Arts and Music

• Léo Delibes (born 1836, died 1891)

  French composer of ballets and operas.

  • Composed Lakme (see list of Romantic Composers)
• Leo Kottke

  American musician.

  • Acoustic guitarist (see list of Guitarists)
• Leo Lyons
  • Performer with Ten Years After at Woodstock (see list of Performers at Woodstock)
• Leo Sayer (born 1948)

  English singer.

  • Musical guest on ''''Saturday Night Live'''' (see list of Musical Guests on ''Saturday Night Live'')
• Leo Sowerby
  • 1946 Pulitzer Prize winner for Music Composition (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music)

Leadership

• Leo Baekeland (born 1863, died 1944)
  • Inventor of plastic (see list of People who overthrew the inherited ideas about logic, language, learning, mathematics, economics, space and time of the old century)
• Leo Burnett (born 1891, died 1971)
  • A leader in advertising (see list of Twenty innovators who changed the 20th century)
• Leo I - XIII

  Roman Catholic leaders.

  • Thirteen popes served under this name, from Leo I (440-461) to Leo XIII (1878-1903) (see list of Religious Leaders)

Miscellaneous

• Leo Cherne
  • 1984 recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom (see list of Presidential Medal of Freedom Winners)

Science and Philosophy

• Leo Esaki (born 1925)

  Japanese physicist known for his work with superconductors. Original name: Esaki Reiona.

  • 1973 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Leo F. Kadanoff

  Professor of Physics and Mathematics

  • 1999 National Medal of Science winner (see list of National Medal of Science Winners)
• Leo Szilard (born 1898, died 1964)

  Hungarian-American physicist.

  • Worked on chain reactions with Enrico Fermi (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)

Sports

• Leo Diegel
  • 1928-29 Professional Golf Association tournament winner (see list of PGA Champions)
• Leo Durocher

  American baseball manager.

  • Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994 (see list of Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Leo Nomellini
  • Elected to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1969 (see list of Professional Football Hall of Fame)
• Leo Sexton

  American athlete.

  • 1932 Olympic track and field gold medal winner for Shot Put (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Miscellaneous Field Events)

Stage and Screen

• Leo Carrillo (born 1880, died 1961)

  American actor.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television (see list of Television Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• ADA Leo Cohen

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Michael Silver (see list of Characters on ''NYPD Blue'')
• Leo Johnson

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Eric Da Re (see list of Characters on ''Twin Peaks'')
• Leo McCarey (born 1898, died 1969)

  American writer, director and producer.

  • Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1937, for The Awful Truth; 1944, for Going My Way (see list of Oscar Winners for Best Director)
  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Officer Leo Schnitz

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Robert Hirschfield (see list of Characters on ''Hill Street Blues'')
• Leo Townsend

  Actor and writer.

  • On The Hollywood Blacklist (see list of Blacklisted Hollywood Figures)

The Literary World

• Leo ''Joe'' Rockwell

  Fictional character.

  • Boy who tries to kill Larry in Stephen King''s novel The Stand (see list of Characters in The Stand)
• Leo Tolstoy (born 1828, died 1910)

  Russian novelist.

  • Wrote War and Peace (see list of Prose Writers of the Victorian Era)

Stage and Screen

• Leo Macias

  Fictional character.

  • Played by Marisa Paredes (see list of Character from Almodovar's The Flower of My Secret)