List of Famous Leos

Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham, was a British soldier, peer and long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament.

Marinus Willett was an American soldier and political leader from New York. He was characterized by historian Mark M. Boatner as "one of the truly outstanding American leaders of the Revolution."

Kenneth Claiborne Royall, Sr. was a United States Army general and the last person to hold the office of Secretary of War, as that position was abolished in 1947. Royall served as the first Secretary of the Army from 1947 to 1949, until he was forced into retirement for refusing to follow President Harry Truman’s order to desegregate the United States military.

Sem Benelli was an Italian playwright, essayist and librettist. He provided the texts for several noted Italian operas, including Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re and L'incantesimo, and Umberto Giordano's La cena delle beffe, based on Benelli's own play of the same title. He was a native of Prato.

Georgios Kondylis was a general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece. He was nicknamed Keravnos, Greek for "Thunder" or "Thunderbolt".