Le Conte, LeConte, or Leconte may refer to:

People

* Cincinnatus Leconte (1853–1912), president of Haiti 1911-1912 * Emmanuel Leconte (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. Leconte's ...

(born 1963), French tennis player * John Le Conte (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 naturalist. He was born near Shrewsbury, New Jersey, the son of John Eatton Le Conte and Jane Sloane ...

(1784–1860), naturalist *

John Lawrence LeConte John Lawrence LeConte (May 13, 1825 – November 15, 1883) was an American entomologist of the 19th century, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect 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 and early California conservationist. Early life Of Huguenot descent, h ...

(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 Joska Le Conté (born 29 September 1987, in Zeist) is a Dutch skeleton racer who has competed since 2006. Prior to starting in skeleton, she was a pole vaulter; when not competing, she works for the Royal Dutch Motorsport Association (KNMV) as a ...

(born 1987), Dutch skeleton racer *

Patrice Leconte Patrice Leconte (; born 12 November 1947) is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter. 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 Inst ...

(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 ...

(1818–1894), French poet *

LeConte Stewart __NOTOC__ LeConte Stewart (April 15, 1891 – June 6, 1990) was a Latter-day Saint artist primarily known for his landscapes of rural Utah. His media included oils, watercolors, pastel and charcoal, as well as etchings, linocuts, and lithograp ...

(1891–1990), artist and professor at the University of Utah

Places

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 ...

, in Alaska *

LeConte Falls LeConte Falls is a waterfall in the Sierra Nevada of California, in Yosemite National Park. It is a 229 ft. (69.8 m.) high cascade on the Tuolumne River and the second largest falls on this river. (The river's largest falls is Waterwheel Falls, wh ...

, in Yosemite National Park, California *

LeConte Glacier LeConte Glacier is a and 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 LeConte. According ...

* LeConte Hall in Berkeley, California *

Leconte Island Leconte Island is a small, uninhabited island in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Labrador Sea off Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canad ...

in Nunavut, Canada * LeConte Memorial Lodge, 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& ...

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 Clingmans Dome () and Mount Guyot (). It is also the hi ...

Other uses

* ''Le Conte du Graal'' or ''

Perceval, the Story of the Grail ''Perceval, the Story of the Grail'' (french: Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is the unfinished fifth verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, written by him in Old French in the late 12th century. Later authors added 54,000 more lines in what are kn ...

'' * ''Le Conte du ventre plein'', English title Bellyfull, 2000 film * Le Conte pear * Leconte Prize, 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 The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

* Le Conte's thrasher, ''Toxostoma lecontei'' *

Le Conte's sparrow LeConte's sparrow (''Ammospiza leconteii'') is one of the smallest New World sparrow species in North America.Terres, J.K. (1980). The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf It is a very secretive bird t ...

, ''Ammodramus leconteii'' * M/V ''LeConte'', a vessel in the Alaska Marine Highway System {{disambiguation, surname