Famous People with Name Leon

Leon Bott            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Leon Bott: is an Australian rugby league and union player.He joined his home-town team the Canterbury Bulldogs during the 2007 pre-season on a train-and-trial basis but medical staff discovered his shoulder was not stable and he required reconstructive surgery. Afte

Leon Mckay            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Leon Mckay: is a NZ professional snowboarder from New Zealand. He has Appeared on TV3 NZ, Maori TV, Freeze TV, and SKY TV.

Anthony James Leon            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Anthony James Leon: is a South African politician and the former leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party and former leader of the opposition. He is currently the South African Ambassador to Argentina.In 1974 at the age of 18 he became an organiser for the Progressive Party, one of the two opposition parties represented in parliament at the time. After this, he qualified as an attorney at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was President of the Law Students' Council and Vice-President of the Students' Representative Council, and became a lecturer in the Law Department in 1986. He has accredited Harry Schwarz and Helen Suzman as his biggest inspirations

José Miguel Granadino León            Origin/Culture/Country: American

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

Luis Enrique Aguilar Leon            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Luis Enrique Aguilar Leon: was a Cuban journalist, professor and historian. He was a professor to Bill Clinton and a classmate of Fidel Castro.Aguilar was educated by the Jesuits first at the Colegio de Dolores in Santiago de Cuba and then at the Colegio de Belen in Havana. Fidel Castro was his classmate at both schools. They both graduated in 1944 from Belen. Aguila graduated from he University of Havana Law School in 1949 and Castro in 1950. In 1950, Aguliar earned a degree in international relations from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Later, while in exile, he would earn a Ph.D. from American University in Washington, D.C..

Fidelio Ponce De León            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Fidelio Ponce De León: a Cuban painter. A native of Camaguey, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana from 1913 until 1918. Along with Antonio Gattorno, Victor Manuel, Amelia Peláez, and Wifredo Lam he is considered part of the "Vanguardia" movement in Cuban art; however, unlike many of his contemporaries he never studied in Europe, and so had comparatively little contact with European modernism. Nevertheless, he listed among his influences Amadeo Modigliani, along with El Greco, Rembrandt, and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. His paintings are also reminiscent of those of Edvard Munch. Later in life Ponce de León contracted tuberculosis; he died in Havana in 1949. The Museum of Modern Art is among the museums containing examples of his work.

Maurice Arthur Mendes De Leon            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Maurice Arthur Mendes De Leon: was a Dutch physician, considered one of the founding fathers of gynaecology in the Netherlands, partly because of his surgical skills, but also due to his study into the interaction between gynaecological and psychological problems.