Famous People with Name Leon

Leon Benbow            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Benbow: is a retired American basketball player.He played collegiately for the Jacksonville University.

Leon Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Brown: is a retired American basketball player. He played collegiately for the University of Wyoming, and played 5 games for the Cleveland Rebels of the NBA in 1946 - 1947. He was a childhood friend of sportscaster Curt Gowdy.

Leon Gravette Blevins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Gravette Blevins: was an American basketball player.He was selected by the Indianapolis Olympians in the 7th round of the 1950 NBA Draft.

Leon Powe Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Powe Jr: is an American professional basketball player who is currently a member of the NBA's Boston Celtics.Powe grew up poor in Oakland, California. His father left him when he was two years old. When he was seven years old, the family's house burned down and they were homeless for years. He was taken away from his mother by the state of California and put into foster care. In high school, Powe's mother died four days before he played in the state championship.[1] His life was featured by ESPN in a segment during the 2008 NBA Finals.

Leon Bismark Bix Beiderbecke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Bismark Bix Beiderbecke: was an American jazz cornetist, and composer, as well as a skilled classical and jazz pianist.One of the leading names in '20s jazz, Beiderbecke's career was cut short by chronic poor health, exacerbated by his alcoholism. Critic Scott Yanow describes Beiderbecke as the "possessor of a beautiful, distinctive tone and a strikingly original improvising style, Beiderbecke's only competitor among cornetists in the '20s was Louis Armstrong but (due to their different sounds and styles) one really could not compare them."

Isidoro (Becerra) Leon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Isidoro (Becerra) Leon: (January 4, 1911 - July 25, 2002) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945. The 34-year-old rookie was a native of Cruces, Cuba.

José Miguel Granadino León            Origin/Culture/Country: American

José Miguel Granadino León: is a Salvadoran football Defender who currently plays for C.D. FAS.

Medardo Jim "Jimmy" Leon, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Medardo Jim "Jimmy" Leon, Jr.: was an American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, best known by his ringname "Bad Boy" Ricky (Ricki) Lawless, who competed in Eastern, Mid-Atlantic and Southern regional territories during the early-to mid 1980s, being a veteran of Internationa

Taylor Leon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Taylor Leon: is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour and on the Duramed FUTURES Tour.Leon was a two-time Rolex Junior Second-Team All-America, won two AJGA events, and represented the United States on the 2003 PING Junior Solheim Cup Team