List of Famous Leos

Ernst Ritter von Lauda, was an Austrian hydraulic and bridge engineer who was an adviser to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. He was awarded the Order of Franz Joseph and the second class of the Order of the Iron Crown and was given his own coat of arms.

Mohamed Dia is a Franco-Malian designer of sport clothing, founder of the M.Dia brand.

Vincent Bilodeau is a French Canadian actor and comedian from Quebec.

Lotte Jacobi was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.

Irwin Fridovich was an American biochemist who, together with his graduate student Joe M. McCord, discovered the enzymatic activity of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD),—to protect organisms from the toxic effects of superoxide free radicals formed as a byproduct of normal oxygen metabolism. Subsequently, Fridovich's research group also discovered the manganese-containing and the iron-containing SODs from E coli and the mitochondrial MnSOD (SOD2), now known to be an essential mammalian protein. He spent the rest of his career studying the biochemical mechanisms of SOD and of biological superoxide toxicity, using bacteria as model systems. Fridovich was also Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Duke University.

Vincent Vallières is a Canadian singer from Sherbrooke.

Chen Zhongshi was a Chinese author. He started writing prose in 1965 and finished his magnum opus White Deer Plain in 1993. In 1979, he became a member of the Chinese Writers Association.

Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky was a Polish-Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, a Soviet statesman and Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. He was fluent in over 10 languages.

Omar El Kaddouri is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or a winger for Greek club PAOK and the Morocco national team.

Daniel Schwaab is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He represented Germany at U18, U19, and U21 levels, winning the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.