List of Famous Leos

Emiel De Haes is a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1979 Tour de France.

Narcis de Carreras i Guiteras was a Spanish lawyer and president of FC Barcelona.

Heinrich Johannes Hermann Ranke was a German Egyptologist who worked at the University of Heidelberg. He was forced to leave during the Nazi regime as his wife had Jewish ancestors. He worked during period at the University of Pennsylvania.

Antoine-Louis-Marie de Gramont, 8th Duke of Gramont, was a French military officer, diplomat and parliamentarian.

Béla Bollobás FRS is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul Erdős since the age of 14.

Louis Joseph de Lorraine Duke of Guise and Duke of Angoulême, was the only son of Louis, Duke of Joyeuse and Marie Françoise de Valois, the only daughter of Louis-Emmanuel d'Angoulême, Count of Alès, Governor of Provence and son of Charles de Valois Duke of Angoulême, a bastard of Charles IX of France.

Cornelis Reinier "Kees" van Kooten is a Dutch comedian, television actor, and writer. He formed the duo Van Kooten & De Bie with Wim de Bie from 1972 to 1998.

Baron Clas Alströmer was a Swedish naturalist who was a student of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University. From 1760 to 1764 he traveled throughout Southern Europe, collecting plants for Linnaeus. He established a botanical garden and natural museum near Gothenburg which was managed by the notable botanist Anders Dahl, another student of Linnaeus. Alströmer was the son of the industrialist Jonas Alströmer. The genus Alstroemeria was named after him by Linnaeus.

Michael Beer was a German Jewish poet, author and playwright.

Nurken Abdirovich Abdirov was a Kazakh pilot considered a war hero by the Soviet Union in World War II, and was killed in the Battle of Stalingrad.