Leonid 2686892 220392491 2008-06-19T17:13:26Z Thijs!bot 1392310 robot Adding: [[pt:Leonid]] '''Leonid''' may refer to: *[[Leonids]], a yearly prolific [[meteor shower]] associated with the comet [[55P/Tempel-Tuttle|Tempel-Tuttle]]. People with the name '''Leonid''': *[[Leonid Brezhnev]] (1906-1982), political leader of the USSR from 1964 to 1982. *[[Leonid Kravchuk]], (b. 1934) a [[Ukraine|Ukranian]] politician who was elected the first [[President of Ukraine]] in the country's first presidential elections in 1991. *[[Leonid Kuchma]], (b. 1938), the second [[President of Ukraine]], serving 1994-2005. *[[Leonid Kadeniuk]] (b. 1951), the first astronaut of independent [[Ukraine]] who flew on [[NASA]]'s [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Columbia]] in 1997 as part of the international mission [[STS-87]]. *[[Leonid the Magnificent]], (Leonid Filatov, b. 1973) a [[Russia]]n performance artist who became known nationwide after his appearances on ''[[America's Got Talent]]''. *[[Leonid Stadnyk]] (b. 1971), a [[Ukraine|Ukranian]] man named "world's tallest living man" by ''[[Guiness World Records]] 2008. *[[Leonid Moseyev]] (b. 1952), Soviet-Russian long-distance runner *[[Leonid Stein]] (b. 1934) Soviet [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] chess player from [[Ukraine]] who was among the world's top ten players in the 1960's. *[[Leonid Pasternak]] (1862-1945), a Russian [[Impressionist]] painter. *[[Leonid Sobinov]] (1872-1934), a Russian opera singer and the [[People's Artist of the RSFSR]] in 1923. *[[Leonid Utyosov]] (Leyzer (Lazar) Vaysbeyn, or Weissbein) (1895-1982) a Russian jazz singer and comic actor, and [[People's Artist of the USSR]] in 1965. *[[Leonid Kuravlyov]], (b. 1936) a Russian actor and [[People's Artist of the RSFSR]] in 1976. *[[Leonid Gaidai]], (1923-1993) a popular Soviet comedy film director and [[People's Artist of the USSR]] in 1991. *[[Leonid Filatov]] (1946-2003), a Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer, who was [[People's Artist of Russia]] in 1996. *[[Leonid Desyatnikov]] (b. 1955), a Russian opera and film composer. *[[Leonid Feodorov]] (1879-1935), a bishop and [[Exarch]] for the [[Russian Catholic Church]], and survivor of the [[GULAG]]. *[[Leonid Rozhetskin]], (b. 1966) an international financier and lawyer credited with bringing significant financial and legal advances to modern [[Russia]]. *[[Leonid Hurwicz|Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz]] (b. 1917), [[Regents’ Professor]] of Economics (Emeritus) at the [[University of Minnesota]] who shared the 2007 [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] for his work on [[mechanism design]]. *[[Leonid Gobyato]] (1875–1915), a Russian [[lieutenant-general]] and designer of the modern, man-portable [[mortar (weapon)|mortar]]. *[[Leonid Andreyev]] (or Andrejew) (1871-1919), a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the [[Expressionism|Expressionist movement]] in the national literature. *[[Leonid Reiman]] (or Reyman) (b. 1957), a Russian businessman and government official, currently Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the [[Russian Federation]]. *[[Leonid Kantorovich]] (1912–1986) a Soviet/Russian mathematician, economist, and only winner in [[USSR]] of the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] (1975). Fictional people named '''Leonid''': *Leonid, the protagonist in [[Alexander Bogdanov]]’s 1908 Russian science fiction novel, ''[[Red Star (novel)|Red Star]]''. *Leonid, the protagonist in in the [[Sergey Lukyanenko bibliography#Labyrinth|Labyrinth trilogy]] of cyberpunk novels written in the late 1990's by Russian science fiction writer [[Sergey Lukyanenko]] (''[[Labyrinth of Reflections]]'', ''[[False Mirrors]]'', and ''Transparent Stained-Glass Windows''). *[[Leonid Gorbovsky]], a character in [[Arkady and Boris Strugatsky]]'s series of science fiction novels set in the [[Noon Universe]] written from the 1960's-1980's. ===See also=== *[[Leonidas (disambiguation)]] *[[Saint Leonidas]] (name given to several saintly martyrs). *[[Alvis Leonides]] (British air-cooled radial piston aero-engine). {{disambig}} [[es:Leonid]] [[pt:Leonid]]