List of Famous Leos
Agathiyan
Agathiyan is an Indian film director. He is credited to be the first director of Tamil cinema to win the National Film Award for Best Direction. He was also awarded National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1996 for the Tamil film Kadhal Kottai.
Tom Reece
Tom Reece was an English professional player of English billiards. He was six times runner-up in the professional billiards championship, now regarded as the world championship, losing three times to Melbourne Inman in finals from 1912 to 1914, and three times to Tom Newman in the 1921, 1924 and 1925 finals. He made the unofficial world's highest billiards break of 499,135 in 1907 using a cradle cannon technique shortly before it was banned from the sport. In 1927, his prowess with the pendulum stroke led to that also being banned from use in competition.
Kevin Rowland
Kevin Rowland is a British singer-songwriter of Irish descent and frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners, which had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being "Geno" and "Come On Eileen", both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.
Kevin Johnson
Kevin Johnson is an American football cornerback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Wake Forest. He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft.
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg was a Finnish mathematician known for work on the central limit theorem.
Tazin Ahmed
Tazin Ahmed was a Bangladeshi journalist, actress, playwright, director, and theater person. She won the 2003 Bachasas Award for the Best Actress in the drama category.
Juan Vicente Gómez
Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón was a Venezuelan military general and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935. He was president on three occasions during this time, ruling through puppet governments in between.
Florence Broadhurst
Florence Maud Broadhurst was an Australian painter and wallpaper and fabrics designer as well as a businesswoman. She was murdered in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, New South Wales and the perpetrator has not been apprehended.
Banhan Sinlapa-acha
Banharn Silpa-archa was a Thai politician. He was the Prime Minister of Thailand from 1995 to 1996. Banharn made a fortune in the construction business before he became a Member of Parliament representing his home province of Suphan Buri. He held different cabinet posts in several governments. In 1994, he became the leader of the Thai Nation Party. In 2008, the party was dissolved by the Constitutional Court and Banharn was banned from politics for five years.
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria
Archduke Karl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria was the younger brother of Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916), the father of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863–1914), whose assassination ignited World War I, and grandfather of the last emperor, Charles I.