List of Famous people named Leonid

Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov was an acclaimed Imperial Russian operatic tenor. His fame continued unabated into the Soviet era, and he was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1923. Sobinov's voice was lyrical in size and tone, and it was employed with discerning taste and excellent musicianship.

Leonid Tibilov is a South Ossetian politician who served as the President of South Ossetia from 2012 to 2017 after winning the 2012 South Ossetian presidential election.

Leonid Dimov was a Romanian postmodernist poet and translator born in Izmail, Bassarabia.

Leonid Kinskey was a Russian-German-American film and television actor who enjoyed a long career. Kinskey is best known for his role as Sascha in the film Casablanca (1942). His last name was sometimes spelled Kinsky.

Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev was a Russian/Soviet pianist, composer and pedagogue.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko was a Soviet ornithologist of Ukrainian origin who carried out extensive zoogeographic studies on the birds of the northern and north-eastern Palaearctic realm. He was born in Smila, Ukraine, though most of his career was spent working in, and conducting expeditions from, the ornithological department of the Zoological Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.