List of Famous Leos

Valentine Brown Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, was an Irish peer, politician and landowner. He lived at Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare, which his father had purchased from the Aylmer family, and at Maretimo House, Blackrock, Dublin. He is best remembered for his celebrated lawsuit for adultery against his former friend Sir John Piers, who had seduced his first wife, Elizabeth Georgiana Morgan.

Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, 7th Baronet, was a British army officer who served as Surveyor General of India and played a major role in the Great Trigonometrical Survey's work in the Himalayas and identified the source of errors resulting from the displacement of the plumbline by the mountains.

Jorge de Lancastre was a Portuguese prince, illegitimate son of King John II of Portugal and Ana de Mendonça, a lady-in-waiting to Joanna la Beltraneja. He was created the second Duke of Coimbra in 1509. He was also master of the Order of Santiago and administrator of the Order of Aviz from 1492 to 1550.

William George Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell, was a British civil servant and diplomat. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1925 and 1928 and British Ambassador to France from 1928 to 1934.

Eduard August von Regel, Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg. As a result of naturalists and explorers sending back biological collections, Regel was able to describe and name many previously unknown species from frontiers around the world.

James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont KP PC (Ire) was an Irish statesman.

Eleonore Charlotte of Saxe-Lauenburg-Franzhagen was a duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg by birth and, by marriage, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen, whose line and territorial legacy she co-founded.