List of Famous Leos

James Harris, FRS was an English politician and grammarian. He was the author of Hermes, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar (1751).

Nikolay Havrylovych Shmatko was a Ukrainian sculptor and painter. He was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford South from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship.

Prince Dominik Hieronim Radzivil was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman.

Kathleen Ann Cassello was an American opera singer.

Zoltán Szarka was a Hungarian footballer. He was born in Csorna. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he won a gold medal with the Hungarian team.

Lale Karabıyık is a Turkish scholar and politician. She is currently a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Republican People's Party representing Bursa. She previously served as a professor of accounting and finance at the Uludağ University.

Abel Seyler was a Swiss-born theatre director and former merchant banker, who was regarded as one of the great theatre principals of 18th century Europe. He was "the leading patron of German theatre" in his lifetime, and is credited with introducing Shakespeare to a German language audience, and with promoting the concept of a national theatre in the tradition of Ludvig Holberg, the Sturm und Drang playwrights, and German opera. Already in his lifetime, he was described as "one of German art's most meritorious men."