List of Famous Leos

Alice Parizeau, OC was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.

Sana'a Mehaidli was a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party who, at the age of 16 blew herself and a Peugeot filled with explosives up next to an Israeli convoy in Jezzine, Lebanon, during the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon. Two Israeli soldiers were killed and twelve were injured.

Admiral Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet was a British naval officer and colonial governor.

André Laugier was a French chemist, pharmacist and mineralogist. He was a cousin to famed chemist Antoine François Fourcroy and the father of astronomer Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier (1812–1872).

Margot Madelaine Boer is a Dutch former speed skater. She is specialised in the 500, 1000 and 1500 m.

Lenka Kotková is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

Captain Philip Thicknesse was an English author, eccentric, and friend of the artist Thomas Gainsborough.

Mina Spiegel Rees was an American mathematician. She was the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1971) and head of the mathematics department of the Office of Naval Research of the United States. Rees was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Rees was also the founding president and president emerita of the Graduate School and University Center at CUNY. She received the Public Welfare Medal, the highest honor of the National Academy of Sciences; the King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom (UK) and at least 18 honorary doctorates.