Leo (given name)

The given name Leo can refer to:

In history:

• Leo the Great, Pope
• The name twelve other popes
• Patriarch Leo of Constantinople (fl. 1134-1143)
• Six Byzantine emperors
• Five kings of Armenian Cilicia

In sports:

• Leo Barry, Australian Rules Football player
• Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football (soccer) manager
• Leo Bosschart, Dutch football (soccer) player
• Leo Klein Gebbink, Dutch field hockey player
• Leo Mazzone, pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves and the Baltimore Orioles
• Leo Messi, Argentinian soccer player
• Leo Peelen, Dutch track cyclist
• Leo Visser, Dutch ice speed skater
• Leo van Vliet, Dutch road bicycle racer
• Usain St. Leo Bolt, Olympic athlete
• Leo Howard star of Disney XD's Kickin' It

Fictional characters:

• Leo Corbett, on the television series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
• Leo Jones (Doctor Who), on the television series Doctor Who
• Leo McGarry, on the television series The West Wing
• Leo Wyatt, on the television series Charmed
• Uncle Leo, on the television series Seinfeld
• Leo Valdez, demigod son of Hephaestus from Heroes of Olympus
• Leo Kovalensky, from the novel "We the Living" by Ayn Rand

Other people:

• Léo, Brazilian comics writer
• Leo Arnaud, French-American composer
• Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel Laureate
• Leo Fender (1909-1991), maker of electric guitars
• Leo Frank, American Jew murdered by a lynch mob in 1915
• Leo Irakliotis, Greek computer scientist
• Leo Jogiches, Marxist revolutionary
• Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer and actor
• Leo Laporte, American technology broadcaster and author
• Leo Major, French-Canadian World War II hero
• Léo Rispal, French singer
• Leo Ryan, California Congressman; killed at Jonestown
• Leo Strauss, American political philosopher
• Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist
• Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
• Leo Sayer, Pop Musician

See also

• Leo (surname)