List of Famous people with last name Leon

Ordoño II was a king of Galicia from 910, and king of Galicia and León from 914 until his death. He was an energetic ruler who submitted the kingdom of Leon to his control and fought successfully against the Muslims, who still dominated most of the Iberian Peninsula. His reign marked the tactical and smooth transition of the regnum Asturum to the regnum Legionis, with the royal headquarters already established in the city of León.

Micaëla d'Orléans was the second wife of Henri, Count of Paris, Orléanist pretender to the throne of France and head of the House of Orléans from 1999 until his death in 2019.

Lorena Ponce de León Núñez is a Uruguayan landscape architect. She is the current first lady of Uruguay, as the wife of the 42nd president of Uruguay Luis Lacalle Pou.

Bermudo III or Vermudo III was the king of León from 1028 until his death. He was a son of Alfonso V of León by his first wife Elvira Menéndez, and was the last scion of Peter of Cantabria to rule in the Leonese kingdom. Like several of his predecessors, he sometimes carried the imperial title: in 1030 he appears as regni imperii Ueremundo principis; in 1029/1032 as imperator domnus Veremudius in Gallecia; and in 1034 as regni imperii Veremundus rex Legionensis. He was a child when he succeeded his father. In 1034 he was chased from his throne by King Sancho III of Pamplona and forced to take refuge in Galicia. He returned to power, but was defeated and killed fighting against his brother-in-law, Ferdinand of Castile, in the battle of Tamarón.

Ferdinand II, was a member of the Castilian cadet branch of the House of Ivrea and King of León and Galicia from 1157 until his death.

Eugenia León is one of the most respected singers in Mexico's contemporary music scene. In 1985 she took first place at the prestigious OTI Festival in Seville, Spain with the theme "El Fandango Aquí" by Marcial Alejandro. A winner of the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, she has had a career spanning more than 35 years and 26 recorded albums, of which several million copies have been sold. She has performed with great success in the most important venues in the country, such as the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Auditorio Nacional, the Sala Nezahualcóyotl, the Teatro de la Ciudad, and the Cervantino Festival.

Alfonso IX was king of León and Galicia from the death of his father Ferdinand II in 1188 until his own death.

Hugo Eduardo de León Rodríguez is a Uruguayan football coach and former player, who played as a defender.

Berengaria of León was the third wife but only empress consort of John of Brienne, Latin Emperor of Constantinople.

Elvira of Castile was a member of the House of Jiménez and the first queen of Sicily.