Leonas

Leonas is a Lithuanian masculine given name and surname; often a diminutive of Leonardas, and a Lithuanianized form of "Leon".

Leonas () was also a Greek and a Latin name.

Surname

• Petras Leonas (1864–1938), Lithuanian attorney and politician
• Silvestras Leonas (1894–1959), Lithuanian military officer and judge

Given name

• Leonas, a Greek rhetorician and sophist. Mentor of the philosopher Proclus
• Leonas Alesionka (born 1949), Lithuanian politician
• Leonas ApÅ¡ega (born 1940), Lithuanian politician
• Leonas BaltrÅ«nas (1914–1993), Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• Leonas Bistras (1890–1971), Lithuanian politician, journalist, translator, philosopher and professor
• Leonas Juozapaitis (1901–1980), Lithuanian footballer
• Leonas Koganas (1894–1956), Lithuanian physician
• Leonas Milčius (born 1942), Lithuanian politician
• Leonas Petrauskas (1919–1994), Lithuanian basketball player
• Leonas Prapuolenis (1913–1972), Lithuanian public figure, commander and leader of the June Uprising of 1941 in Lithuania
• Leonas Sapiega (1557–1633), Lithuanian nobleman and statesman

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