List of Famous people named Leonid

Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov was a Soviet engineer who was the senior reactor control chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986.

Leonid Genrikhovich Zorin was a Russian playwright. He was born in Baku, Soviet Union, and studied at Azerbaijan University and at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. He is author of plays and screenplays. His most performed work is A Warsaw Melody (1967).

Leonid Aronovich Shvartsman is a Soviet and Russian animator and artist. He spent most of his creative career at the Soyuzmultfilm Studio, in Moscow, where he served as art director on Cheburashka, 38 Parrots, The Golden Antelope, The Scarlet Flower, The Snow Queen and many other cartoons.

Leonid Georgievich Yengibarov was a Soviet clown and actor.

Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik is the leader of the self-proclaimed state Luhansk People's Republic. Minister of State Security of the LPR from 9 October 2014 to 28 November 2017.

Leonid Borisovich Krasin was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary politician and a Soviet diplomat.

Leonid Igorevich Markelov is a Russian politician and lawyer, who is the former head of the Mari El republic in Russia. He took office on January 14, 2001 and resigned from office on April 6, 2017. Markelov was later arrested under suspicion of accepting bribes.

Leonid Nikolayevich Rabichev was a Soviet and Russian writer, graphic artist and World War II veteran. Rabichev authored thirteen poetry books and one memoir book.

Leonid Boguslavsky is an entrepreneur, scientist, and the founder of RTP Global. He was one of the first investors in Yandex, Ozon, Delivery Hero, Epam, DataDog as well as SnapDeal. In 2012 he was the Internet investor of the year (Forbes). Most successful investor of the year. He is in Forbes billionaires list.

Leonid Nikitovich Khrushchev was the son of Nikita Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union, and served as a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War. He was shot down and killed in 1943, but the exact circumstances of his death remain unknown.