Lesley is a placename, given name and surname, a variant of

Leslie Leslie may refer to: * Leslie (name), a name and list of people with the given name or surname, including fictional characters Families * Clan Leslie, a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast" * Leslie (Russian nobility), a Russian noble family ...

that can be male or female name and is ultimately an anglicization of a Scottish (Gaelic) placename.

Places

Fort Lesley J. McNair Fort Lesley J. McNair is a United States Army post located on the tip of Greenleaf Point, the peninsula that lies at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. To the peninsula's west is the Washington Cha ...

, American army facility * Lesley University, American academic institution

People

Given name

Lesley Baker Lesley Baker (born 20 January 1944) is an Australian actress, singer, dancer and comedian. She was well known for her early appearances on In Melbourne Tonight with Graham Kennedy. After which she went on to play several roles for Crawford Pr ...

(b. 1944), Australian actress *

Lesley Bamberger Lesley Bamberger (born 1965/1966) is a Dutch billionaire businessman, and the owner of Kroonenberg Groep, a privately held real estate company founded by his grandfather, Jacob Kroonenberg. Bamberger joined Kroonenberg Groep in 1986, and inheri ...

(born 1965/1966), Dutch billionaire, owner of Kroonenberg Groep *

Lesley Blanch Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904, London – 7 May 2007, Garavan near Menton, France) was a British writer, historian and traveller. She is best known for '' The Wilder Shores of Love'', about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and expl ...

(1904–2007), British writer and editor *

Lesley M. M. Blume Lesley M. M. Blume is an award-winning journalist, historian, and ''New York Times'' bestselling author. Early Life and Education Blume was born in New York City in 1975. She holds a B.A. in history from Williams College and earned her gradua ...

, American author * Lesley Turner Bowrey (b. 1942), Australian tennis player *

Lesley-Ann Brandt Lesley-Ann Brandt (born 2 December 1981) is a South African actress. Brandt has acted in a number of New Zealand television series and first came to international notice with her role as a slave girl Naevia in the series ''Spartacus: Blood and Sa ...

(b. 1981), South African-born actress * Lesley Choyce (b. 1951), American-born writer based in Canada *

Lesley Douglas Lesley Douglas (born 7 June 1963) is a British former radio executive. She was the Controller of BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music from early 2004 until her resignation in October 2008 over The Russell Brand Show prank calls row. Early life Lesley Dougl ...

(b. 1963), British radio executive * Lesley-Anne Down (b. 1954), British actress *

Lesley Ann Downey The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward E ...

(1954–1964), British murder victim * Lesley Duncan (1943–2010), British singer-songwriter * Lesley Dunlop (b. 1956), British actress *

Lesley Elliott (disambiguation) Lesley Elliott may refer to: * Lesley Elliott (campaigner) (1946–2022), New Zealand domestic violence prevention campaigner and nurse * Lesley Elliott (field hockey) (born 1960), New Zealand retired field hockey player {{Human name disambig ...

, multiple people * Lesley Garrett (b. 1955), British soprano *

Lesley Gill Lesley Gill is an author and a professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Her research focusses on political violence, gender, free market reforms and human rights in Latin America, especially Bolivia. She also writes about the military ...

, American anthropology professor *

Lesley Gore Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, she recorded the pop music, pop hit "It's My Party (Lesley Gore song), I ...

(1946–2015), American singer-songwriter *

Lesley Hawker Lesley Hawker (born May 1, 1981) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the Figure skating at the 2003 Winter Universiade, 2003 Winter Universiade bronze medallist, the 2003 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medallist, and a two-time Canadi ...

(b. 1981), Canadian figure skater *

Lesley Head Lesley Head is an Australian geographer specialising in human-environment relations. She is active in geographical debates about the relationship between humans and nature, using concepts and analytical methods from physical geography, archaeo ...

, Australian geographer *

Lesley Hinds Lesley Hinds is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland from 2003 to 2007. Early life and education Hinds was born on 3 August 1956 in Dundee, Scotland to Kenneth and Ena Nicol. She attended Kirkt ...

(b. 1956), Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland *

Twiggy Dame Lesley Lawson (''née'' Hornby; born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer, widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenaged model during the swinging '60s in London. ...

(born Lesley Hornby, 1949), British model and actress *

Lesley Joseph Lesley Diana Joseph (born 14 October 1945) is an English actress and broadcaster, best known for playing Dorien Green in the television sitcom '' Birds of a Feather'' from 1989 to 1998 and again from 2014 to 2020. Other television credits incl ...

(b. 1945), British actress *

Lesley Judd Lesley Judd (born 20 December 1946) is an English former television presenter and dancer, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's programme '' Blue Peter'' (1972–1979). Background Born in London, the daughter of Leslie T. Judd ...

(b. 1946), British actress *

Lesley Langley Lesley Doreen Langley (born 26 March 1944 in Weymouth, Dorset, with the name Lesley Hill, which she changed to Leslie Langley to make it more artistic) is a British model, beauty queen and actress who was Miss United Kingdom and Miss World in 196 ...

(b. 1944/5), Miss World 1965 from Britain *

Lesley Magnus Lesley Magnus (born October 6, 1977 in Tisdale, Saskatchewan) is a field hockey player from Oliver, British Columbia, Canada, who was first selected with the Canada women's national field hockey team, Women's National Team for the 2000 Test Series ...

(b. 1977), Canadian field hockey player *

Lesley Manville Lesley Ann Manville (born 12 March 1956) is an English actress known for her frequent collaborations with Mike Leigh, appearing in the films ''Grown-Ups'' (1980), '' High Hopes'' (1988), '' Secrets & Lies'' (1996), ''Topsy-Turvy'' (1999), '' A ...

(b. 1956), British actress * Lesley J. McNair (1883–1944), American military officer *

Lesley Mahmood Lesley Elizabeth Mahmood is a British politician. She was active in Militant and Liverpool politics along with her brother Roy Farrar in the 1970s and 1980s. Mahmood was prominent in the Liverpool District Labour Party's campaign for more mon ...

(b. 1942), British politician *

Lesley Molseed Lesley is a placename, given name and surname, a variant of Leslie that can be male or female name and is ultimately an anglicization of a Scottish (Gaelic) placename. Places * Fort Lesley J. McNair, American army facility * Lesley University, Am ...

(1964–1975), British murder victim * Lesley Jean Murdoch (b. 1956), New Zealand cricketer *

Lesley Rumball Lesley Marie Rumball (née Nicol, born 9 May 1973) is a former New Zealand netball player. Rumball played with the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns, from 1993 to 2005. She represented New Zealand in 109 tests to become the se ...

(b. 1973), New Zealand netball player * Lesley Sanderson (b. 1985/6), contestant on the British ''Big Brother'' TV series *

Lesley Scott ''The Ark'' is the fifth serial of the Doctor Who (season 3), third season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 March 1966. The serial is set at least t ...

, contributing writer to ''Doctor Who'' * Lesley Sharp (b. 1964), British actress *

Lesley Soper Lesley Frances Soper (born 5 November 1954) is a former New Zealand politician of the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. Political career She was a Labour Party List MP, list member of Parliament for several months in 2005, replacing ...

(b. 1954), New Zealand politician *

Lesley Stahl Lesley Rene Stahl (born December 16, 1941) is an American television journalist. She has spent most of her career with CBS News, where she began as a producer in 1971. Since 1991, she has reported for CBS's ''60 Minutes''. She is known for her ne ...

(b. 1941), American broadcast journalist * Lesley Vainikolo (b. 1979), New Zealand rugby player *

Lesley Visser Lesley Candace Visser (born September 11, 1953) is an American sportscaster, television and radio personality, and sportswriter. Visser is the first female NFL analyst on TV, and the only sportscaster in history who has worked on Final Four, ...

(b. 1953), American sports broadcaster * Lesley Ward, Australian mathematician * Lesley Ann Warren (b. 1946), American actress *

Lesley Waters Lesley Waters (born 3 April 1960) is an English celebrity chef. She regularly appeared on such cookery programmes as ''Ready Steady Cook'', and is currently one of the featured chefs on '' This Morning''. Career Waters studied French Cuisine a ...

(b. 1960), British celebrity chef *

Lesley Whittle British teenager Lesley Whittle was kidnapped on 14 January 1975, and her body discovered on 7 March 1975. Her kidnapping and murder dominated national headlines for 11 months. The investigation involved over 400 officers from the West Mercia ...

(1957–1975), British murder victim

Surname

Brad Lesley Bradley Jay Lesley (September 11, 1958 – April 28, 2013) was an American actor, media personality and former professional baseball pitcher. Lesley was an especially imposing physical figure, standing and weighing . Nicknamed "The Animal", he w ...

(1958–2013), American baseball player *

Caroline Lesley Caroline Lesley is an American-Canadian actor and singer. She had a role in the movie ''Fruitvale Station'' which won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Sundance Film Festival, and the Future Award at Cannes Film Festival. Lesley's recent w ...

(b. 1978), Canadian actress *

John Lesley John Lesley (or Leslie) (29 September 1527 – 31 May 1596) was a Scottish Roman Catholic bishop and historian. His father was Gavin Lesley, rector of Kingussie, Badenoch. Early career He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, where he ...

(1527–1596), Scottish bishop and historian *

Peter Lesley Joseph Peter Lesley (September 17, 1819 – June 1, 1903) was an American geologist. Biography Peter Lesley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 17, 1819. It is recorded by Sir Archibald Geikie that he was christened Peter after ...

(1819–1903), American geologist

Fictional characters

* Lesley May, character in the novel series ''

Rivers of London Rivers of London may refer to * Blue Ribbon Network, a policy element of the London Plan relating to the navigable waterways of London * ''Rivers of London'' (novel), a 2011 urban fantasy novel by Ben Aaronovitch :* Peter Grant (book series) - t ...

'' * Lesley Smiles, character in the animated television series '' CJ the DJ'' * Lesley Webber, character in American soap opera ''

General Hospital ''General Hospital'' (often abbreviated as ''GH'') is an American daytime television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the list of longest-running television shows by category, longest-running American soap opera in pro ...

'' * Lesley, playable character in the mobile game '' Mobile Legends: Bang Bang''

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