Leon

The lion is a central figure in various cultures, usually meaning kingliness, grandeur, and courage.

Variant Forms

Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Leone	Lion	Male	Latin
Leonidas	Lion-like	Male	Greek

José Napoleón Duarte was the President of El Salvador from 1984 to 1989.
Leon Štukelj was a legendary Slovene gymnast.
Leon Trotsky was a Russian politician, a Marxist revolutionary and the founder and the first leader of the Red Army.
Leonard Bernstein was one of the most influential classical musicians of his age, very few musicians can boast of a career like Leonard Bernstein.
Leonardo da Vinci was a legendary Florentine painter, polymath, sculptor, architect and musician.
Leonid Brezhnev was a leader of the Soviet Union.
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution.
Napoleon Hill was an American writer and one of the pioneers of personal-success literature.
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero is a former President of Honduras. He was in the office from 1990 to 1994.
Sugar Ray Leonard is a legendary boxer, who won world titles in five different weight classes.
Wassily Leontief was the Nobel Prize winning economist, and he acclaimed for his input–output analysis, is a name to reckon with.