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People

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Cincinnatus Leconte Jean Jacques Dessalines Michel Cincinnatus Leconte (September 29, 1854 – August 8, 1912) was List of heads of state of Haiti, President of Haiti from August 15, 1911, until his death on August 8, 1912. He was the great-grandson of Jean-Jacqu ...
(1853–1912), president of Haiti 1911-1912 *
Emmanuel Leconte Emmanuel Leconte (born 11 October 1982; Paris, France) is a French actor. He is best known for his role as King Francis I in the television hit series ''The Tudors''. He has also starred in: ''Monsieur Max'' (2007), ''La Ravisseuse'' (2005), a ...
(born 1982), French actor *
Henri Leconte Henri Leconte (; born 4 July 1963) is a French former professional tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at the French Open in 1988, won the French Open men's doubles title in 1984, and helped France win the Davis Cup in 1991. During ...
(born 1963), French tennis player *
John Le Conte John LeConte (December 4, 1818 – April 29, 1891) was an American scientist and academic. He served as president of the University of California from 1869 to 1870 and from 1875 to 1881. Biography LeConte was born in Liberty County, Georgia, to ...
(1818–1891), scientist and first president of UC Berkeley *
John Eatton Le Conte John Eatton Le Conte Jr. (sometimes John Eatton LeConte or John Eaton Leconte) (February 22, 1784 – November 21, 1860) was an American natural history, naturalist. He was born near Shrewsbury, New Jersey, Shrewsbury, New Jersey, the son o ...
(1784–1860), naturalist *
John Lawrence LeConte John Lawrence LeConte MD (May 13, 1825 – November 15, 1883) was an American entomology, entomologist, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxon, taxa known in the United States during his lifetime,
(1825–1883), entomologist *
Joseph LeConte Joseph Le Conte (alternative spelling: Joseph LeConte) (February 26, 1823 – July 6, 1901) was a physician, geologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, early California conservationist, and eugenicist. Early life Of Huguen ...
(1823–1901), geologist and professor at University of South Carolina, UC Berkeley, and founding member of the Sierra Club * Joseph Nisbet LeConte (1870–1950), explorer and engineering professor at UC Berkeley, Sierra Club leader * Joska Le Conté (born 1987), Dutch skeleton racer * Maria Leconte (born 1970), French chess grandmaster *
Patrice Leconte Patrice Leconte (; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, screenwriter and comic strip writer. Life and career Leconte grew up in Tours, and began making little amateur films at 15. He went to Paris in 1967 and studied at Institut des ...
(born 1947), French film director * Pierre-Michel Le Conte (1921–2000), French conductor * Valleran le Conte (fl. 1590 – c. 1615), French actor-manager *
Leconte de Lisle Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle. Biography Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas i ...
(1818–1894), French poet *
LeConte Stewart __NOTOC__ LeConte Stewart (April 15, 1891 – June 6, 1990) was an American Latter-day Saint painter and printmaker, primarily known for his Landscape art, landscapes of rural Utah. His art Media (arts), media included oils, watercolors, pastel ...
(1891–1990), artist and professor at the University of Utah


Places

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LeConte Bay LeConte Bay is an 810-foot-deep (247 m), six-mile-long (10 km) bay in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska, located east of Frederick Sound. The bay was named in 1887 for Joseph LeConte, then professor of geology at the U ...
, in Alaska * LeConte Falls, in Yosemite National Park, California *
LeConte Glacier LeConte Glacier is a long and wide glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows southwest to the head of LeConte Bay. It was named in 1887 by U.S. Navy Lieutenant-Commander Charles M. Thomas in honor of a California geologist Joseph LeCont ...
* LeConte Hall in Berkeley, California * Leconte Island in Nunavut, Canada *
LeConte Memorial Lodge The LeConte Memorial Lodge, now known as the Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center, is a structure in Yosemite National Park in California, United States. LeConte is spelled variously as Le Conte or as Leconte. Built in 1903 by the Sierra Club, it ...
, in Yosemite Valley * Le Conte Middle School, in Los Angeles *
Mount Le Conte (California) Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located in the Sierra Nevada of California. The boundary between Inyo and Tulare counties runs along the crest of the Sierra, across Mount Le Conte. The mountain was named in 1895 for Joseph Le& ...
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Mount Le Conte (Tennessee) Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County, Tennessee. At it is the third highest peak in the national park, behind Kuwohi (formerly Clingmans Dome) () and Mount Guyot (Gr ...


Other uses

* ''Le Conte du Graal'' or ''
Perceval, the Story of the Grail ''Perceval, the Story of the Grail'' () is an unfinished verse romance written by Chrétien de Troyes in Old French in the late 12th century. Later authors added 54,000 more lines to the original 9,000 in what is known collectively as the ''Four ...
'' * ''Le Conte du ventre plein'', English title '' Bellyful'', 2000 film * Le Conte pear *
Leconte Prize The Leconte Prize ( French: ') is a prize created in 1886 by the French Academy of Sciences to recognize important discoveries in mathematics, physics, chemistry, natural history or medicine. In recent years the prize has been awarded in the specif ...
, prize in mathematics and science awarded by French Academy of Sciences * Le Conte Station, light rail station in San Francisco * Leconte's haploa, '' Haploa lecontei'', a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae *
Le Conte's thrasher LeConte's thrasher (''Toxostoma lecontei'') is a pale bird found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It prefers to live in deserts with very little vegetation, where it blends in with the sandy soils. LeConte's thrashers ar ...
, ''Toxostoma lecontei'' * Le Conte's sparrow, ''Ammodramus leconteii'' * M/V ''LeConte'', a vessel in the Alaska Marine Highway System {{disambiguation, surname