List of Famous people named Leonid

Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin was a Soviet ambassador and diplomat.

Leonid Grigorevich Petrovsky was a Soviet lieutenant general. He was the oldest son of Grigory Petrovsky. He was born in what is now Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine. He was promoted to Komkor from Komdiv in 1937. While in command of forces in Central Asia, he was removed from command and expelled from the army. He was not executed like many of his colleagues. In 1940, he was reinstated in the army. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War. Less than a month after his death, his younger brother, Peter was executed on September 11, despite a request from his father for his release.

Leonid Lebedev is a Cypriot-Russian billionaire businessman, and a former elected representative in Russia's Upper House of Parliament.

Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov was the President of the Buryat Republic in Russia from August 1991 to July 2007. He was reelected three times ; in 2002 he received 68% of the vote.

Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov was a Soviet and Russian bass-baritone singer. He was honored with People's Artist of the RSFSR and Honored Artist of RSFSR. In the West he was noted for his 1965 video of the The Song of the Volga Boatmen.

Leonid Kreutzer was a classical pianist.

Leonid Keldysh was a Russian physicist. Keldysh was a professor in the I.E. Tamm Theory division of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and a faculty member at Texas A&M University. He was known for developing the Keldysh formalism, a powerful quantum field theory framework designed to describe a system in a non-equilibrium state, as well as for the theory of excitonic insulators. Keldysh'awards include the 2009 Rusnanoprize, an international nanotechnology award, for his work related to molecular beam epitaxy, the 2011 Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal, and the 2015 Lomonosov Grand Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.