List of Famous Leos
Garrett McNamara
Garrett ‘GMAC’ McNamara is an American professional big wave surfer and extreme waterman known for breaking the world record for largest wave ever surfed at Nazaré, Portugal, surviving a monstrous wave at Jaws, and riding tsunami from calving glaciers in Alaska.
Luca Marini
Luca Marini is an Italian motorcycle racer. He is the maternal half-brother of Valentino Rossi. He finished as runner-up in the 2020 Moto2 World Championship.
Joaquín Reyes Cano
Joaquín Reyes Cano is a Spanish actor, draftsman and comedian.
Carter Hart
Carter Hart is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted in the second round, 48th overall, of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft by the Flyers, the first goaltender selected that year. He previously played junior hockey with the Everett Silvertips of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
Djamila Ribeiro
Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos is a Brazilian Black feminist philosopher and journalist. She graduated in political philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo, where she also earned a master's degree on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler. Ribeiro is a collaborating editor of weekly magazine Carta Capital, as well as a columnist for Carta Capital and Folha de S.Paulo.
Jim Dale
Jim Dale, is an English actor, narrator, singer-songwriter, director, and composer. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In the British film world he became one of the regulars in the Carry On films. He is one of the last surviving regular actors from the series – the others being Leslie Phillips, Bernard Cribbins, Valerie Leon, Kenneth Cope, Julian Holloway, Hugh Futcher, Anita Harris, Amanda Barrie and Patricia Franklin. In the United States he is most recognised as a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum, Candide and Me and My Girl, as well as for narrating all seven of the Harry Potter audiobooks in the American market and the ABC series Pushing Daisies (2007–2009); he also starred in the Disney film Pete's Dragon (1977). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for portraying a young Spike Milligan in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973).
Rodrigo Espíndola
Rodrigo Federico Espíndola was an Argentine professional footballer who played for Chacarita Juniors, Racing Club, and Nueva Chicago as a defender. He died on 13 May 2016 after being shot during a robbery.
Wolfgang Kraus
Wolfgang Kraus is a former German football player.
Teresa Jiménez-Becerril
María Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio is a Spanish politician, journalist and businesswomen who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014.
Dylan Dreyer
Dylan Marie Dreyer is an American television meteorologist working for NBC News. She is a weather anchor and rotates with Sheinelle Jones in the Orange Room on Weekend Today and MSNBC on weekends. Dreyer frequently appears on Today on weekdays as a weather correspondent and as a fill-in for Al Roker and Carson Daly. She also appears on The Weather Channel and on NBC Nightly News. Dreyer joined NBC News in September 2012 after having worked at the now former NBC station WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts since 2007.