmaster chess player from Ukraine who was among the world's top ten players in the 1960s
Leonid Taranenko (b. 1956) 1980 gold medallist in weightlifting for the Soviet Union
Leonid Utyosov (Leyzer (Lazar) Vaysbeyn, or Weissbein) (1895–1982) a Russian jazz singer and comic actor, and People's Artist of the USSR in 1965
Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938–2016), Soviet weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist
Fictional characters include:
Leonid, the protagonist in Alexander Bogdanov’s 1908 Russian science fiction novel Red Star
Leonid, the protagonist in the Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written in the late 1990s by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko (Labyrinth of Reflections, False Mirrors, and Transparent Stained-Glass Windows).
Leonid Gorbovsky, a character in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe written from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Leonid Kovar, a Russian superhero also known as Red Star
Leonid Pavel, a Russian nuclear scientist in The Dark Knight Rises
Leonid McGill, a Manhattan private detective in fiction written by Walter Mosley

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Russian and Macedonian form of Leonidas: lion.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Leonid Brezhnev	1906	General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
2	Leonid Stadnyk	1970	Former tallest living human
3	Leonid Rogozov	1934	Soviet surgeon
4	Leonid Kuchma	1938	Second president of Ukraine
5	Leonid Mikhelson	1955	Russian businessman
6	Leonid Hurwicz	1917	Russian-American economist and mathematician
7	Leonid Telyatnikov	1951	Soviet firefighter
8	Leonid Kantorovich	1912	Russian mathematician
9	Leonid Kravchuk	1934	Ukrainian politician
10	Leonid Agutin	1968	Singer, composer, poet
11	Leonid Taranenko	1956	Weightlifter
12	Leonid Zhabotinsky	1938	Soviet weightlifter
13	Leonid Khrushchev	1917	Soviet pilot
14	Leonid Andreyev	1871	Russian playwright, author and poet
15	Leonid Fedun	1955	Russian businessman
16	Leonid Kinskey	1903	Russian actor
17	Leonid Kogan	1924	Soviet musician
18	Leonid Khabarov	1947	Russian military personnel
19	Leonid Govorov	1897	Soviet military commander
20	Leonid Gaidai	1923	Soviet film director
21	Leonid Pasternak	1862	Russian artist
22	Leonid Nevzlin	1959	Russian born Jewish politician and businessman
23	Leonid Minin	1947	Ukrainian arms dealer
24	Leonid Afremov	1955	Painter
25	Leonid Tibilov	1952	President of South Ossetia
26	Leonid Levin	1948	Russian mathematician
27	Leonid Yakubovich	1945	Russian actor and television host
28	Leonid Utyosov	1895	Soviet musician
29	Leonid Nikolaev	1904	Russian assassin
30	Leonid Shebarshin	1935	Soviet intelligence chairman
31	Leonid Kupriyanovich	1929	Soviet engineer
32	Leonid Krasin	1870	Soviet diplomat
33	Leonid Filatov	1946	Soviet film director
34	Leonid Chernovetskyi	1951	Ukrainian politician
35	Leonid Yarmolnik	1954	Russian actor and film producer
36	Leonid Stein	1934	Soviet chess player
37	Leonid Parfyonov	1960	Russian journalist
38	Leonid Kharitonov	1933	Russian singer
39	Leonid Kuravlyov	1936	Soviet and Russian actor
40	Leonid Sednev	1903	Russian chef
41	Leonid Serebryakov	1888	Russian politician
42	Leonid Kulik	1883	Russian mineralogist
43	Leonid Rozhetskin	1966	Russian businessman
44	Leonid Khachiyan	1952	Russian mathematician
45	Leonid Bykov	1928	Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter
46	Leonid Slutsky	1968	Russian politician
