List of Famous people named Lev

Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg is a Russian painter, and founder of Russian kinetic art.

Lev Konstantinovich Knipper was a Soviet Russian composer of partial German descent and an active OGPU/NKVD agent.

Lev Isaakovich Lemke was a Soviet and Russian actor, awarded the title Meritorious Artist of Russia.

Lev Nussimbaum, who wrote under the pen names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, was a writer and journalist, born in Kyiv to a Jewish family. He lived there and in Baku during his childhood before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14. In 1922, while living in Germany, he obtained a certificate claiming that he had converted to Islam in the presence of the imam of the Turkish embassy in Berlin. He created a niche for himself in the competitive European literary world by writing about topics that Westerners, in general, knew little about - the Caucasus, the Russian Empire, the Bolshevik Revolution, newly discovered oil, and Islam. He wrote under the name of Essad Bey in German.

Lev Shcherba was a Russian linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology.

Lev Isaakovich Shestov, born Yehuda Leib Shvartsman, was a Russian existentialist philosopher, known for his "philosophy of despair" as the "penultimate word". Born in Kiev on February 12 [O.S. January 31] 1866, he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19, 1938.