Leonard is a common English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 masculine

Masculine

Masculine or masculinity, normally refer to qualities positively associated with men.Masculine may also refer to:*Masculine , a grammatical gender*Masculine cadence, a final chord occurring on a strong beat in music...

 given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 and a surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

.

The given name and surname originate from the Old High German

Old High German

The term Old High German refers to the earliest stage of the German language and it conventionally covers the period from around 500 to 1050. Coherent written texts do not appear until the second half of the 8th century, and some treat the period before 750 as 'prehistoric' and date the start of...

 Leonhard containing the prefix levon ("lion") and the suffix hardu ("brave" or "hardy"). The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". It may also be from the Latin Leo

Leo (given name)

The given name Leo can refer to:In history:*Leo the Great, Pope*The name twelve other popesIn sports:* Leo Barry, Australian Rules Football player* Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football manager...

("lion"). Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

 period, known as the patron saint

Patron saint

A patron saint is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person...

 of prisoners.

Leonard is also an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 origin surname, from the Gaelic

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 O'Leannain, consisting of the prefix O ("descendant of") and the suffix Leannan ("lover"). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire is a local government district of Cambridgeshire, covering the area around Huntingdon. Traditionally it is a county in its own right...

, England, and in 1479 in Ulm

Ulm

Ulm is a city in the federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district. Ulm, founded around 850, is rich in history and...

, Germany.

Variations

The name has variants in other languages:

• Lennard, Learned
  Learned (surname)
  Learned is an American surname, and may refer to such notable people as:* Allan Learned , American football coach* Amasa Learned , American politician* Ebenezer Learned , Continental Army general...
  
  , Lenny
  Lenny (given name)
  Lenny or Lennie is a given name , and may refer to:In sports:* Lenny Fernandes Coelho, Brazilian footballer* Lenny Dykstra, American former baseball player...
  
  /diminutive (England)
• Lennert (Germany, Netherlands, Flanders)
• Léonard (French)
• Leonhard, Leonhardt (Germany)
• Leonardi, Leonardo
  Leonardo (disambiguation)
  -People:* Leonardo da Vinci , Italian Renaissance scientist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and painter-Athletes:* Leonardo Araújo , Brazilian World Cup winning footballer, and manager...
  
  , Lunardi
  Lunardi
  Lunardi is a surname, and may refer to:*Vincenzo Lunardi*Joe Lunardi*Pietro Lunardi*Ivan LunardiThe Lunardi the Italian surname was first used in 1373. It originated in the far east of Italy and is still very common in the area to this day. The name comes from the Italian phrase 'luni ardi' meaning...
  
   (Italy)
• Lenart
  Lenart
  For the Lenart Elementary School, see Lenart Regional Gifted Center.For the computer virus known as Lenart, see AntiCMOS.Lenart is a small town and municipality in northeastern Slovenia. The municipality of Lenart has just over 11,000 inhabitants and the town itself has around 4,000. It is...
  
   (Czech)
• Lennart (Sweden)

In other languages

• Armenian
  Armenian language
  The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
  
  : Լեոնարդ (Leonard)
• Croatian
  Croatian language
  Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
  
  : Leonard
• Czech
  Czech language
  Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
  
  : Lenart
• French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  : Léonard
• Georgian
  Georgian language
  Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...
  
  : ლეონარდ (Leonard)
• German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  : Leonhard, Leonhardt, Lennart
• Greek
  Greek language
  Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
  
  : Λεονάρδος (Leonárdos)
• Hebrew
  Hebrew language
  Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
  
  : לאונרד (Leonard)
• Italian
  Italian language
  Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
  
  : Leonardo
• Portuguese
  Portuguese language
  Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
  
  : Leonardo
• Russian
  Russian language
  Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
  
  : Леонард (Leonard)
• Serbian
  Serbian language
  Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
  
  : Леонард (Leonard)
• Spanish
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
  : Leonardo

People with the name or its variants include:

Given name

• Leonard of Vinci
  Leonardo da Vinci
  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
  
  , polymath
  Polymath
  A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...
  
