Leonid (russian: Леонид ; uk, Леонід ; be, Леанід, Ljeaníd ) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

version is Leonide. People with the name include: * Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature * Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), leader of the USSR from 1964 to 1982 * Leonid Buryak (b. 1953), USSR/Ukraine-born Olympic-medal-winning soccer player and coach * Leonid Bykov (1928–1979), Soviet and Ukrainian actor, film director, and script writer * Leonid Desyatnikov (b. 1955), Soviet and Russian opera and film composer * Leonid Feodorov (1879–1935), a bishop and

Exarch An exarch (; from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος ''exarchos'', meaning “leader”) was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical. In the late Roman Empire and ea ...

for the Russian Catholic Church, and survivor of the Gulag * Leonid Filatov (1946–2003), Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer * Leonid Gaidai, (1923–1993), Soviet comedy film director * Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs sprint canoer *

Leonid Gobyato Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato (russian: Леонид Николаевич Гобято; 6 February 1875 – 21 May 1915) was a lieutenant-general (awarded posthumously in 1915) in the Imperial Russian Army and designer of the modern, man-portabl ...

(1875–1915), Russian lieutenant-general and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar * Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), Russian-born American economist and mathematician who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics * Leonid Ivanov (disambiguation), several people * Leonid Kadeniuk (b. 1951), first and only astronaut of independent Ukraine to fly into outer space * Leonid Kharitonov (singer) (1933–2017), Soviet and Russian bass-baritone singer * Leonid Khrushchev (1917–1943), missing aviator * Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), Soviet and Russian violinist * Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) Soviet and Russian mathematician, economist, and only winner from the USSR of the Nobel Prize in Economics * Leonid Kolumbet (b. 1937), Soviet and Ukrainian Olympic cyclist * Leonid Kostandov (1915–1984), Soviet politician * Leonid Krasin (1870–1926), Soviet and Russian engineer and politician * Leonid Kravchuk (1934–2022), Ukrainian politician and first President of Ukraine * Leonid Krupnik (b. 1979), Ukrainian-born American-Israeli former soccer player and current soccer coach * Leonid Kuchma (b. 1938), second President of Ukraine * Leonid Kuravlyov (1936–2022), Soviet and Russian actor * Leonid Levin (b. 1948), Soviet-American computer scientist *Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin, French transliteration:

Léonide Massine Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (russian: Леони́д Фёдорович Мя́син), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (15 March 1979), was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. Massine created the wo ...

(1896–1979), Russian choreographer and ballet dancer *Leonid Mezheritski (1930–2007), Soviet and Israeli still-life, portrait and landscape painter *Leonid Moseyev (b. 1952), Soviet and Russian long-distance runner *Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), Russian Impressionism, Impressionist painter *Leonid Reiman (or Reyman) (b. 1957), Russian businessman and government official, currently Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation *Leonid Rozhetskin, (1966–20??), Russian-American financier and lawyer who disappeared in 2008; remains found in 2013 *Leonid Sagayduk (1929–1998), Soviet swimmer *Leonid Sigal, Russian violinist and conductor *Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), Russian opera singer *Leonid Stadnyk (1970–2014), Ukrainian man named "world's tallest living man" by ''Guinness World Records 2008 *Leonid Stein (b. 1934), Soviet Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster chess player from Ukraine among the top ten players in the 1960s *Leonid Taranenko (b. 1956), 1980 Olympic weightlifting champion for the Soviet Union *Leonid Teyf, Russian-Israeli businessman *Leonid Toptunov (1960–1986), reactor control engineer killed in the Chernobyl disaster *Leonid Utyosov (Leyzer (Lazar) Vaysbeyn, or Weissbein) (1895–1982), Soviet and Russian jazz singer and comic actor *Leonid Volkov (politician), Leonid Volkov (b. 1980), Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, Russian opposition politician, Technology specialist, IT specialist, Alexei Navalny аssociate *Leonid Voskresensky (1913–1965), Soviet rocket engineer and launch director for Sputnik *Leonid Yakubovich (b. 1945), Russian television host *Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938–2016), Soviet weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist Fictional characters include: *Leonid, the protagonist in Alexander Bogdanov’s 1908 Russian science fiction novel ''Red Star (novel), Red Star'' *Leonid, the protagonist in the Sergey Lukyanenko bibliography#Labyrinth, Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written in the late 1990s by Russian science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko (''Labyrinth of Reflections'', ''False Mirrors'', and ''Transparent Stained-Glass Windows''). *Leonid Gorbovsky, in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe *Leonid Kovar, Russian superhero also known as Red Star (comics), Red Star *Leonid McGill, Manhattan private detective in fiction written by Walter Mosley *Leonid Pavel, Russian nuclear scientist in ''The Dark Knight Rises''

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