List of Famous Leos
David Wolf
David Alexander Wolf is an American astronaut, medical doctor and electrical engineer. Wolf has been to space four times. Three of his spaceflights were short-duration Space Shuttle missions, the first of which was STS-58 in 1993, and his most recent spaceflight was STS-127 in 2009. Wolf also took part in a long-duration mission aboard the Russian space station Mir which lasted 128 days, and occurred during Mir EO-24. He was brought to Mir aboard STS-86 in September 1997, and landed aboard STS-89 in January 1998. In total Wolf has logged more than 4,040 hours in space. He is also a veteran of 7 spacewalks totaling 41hrs 17min in both Russian and American spacesuits.
Joaquín Torres-García
Joaquín Torres García was an Uruguayan / Spanish artist, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 28, 1874. As an adolescent he emigrated to Catalunya, Spain,where he initiated his career as an artist in 1891. For the next three decades, he embraced Catalan identity leading Barcelona’s and Europe's art and culture to its utmost vanguards. A ‘renaissance or universal man’; painter, sculptor, muralist, novelist, writer, teacher and theorist. He was also active in United States, Italy, France and Uruguay from where his influence encompasses a personal presence in European, North American and South American modern art. He dealt the eternal dilemma between the old and the modern, the classical and the avant-garde, reason and feeling, figuration and abstraction with a simple and brilliant metaphor: there is no contradiction or incompatibility. Like Goethe, he seeks the integration between classicism and modernity.
Michael Boxall
Michael Joseph Boxall is a New Zealand footballer who currently plays for Minnesota United in Major League Soccer, and the New Zealand national football team.
Budd Boetticher
Oscar "Budd" Boetticher Jr. was an American film director. He is most famous for a series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez was a French sailor, Navy officer, and admiral of the First French Empire.
Savio Nsereko
Savio Magala Nsereko is a Ugandan-born German footballer who plays as a forward or winger. He is currently at BSC Sendling.
Romell Quioto
Romell Samir Quioto Robinson, nicknamed El Romántico, is a Honduran professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club CF Montréal and the Honduras national team.
Octávio Frias
Octavio Frias de Oliveira was a Brazilian businessman who gained recognition for turning newspaper Folha de S. Paulo – acquired by himself and partner Carlos Caldeira in August 1962 – into one of the most influential Brazilian media organizations. The newspaper became the cornerstone for a conglomerate called Grupo Folha.
Prince Louis of Luxembourg
Prince Louis of Luxembourg is the third son of the Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg.
Domenico Giani
Domenico Giani is an Italian security expert who was the Inspector General of the Corpo della Gendarmeria, the police and security force of Vatican City, and the chief bodyguard of Popes Benedict XVI and Francis, from 3 June 2006 to 14 October 2019.