Leonidas Leonidas I (; , ''Leōnídas''; born ; died 11 August 480 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. He was the son of king Anaxandridas II and the 17th king of the Agiad dynasty, a Spartan royal house which claimed descent fro ...

was the king of Sparta who ruled c. 489–480 BC, and who led the allied Greek forces in a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas may also refer to:

People

Antiquity

Leonidas I Leonidas I (; , ''Leōnídas''; born ; died 11 August 480 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. He was the son of king Anaxandridas II and the 17th king of the Agiad dynasty, a Spartan royal house which claimed descent fro ...

, Greek king of Sparta, ruled c. 489–480 BC *

Leonidas II Leonidas II (; , ''Leōnídas B, "Lion's son, Lion-like") was the 28th Agiad King of Sparta from 254 to 242 BC and from 241 to 235 BC. Biography Leonidas was the son of Cleonymus of Sparta, Cleonymus and grandson of King Cleomenes II () of the L ...

, Greek king of Sparta, ruled c. 254–235 BC * Leonidas of Rhodes, ancient Greek Olympic runner *

Leonidas of Tarentum Leonidas of Tarentum (; Doric Greek: ) was an epigrammatist and Lyric poetry, lyric poet. He lived in Italy in the third century B.C. at Tarentum, on the coast of Apulia (Magna Graecia). Over a hundred of his epigrams are present in the Greek A ...

, Greek poet *

Leonidas of Epirus Leonidas of Epirus (Greek: Λεωνίδας ο Ηπειρώτης) or ''Leuconides'' (Greek: Λευκονίδης), was a tutor of Alexander the Great. A kinsman of Alexander's mother, Olympias, he was entrusted with the main superintendence of A ...

, teacher of Alexander the Great * Leonidas of Alexandria, Greek poet

Saints

* Saint Leonidas (disambiguation), any of several people

Modern times

Given name

''Leonidas'' is a masculine given name mainly in Greece: *

Leônidas (footballer, born 1913) Leônidas da Silva (; 6 September 1913 – 24 January 2004) was a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. He is regarded as one of the most important players of the first ...

, Brazilian football player born 1913 *

Leônidas (footballer, born 1995) Leônidas Soares Damasceno (born 17 October 1995), commonly known as Leonidas, is a Brazilian football midfielder who plays for Valadares Gala. Career Leonidas is a product of Fluminense FC and Goiás Esporte Clube youth sportive systems. Durin ...

, Brazilian football player born 1995 *

Leonidas Kestekides Leonidas Kestekides (1876–1948) (Greek: Λεωνίδας Κεστεκίδης) was an Ottoman empire-born Greek chocolate manufacturer, founder of the internationally famous Leonidas company in Belgium. The company's primary focus is pralin ...

, founder of the Belgian chocolate company *

Leonidas Alaoglu Leonidas (''Leon'') Alaoglu (; March 19, 1914 – August 1981) was a mathematician best known for Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach–Alaoglu theo ...

, American mathematician of Greek descent * Leonidas Bott, Australian cricketer * Leonidas Burwell, Canadian businessman and politician * Leonidas Ferreira de Paulo Junior, Brazilian football player * Leonidas M. Godley, American Civil War Union Army soldier; recipient of the Medal of Honor * Leonidas Hamline, 19th-century American Methodist clergyman and lawyer, and founding benefactor of Hamline University *

Leonidas Kampantais Leonidas Kampantais (; born 8 March 1982) is a Greek professional footballer who last played as a striker for Atlantis Anthoussa. Career Aris Born in Athens, Greece, Kampantais began his professional career at Aris in 2002, appearing in 11 ma ...

, Greek footballer *

Leonidas Kavakos Leonidas Kavakos (; born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. He has won several international violin competition prizes, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions. He is an Onassis Foundation sc ...

, Greek violinist *

Leonidas Kouris Leonidas Kouris () (born in Athens, 1949) is a Greek politician; former mayor of Athens and prefect of eastern Attica Attica (, ''Attikḗ'' (Ancient Greek) or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the en ...

, Greek politician * Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician *

Leonidas Langakis Leon Langakis () was a Greek shooter. Langakis participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in ...

, Greek shooter *

Leonidas Panagopoulos Leonidas Panagopoulos (, born 3 January 1987) is a Greek footballer who plays as a goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a ...

, Greek footballer *

Leonidas Pantelides Leonidas Pantelides () (born 11 January 1953, in Nicosia) is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cyprus to Sweden, Greece and Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Euro ...

, Cypriot diplomat *

Leonidas Paraskevopoulos Leonidas Paraskevopoulos (; 7 October 1860 – 16 May 1936) was a Greek military officer and politician. He played a major role in Greece's war effort during the First World War, and was the commander-in-chief of the Army of Asia Minor during the ...

, Greek military officer and politician *

Leonidas Polk Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk (April 10, 1806 – June 14, 1864) was a Confederate general, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separat ...

, Confederate general in the American Civil War * Leonidas L. Polk, American agrarian leader and North Carolina's first Commissioner of Agriculture *

Leonidas Pyrgos Leonidas "Leon" Pyrgos (, born 1874 in Mantineia, Arcadia; date of death unknown) was a Greek fencer. Career Pyrgos was the first Greek Olympic medallist in the history of the modern Olympic Games, winning his fencing event of the 1896 Summe ...

, Greek fencer * Leonidas I. Robinson, American Coast Guard third lieutenant *

Leonidas Sampanis Leonidas Sabanis (, ; born 28 October 1971), sometimes spelled Leonidas Sampanis, is a Greek retired weightlifter, born in the city of Korce, Albania. He represented Albania in the 1989 European Weightlifting Championship. He switched allegiance ...

