List of Famous Leos
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, was a Canadian jazz pianist, virtuoso and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, simply "O.P." by his friends, and informally in the jazz community as "the King of inside swing". He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received numerous other awards and honours. He is considered one of history's great jazz pianists, and played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.
Oleg Ivanov
Oleg Aleksandrovich Ivanov is a Russian footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ufa.
Lidiya Sukharevskaya
Lidiya Petrovna Sukharevskaya was a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov. Her frequent stage partner was Boris Tenin, her husband. She also appeared in 14 films between 1939 and 1981. Sukharevskaya was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
Aleix Espargaró
Aleix Espargaró Villà is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competes in the MotoGP class for Aprilia Racing. He was FIM CEV International Championship winner of the Spanish 125GP series in 2004. Espargaró had his breakthrough in the 2014 MotoGP season with Forward Yamaha finishing 7th in the championship with the highlight being a 2nd place finish in Aragon. This earned him a move to Factory Suzuki Team in 2015 but had 2 largely unsuccessful seasons failing to score a single podium.
Pierre Gabriel
Pierre Gabriel, also known as Peter Gabriel, was a French mathematician at the University of Strasbourg (1962–1970), University of Bonn (1970–1974) and Zürich (1974–1998) who worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. He was elected a correspondent member of the French Academy of Sciences in November 1986.
Albert I, Duke of Bavaria
Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, was a feudal ruler of the counties of Holland, Hainaut, and Zeeland in the Low Countries. Additionally, he held a portion of the Bavarian province of Straubing, his Bavarian ducal line's appanage and seat.
Mary Cheung
Mary Cheung was a Miss Hong Kong 1975 winner, image consultant, host, painter, photographer and former actress. She is the founder of the image consultancy and media-relations training company Mary Cheung & Associates and was widely regarded as one of the most successful women in Hong Kong.
Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily
Luisa of Naples and Sicily was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. She was born a princess of Tuscany as a daughter born to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria.
Gustavo Endres
Gustavo Endres is a retired Brazilian volleyball player, a member of Brazil men's national volleyball team in 1997-2008, Olympic Champion Athens 2004, silver medalist of the Olympic Games from Beijing 2008, World Champion, multimedalist of the World League, South American Championship, World Cup and the Grand Champions Cup. Endres added best blocker in World Championship 2002 and 2008 Olympic Games.
Vincenzo Coronelli
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was an Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He spent most of his life in Venice.