  
• Leonard of Blakemore
  Leonard of Blakemore
  Leonard of Blakemore has a church in St Leonards near Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England dedicated to him. It is thought this may be associated with Leonard of Noblac...
  
  , Saint
• Leonard of Chios
  Leonard of Chios
  Leonard of Chios was a Greek-born Roman Catholic prelate.-Biography:Leonard's birth is of an uncertain date on the Island of Chios, then under Genoese domination and died in either Chios or in Italy in 1482. He himself says he was of humble parents, and he entered the Dominican Order in Chios....
  
  , 15th century Bishop
• Leonard of Noblac
  Leonard of Noblac
  Leonard of Noblac or of Limoges or de Noblet , is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin of France.-Traditional biography:According to the romance that...
  
  , Frankish nobleman
• Leonard of Pisa
• Leonard of Port Maurice
  Leonard of Port Maurice
  Saint Leonard of Port Maurice, O.F.M., was an Italian Franciscan preacher and ascetic writer.- Life :...
  
  
• Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
  
  , American conductor and composer
• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  , Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist
• Leonard Francis Lindoy
  Leonard Francis Lindoy
  Leonard Francis Lindoy, FAA, is an Australian chemist, with interests in macrocyclic chemistry and metallo-supramolecular chemistry, and an Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sydney and James Cook University. He moved to the University of Sydney in 1996 to take up the...
  
  , Australian macrocyclic and metallo-supramolecular chemist
• Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann
  Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann
  Leonard Hubert "Lenny" Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, PC is a retired senior British judge. He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1995 to 2009...
  
  , British law lord
• Leonard Livingston, Australian cricketer
• Leonard Maltin
  Leonard Maltin
  Leonard Maltin is an American film and animated film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.-Personal life:...
  
  , American film critic and film historian
• Leonard Nimoy
  Leonard Nimoy
  Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series , multiple films, television and video game sequels....
  
  , American actor and film director
• Leonard Slatkin
  Leonard Slatkin
  Leonard Edward Slatkin is an American conductor and composer.-Early life and education:Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet,...
  
  , American conductor
• Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg
  Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg
  Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg was a British life peer and multi-millionaire businessman.Born in Belfast on 1 August 1936, Steinberg was the founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Stanley Leisure Ltd...
  
   (1936–2009), British businessman
• Leonard Thompson
  Leonard Thompson (footballer)
  Leonard Thompson was an English professional footballer. He was born in Sheffield as the next to youngest child of Arthur William Thompson and Annie Willy...
  
  , British professional footballer
• Leonard Wong
  Leonard Wong
  Leonard Wong is a Research Professor of Military Strategy in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College, who focuses on the human and organizational dimensions of the military, and is a published author on leadership strategy...
  
  , American military professor and author

Film, radio, television

• Baylen Leonard
  Baylen Leonard
  Bruce Alan "Baylen" Leonard is a radio presenter and DJ based in London, UK. At the age 18 he moved to New York to study, and was based there for several years working as an actor and dancer in the theatre...
  
  , radio
• Brendan Leonard
  Brendan Leonard
  Brendan Patrick Leonard is a filmmaker best known for his hit series on ABC Family, The Brendan Leonard Show.-Personal life:...
  
  , US TV personality
• Chuck Leonard
  Chuck Leonard
  Charles Wesley "Chuck" Leonard was an American radio personality at WABC in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s. His deep voice and smoothness resonated across 38 states for 14 years at ABC...
  
  , radio
• Gloria Leonard
  Gloria Leonard
  Gloria Leonard is an American former pornographic actress who later became the publisher of High Society magazine.-Early life and career:...
  
  , actress
• Jason Leonard
  Jason Leonard
  Jason Leonard OBE , also known as "The Fun Bus", is an English former rugby union prop forward who held the world record for winning the most international caps until 2005, when it was surpassed by Australia's scrum-half George Gregan...
  
  , English rugby union player
• John Leonard
  John Leonard (American critic)
  John Leonard was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic.-Biography:John Leonard grew up in Washington, D.C., Jackson Heights, Queens, and Long Beach, California, where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School...
  
