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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.
According to Herodotus, Leonidas' mother was not only his father's wife, but also his father's niece and had been barren for so long that the ephors, the five annually elected administrators of the Spartan constitution, tried to prevail upon King Anaxandridas II to set her aside and take another wife.
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; Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs sprint ...
Leonidas is a sculpture of a hoplite made of Parian marble in 480–470 BC [1]: 263 and unearthed in 1925. [1] The excavation team named it "Leonidas", deducing that it depicts the Spartan king Leonidas I.
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Born in 1882 in Nigdi, Anatolia, Turkey, Leonidas Georges Kestekides of Greek heritage made a living by selling 'granitas', a kind of sorbet, and other sweets alongside his brother, Avraam.
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
Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk (April 10, 1806 – June 14, 1864) was an American Confederate military officer, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separated from the Episcopal Church of the United States of America.