List of Famous Leos
Hitomi Kanehara
Hitomi Kanehara is a Japanese novelist. Her novel Hebi ni piasu won the Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, and sold over a million copies in Japan. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide.
Michel Yachvili
Michel Yachvili is a former French rugby union footballer.
Herfried Münkler
Herfried Münkler is a German political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin. Münkler is a regular commentator on global affairs in the German-language media and author of numerous books on the history of political ideas, on state-building and on the theory of war, such as "Machiavelli" (1982), "Gewalt und Ordnung" (1992), "The New Wars" and "Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States". In 2009 Münkler was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category "Non-fiction" for Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen.
David Harding
David Winton Harding is a British billionaire businessperson, and the founder and CEO of Winton Group. He had previously co-founded Man AHL. His approach favours quantitative investment strategies, using scientific research as the basis of trading decisions.
Eili Harboe
Eili Harboe is a Norwegian actress. She was born in Stavanger. She starred in Joachim Trier's 2017 film Thelma. Thelma and Harboe's performance received good reviews in the Norwegian press.
Inge Scholl
Inge Aicher-Scholl, born in present-day Crailsheim, Germany, was the daughter of Robert Scholl, mayor of Forchtenberg, and elder sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who studied at the University of Munich in 1942, and were core members of the White Rose student resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Inge Scholl wrote several books about the White Rose after the war.
Alex Michel
Alexander Mattheus Michel is an American businessman, producer, and television personality. He is best known for being the first star of The Bachelor during its premiere season on ABC in 2002.
Sazō Idemitsu
Sazō Idemitsu was a Japanese businessman and founder of the petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan. He was also an art collector, especially fond of Sengai Gibon. He is the father of the Japanese experimental video artist, Mako Idemitsu.
Ney Matogrosso
Ney de Souza Pereira, known as Ney Matogrosso, is a Brazilian singer who is distinguished for his uncommon countertenor voice. He was ranked by Rolling Stone as the third greatest Brazilian singer of all time.
Maharu Yoshimura
Maharu Yoshimura is a Japanese table tennis player.