  , critic
• Joshua Leonard
  Joshua Leonard
  Joshua Granville Leonard is an American actor, known for his role in The Blair Witch Project.-Early life:Leonard was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Joann, an operator of a children's theatre, and Robert Leonard, a theater professor. He was raised in State College, Pennsylvania...
  
  , actor
• Lachlan "Lockie" Leonard, main character in Tim Winton's Lockie Leonard books
• Lee Leonard
  Lee Leonard
  Lee Leonard is an American television personality who was involved in the launch of cable television networks ESPN and CNN.-Early life:...
  
  , US TV personality
• Marion Leonard
  Marion Leonard
  Marion Leonard was an American stage actress who became one of first motion picture celebrities in the early years of the silent film era. -Early career:...
  
  , actress
• Mike Leonard, US TV personality
• Robert Sean Leonard
  Robert Sean Leonard
  Robert Sean Leonard is an American actor, who has regularly starred in Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Since 2004 he has played the role of Dr. James Wilson on the TV series House...
  
  , actor
• Robert Z. Leonard
  Robert Z. Leonard
  Robert Zigler Leonard was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  , director
• Sheldon Leonard
  Sheldon Leonard
  Sheldon Leonard was a pioneering American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.-Biography:...
  
  , film producer
• Steve Leonard
  Steve Leonard
  Stephen "Steve" Leonard is a British veterinarian and television personality.-Early life:Leonard's family moved to Cheshire, from Northern Ireland, when he was six weeks old....
  
  , English TV personality
• Tony Leonard
  Tony Leonard
  Anthony "Tony" Leonard is an Australian radio presenter.Originally from Seddon, Victoria, Leonard was an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne reserves....
  
  , Australian radio presenter

Literature

• Elmore Leonard
  Elmore Leonard
  Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...
  
  , American novelist
• George Leonard
  George Leonard
  George Leonard was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Norton, Massachusetts. Besides service on state court benches and in both houses of the state legislature, he represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.-External links:*...
  
  , American author
• Hugh Leonard
  Hugh Leonard
  Hugh Leonard was an Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote more than 18 plays, two volumes of essays and two autobiographies, one novel and numerous screenplays and teleplays, as well as writing a regular newspaper column.-Life and...
  
  , Irish playwright
• John Leonard
  John Leonard (Australian poet)
  John Leonard is an Australian poet.He was born in the UK, and from 1984 to 1987 studied at Oxford University. In 1991 he moved to Australia. He currently lives in Canberra, Australia and was poetry editor of the journal Overland from 2003-2007....
  
  , Australian poet
• Mark Leonard (writer), UK author
• Paul Leonard (writer)
  Paul Leonard (writer)
  Paul J. Leonard Hinder, better known by his pseudonym of Paul Leonard and also originally published as PJL Hinder, is an author best known for his work on various spin-off fiction based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Leonard has acknowledged a debt to his...
  
  , UK author
• Tom Leonard
  Tom Leonard (poet)
  Tom Leonard is a Scottish poet, best known for his poems written in Glaswegian dialect.Tom Leonard has been part of the Scottish literary renaissance for the past forty years...
  
  , Scottish poet
• William Ellery Leonard
  William Ellery Leonard
  William Ellery Leonard was an American poet, playwright, translator, and literary scholar.-Early life:...
  
  , American poet

Military

• Edwin Leonard
  Edwin Leonard
  Edwin Leonard was a Sergeant in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War. He is buried in the Elm Street Cemetery in West Springfield, Massachusetts.-Medal of Honor citation:...
  
  , American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• Matthew Leonard
  Matthew Leonard
  Matthew Leonard was a United States Army soldier who received America's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in the Vietnam War.-Biography:...
  
  , Medal of Honor recipient
• Patrick James Leonard
  Patrick James Leonard
  Patrick James Leonard was a United States Army sergeant who received the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars. Until 1984, it was believed that Leonard was a double recipient of the Medal of Honor. However, another Irishman, Patrick Thomas Leonard, had also received the Medal of Honor.-Military...
  