47	Leonid Roshal	1933	Russian physician
48	Leonid Desyatnikov	1955	Russian composer
49	Leonid Plyushch	1938	Soviet mathematician and dissident
50	Leonid Buryak	1953	Ukrainian footballer
51	Leonid Kannegisser	1896	Russian poet and assassin
52	Leonid the Magnificent	1973	Russian actor
53	Leonid Kizim	1941	Soviet cosmonaut
54	Leonid Leonov	1899	Russian writer
55	Leonid Grinin	1958	Russian academic
56	Leonid Ivashov	1943	Russian politician and general
57	Leonid Bronevoy	1928	Russian actor
58	Leonid Sarafanov	1982	Ukrainian ballet dancer
59	Leonid Kreutzer	1884	German musician
60	Leonid Popov	1945	Soviet cosmonaut
61	Leonid Feodorov	1879	Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church
62	Leonid Kuchuk	1959	Belarusian footballer
63	Leonid Kadeniuk	1951	Ukrainian cosmonaut
64	Leonid Hambro	1920	American musician
65	Leonid Kozhara	1963	Foreign minister
66	Leonid Sabaneyev	1881	Russian musicologist, music critic, composer and scientist
67	Leonid Sobinov	1872	Russian opera singer
68	Leonid Kozlov	1947	American ballet dancer and choreographer
69	Leonid Mandelstam	1879	Soviet physicist
70	Leonid Solodkov	1958
71	Leonid Yengibarov	1935	Soviet actor
72	Leonid Abalkin	1930	Russian economist
73	Leonid Kanevsky	1939	Actor
74	Leonid Lebedev	1956	Russian politician
75	Leonid Rudenko	1985	Russian musician
76	Leonid Gozman	1950	Soviet psychologist
77	Leonid Markelov	1963	Russian politician
78	Leonid Trauberg	1902	Film director, Screenwriter
79	Leonid Borodin	1938	Russian-Soviet novelist and journalist
80	Leonid Yudasin	1959	American chess grandmaster
81	Leonid Andrussow	1896	German chemical engineer
82	Leonid Reiman	1957	Russian businessman and politician
83	Leonid Jacobson	1904	Russian choreographer
84	Leonid Kurchevsky	1890	Russian engineer
85	Leonid Bershidsky	1971	Russian journalist
86	Leonid Bichevin	1984	Russian actor
87	Leonid Nikolayev	1878	Russian musician
88	Leonid Gobyato	1875	Russian general
89	Leonid Elenin	1981	Russian astronomer
90	Leonid Sedov	1907	Russian mathematician
91	Leonid Vasiliev	1891
92	Leonid Artamonov	1859	Russian noble and explorer
93	Leonid Lavrovsky	1905	Ballet dancer and choreographer at Mariinsky & Bolshoi
94	Leonid Melnikov	1906	Soviet politician
95	Leonid Ramzin	1887	Russian engineer
96	Leonid Teliga	1917	Polish circumnavigating sailor
97	Leonid Koltun	1944	Ukrainian football manager
98	Leonid Derbenyov	1931	Russian writer
99	Leonid Keldysh	1931	Soviet and Russian physicist
100	Leonid Solovyov	1906	Soviet writer
101	Leonid Poretsky	1954	American physician
102	Leonid Korniyets	1901	Ukrainian and Soviet politician
103	Leonid Osyka	1940	Ukrainian filmmaker
104	Leonid Razvozzhayev	1973	Russian politician's aide
105	Leonid Shamkovich	1923	Chess player
106	Leonid Bunimovich	1947	Russian mathematician
107	Leonid Polterovich	1963	Russian-Israeli mathematician
108	Leonid Geishtor	1936	Canoe racer
109	Leonid Amalrik	1905	Soviet film director
110	Leonid Sobolev	1844	Prime Minister of Bulgaria
111	Leonid Yuzefovich	1947	Russian writer
112	Leonid Vaseršteĭn		Russian-American mathematician
113	Leonid Perlovsky		American scientist
114	Leonid Brekhovskikh	1917	Soviet scientist
115	Leonid Sokov	1941	Russian artist
116	Leonid Gofshtein	1953	Chess player
117	Leonid Mlechin	1957	Russian media personality
118	Leonid Luks	1947	Russian historian
119	Leonid Stolovich	1929	Soviet philosopher
120	Leonid Pavlovich Sabaneyev	1844	Russian zoologist
121	Leonid Kubbel	1891	Russian chess player
122	Leonid Pastur	1937	Ukrainian physicist and mathematician
