Leon

Leon or Léon or León may refer to:

Places

France

• Léon, Landes, a commune of the Landes département, France
• Léon (viscounty), Brittany, France
• Léon (diocese), Brittany, France

Mexico

• León, Guanajuato

Nicaragua

• León, Nicaragua
• León Department

Philippines

• Leon, Iloilo

Spain

• León, Spain, city and capital of the province of the same name
• León (province)
• Castile and León, autonomous community
• Kingdom of León, historical kingdom

United States

• Leon, Iowa
• Leon, Kansas
• Leon, New York
• Leon, Oklahoma
• Leon, West Virginia
• Leon, Monroe County, Wisconsin
• Leon, Waushara County, Wisconsin
• Leon County, Florida
• Leon County, Texas
• Leon Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota
• Leon Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota
• Leon Valley, Texas
• Leon Georgia

People

Leon is a name in several Germanic languages meaning "thunder," and is used as both a given name and a surname. In a Greek or Spanish context, the name Leon means "lion". For people with the name "Leon", see People named Leon.

• Leon, King of Sparta, c. 590-560 BC
• Léon Boëllmann, French composer for the organ
• Leon Durham, former Major League Baseball first baseman
• Leon Edel, literary critic and Pulitzer Prize winning biographer
• León Felipe, León Felipe Camino Galicia (1884 - 1968), Spanish poet
• Léon Foucault, born Jean Bernard Léon Foucault(18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist invented the Foucault pendulum, made an early measurement of the speed of light, invented the gyroscope, and discovered eddy currents
• León Gieco, born Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco (November 20, 1951, Santa Fe, Argentina), pop-folk music composer and interpreter
• Leon Lai, Cantopop singer, and also his 1990 debut album, Leon
• Leon Lederman, American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos.
• Leon Edward Panetta, (born June 28, 1938) is a former White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
• Leon Robinson, African-American actor and singer, often credited simply as Leon
• Leon Russell, born Claude Russell Bridges on 1942 in Lawton, Oklahoma, singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
• Leon Spinks, a boxer
• Leon Trotsky, (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий), Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist
• Leon Uris, (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist
• Léon Walras, Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (1834 - 1910), French mathematical economist
• Leon White, an American Professional Wrestler who wrestles under the name Vader
• Tony Leon, a South African politician
• Squall Leonhart, also known as Leon, character in Final Fantasy VIII and Kingdom Hearts
• Leon Lentic Bosnian playwright, wrighter of plays like 'Umri' and 'Onaj Pamo Mali'
• Leon Scott Kennedy fictional character from Resident Evil
• Leon Teh rocker of the WORLD. Future ROCKSTAR. Current Rockstar threat.

Other meanings

• Club Léon, A soccer team in Mexico
• Kings of Leon, an American rock band
• León (beer), a Mexican beer
• Léon, (1994), also known as The Professional and The Cleaner, a film directed by Luc Besson. Also the name of the protagonist of that film
• Leon's, a Canadian furniture superstore
• Leon Motors, a former Yorkshire bus company
• LEON, an open source CPU
• SEAT León, a car model
• "Leon", a song by Kinky from their 2006 album Reina
• Leon (Squirrel Boy), a fictional blue squirrel from the animated series Squirrel Boy.

See also

• Leonidas I, a king of ancient Sparta
• De León