List of Famous Leos

Julien Quercia is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Sochaux, Auxerre, and Lorient.

Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire, his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (1844), later set to different English lyrics and widely sung as "O Holy Night" (1847). Adam was a noted teacher, who taught Delibes and other influential composers.

Natalia Dorota Partyka is a Polish table tennis player. Born without a right hand and forearm, she participates in competitions for able-bodied athletes as well as in competitions for athletes with disabilities. Partyka reached the last 32 of the London 2012 Olympic women's table tennis.

Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan was an Indian vocalist of Hindustani music. Apart from khayal, he performed dhrupad, dhamar and thumri. As of 2020, he is the oldest person to have been conferred a Padma award.

Mustafa Pektemek is a Turkish footballer who plays as a striker for Alanyaspor.

Bartholomäus Sastrow, sometimes anglicised Bartholomew, was a German official, notary, and mayor of Stralsund. He left a culturally and historically important autobiography, written in 1595 when he was 75 years of age. There is a plaque marking the site of his birth at Lange Straße 54 in Greifswald.

Emil Garipov is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender of Tatar descent. He currently plays with Dynamo Moscow in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Purificación "Purita" Campos Sánchez was a Spanish cartoonist, illustrator and painter.

Anna Alexandrovna Nechaevskaya is a Russian cross-country skier. She competed in the women's 10 kilometre freestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics.