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The Leonids are famous because their meteor showers, or storms, can be among the most spectacular. Because of the storm of 1833 and the developments in scientific thought of the time (see for example the identification of Halley's Comet), the Leonids have had a major effect on the scientific study of meteors, which had previously been thought to be atmospheric phenomena.
Leonid Desyatnikov (b. 1955), Soviet and Russian opera and film composer; Leonid Feodorov (1879–1935), a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, and survivor of the Gulag; Leonid Filatov (1946–2003), Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer; Leonid Gaidai, (1923–1993), Soviet comedy film director
Leonide or Léonide is a masculine given name which may refer to: . Leonide or Leonid of Georgia (1861–1921), Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia; Leonid Berman (1896–1976), Russian Neo-romantic painter and theater and opera designer
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук, IPA: [ɫeoˈnid mɐˈkɑɾoʋɘt͡ʃ kɾɐʊˈt͡ʃuk]; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994.
Leonid Anatolievich Levin (/ ˌ l eɪ. oʊ ˈ n iː d ˈ l ɛ v ɪ n / LAY-oh-NEED LEV-in; Russian: Леони́д Анато́льевич Ле́вин [lʲɪɐˈnʲit ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲevʲɪn]; Ukrainian: Леоні́д Анато́лійович Ле́він [leoˈn⁽ʲ⁾id ɐnɐˈtɔl⁽ʲ⁾ijowɪtʃ ˈlɛwin]; born November 2, 1948) is a Soviet-American mathematician and ...
Leonid Osipovich Utesov, also spelled Utyosov or Utiosov [a], born Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein [b] (22 March [O.S. 10 March] 1895, Odessa – 9 March 1982, Moscow), was a famous Soviet estrada singer, and comic actor, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.
Leonid Radvinsky [a] is a United Kingdom-based [2] Ukrainian-American [3] billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the founder of the cam site MyFreeCams (through his holding company , MFCXY, Inc.), [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and the majority owner of content subscription service OnlyFans .
Leonid Kadeniuk was born on 28 January 1951 in the village of Klishkivtsi in the Khotyn Raion of the Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine, to a family of rural teachers. In 1967, he graduated from high school with a silver medal, after which he entered the Chernihiv Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots .