List of Famous people named Leonardo

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo was a Spanish civil engineer and mathematician of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With his Telekine, Torres-Quevedo created wireless remote-control operation principles. He was also a famous speaker of Esperanto.

Leonardo Carneiro Monteiro Picciani is a Brazilian lawyer and politician affiliated to the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), and former minister of Sports appoint by president Michel Temer. Is son of the suspended state deputy and former president of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Picciani.

Leonardo Nigro is a Swiss actor.

Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura. He has written screenplays, two books of short stories, and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages. In 2012, Padura was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind. In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world and usually considered as the Iberoamerican Nobel Prize.

Leonardo Cecilio Fernández López is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Liga MX club Tigres UANL.

Leonardo Jara is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Boca Juniors of the Argentine Primera División.

Leonardo Fabio Castro Méndez is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as forward for Independiente Medellín.

Leonardo de Matos Cruz, better known as Léo Matos, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Vasco da Gama.

Leonardo Lourenço Bastos, commonly known as Léo, is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a left back.

Leonardo Javier Ramos is an Argentine footballer currently playing for C.F Pachuca in Liga MX.