Leo (given name)
The given name Leo comes from the Latin word leo, meaning "lion". It can also be a nickname for a name such as Leonard or Leopold.
The name can refer to several people:
In history:
- Leo the Great, Pope
- The name of 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 Durocher, American baseball player and manager
- Leo Fortune-West, English footballer
- 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 Kliesen, a German spelunker whose fighting style is Bajiquan in the Tekken series
- Leo Kovalensky, from the novel "We the Living" by Ayn Rand
Other people:
- Léo, Brazilian comics writer
- Léo Stronda, Brazilian singer
- Leo Arnaud, French-American composer
- Leo de Berardinis (1940-2008), Italian stage actor and theatre director
- Leo G. Carroll, English actor
- 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 Gorcey, American actor
- 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
- Jung Taekwoon Kpop group VIXX's member, stage name Leo