  , Medal of Honor recipient
• Patrick Thomas Leonard
  Patrick Thomas Leonard
  Patrick Thomas Leonard was a United States Army sergeant who received the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars. Until 1984, it was believed that Leonard was a double recipient of the Medal of Honor...
  
  , Indian Wars Medal of Honor recipient
• Turney W. Leonard
  Turney W. Leonard
  Turney White Leonard was a United States Army officer who received the U.S. military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
  
  , Medal of Honor recipient
• William E. Leonard
  William E. Leonard
  William E. Leonard was a Private in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.He is buried at Jacksonville Cemetery Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania.-Medal of Honor citation:...
  
  , American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient

Music

• Adam Leonard
  Adam Leonard
  Adam Leonard is an English singer-songwriter working mainly in the folk, rock and roll and electronic music fields. His style is often described as lo-fi and the subject matter of his songs somewhat unconventional. Since his debut album 'How Music Sounds' in 2003, he has released many EPs, albums...
  
  , English singer-songwriter
• Conrad Leonard
  Conrad Leonard
  George Conrad Leonard was a British composer and pianist. He was born in South Norwood.Leonard served in the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War; he left the army in 1919 with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant...
  
  , pianist
• Glenn Leonard
  Glenn Leonard
  Glenn Carl Leonard is an American R&B and soul singer best remembered for serving as the first tenor/secondary lead singer of the Motown quintet The Temptations from 1975 to 1983.-Biography:...
  
  , American musician
• Gustav Leonhardt
  Gustav Leonhardt
  Gustav Leonhardt is a highly renowned Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. Leonhardt has been a leading figure in the movement to perform music on period instruments...
  
  , Dutch musician, conductor, musicologist
• Harlan Leonard
  Harlan Leonard
  Harlan Leonard was an American jazz bandleader and clarinetist from Kansas City, Missouri.A professional musician from the age of 17, he joined Benny Moten's orchestra in 1923, where he led the reed section until 1931. In 1931 he and Thamon Hayes formed the Kansas City Skyrockets, which included...
  
  , American jazz musician
• Hubert Léonard
  Hubert Léonard
  Hubert Léonard was a famous Belgian violinist, born at Bellaire, Liège. His earliest preparatory training was given by Rouma, after which he entered the Paris Conservatory in 1836, where he studied for three years under Habeneck. In 1844 he started his extended tours which established his...
  
  , Belgian violinist
• Len Leonard, American musician
• Matthew Leonard
  Matthew Leonard
  Matthew Leonard was a United States Army soldier who received America's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in the Vietnam War.-Biography:...
  
  , English musician
• Patricia K. Leonard, American Composer
• Patricia Leonard
  Patricia Leonard
  Patricia Leonard was an English opera singer, best known for her performances in mezzo-soprano and contralto roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company....
  
  , English opera singer
• Patrick Leonard
  Patrick Leonard
  Patrick Raymond Leonard is an American songwriter, keyboardist and music producer, known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna on many different recordings....
  
  , American songwriter
• Ronald Leonard
  Ronald Leonard
  Ronald Leonard is an American cellist. He has had a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, principal cellist and teacher. He is currently on the faculties of the USC Thornton School of Music and the Colburn School...
  
  , cellist
• Scott Leonard, American musician

Politics

• Bill Leonard
  Bill Leonard
  William R. Leonard is a Republican U.S. politician who served as a member of the California State Board of Equalization from 2002 until his resignation in March 2010.-Life and career:After earning his B.A...
  
  , American politician
• Elijah Leonard
  Elijah Leonard
  Elijah Leonard was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1891.He was born on a farm near Syracuse, New York in 1814, the son of Elijah Leonard...
  
  , Canadian politician
• Fred Churchill Leonard
  Fred Churchill Leonard
  Fred Churchill Leonard was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Fred C. Leonard was born in Elmer, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, the State normal school at Mansfield, Pennsylvania, and Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts. He...
  