123	Leonid Volodarskiy	1950	Soviet translator
124	Leonid Lukov	1909	Soviet film director and screenwriter
125	Leonid Shcherbakov	1927	Athletics competitor
126	Leonid Akulinin	1993	Ukrainian footballer
127	Leonid Soybelman	1966	German musician
128	Leonid Libkin		American computer scientist
129	Leonid Sherwood	1871	Russian sculptor
130	Leonid Voloshin	1966	Athletics competitor
131	Leonid Nazarenko	1955	Russian footballer
132	Leonid Gavrilov	1954	Russian scientist
133	Leonid Martynov	1905	Russian poet
134	Leonid Klimov	1953	Ukrainian politician
135	Leonid Dimov	1926	Romanian writer
136	Leonid Kolesnikov	1937	Olympic swimmer
137	Leonid Skotnikov	1951	Russian judge
138	Leonid Kovel	1986	Belarusian footballer
139	Leonid Tsypkin	1926	Soviet writer
140	Leonid Lytvynenko	1949	Ukrainian-Soviet decathlete
141	Leonid Potapov	1935	Russian politician
142	Leonid Hrabovsky	1935	Ukrainian composer
143	Leonid Denysenko	1926	Ukrainian-Australian graphic artist
144	Leonid Azkaldian	1942	Armenian physicist
145	Leonid Shmuts	1948	Ukrainian footballer
146	Leonid Dobychin	1894	Russian writer
147	Leonid Kritz	1984	German chess player
148	Leonid Reshetnikov	1986	Russian footballer
149	Leonid Spiridonov	1980	Kazakhstani wrestler
150	Leonid Lakerbaia	1947	Abkhazian politician
151	Leonid Shvartsman	1920	Russian artist
152	Leonid Kvasnikov	1905	KGB officer
153	Leonid Kuzmin		Belarusian musician
154	Leonid Pakhomov	1943	Russian footballer and manager
155	Leonid Steele	1921
156	Leonid Volkov	1934	Russian ice hockey player
157	Leonid Andreev	1983	Athlete
158	Leonid Ilyichov	1948	Olympic swimmer
159	Leonid Spirin	1932	Athletics competitor
160	Leonid Malashkin	1842	Russian composer
161	Leonid Tkachenko	1953	Soviet association football player and Russian association football manager
162	Leonid Skirko	1939	Canadian opera singer
163	Leonid A. Umansky	1890	Russian engineer
164	Leonid Baykov	1919	Russian artist
165	Leonid Šejka	1932	Serbian painter
166	Leonard Krupnik	1979	American soccer player
167	Leonid Korotkov	1965	Russian politician
168	Leonid Musin	1985	Footballer
169	Leonid Bartenyev	1933	Athletics competitor
170	Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov	1930	Russian actor
171	Leonid Zorin	1924	Soviet playwright
172	Leonid Maltsev	1949	Belarusian politician and general
173	Leonid Gorokhov	1967	Russian musician
174	Leonid Smirnov	1916	Soviet politician
175	Leonid Bazan	1985	Olympic wrestler
176	Leonid Markov	1927	Soviet actor
177	Leonid Nechayev	1939	Soviet and Russian film director
178	Leonid Koshelev	1979	Footballer
179	Leonid Yekimov	1987	Russian sport shooter
180	Leonid Raikhman	1908	Soviet general
181	Leonid Mezheritski	1930	Artist
182	Leonid Zamyatin	1922	Soviet diplomat
183	Leonid Leonidov	1873	Russian and Soviet actor, film and theatre director
184	Leonid Gulov	1981	Estonian rower
185	Leonid Mikhailovich Shkadov	1927	Physicist
186	Leonid Pavlovich Potapov	1905	Turkologist
187	Leonid Novitskiy	1968	Russian rally driver
188	Leonid Haydamaka	1898	Ukrainian musician
189	Leonid Martynyuk
190	Leonid Shevchenko	1932	Russian footballer
191	Leonid Bobylev	1949	Russian composer
192	Leonid Derkach	1939	Ukrainian politician
193	Leonid Solomatkin	1837	Russian artist
194	Leonid Sandalov	1900	Soviet general
195	Leonid Pitamic	1885	Slovenian academic
196	Leonid of Georgia	1860	Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia
197	Leonid Rudnytzky	1935	Linguist
198	Leonid Moseyev	1952	Soviet distance runner
199	Leonid Barbier	1937	Olympic swimmer
200	Leonid Bujor	1955	Moldovan politician