Leonid
Leonid is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Léonide.
People with the name include:
- Leonid Andreyev , Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature
- Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the USSR from 1964 to 1982
- Leonid Buryak, USSR/Ukraine-born Olympic-medal-winning soccer player and coach
- Leonid Bykov, Soviet and Ukrainian actor, film director, and script writer
- Leonid Desyatnikov, Soviet and Russian opera and film composer
- Leonid Feodorov, a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, and survivor of the Gulag
- Leonid Filatov, Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer
- Leonid Filatov, stage name Leonid the Magnificent, Russian performance artist
- Leonid Gaidai,, Soviet comedy film director
- Leonid Geishtor, USSR -born Olympic champion Canadian pairs sprint canoer
- Leonid Gobyato, Russian lieutenant-general and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar
- Leonid Hurwicz, Russian-born American economist and mathematician who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Leonid Ivanov, several people
- Leonid Kadeniuk, first and only astronaut of independent Ukraine to fly into outer space
- Leonid Kharitonov , Soviet and Russian bass-baritone singer
- Leonid Kogan, Soviet and Russian violinist
- Leonid Kantorovich Soviet and Russian mathematician, economist, and only winner from the USSR of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- Leonid Kolumbet, Soviet and Ukrainian Olympic cyclist
- Leonid Krasin, Soviet and Russian engineer and politician
- Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician and first President of Ukraine
- Leonid Kuchma, second President of Ukraine
- Leonid Kuravlyov, Soviet and Russian actor
- Leonid Levin, Soviet-American computer scientist
- Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin, French transliteration: Léonide Massine, Russian choreographer and ballet dancer
- Leonid Mezheritski, Soviet and Israeli still-life, portrait and landscape painter
- Leonid Moseyev, Soviet and Russian long-distance runner
- Leonid Pasternak, Russian Impressionist painter
- Leonid Reiman , Russian businessman and government official, currently Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation
- Leonid Rozhetskin,, Russian-American financier and lawyer who disappeared in 2008; remains found in 2013
- Leonid Sagayduk, Soviet swimmer
- Leonid Sobinov, Russian opera singer
- Leonid Stadnyk, Ukrainian man named "world's tallest living man" by Guinness World Records 2008
- Leonid Stein, Soviet Grandmaster chess player from Ukraine among the top ten players in the 1960s
- Leonid Taranenko, 1980 Olympic weightlifting champion for the Soviet Union
- Leonid Teyf, Russian-Israeli businessman
- Leonid Toptunov, reactor control engineer killed in the Chernobyl disaster
- Leonid Utyosov , Soviet and Russian jazz singer and comic actor
- Leonid Alexandrovich Voskresenskiy, Soviet rocket engineer and launch director for Sputnik
- Leonid Zhabotinsky, Soviet weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist
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