List of Famous Leos

Johann Leonhard Rost was a German astronomer and author from Nuremberg. He wrote under the alias Meletaon.

Ferdinand Rudio was a German and Swiss mathematician and historian of mathematics.

Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña was a Spanish politician and Roman Catholic archbishop.

Boris Alexandrovich Turayev was a Russian scholar who studied the Ancient Near East. He was admitted into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1918.

Óliver Pérez Martínez is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Arizona Diamondbacks, Houston Astros, Washington Nationals, and Cleveland Indians. He has also competed for the Mexican national baseball team in the 2006, 2009, and 2013 World Baseball Classics.

Thomas Corwin, also known as Tom Corwin, The Wagon Boy, and Black Tom was a politician from the state of Ohio. He represented Ohio in both houses of Congress and served as the 15th Governor of Ohio and the 20th Secretary of the Treasury. After affiliating with the Whig Party, he joined the Republican Party in the 1850s. Corwin is best known for his sponsorship of the proposed Corwin Amendment, which was presented in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid the oncoming American Civil War.