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
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