Leib is a given name, and (less often) a surname usually of Jewish origin.[1]Leib often stems from לייב (leib), the Yiddish word for Hebrew "heart" לב (lev, leb) and with the diminutives Leibel and Leibele, or from the Yiddish word for "lion". The Standard German word for lion is Löwe; other – partly dialectal – German forms of the word are Löw, Loew, Löb, Leb and Leib. In Standard German, Leib means "body", but that is in general not the source for the Yiddish name.
Leib is a given name, and (less often) a surname usually of Jewish origin. Leib often stems from לייב (leib), the Yiddish word for Hebrew "heart" לב (lev...
Ibiza Airport (IATA: IBZ, ICAO: LEIB) (Catalan: Aeroport d'Eivissa, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Ibiza) is the international airport serving the Balearic Islands...
Marshall Leib (January 26, 1939 – March 15, 2002) was an American singer and one of the original members of The Teddy Bears. Leib and his high school friend...
Mit Leib und Seele (German for "With Body and Soul") may refer to: Mit Leib und Seele (TV series) Mit Leib und Seele (Schandmaul album) Mit Leib und Seele...
Ryan Leib is a retired American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the USL A-League. Born in Pennsylvania, Leib grew up in Farmington, Maine...
Ethan J. Leib (September 15, 1975) is a law professor at Fordham Law School. He is the author of several books, including Deliberative Democracy in America:...
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician...
Yehuda Leib Maimon (Hebrew: יהודה לייב מימון, 1 January 1875 – 10 July 1962, also known as Yehuda Leib HaCohen Maimon) was an Israeli rabbi, politician...
Moshe Yehoshua Yehuda Leib Diskin (1818–1898), also known as the Maharil Diskin, was a leading rabbi, Talmudist, and Biblical commentator. He served as...
Isaac Leib Goldberg (Hebrew: יצחק לייב גולדברג, 7 February 1860 – 14 September 1935) was a Zionist leader and philanthropist in both Ottoman Palestine...
Gary David Leib (October 29, 1955 – March 19, 2021) was an American underground cartoonist, animator, and musician. Best known for the comic book Idiotland...
Sara Leib (born December 21, 1981) is an American composer, jazz vocalist and educator. Leib was member of the Grammy High Schools National Jazz Ensemble...
Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard (Russian: Лейб-гвардия Leyb-gvardiya, from German Leib "body"; cf. Life Guards / Bodyguard) were...
Lieaibolmmai, Leibolmai, Liejbbeålmáj, or Leib-Olmai ("alder man") is the god of the hunt in Sami mythology. He is the ruler of the wild animals in the...
Georg Leib (9 March 1846 in Wallerstein – 1910 in Munich) was the Royal Councillor of Commerce and ran a very successful real-estate company in Munich...
Leon Pinsker or Judah Leib Pinsker (Hebrew: יהודה לייב פינסקר; Russian: Йехуда Лейб Пинскер; 25 December [O.S. 13 December] 1821 – 21 December [O.S. 9...
Leib Kaminetzky (1859–1955) was a Hareidi rabbi in Sha'arei Hesed, Jerusalem who served as a teacher in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva. Rabbi Mordechai Leib was...
Jodi Leib is an American artist and independent filmmaker, focusing primarily on issues of human rights, music, popular culture, and reproductive health...
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Baron (March 2, 1912 – October 3, 2011) was a Russian-born Canadian Haredi Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Merkaz HaTorah...
Jacob Leib Talmon (Hebrew: יעקב טלמון; June 14, 1916 – June 16, 1980) was Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied...
Judah Leib the Elder (Hebrew: יהודה לייב הזקן died 1539) was a 16th-century Czech rabbi based in Prague, who is of great genealogical significance due...
Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (III), known by the Yiddish colloquial name Zalman Leib (born 23 December 1951), is one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar. He leads...
Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller (c. 1745 – 1812) (Hebrew: אריה לייב בן יוסף הכהן הלר) was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Halachist in Galicia. He was known as "the...
2014-06-15. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leib Kvitko. Children's literature portal Works by or about Leib Kvitko at Internet Archive The Jewish Poet...
Rabbi Moshe Yehudah Leib Erblich, popularly known as Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov, (c. 1745 – January 13 1807) was one of the early Hasidic rebbes in 18th...
Leib Ostrow is an American music producer and the founder and president of Music for Little People record label. Leib was born in Detroit in 1951 and...
Leib Weissberg (January 9, 1893 – 1942) was a Slavonski Brod rabbi who was killed during the Holocaust. Weissberg was born in Probużna (then part of Austria-Hungary)...
Leib Langfus, or also Leyb Langfus, was one of the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau. A rabbi and Dayan (rabbinical judge) in Maków Mazowiecki he was deported...