Famous People with Name Leydi

Ubaldina Valoyes Cuesta            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Ubaldina Valoyes Cuesta: is a female weightlifter from Colombia. She won a gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games for her native South American country, and carried the flag at the opening ceremony. Solís represented Colombia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China, finishing in fourth place in her weight division.

Georg Dietrich Leyding            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Georg Dietrich Leyding: was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school. Showing an early ability in music, he moved to Braunschweig (Brunswick) in 1679 to study with organist Jacob Bölsche and in 1684 studied briefly with both Johann Adam Reincken and Dieterich Buxtehude in Hamburg and Lübeck. He returned to Braunschweig the same year, where he succeeded Bölsche as organist of the St Ulrich and St Blasius churches after his death, and later also became organist of the Magnikirche. Towards the end of the 1680s, he learnt composition from the Hofkapellmeister of Wolfenbüttel, Johann Theile. He died in Braunschweig.