Leonid (Russian: Леонид[lʲɪɐˈnʲit]; Ukrainian: Леонід[leoˈn⁽ʲ⁾id]; Belarusian: Леанід, romanized: Ljeaníd[lʲɛaˈnʲit]) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Leonide.
People with the name include:
Leonid Agutin (born 1968), Russian pop musician and songwriter
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 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 (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs sprint canoer
Leonid Gobyato (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), several people
Leonid Kadeniuk (1951–2018), 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 (1937–1983), 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 (1896–1979), Russian choreographer and ballet dancer
Leonid Mezheritski (1930–2007), Soviet and Israeli still-life, portrait and landscape painter
Leonid Moseyev (b. 1952), Soviet and Russian long-distance runner
Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), Russian Impressionist 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 (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 (1934–1973), 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, Russian-Israeli businessman
Leonid Toptunov (1960–1986), reactor control engineer killed in the Chernobyl disaster
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 аssociate
Leonid Voskresensky (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’s 1908 Russian science fiction novel Red Star
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, False Mirrors, 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 Red Star
Leonid McGill, Manhattan private detective in fiction written by Walter Mosley
Leonid Pavel, Russian nuclear scientist in The Dark Knight Rises
Leonid (Russian: Леонид [lʲɪɐˈnʲit]; Ukrainian: Леонід [leoˈn⁽ʲ⁾id]; Belarusian: Леанід, romanized: Ljeaníd [lʲɛaˈnʲit]) is a Slavic version of the given...
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet...
The Leonids (/ˈliːənɪdz/ LEE-ə-nidz) are a prolific annual meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle, and are also known for their spectacular...
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukrainian: Леонід Данилович Кучма, IPA: [ˈlɛ.ɔ.nʲid dɐˈnɪ.lɔ.ʋet͡ʃ ˈkut͡ʃ.mɐ]; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician...
Leonid and Friends is a Chicago tribute band based in Moscow. They began as a YouTube band, and now occasionally tour as well. Leonid Vorobyev (b. 1957...
Leonid Georgievich Yengibarov (Armenian: Լեոնիդ Ենգիբարյան; Russian: Леонид Георгиевич Енгибаров; March 15, 1935 – July 25, 1972) was a Soviet Armenian...
Leonid Denisovich Kizim (Russian: Леонид Денисович Кизим; 5 August 1941 – 14 June 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Kizim was born in Krasnyi Lyman, Donetsk...
Leonid Ivanovych Hrach (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іва́нович Гра́ч), also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Гра́ч), is a Soviet, Ukrainian...
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук, IPA: [ˈlɛ.ɔ.nʲid mɐˈka.rɔ.ʋet͡ʃ krɐu̯ˈt͡ʃuk]; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian...
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леонид Витальевич Канторович, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ] ; 19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986)...
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (Russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Андре́ев, 21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 – 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist...
Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Степанович Стадник; 5 August 1970 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian man who claimed to have stood at 2.57 m...
Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik (Russian: Леонид Алексеевич Кулик; 19 August 1883 – 14 or 24 April 1942) was a Soviet mineralogist who is noted for his research...
Leonid Nisonovich Vaserstein (Russian: Леонид Нисонович Васерштейн) is a Russian-American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at Penn State...
Leonid Anatolyevich Voloshin (Russian: Леонид Анатолъевич Волошин; born 30 March 1966 in Ordzhonikidze) is a retired triple jumper from Russia. He competed...
Leonid Ivanovich Popov (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Попо́в, Ukrainian: Леонід Іванович Попо́в; born August 31, 1945) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. Popov...
Leonid "Leo" Radvinsky (Ukrainian: Леонід Радвінський) is a United Kingdom-based Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman, internet entrepreneur and...
Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov (Ukrainian: Леонід Федорович Топтунов, Russian: Леонид Фёдорович Топтунов; 16 August 1960 – 14 May 1986) was a Soviet electrical...
Leonid Borisovich Tsypkin (Леонид Борисович Цыпкин) (March 20, 1926 – March 20, 1982) was a Soviet writer and medical doctor, best known for his book Summer...
Leonid Fedorovich Bykov (Ukrainian: Леонід Федорович Биков, Russian: Леонид Фёдорович Быков; 11 December 1928, in Znamenka village, Artemivsk Okruha of...
On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the...
Leonid Fyodorov (25 March 1928 – 1993) was a Soviet skier (ski jumping and Nordic combined), and coach. He competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics and the...
Leonid Slutsky may refer to: Leonid Slutsky (football coach) (born 1971), Russian association football manager and former player Leonid Slutsky (politician)...
Leonid Nikitovich Khrushchev (10 November 1917 – 11 March 1943) was the son of Nikita Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union, and served as a fighter...
Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Аба́лкин pronunciation; 5 May 1930 – 2 May 2011) was a Russian economist. Abalkin was born in Moscow...
Leonid Osipovich Utesov, also spelled Utyosov or Utiosov, born Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (22 March [O.S. 10 March] 1895, Odessa –...
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леони́д Ио́вич Гайда́й; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director, screenwriter...
Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson (Russian: Леони́д Ви́кторович Михельсо́н; born 11 August 1955) is a Russian-Israeli billionaire businessman, CEO, chairman...
Leonid Heorhiyovych Melnykov (Ukrainian: Леонід Георгійович Мельников; 31 May 1906 – 16 April 1981) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician and diplomat...
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