Leslie
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| Gender | Female or Male |
| Meaning | garden of hollies, grey fortress, or garden by the pool |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Leslie |
Leslie (Gaelic, derived from a surname meaning 'garden of hollies', 'grey fortress', or 'garden by the pool')[1] can refer to any of the following:
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[edit] Places
in Canada:
- Leslie Street, a road in Toronto, Ontario
- Leslie (TTC), a subway station located on the above road
- Leslie Street Spit, an artificial spit in Toronto, south of the above road.
in Scotland:
- Leslie, Aberdeenshire
- Leslie, Fife
in the United States of America:
- Leslie, Arkansas
- Leslie, Georgia
- Leslie, Michigan
- Leslie Township, Michigan
- Leslie Township, Minnesota
in Australia
- Leslie Dam, a dam in Warwick South West Queensland
[edit] Other
- The Clan Leslie is a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast".
- The Leslie speaker system, named after its inventor, Donald Leslie
[edit] People
The following people bear the first name Leslie:
- the character played by Elizabeth Taylor in the film Giant
- Leslie (comedienne), American stand-up comedian and actress
- Leslie (singer), French R&B singer
- Leslie Bohem, a screenwriter who wrote Dante's Peak and Taken, among others
- Leslie Caron, French actress
- Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor-singer (1956—2003)
- Leslie Cochran, famous vagrant transvestite of Austin, Texas
- Leslie Crocker Snyder, American lawyer and former judge
- Leslie Erganian, American artist
- Leslie Erven, top equestrian of Canada
- Leslie Feist, Canadian singer
- Leslie Townes Hope, American actor-comedian known as Bob Hope
- Leslie Hornby, British model known as Twiggy
- Leslie Howard (actor), British actor
- Leslie Howard (musician), Australian pianist and composer
- Leslie Lamport, American computer scientist
- Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the birth name of 38th President Gerald R. Ford
- Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS
- Leslie Nielsen, American-Canadian actor
- Leslie Stephen, English author and critic
- Leslie Uggams, American actress
- Leslie Kwok, Singapore's ex-national swimmer.
The following people bear the surname of Leslie:
- Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross
- Alexander Leslie (c.1580-1661), First Earl of Leven
- Andrew Leslie (born 1957), Chief of the Land Staff and Commander Land Forces Command of the Canadian Forces
- Charles Leslie (1650-1722) British Jacobite nonjuror and controversialist
- Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859), American genre painter
- Edgar Leslie (1885-1976), American songwriter, Lyricist, charter member of ASCAP
- Frank Leslie (1821-80), Publisher of Frank Leslie's Weekly
- Frank Leslie (Medal of Honor), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Franklin Leslie Western gunfighter
- Henry David Leslie (1822-1896), English composer and conductor
- John Andrew Leslie (born 1940) Canadian philosopher
- Sir John Leslie (1766-1832), Scottish mathematician and physicist
- Lew Leslie (1886-1963), Broadway producer
- Lisa Leslie (born 1972), female basketball player
- Miriam Leslie (1828-1914), wife of Frank Leslie
- Patrick Leslie (1815-1881), an early settler in Australia
- Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie (1827-82), Irish economist
- Walter Leslie, Lord of Ross
- Lieutenant Leslie, a character from Star Trek, played by Eddie Paskey.
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