List of Famous Leos
Yetkin Dikinciler
Yetkin Dikinciler is a Turkish actor.
Xu Qinxian
Xu Qinxian was a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army. As commander of the 38th Group Army, he refused the order to use force against demonstrators in Beijing during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. As a result, Xu was court-martialed, jailed for five years and expelled from the Communist Party of China. After serving his sentence, he was exiled to Shijiazhuang, Hebei, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Gonçalves Dias
Antônio Gonçalves Dias was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as "Indianism", he is famous for writing "Canção do exílio", the short narrative poem I-Juca-Pirama, the unfinished epic Os Timbiras, and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would award him posthumously with the title of national poet of Brazil. He was also an avid researcher of Native Brazilian languages and folklore.
Ihor Kononenko
Igor Vitaliiovych Kononenko is a Ukrainian businessman and politician.
Long Qianyu
Chiang Yu-man, better known by her stage name Long Qianyu, is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer. She has released 55 albums.
Oesman Sapta Odang
Oesman Sapta Odang is an Indonesian politician of the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), serving as the speaker of the Regional Representative Council and deputy speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly. He had also served in the latter position between 2002 and 2004.
Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff
Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal in team dressage at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Anna Stainer-Knittel
Anna Stainer-Knittel was an Austrian portrait and flower painter. An incident from her life served as the basis for the novel Die Geier-Wally by Wilhelmine von Hillern; an early example of feminist literature.
Arantza Quiroga
Arantza Quiroga Cía is a Spanish politician. She was President of the Basque Parliament between 2009 and 2012, an office commonly known in the Anglophone world by the name of "Speaker of the Parliament". Mrs. Quiroga, who has a degree in Law, is a member of the conservative People's Party (PP) and was the leader of the Basque branch of the party until she resigned in 2015.
Gotzon Mantuliz
Gotzon Mantuliz Dudagoitia is a designer, model, TV commentator/presenter and winner of the 5th edition of the well known Spanish television show “El Conquistador del Fin del Mundo.” The show is broadcast on ETB2, the second television channel of Euskal Telebista (ETB), the Basque public television channel. Following his success, Dudagoitia started working as a commentator in the debate of “El Conquistador del Fin del Mundo”, called “El Conquis: La Aventura” and directed by Patxi Alonso, a Basque journalist. In 2015 he was premiered as a TV presenter with the program “Safari Wazungu”. He has also published a book called “Gotzon Mantuliz. Diario de un conquistador.”