  , American politician
• J. Rich Leonard, American judge
• Jerris Leonard
  Jerris Leonard
  Jerris Leonard was a Wisconsin lawyer and politician.- Background and personal life :Leonard was born on January 17, 1931 to Jerris and Marie Leonard in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Rufus King High School. He earned a B.S...
  
  , American politician
• Jimmy Leonard
  Jimmy Leonard
  Jimmy Leonard is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála for the constituency of Cavan–Monaghan. Leonard was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1973 general election...
  
  , Irish politician
• John J. Leonard
  John J. Leonard
  John J. Leonard is an American roboticist and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , Leonard is a renowned researcher in simultaneous localization and mapping, and was...
  
  , mayor of Bolingbrook, Illinois
• Julia Leonard
  Julia Leonard
  Julia A. Leonard is a Socialist Party councillor in the London Borough of Hillingdon in the United Kingdom....
  
  , British councillor
• Paul Leonard (politician), American politician
• Richard Leonard
  Richard Leonard
  Richard Lawrence Leonard is a British writer and journalist, writing as Dick Leonard, and also a former British Labour politician. He is a pro-European social democrat and a disciple of the late Anthony Crosland...
  
  , British politician
• Stephen B. Leonard
  Stephen B. Leonard
  Stephen Banks Leonard was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in New York City, Leonard attended the public schools.He moved with his parents to Owego, New York, and learned the printer's trade....
  
  , American politician
• Tom Leonard (Irish politician)

Sports

• Andy Leonard
  Andy Leonard
  Andrew Jackson Leonard played left field for the original Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional baseball team. He was one of five men to play regularly for both the Cincinnati and the Boston Red Stockings, the latter winning six championships during his seven seasons...
  
  , baseball
• Benny Leonard
  Benny Leonard
  Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years and number 7 on ESPN's 50 Greatest Boxers of All-Time....
  
   (Benjamin Leiner; "The Ghetto Wizard"), American world champion Hall of Fame lightweight boxer
• Bobby Leonard, basketball
• Brendon Leonard
  Brendon Leonard
  Brendon Leonard is a New Zealand rugby union footballer.-Career:Leonard plays half-back and made his provincial debut for Waikato in the 2005 National Provincial Championship. He was in the Chiefs wider training group for the 2006 Super 14...
  
  , rugby union
• Brian Leonard
  Brian Leonard
  -St. Louis Rams:On April 28, 2007, Leonard was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the second round with the 52nd overall pick of the 2007 NFL Draft. Leonard signed a four-year, $2.8 million contract on July 24, 2007, that includes $1.55 million in guaranteed money. Coach Scott Linehan decided to use...
  
  , American football
• Buck Leonard
  Buck Leonard
  Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard was an American first baseman in Negro league baseball. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in along with his long-time teammate Josh Gibson.-Biography:...
  
  , baseball
• Dennis Leonard
  Dennis Leonard
  Dennis Patrick Leonard was one of the Kansas City Royals' most dominating pitchers of the late '70s and early '80s, but a promising career cut short due to injuries. In 1975, his first full year he managed to bust out with a 15-7 record...
  
  , baseball
• Dutch Leonard (left-handed pitcher)
  Dutch Leonard (left-handed pitcher)
  Hubert Benjamin "Dutch" Leonard, was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who had an 11-year career from 1913–1921, 1924-1925. He played for the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers, and holds the major league modern-era record for the lowest single-season ERA of all time — 0.96...
  
   (Hubert Benjamin Leonard), baseball
• Dutch Leonard (right-handed pitcher)
  Dutch Leonard (right-handed pitcher)
  Emil John "Dutch" Leonard was an American professional baseball player. He played in in Major League Baseball as a right-handed knuckleball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Washington Senators , Philadelphia Phillies , and Chicago Cubs...
  
   (Emil John Leonard), baseball
• Everett Leonard
  Everett Leonard
  Everett "Eve" Leonard was a British archer. She competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.Leonard competed at the 1908 Games in the only archery event open to women, the double National round. She took 21st place in the event with 410 points....
  
