Pope Leo XIV (Born Robert Francis Prevost on September 14, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is the current head of state for the Vatican City State who was elected on May 8, 2025. He was an Augustinian monk who served in Peru from 1985 to 1986, and for ten years, from 1988 to 1998, served as a parish pastor, diocesan official, seminary teacher and administrator. He was made a cardinal by his immediate predecessor, Pope Francis, in the year 2023. Prior to his investiture as cardinal, he served as Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru from 2015 to 2023 and was head of the Order of St Augustine from 2001 to 2013. During his early tenure as a cardinal, Pope Francis appointed Prevost to head as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. A position that was perceived within the Roman Catholic Church as being quite prominent. A prominence that had led many within the Vatican to suggest his potential for being a candidate of the papacy in a then future conclave.
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Leo-Pekka Tähti (b. 1983) is a Finnish Paralympic athlete who competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.Leo McCrea (b. 2003) is a British-Swiss Paralympic swimmer who competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.
This isn't really a 'famous bearer' of the name Leo, but I've heard the name from a book called Stargirl, from a new show on Netflix called Legend of Quest: Monsters of Myth, and from a few other places. I have always liked the name and my best friend is named Leo.
Leo Sirota was a Jewish pianist born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolskaya Guberniya, Russian Empire, now Ukraine. Leo Sirota began studying piano at the age of five. By the age of nine he was already giving concerts and came to the attention of Paderewski, who invited the boy to study with him. Sirota's parents, however, felt he was too young, and so he attended the conservatories in Kiev and, later, Saint Petersburg. However, in 1904 he went to Vienna to study with Ferruccio Busoni. He worked as rehearsal pianist with the conductor Jascha Horenstein, whose sister, Augustine Horenstein, he married. Sirota's Vienna debut concert must have been a memorable occasion: it comprised the Mozart sonata for two pianos with Busoni playing the other piano, followed by the Busoni Piano Concerto, with Busoni conducting, and ended with the two piano version of the Liszt Don Juan Fantasy. Sirota and his family settled in Japan in 1929, staying there for 16 years, teaching and giving recitals. He was a piano teacher of Minoru Matsuya (1910–1995) and Takahiro Sonoda (1928-2004). While in Japan, he championed Yamaha pianos against the prevailing fashion in Japan for Bechstein and Steinway instruments.
Leo is the name of Tony Blair's youngest son (Leo George) born in 2000. He was the first legitimate child born to a serving Prime Minister for 150 years.
Leo Baekeland was a Belgian-American chemist and inventor; he created Bakelite, one of the earliest and most successful plastics.Leo Burnett was a revolutionary American advertising executive, one of the first to create an single, outstanding image to symbolize a product. Among his creations are the Pillsbury Doughboy, Jolly Green Giant, Tony the Tiger, Marlboro Man, and other ad icons.Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-American physicist involved in the Manhattan Project. He first theorized the nuclear chain reaction.