Leo is a given name in several languages. In European languages it is usually a masculine given name and it comes from the Latin word leo which in turns comes from the Greek word λέων meaning "lion". It can also refer to the name Leonard or Leopold. In Japanese, Leo or Reo (怜央) is usually a masculine given name.

The name can refer to:

People

Religious figures

Rulers

Scientists

  • Leo Esaki (born 1925), Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Leo Kadanoff (1937–2015), American physicist
  • Leó Szilárd (1898–1964), Jewish Hungarian-American physicist

In sports

Association football

Other sports

Artists and entertainers

Politicians

Other

  • Leo of Tripoli (died after 921/2), Greek renegade and admiral for the Abbasid Caliphate
  • Leo Africanus (c.1494 – c.1554?), Andalusian Berber Moorish diplomat and author
  • Leo Burnett (1891–1971), American advertising executive
  • Leo Fender (1909–1991), American inventor, maker of electric guitars
  • Leo Frank (1884–1915), American Jew murdered by a lynch mob
  • Leo Jogiches (1867–1919), Russian Marxist revolutionary
  • Leo Krim (2010–2012), American child killed along with his sister Lucia by their nanny
  • Leo Laporte (born 1956), American technology broadcaster and author
  • A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), American law professor
  • Leo Loudenslager (1944–1997), American world champion aerobatics aviator
  • Leo Strauss (1899–1973), American political philosopher

Fictional characters

See also

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