Leonid (russian: Леонид ; uk, Леонід ; be, Леанід, Ljeaníd ) is a Slavic languages, Slavic version of the given name Leonidas I, Leonidas. The French language, French version is Leonide. People with the name include: *Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionism, 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 (b. 1951), 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 (b. 1937), 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 Impressionism, 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 (b. 1934), Soviet Grandmaster (chess), 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 (politician), Leonid Volkov (b. 1980), Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, Russian opposition politician, Technology specialist, 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 (novel), Red Star'' *Leonid, the protagonist in the Sergey Lukyanenko bibliography#Labyrinth, 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 (comics), Red Star *Leonid McGill, Manhattan private detective in fiction written by Walter Mosley *Leonid Pavel, Russian nuclear scientist in ''The Dark Knight Rises''

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