Leonas is a
Lithuanian
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masculine
given name
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and
surname
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;
often a diminutive of
Leonardas
Leonardas is a Lithuanian masculine given name.
List of people named Leonardas
*Leonardas Abramavičius (?-1960), Lithuanian chess player
*Leonardas Andriekus
Leonardas Andriekus (born July 15, 1914 in Barstyčiai, district of Mažeikiai
...
, and a Lithuanianized form of "
Leon".
Leonas ( grc, Λεωνᾶς) was also a Greek
[Suda, la.269]
/ref>[A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology William Smith, Ed., Proclus](_blank)
/ref> and a Latin name.
Surname
*Petras Leonas
Petras Leonas (1864–1938) was a Lithuanian attorney and politician, the first Minister of Justice of the newly independent Lithuania in 1918.
After graduating from Moscow University in 1889, Leonas held a government job at various courts in S ...
(1864–1938), Lithuanian attorney and politician
*Silvestras Leonas
Silvestras Leonas (1894–1959) was a Lithuanian military officer. After serving in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I, Leonas joined the Lithuanian Army and fought in the Lithuanian Wars of Independence. He completed law studies at t ...
(1894–1959), Lithuanian military officer and judge
Given name
*Leonas, a Greek rhetorician and sophist. Mentor of the philosopher Proclus
Proclus Lycius (; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485), called Proclus the Successor ( grc-gre, Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος, ''Próklos ho Diádokhos''), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers ...
[Marinus, Life of Proclus, 8-9]
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* Leonas Alesionka (born 1949), Lithuanian politician
* Leonas Apšega (born 1940), Lithuanian politician
* Leonas Baltrūnas (1914–1993), Lithuanian basketball player and coach
* Leonas Bistras (1890–1971), Lithuanian politician, journalist, translator, philosopher and professor
* Leonas Juozapaitis (1901–1980), Lithuanian footballer
* Leonas Koganas (1894–1956), Lithuanian physician
*Leonas Milčius
Leonas Milčius (born 11 December 1942) is a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 1 ...
(born 1942), Lithuanian politician
* Leonas Petrauskas (1919–1994), Lithuanian basketball player
* Leonas Prapuolenis (1913–1972), Lithuanian public figure, commander and leader of the June Uprising of 1941 in Lithuania
* Leonas Sapiega (1557–1633), Lithuanian nobleman and statesman
References
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Lithuanian masculine given names
Lithuanian-language surnames