Leonas is a Lithuanian masculine

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and

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; often a diminutive of Leonardas, and a Lithuanianized form of "

Leon Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

". Leonas () was also a GreekSuda, la.269
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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 (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 (, ''Próklos ho Diádokhos''), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers of late antiquity. He set forth one of th ...

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/ref> * 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 (born 1942), Lithuanian politician *

Leonas Petrauskas Leonas Eugenijus Petrauskas (1919 – 18 July 1994) was a Lithuanians, Lithuanian basketball player. He won two gold medals with the Lithuania men's national basketball team, Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937 and EuroBask ...

(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

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