List of Famous people named Leonid

Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera The Children of Rosenthal was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov was a Soviet military commander. Trained as an artillery officer, he joined the Red Army in 1920. He graduated from several Soviet military academies, including the Military Academy of Red Army General Staff. He participated in the Winter War of 1939–1940 against Finland as a senior artillery officer.

Leonid Abramovich Yuzefovich is a Russian writer known for the series of crime fiction stories taking place in pre-Revolution Russian Empire. He also writes non-fiction books about history, and currently adapts his stories for TV serials.

Leonid Mikhaylovich Razvozzhayev is a member of the political coalition Left Front and an aide to Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Russian Parliament. Razvozzhayev was kidnapped from Kyiv, Ukraine in October 2012, allegedly by Russian security forces.

Leonid Grigoryevich Ivashov is a Russian military and public official. He is President of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems and a retired Colonel-General.

Leonid Maximovich Leonov was a Soviet novelist and playwright of socialist realism. His works have been compared with Dostoyevsky's deep psychological torment.

Leonid Latynin is a Russian writer.

Leonid Novitskiy is a Russian cross-country rally driver. He won the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup in both 2010 and 2011, driving for the X-Raid BMW team. He made his Dakar Rally debut in 2006, and finished eighth in 2009. He took his first Dakar stage victory on the opening stage of the 2012 Dakar Rally, driving a Mini All4 Racing for the X-Raid team to lead the event overall.

Leonid Ignatyevich Beda was a ground-attack squadron commander in the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War who went on to become a Lieutenant-General of Aviation. He completed over 214 sorties on the Ilyushin Il-2 during the war, for which he was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov (Russian: Леонид Петрович Решетников; is a Soviet and Russian secret service agent, Lieutenant-General of Foreign Intelligence Service, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. Candidate of Historical Sciences.