Famous People with Name Leonard

Leonard Walker Lovett            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leonard Walker Lovett: (born July 17, 1852 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; died November 18, 1922 in Newark, Delaware) played in Major League Baseball.

Leonard James Matuszek            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leonard James Matuszek: (born September 27, 1954, in Toledo, Ohio) was a Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman. He is an alumnus of the University of Toledo. Len attended Moeller High School in Cincinnati.

Leonard Kevin Bias            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leonard Kevin Bias: American college basketball player who suffered a fatal cardiac arrhythmia that resulted from a cocaine overdose less than 48 hours after being selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft. Bias was the second player selected in the draft, after Brad Daugherty of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Leonard Cohen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leonard Cohen: is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European

Leonard J. Elmore            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leonard J. Elmore: is an American sportscaster, lawyer and former National Basketball Association player.Elmore has served as a college basketball analyst for ESPN for over eight years and served in the same capacity for CBS Sports' coverage of the NCAA Tournament; he also serves an analyst for ABC Sports. Elmore is an eight-year veteran of the NBA having played for the Indiana Pacers, Kansas City Kings (presently Sacramento Kings), Milwaukee Bucks, New Jersey Nets, and New York Knicks, and he also played two seasons with the Pacers when they were in the ABA.

Sheldon Leonard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sheldon Leonard: was a pioneering American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.Leonard was born Sheldon Leonard Bershad in New York City, the son of middle class Jewish parents Anna and Frank Bershad. As an actor, Leonard specialized in playing supporting characters, especially gangsters or "heavies", in films such as It's a Wonderful Life (1946), To Have and Have Not (1944), and Open Secret (1948). His trademark was his especially thick New York accent. In the cult classic Decoy, Leonard uses his "heavy" persona to create the hard-boiled police detective Joe Portugal. In the 1950s, Leonard provided the voice of lazy cat Dodsworth in two Warner Bros. cartoons directed by Robert McKimson.

Robert Sean Leonard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Sean Leonard: Leonard was born in Westwood, New Jersey, and grew up in Ridgewood, where he attended Ridgewood High School[1] before moving on to Fordham University and later Columbia University School of General Studies and Continuing Education.He is a three-time Tony

Herman Leonard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herman Leonard: is an American photographer known for his unique images of jazz icons. Leonard earned a BFA in photography in 1947 from Ohio University, although his college career was interrupted by a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during World War II. In the military he served as a medical technician in Burma, while attached to Chiang Kai Shek's Chinese troops fighting the Japanese.

James A. Leonard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James A. Leonard: was a young American chess master, who grew up as a son of poor Irish immigrants in New York City. He learned to play chess at age 16 or 17. Before his 20th birthday, he was already famous for his fierce attacking play and prowess at blindfold chess, at w

Sugar Ray Leonard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sugar Ray Leonard: is a retired professional boxer. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles. Leonard was the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time,