Leila

Leila Luik is an Estonian runner with her triplet sisters Lily and Liina. All three ran in Rio 2016. I'm a huge fan of hers and her sisters.

Leila Goldkuhl placed third on the 19th cycle of America's Next Top Model.

How has anyone not mentioned Leila Denmark (1898-2012), who was, at one point, the world's oldest practicing pediatrician? She retired at the age of 103. She ended up living to 114, making her a supercentenarian.

Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa Magistrado de Lima is a Filipino lawyer, human rights activist and politician. She was appointed by president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as Chairperson of the Philippine Commission on Human Rights in May 2008 and she served in the commission until June 30, 2010, when she was appointed by President Benigno S. Aquino III as the Philippines' Secretary of the Department of Justice. She resigned as justice secretary on October 12, 2015, to focus on her candidacy for a seat in the Senate of the Philippines in what was then an oncoming 2016 Philippine general election. She won one of the twelve contested seats and currently serves as a Philippine senator in the Philippines' 17th Congress.

Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes is an Angolan actress, model and beauty queen who won the titles of Miss Angola UK 2010, Miss Angola 2010 and Miss Universe 2011. Lopes was born on 26 February 1986 in Benguela, Benguela Province, Angola. Prior to being a contestant in beauty pageants, she studied business management at University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich, England. Lopes is actively involved in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and the discrimination that people with the disease experience.

Leila Lopes is an Angolan actress, model and beauty queen who won the titles of Miss Angola UK 2010, Miss Angola 2010 and Miss Universe 2011.

Leila Buchanan is one of the main characters on the great new TV sci-fi drama "The Event". Leila is a young woman whose family gets pulled into a government conspiracy.

Leila is also borne by a very famous Ukrainian belly dancer. Although her real name is Alla Kushnir, she's also known as Leila, which means "night."

Famous bearers:
Moderator/Model Leila Abbas
Singer Leila Lopez

Leila is the main character in a famous short story by Katherine Mansfield called "Her First Ball."

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'She quite forgot to be shy; she forgot how in the middle of dressing she had sat down on the bed with one shoe off and one shoe on and begged her mother to ring up her cousins and say she couldn't go after all. And the rush of longing she had had to be sitting on the veranda of their forsaken up-country home, listening to the baby owls crying "More pork" in the moonlight, was changed to a rush of joy so sweet that it was hard to bear alone. She clutched her fan, and, gazing at the gleaming, golden floor, the azaleas, the lanterns, the stage at one end with its red carpet and gilt chairs and the band in a corner, she thought breathlessly, "How heavenly; how simply heavenly!" '

That one-eyed girl on Futurama is Leela not Leila and a famous bearer is Leila Mckinnon an Australian tv representer.

Leila reminds me of the one eyed alien girl off 'Futurama'.

Another famous bearer is Leila Forouhar, an Iranian singer.

A famous (or infamous) Leila is Leila Khalid, the Palestinian hijacker.