# Leonidas (disambiguation)

Leonidas was the king of Sparta who ruled c. 489–480 BC, and who led the allied Greek forces in a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Leonidas may also refer to:

## People
### Antiquity

* Leonidas I, Greek king of Sparta, ruled c. 489–480 BC
* Leonidas II, Greek king of Sparta, ruled c. 254–235 BC
* Leonidas of Rhodes, ancient Greek Olympic runner
* Leonidas of Tarentum, Greek poet
* Leonidas of Epirus, teacher of Alexander the Great
* Leonidas of Alexandria, Greek poet

### Saints

* Saint Leonidas (disambiguation), any of several people

### Modern times
#### Given name

Leonidas is a masculine given name mainly in Greece:
* Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian football player
* Leonidas Kestekides, founder of the Belgian chocolate company
* Leonidas Alaoglu, American mathematician of Greek descent
* Leonidas Bott, Australian cricketer
* Leonidas Burwell, Canadian businessman and politician
* Leonidas Ferreira de Paulo Junior, Brazilian football player
* Leonidas M. Godley, American Civil War Union Army soldier; recipient of the Medal of Honor
* Leonidas Hamline, 19th-century American Methodist clergyman and lawyer, and founding benefactor of Hamline University
* Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer
* Leonidas Kavakos, Greek violinist
* Leonidas Kouris, Greek politician
* Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician
* Leonidas Langakis, Greek shooter
* Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer
* Leonidas Pantelides, Cypriot diplomat
* Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek military officer and politician
* Leonidas Polk, Confederate general in the American Civil War
* Leonidas L. Polk, American agrarian leader and North Carolina's first Commissioner of Agriculture
* Leonidas Pyrgos, Greek fencer
* Leonidas I. Robinson, American Coast Guard third lieutenant
* Leonidas Sampanis, Greek weightlifter
* Leonidas Shaver, American judge from the Utah Territory
* Leonidas Skoutaris, Greek basketball player
* Leônidas Soares Damasceno, Brazilian football player
* Leonidas Jefferson Storey, American politician from Texas
* Leonidas Tsiklitiras, Greek gymnast
* Leonidas Varouxis, Greek journalist and a politician
* Leonidas Vargas, Colombian drug lord
* Leonidas Veliaroutis, Greek writer
* Leonidas Vokolos, Greek footballer

#### Surname

* Georgina Leonidas, British actress
* Stephanie Leonidas, British actress

#### Nickname

* Nate Ebner (nicknamed Leonidas), American football player in the National Football League

#### Other

* Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Dominican President

#### Fictional characters

* Leonidas (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
* Leonidas Witherall, fictional character created by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

## Places

In the United States:
* Leonidas, New Orleans, Louisiana
* Leonidas, Minnesota
* Leonidas Township, Michigan

## Vessels

* Leonidas (ship), labour ship that brought the first indentured servants from India to Fiji in 1879
* USS Leonidas, either of two ships in the US Navy
* HMS Leonidas, either of two ships in the Royal Navy

## Other uses

* ELBO Leonidas-2, Greek-built armored personnel carrier
* Epirus Leonidas, a high-power microwave (HPM) weapon system
* Leonidas (sculpture), a 5th-century BC sculpture
* Leonidas at Thermopylae, a 19th-century oil painting by Jacques-Louis David
* Leonidas, an 1894 secular oratorio by Max Bruch.
* Leonidas Squadron (Leonidas Staffel), experimental Luftwaffe unit of suicide pilots that tested crewed versions of the V-1 flying bomb
* Leonidas, the codename for Fedora 11
* Leonidas (chocolate maker), a chocolate producer
* RKSV Leonidas, a Dutch amateur football club from Rotterdam