  , archery
• Gary Leonard
  Gary Leonard
  Gary Francis Leonard is a retired American professional basketball player. At 7'1" and 295 lbs, he played center.-College career:...
  
  , basketball
• Hookey Leonard
  Hookey Leonard
  James "Hookey" or "Hooky" Leonard was a Scottish professional footballer.Leonard signed with Cowdenbeath in 1923. He quickly became a club favorite with brilliant performances. However, during the 1924-1925 game, he was suspended after missing several training sessions...
  
  , Scottish professional footballer
• Jason Leonard
  Jason Leonard
  Jason Leonard OBE , also known as "The Fun Bus", is an English former rugby union prop forward who held the world record for winning the most international caps until 2005, when it was surpassed by Australia's scrum-half George Gregan...
  
  , rugby union
• Jeffrey Leonard
  Jeffrey Leonard
  Jeffrey N. Leonard is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball with a 14-year career from to...
  
  , baseball
• Jim Leonard
  Jim Leonard
  James Raymond Leonard, Sr. was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1945....
  
  , American football
• Joe Leonard
  Joe Leonard
  Joe Leonard , is a retired American motorcycle racer and racecar driver.Leonard won the first A.M.A. Grand National Championship Series in 1954 and won it again in 1956 and 1957. His record totals 27 wins, including the 1957 and 1958 Daytona 200...
  
  , motorsports
• John Leonard (footballer)
  John Leonard (footballer)
  John Leonard is a Gaelic footballer from Dublin.As a child he played for Na Phiarsaigh in Baldoyle and later for St Sylvesters, where he remains. In his early 20s he was also called up and played for the Dublin Junior Football Team, until it was suspended after a violent on-pitch brawl. He is...
  
  , Gaelic football
• Johnny Leonard
  Johnny Leonard
  John "Johnny" Leonard was a player and coach of Australian rules football in the West Australian Football League and the Victorian Football League in the period 1922 to 1946....
  
  , Australian rules football
• Justin Leonard
  Justin Leonard
  Justin Charles Garrett Leonard is an American professional golfer.Leonard was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He attended Lake Highlands High School and graduated in 1990. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and was the individual NCAA champion in 1994. He was a two-time All-American...
  
  , golf
• Mark Leonard (footballer)
  Mark Leonard (footballer)
  Mark Leonard was a professional footballer who was a striker for a number of English league clubs....
  
  , association football
• Marshall Leonard
  Marshall Leonard
  Marshall Leonard is an American soccer defender and midfielder, who recently played for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer....
  
  , soccer
• Michael Leonard
  Michael Leonard
  Michael Leonard is a male field hockey defender from Scotland, who earned his first cap for the Men's National Team in 1996. He plays club hockey for Grange HC. Leonard has also been capped six times for the Scotland ‘B’ cricket team.-References:*...
  
  , field hockey
• Philippe Léonard
  Philippe Léonard
  Philippe Léonard is a retired Belgian footballer, who played as a left defender.After playing most notably for Standard Liège and AS Monaco, he rarely appeared for his following four teams , in a 16-year professional career...
  
  , soccer
• Silvio Leonard
  Silvio Leonard
  Silvio Leonard Sarría also known as Silvio Leonard Tartabull is a former sprinter from Cuba. He was the second athlete to run the 100 metres in less than 10 seconds with electronic timing, running in 9.98 seconds on August 11, 1977 in Guadalajara. The first was 1968 Olympic champion Jim Hines...
  
  , athletics
• Stan Leonard
  Stan Leonard
  Stan Leonard was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s. Leonard won three PGA Tour events, eight Canadian PGA Championships, and 16 other events on the Canadian Tour. He is a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.-Early years:Leonard was born in...
  
  , golf
• Sugar Ray Leonard
  Sugar Ray Leonard
  Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...
  
  , boxing
• William J. Leonard
  William J. Leonard
  William J. Leonard was an end for the University of Notre Dame's undefeated 1947 football team, which won the National Championship that season. Earlier, he had won recognition as an All-City "gridder" at Youngstown, Ohio's East High School.He was born in Youngstown, the son of Patrick and Anna ...
  