, Greek weightlifter *

Leonidas Shaver Leonidas Shaver (died June 29, 1855) was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory from 1852 to 1855. Shaver was appointed by President Millard Fillmore in September 1852 to replace Perry E. Brocchus, whom the president had removed fr ...

, American judge from the Utah Territory *

Leonidas Skoutaris Leonidas Skoutaris (; born 28 August 1976 in Athens, Greece), is a retired Greek professional basketball player. College career Skoutaris played college basketball at Cleveland State, with the Cleveland State Vikings. Professional career On 12 S ...

, Greek basketball player *

Leônidas Soares Damasceno Leonidas was the king of Sparta who ruled c. 489–480 BC, and who led the allied Greek forces in a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas may also refer to: People Antiquity *Leonidas I, Greek king of Sparta, ruled c. 489–4 ...

, Brazilian football player *

Leonidas Jefferson Storey Leonidas Jefferson Storey (October 6, 1834 – March 28, 1909) was an American politician and military officer who served as the 13th lieutenant governor of Texas from 1881 to 1883. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in both houses ...

, American politician from Texas * Leonidas Tsiklitiras, Greek gymnast * Leonidas Varouxis, Greek journalist and a politician * Leonidas Vargas, Colombian drug lord *

Leonidas Veliaroutis Leonidas D. Veliaroutis (; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2020) was a Greek writer. He was born in Grammeno, Zitsa. He turned 100 A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100. Because life expectancies at birth worldwide are wel ...

, Greek writer *

Leonidas Vokolos Leonidas Vokolos (, born 31 August 1970) is a Greek professional football manager and former player. Playing career He started his career playing for Panionios. Afterwards, he was transferred to Greek giants Panathinaikos, where he won the Doub ...

, Greek footballer

Surname

Georgina Leonidas Georgina Leonidas (born 28 February 1990) is a British actress best known for playing Molly in '' The Basil Brush Show'', and Katie Bell in ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', '' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1'', and ''Ha ...

, British actress *

Stephanie Leonidas Stephanie Leonidas (born 14 February 1984) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the fantasy film '' MirrorMask'' (2005), the Syfy series '' Defiance'' (2013–2015), and the Crackle crime series '' Snatch'' (2017� ...

, British actress

Nickname

Nate Ebner Nathan Ebner (born December 14, 1988) is an American former professional football player who was a safety and special teamer in the National Football League (NFL). He was a rugby sevens player for the United States national rugby sevens team. ...

(nicknamed Leonidas), American football player in the National Football League

Other

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( ; ; 24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed ''El Jefe'' (; "the boss"), was a Dominican military officer and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961 ...

Dominican President

Fictional characters

* Leonidas ''(Legends of Chima)'', a character in ''Legends of Chima'' *Leonidas Witherall, fictional character created by

Phoebe Atwood Taylor Phoebe Atwood Taylor (18 May 1909 – 9 January 1976) was an American writer of mystery novels, who was born and died in Boston. She graduated from Barnard College in 1930 and married surgeon Grantley Walder Taylor in December 1951. Phoebe Atwood ...

Places

In the United States: *

Leonidas, New Orleans Leonidas (also known as West Carrollton) is a neighborhood designation in the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Uptown/ Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: South Claiborne Avenue ...

, Louisiana * Leonidas, Minnesota *

Leonidas Township, Michigan Leonidas Township is a civil township of St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,161 at the 2020 census. History Settlers from New York came here in 1831. James and Robert Cowen built a mill along Nottawa Creek in ...

Vessels

* ''Leonidas'' (ship), labour ship that brought the first indentured servants from India to Fiji in 1879 * USS ''Leonidas'', either of two ships in the US Navy * HMS ''Leonidas'', either of two ships in the Royal Navy

Other uses

ELBO Leonidas-2 The Leonidas-2 represented an effort made by the Greek vehicle manufacturer ELVO to produce an advanced armoured personnel carrier (APC) of its own. It is named after Leonidas, king of the ancient city-state of Sparta. The first version of the '' ...

, Greek-built armored personnel carrier * Epirus Leonidas, a high-power microwave (HPM) weapon system * ''Leonidas'' (sculpture), a 5th-century BC sculpture *''

Leonidas at Thermopylae ''Leonidas at Thermopylae'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David. The work currently hangs in the Louvre in Paris, France. David completed the massive work (3.95 m × 5.31 m) 15 years after he began, working ...

'', a 19th-century oil painting by Jacques-Louis David *''

'', an 1894 secular oratorio by

Max Bruch Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic Music, Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin ...

. *

Leonidas Squadron The ''Leonidas'' Squadron, formally known as "5th ''Staffel'' of '' Kampfgeschwader 200''", was a unit which was originally formed to fly the Fieseler Fi 103R ''Reichenberg'', a manned version of the V-1 flying bomb, in attacks in which the pilo ...

(Leonidas Staffel), experimental Luftwaffe unit of suicide pilots that tested crewed versions of the V-1 flying bomb *Leonidas, the codename for

Fedora A fedora () is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown.Kilgour, Ruth Edwards (1958). ''A Pageant of Hats Ancient and Modern''. R. M. McBride Company. It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and "pinched" near the front on both sides ...

11 *

Leonidas (chocolate maker) Leonidas is a registered trademark of the Agrifood, agri-food company Confiserie Leonidas S.A. (corporation), S.A. The Belgian chocolate company was founded in 1913 by Leonidas Kestekides. The company is ISO 9001 and FSSC 22000 certified. , the ...

, a chocolate producer * RKSV Leonidas, a Dutch amateur football club from Rotterdam