List of Famous Leos

Yves Lévy is a French physician researcher and professor of clinical immunology who served as CEO of the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) from 2014 until 2018.

Yuri Sergeyevich Entin is a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, and lyricist who wrote screenplays and songs for various children's films including The Bremen Town Musicians (1969) and two sequels and Blue Puppy (1976), among others. He also wrote music with Bulat Okudzhava for the 1975 film The Adventures of Buratino.

Philip Nikodem Jagielka is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Premier League club Sheffield United.

Pedro Gomez was an American sports journalist. He worked as a reporter for ESPN from 2003 to 2021, contributing to the network's SportsCenter show. He was primarily a baseball reporter and was also a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America who cast election votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame. He covered 25 World Series and 22 Major League Baseball All-Star Games.

Meng Jianzhu is a retired Chinese politician best known for his term as the Secretary of Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China between 2012 and 2017. He also headed the Central Public Security Comprehensive Management Commission.

Kosuke Hagino is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in the individual medley and 200 m freestyle. He is a four-time Olympic medalist, most notably winning gold in the 400 m individual medley at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador who served as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture amid a growing war between left-wing and right-wing forces. In 1980, Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that the extreme right-wing politician, founder of ARENA and the U.S.-backed death squad leader Roberto D'Aubuisson had given the order.

Rainer Maria Woelki is a German Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He has been Archbishop of Cologne since his installation on 20 September 2014 following his appointment by Pope Francis on 11 July to succeed Joachim Meisner in that position. He previously served as Archbishop of Berlin.

Peter Simonischek is an Austrian actor. He is a praised stage actor and is a steady ensemble member of the Burgtheater since 1999. The actor also often appears at the Salzburg Festival and played there the title role in the play Jedermann numerous times.

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Princess of Leiningen and subsequently Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, was a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. As the widow of Charles, Prince of Leiningen (1763–1814), from 1814 she served as regent of the Principality during the minority of her son from her first marriage, Carl, until her second wedding in 1818 to Prince Edward, son of King George III of the United Kingdom.