Leonard


Leonard or Leo is a common English surname and a masculine given name.
The given name and surname originate from the Old High German Leonhard containing the prefix levon from the Greek Λέων through the Latin Leo, and the suffix hardu. The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages period, known as the patron saint of prisoners.
Leonard is also an Irish origin surname, from the Gaelic O'Leannain also found as O'Leonard, but often was anglicised to just Leonard, consisting of the prefix O and the suffix Leannan. The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany.

Variations

The name has variants in other languages:
  • Anard/Nardu/Lewnardu/Leunardu
  • Leen, Leendert, Lenard
  • Lehnertz, Lehnert
  • Len
  • Lénárd
  • Lenart
  • Linhart
  • Lennard, diminutive forms Lenny
  • Lennart
  • Lennert
  • Lev
  • Lenni
  • Lenno
  • Lenny
  • Leo
  • Leon
  • Léon, León
  • Léonard
  • Leonard = "Renata" in Māori, Waitaha
  • Leonardo
  • Leonardus
  • Leonhard, Leonhardt
  • Leontxo
  • O'Leannáin
  • O'Lionaird
  • Leòmhannard
  • Linard
  • Lionard

    In other languages

  • Armenian: Լեոնարդ
  • Croatian: Leonard
  • Czech: Leonard
  • French: Léonard
  • Georgian: ლეონარდ
  • German: Leonard, Leonhard, Leonhardt, Lennart
  • Greek: Λεονάρδος
  • Hebrew: לֵב־אֲרִי
  • Hungarian: Lénárd, Leonárd
  • Indonesian: Leonardo, Leonard, Leonardus, Lenno, Leo, Leon, Lenny
  • Italian: Leonardo
  • Latvian: Linards
  • Lithuanian: Leonardas
  • Māori: Renātā
  • Maltese: Nardu
  • Polish: Leonard
  • Portuguese: Leonardo
  • Romanian: Leonard
  • Russian: Леонард
  • Serbian: Леонард
  • Spanish: Leonardo
  • Swedish: Lennart
  • Yiddish: לעאָנאַרד
  • Ukrainian: Лев

    Given name

  • Leonard Adleman, American computer scientist
  • Léonard Autié, French hairdresser
  • Leonard Baskin, American artist
  • Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer
  • Leonard Burton, American football player
  • Leonard of Chios, Catholic archbishop
  • Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter
  • Leonard Cheshire, British philanthropist
  • Leonard Decof, American lawyer
  • Leonard Doroftei, Romanian boxer
  • Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician
  • Leonardo Fibonacci, Italian mathematician
  • Leonard Fairley, American football player
  • Leonard Fournette, American football player
  • Leonhard Fuchs, German physician and natural historian
  • Leonard Hackney, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
  • Leonard Harsh, American politician from Ohio
  • Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, British judge
  • Leonard Humphries, American football player
  • Leonard Labatt, Swedish tenor
  • Leonard Lance, American politician
  • Leonard Lansink, German actor
  • Leonard Lauder, American cosmetics industry executive
  • Leonard "Lenny" Kravitz, American singer and songwriter
  • Leonard M. Kravitz, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Leonard Francis Lindoy, Australian chemist
  • Leonard Livingston, Australian cricketer
  • Leonard Maltin, American film critic and film historian
  • Leonard Manning, New Zealand soldier and United Nations peacekeeper killed in East Timor
  • Leonard Marchand, Canadian politician
  • Leonard Mlodinow, American physicist and writer
  • Leonard Nimoy, American actor and film director
  • Leonard of Noblac, Frankish nobleman
  • Leonard Nolens, Belgian poet and diary writer
  • Leonard Peikoff, Canadian philosopher
  • Leonard Peltier, American Activist
  • Leonard Pitts, American journalist
  • Leonard of Port Maurice, Italian saint
  • Leonard Roberts, American actor
  • Leonard "Lennie" Rosenbluth, American basketball player
  • Leonard Rosenman, American composer
  • Leonard Rossiter, English actor
  • Leonard Silverman, New York politician and judge
  • Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
  • Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, British businessman
  • Leonard Stone, American actor
  • Leonard Sumner, indigenous Canadian singer-songwriter
  • Leonard Susskind, American theoretical physicist
  • Leonard Taylor, multiple people
  • Leonard Thompson , British football player
  • Leonard Merlyn Wickramasuriya, Sri Lankan Sinhala army brigadier
  • Leonard Woolf, English author, political theorist, and husband of Virginia Woolf
  • Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist
  • Leonard Wong, American military writer
  • Leonard Wu, American actor, writer and producer

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