List of Famous Leos

Herman Andimba Toivo ya Toivo was a Namibian anti-apartheid activist, politician and political prisoner. Ya Toivo was active in the pre-independence movement, and is one of the co-founders of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) in 1960, and its predecessor the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO) in 1959.

Richard Arnold Shore is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University who works in recursion theory. He is particularly known for his work on , the partial order of the Turing degrees.

• Shore settled the Rogers homogeneity conjecture by showing that there are Turing degrees and such that and , the structures of the degrees above and respectively, are not isomorphic.
• In joint work with Theodore Slaman, Shore showed that the Turing jump is definable in .

Frederick Beaconsfield Pentland was an English football player and coach.

Fred "Rusty" Gage is the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Adler Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute, and has concentrated on the adult central nervous system and the unexpected plasticity and adaptability that remains throughout the life of all mammals. His work may lead to methods of replacing brain tissue lost to stroke or Alzheimer's disease and repairing spinal cords damaged by trauma. He was the President-elect of the ISSCR in 2012.