Leonard instance of male given name
Leonard or Leo is a common English masculine given name and a surname.
The given name and surname originate from the Old High German Leonhard containing the prefix levon ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin Leo, and the suffix hardu ("brave" or "hardy"). The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages period, known as the patron saint of prisoners.Leonard is also an Irish origin surname, from the Gaelic O'Leannain also found as O'Leonard, but often was anglicised to just Leonard, consisting of the prefix O ("descendant of") and the suffix Leannan ("lover"). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany.In other languages
Armenian: Լեոնարդ (Leonard)
Croatian: Leonard
Czech: Leonard
French: Léonard
Georgian: ლეონარდ (Leonard)
German: Leonard, Leonhard, Leonhardt, Lennart
Greek: Λεονάρδος (Leonárdos)
Hebrew: לֵב־אֲרִי (Lév-Ari)
Hungarian: Lénárd, Leonárd
Italian: Leonardo
Latvian: Linards
Lithuanian: Leonardas
Māori: Renātā
Maltese: Nardu
Polish: Leonard
Portuguese: Leonardo
Romanian: Leonard
Russian: Леонард (Leonard)
Serbian: Леонард (Leonard)
Spanish: Leonardo
Swedish: Lennart
Yiddish: לעאָנאַרד (Leonard)
Ukrainian: ЛевGiven name
Leonard Adleman (born 1945), American computer scientist
Léonard Autié (1751–1820), French hairdresser
Leonard Baskin (1922–2000), American artist
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American conductor and composer
Leonard Burton (born 1964), American football player
Leonard of Chios (died 1458), Catholic archbishop
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), Canadian singer-songwriter
Leonard Cheshire (1917–1992), British philanthropist
Leonard Doroftei (born 1970), Romanian boxer
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician
Leonardo Fibonacci (c. 1170 – after 1240), Italian mathematician
Leonard Fairley (born 1951), American football player
Leonard Fournette (born 1995), American football player
Leonhard Fuchs (1501–1566), German physician and natural historian
Leonard Hackney (1855–1938), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann (born 1934), British judge
Leonard Humphries (born 1970), American football player
Leonard Labatt (1838–1897), Swedish tenor
Leonard Lance (born 1952), American politician
Leonard Lansink (born 1956), German actor
Leonard "Lenny" Kravitz (born 1964), American singer and songwriter
Leonard M. Kravitz (1931–1951), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Leonard Francis Lindoy (born 1937), Australian chemist
Leonard Livingston (1920–1998), Australian cricketer
Leonard Maltin (born 1950), American film critic and film historian
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954), American physicist and writer
Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015), American actor and film director
Leonard of Noblac (died 559), Frankish nobleman
Leonard Peikoff (born 1933), Canadian philosopher
Leonard Peltier(born 1944), American Activist
Leonard Pitts (born 1957), American journalist
Leonard of Port Maurice (1676–1751), Italian saint
Abeyratne Cudah Leonard Ratwatte (1909-1971), Sri Lankan Sinhala politician and diplomat
Leonard Roberts (born 1972), American actor
Leonard "Lennie" Rosenbluth (1933–2022), American basketball player
Leonard Rosenman (1924–2008), American composer
Leonard Rossiter (1926–1984), English actor
Leonard Alfred Schneider (1925–1966), AKA Lenny Bruce, American stand-up comedian, social critic, & satirist
Leonard Silverman (1930–2015), New York politician and judge
Leonard Slatkin (born 1944), American conductor
Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg (1936–2009), British businessman
Leonard Stone (1923–2011), American actor
Leonard Sumner, indigenous Canadian singer-songwriter
Leonard Susskind (born 1940), American theoretical physicist
Leonard Thompson (footballer) (1901–1968), British football player
Leonard Merlyn Wickramasuriya (1916-2002), Sri Lankan Sinhala army brigadier
Leonard Woolley (1880–1960), British archaeologist
Leonard Wong, American military writer
Leonard Wu, American actor, writer and producer
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