List of Famous Leos

Eliza Swenson is an American actress, producer, singer, and composer. She was born on July 28, 1982 in Quincy, California. She has 5 siblings and is the youngest of them. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Media and Sound Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2003.

Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von Gneist was a German jurist and politician. Born in Berlin, he was the son of a judge attached to the city's Kammergericht. Gneist made significant influence on his student Max Weber and also contributed to Japan's first constitution through his communication with Itō Hirobumi.

Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor. Among his many roles, Nolan is remembered for originating the role of private investigator Michael Shayne in a series of 1940s B movies.

William O. Wallace was an American set decorator who worked throughout the 1940s and 1950s in multiple Hollywood productions. He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956. He moved into television in the late 1950s, and was chief set decorator on Maverick.

William Sandell is an art director who was nominated at the 76th Academy Awards for his work on the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in the category of Best Art Direction. He shared his nomination with Robert Gould.

Duff Gibson is a Canadian skeleton racer who competed from 1999 to 2006. He was born in Vaughan, Ontario. His father was born on December 13, 1937. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, He won the gold medal in the men's skeleton, narrowly beating out his teammate Jeff Pain. His victory made the 39-year-old surpass ice hockey player Al MacInnis as the oldest gold medallist in Canadian Winter Olympic history. More significantly, Gibson became the oldest individual gold medallist in the history of the Winter Games, a record previously held by Norway's Magnar Solberg, who was 35 when he won the gold medal in the 20 km individual biathlon event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo; he held the record until Ole Einar Bjørndalen won gold at the 10 km biathlon sprint aged 40 at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. He retired immediately following the 2006 Games in Turin.

Elisabeth Schmitz was a German Lutheran theologian, teacher, and author of "On the Situation of German Non-Aryans", a memorandum that attempted to persuade those in the Confessing Church to stand against the persecution of Jews in 1930s Germany. She also sheltered Jews and was granted the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" in 2011 by the Commission of Yad Vashem.