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 Leonid Grigorievich Geishtor; also Geyshtor (russian: Леонид Григорьевич Гейштор) (born October 15, 1936, in Homel, Belarusian SSR) is a Soviet Union, Soviet-born Belarusian canoe racing, sprint canoeist who competed ...

(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-porta ...

(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) Leonid Ivanov may refer to: * Leonid Ivanov (basketball) (1944–2010), Soviet basketball player * Leonid Ivanov (botanist), Russian botanist * Leonid Ivanov (footballer) (1921–1990), Soviet international footballer * Leonid Ivanov (pilot) (1909� ...

, 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 Leonid Yakovlevich Mezheritski (, Pronunciation: eoˈnid ˈyakovlevich meʒeˈrit͡skij 11 December 1930 - 12 November 2007), was a Ukrainian and Russian (Soviet) artist, still-life, portrait and landscape painter. Biography Leonid Mezheritsk ...

(1930–2007), Soviet and Israeli still-life, portrait and landscape painter * Leonid Moseyev (b. 1952), Soviet and Russian long-distance runner *

Leonid Pasternak Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (born ''Yitzhok-Leib'', or ''Isaak Iosifovich, Pasternak''; russian: Леони́д О́сипович Пастерна́к, 3 April 1862 ( N.S.) – 31 May 1945) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. He was the f ...

(1862–1945), Russian

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

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 Leonid Georgiyevich Sagayduk (1929–1998) was a Soviet swimmer and swimming coach. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in the 100 m backstroke, but failed to reach the final. He won four national backstroke titles in 1951, 1956, 1957 and 195 ...

(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 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 Leonid Isaakovich Teyf is a Russian-Israeli businessman and accused White-collar crime, white-collar criminal. He served as the deputy director of Voentorg, a company that contracted with the Russian Ministry of Defense to provide goods and servi ...

, Russian-Israeli businessman *

Leonid Toptunov Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov ( uk, Леонід Федорович Топтунов, russian: Леонид Фёдорович Топтунов; 16 August 1960 – 14 May 1986) was a Soviet engineer who was the senior reactor control chief engineer a ...

(1960–1986), reactor control engineer killed in the

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...

* Leonid Utyosov (Leyzer (Lazar) Vaysbeyn, or Weissbein) (1895–1982), Soviet and Russian jazz singer and comic actor * Leonid Volkov (b. 1980), Russian opposition politician, IT specialist,

Alexei Navalny Alexei Anatolievich Navalny ( rus, links=no, Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, , ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; born 4 June 1976) is a Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, Russian opposition ...

аssociate *

Leonid Voskresensky Leonid Alexandrovich Voskresensky (russian: Леонид Александрович Воскресенский; 14 June 1913 – 14 December 1965) was a Soviet rocket engineer and long-time associate of Chief Designer Sergei Korolev. He serve ...

(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 Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and B ...

’s 1908 Russian science fiction novel ''

Red Star A red star, five-pointed and filled, is a symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century. I ...

'' *Leonid, the protagonist in the Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written in the late 1990s by Russian science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko (''

Labyrinth of Reflections Sergei Vasilyevich Lukyanenko (russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Лукья́ненко, ; born 11 April 1968) is a Russian science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, ...

'', ''

False Mirrors ''False Mirrors'' (russian: Фальшивые зеркала) is the second novel in the Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko. The novel takes place two years after ''Labyrinth of Ref ...

'', 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

*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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