  , American football

Other fields

• Adna Wright Leonard
  Adna Wright Leonard
  Bishop Adna Wright Leonard I was a Methodist Bishop in Buffalo, New York and the first chairman of the Methodist Commission on Chaplains. He was killed in 1943 in a plane crash on his way to Iceland to visit Methodist chaplains and their troops.-Biography:He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on...
  
  , Methodist Bishop of Buffalo NY
• Andrew Paul Leonard
  Andrew Paul Leonard
  Andrew Paul Leonard is a photographer who uses electron microscopes as a camera. Some of his well-known work includes an electron micrograph of a healthy coronary artery used in the launch of Pfizer's Lipitor and an electron micrograph of a human stem cell, featured on the cover of the August 7,...
  
  , photographer
• Cynthia Leonard
  Cynthia Leonard
  Cynthia Leonard was a suffragist, aid worker and writer, notable for her pioneering efforts toward social reform in the 19th Century. Born Cynthia Hicks Van Name, in Buffalo, New York, she married Charles E. Leonard in 1852...
  
  , suffragist
• Dylan John Leonard, Labelled as Most Amazing Person in the world
• Emery Clarence Leonard
  Emery Clarence Leonard
  Emery Clarence Leonard was an American botanist known for his work on the Acanthaceae plant family and on the flora of Haiti.-References:...
  
  , American botanist
• Frederick C. Leonard
  Frederick C. Leonard
  Frederick Charles Leonard was an astrophysicist at the UCLA who organised the UCLA's Department of Astronomy. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1918 and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921....
  
  , astrophysicist
• George Leonard
  George Leonard
  George Leonard was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Norton, Massachusetts. Besides service on state court benches and in both houses of the state legislature, he represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.-External links:*...
  
  , American lawyer
• Graham Leonard
  Graham Leonard
  Graham Douglas Leonard KCVO was a British priest. His principal ministry was as a bishop of the Church of England but, after his retirement as the Bishop of London, he became a Roman Catholic, becoming the most senior Anglican cleric to do so since the English Reformation...
  
  , Anglican Bishop converted to Catholicism
• Harry Ward Leonard, inventor
• Herman Leonard
  Herman Leonard
  Herman Leonard was an American photographer known for his unique images of jazz icons.-Life:...
  
  , photographer
• Jack E. Leonard
  Jack E. Leonard
  Jack E. Leonard was an American comedian who made frequent appearances on television variety and game shows.-Biography:...
  
  , comedian
• Vincent Leonard, Bishop of Pittsburgh

Fictional characters

• Anatole Leonard, in the Robotech series
• Lenny Leonard, in The Simpsons
• Lockie Leonard, in children's novels
• Léonard (comics), cartoon character by Turk & De Groot
• Leonard (demon)
  Leonard (demon)
  Leonard or "Master Leonard" is a demon or spirit in the Dictionnaire Infernal, grand-master of the nocturnal orgies of demons. He is represented as a three-horned goat, with a black human face. He marks his initiates with one of his horns...
  
  , in the Dictionnaire Infernal
• Leonard Hofstadter
  Leonard Hofstadter
  Leonard Leakey Hofstadter, Ph.D., is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actor Johnny Galecki. Leonard is an experimental physicist from New Jersey who shares an apartment with colleague and best friend Sheldon Cooper...
  
  , in The Big Bang Theory
• Leonard Briscoe, in Law and Order
• Private Leonard Church, from Red vs. Blue
• Leonard McCoy
  Leonard McCoy
  Leonard "Bones" McCoy is a character in the Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by DeForest Kelley in the original Star Trek series, McCoy also appears in the animated Star Trek series, seven Star Trek movies, the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and in numerous books,...
  
  , in the Star Trek series
• Leonard Meryll, from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Yeomen of the Guard
  The Yeomen of the Guard
  The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid, is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 3 October 1888, and ran for 423 performances...
  
  
• Leonard of Quirm, in the Discworld novels

See also

• Saint-Léonard (disambiguation)
• St Leonards (disambiguation)