Leo (given name)
Leo is a masculine first name, Greek Leon, Λέων. He is also the short form of various names that include this element:
- Male as a short form of Leopold, Leon ( h) ard, or Leonid Leas
- Female as a short form of Leon Tina, Leonora, Leonore, Leoni (s) or Leona
Famous bearers of the name
Popes
- Leo the Great ( 440-461 ), Holy
- Leo II ( 682-683 ), Holy
- Leo III. ( 795-816 ), Holy
- Leo IV ( 847-855 ), Holy
- Leo V 903
- Leo VI. 928
- Leo VII ( 936-939 )
- Leo VIII ( 963-965 )
- Leo IX. (1049-1054), Holy
- Leo X (1513-1521)
- Leo XI. 1605
- Leo XII. (1823-1829)
- Leo XIII. (1878-1903)
Byzantine Emperor
More common Leon
- Leo I ( Byzantium ) ( 401-474 )
- Leo II ( Byzantine) ( 467-474 )
- Leo III. ( Byzantium ) ( 680-741 )
- Leo IV ( Byzantine) ( 750-780 )
- Leo V ( Byzantine) ( 775-820 )
- Leo VI. ( Byzantium ) ( 866-912 )
Armenian kings
- Leo I (Armenia ) ( 1129-1140 )
- Leo II (Armenia ) ( 1187-1219 )
- Leon III. (Armenia ) ( 1270-1289 )
- Leon IV (Armenia ) ( 1301-1307 )
- Leon V. (Armenia ) ( 1320-1341 )
- Leon VI. (Armenia ) ( 1374-1393 )
Abkhazian rulers
- Leo I ( Abkhazia ) ( 735 -ca. 791 )
- Leo II ( Abkhazia ) (ca. 791 -ca. 811 )
- Leo III. ( Abkhazia ), the Great ( 957-967 )
Various
- Leo Aberer (* 1978 ), Austrian singer
- Leo Africanus (actually al -Hassan Ibn Muhammad al- Wessan ) (* 1490, † after 1554 ), the Arab traveler Africa
- Léo Apotheker (* 1953), German manager
- Leo Bardischewski (1914-1995), German actor and voice actor
- Leo Caesar, the Byzantine prince ( 476-477 )
- Léo Delibes (1836-1891), French composer
- Leo the Deacon (c. 950 ), Byzantine historian
- Leo Drabent (1899-1944), German shipyard workers, communist and resistance fighter
- Léo Errera (1858-1905), Belgian botanist
- Leon Grammatikos, Byzantine chronicler
- Leoš Janáček (1854-1928), Czech composer
- Leo Kirch (1926-2011), German media entrepreneur
- Leo Lania (1896-1961), German author
- Léo Legrand ( * 1995), French actor
- Leo Maasburg ( * 1948 ), Austrian clergyman
- Leo de Maeyer (* 1927), a Belgian physicist and chemist
- Leon the Mathematician, Byzantine scholar
- Leo Mathisen (1906-1969), Danish jazz bandleader and pianist
- Leo of Naples, Archi presbyter ( pastor ) of the 10th century
- Leo Nomellini (1924-2000), U.S. American football player
- Leo Pröstler ( b. 1947 ), businessman and environmentalist
- Leo Schubert (1885-1968), Sudeten German politician ( NSDAP)
- Leo Simon (* 1934), German theologian
- Leo Stein ( librettist ) ( 1861-1921 ), Austrian librettist and author
- Leo Stein ( art collector ) ( 1872-1947 ), American art collector
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Marxist revolutionary
Fictional people
- Leo Kress, TV character in the series The Old Man
- Leo Wyatt, TV character in the series Charmed - Magical Witches
- Leo Gra, coroner in Kommissar Rex