Leonid (Russian: Леони́д) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Léonide.
People with the name include:
Leonid Andreyev (or Andrejew) (1871–1919), a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literatureLeonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), political leader of the USSR from 1964 to 1982Leonid Buryak (b. 1953), USSR/Ukraine-born Olympic-medal-winning soccer playerLeonid Bykov (1928-1979), a Soviet-Ukrainian actor, film director, and script writer.Leonid Desyatnikov (b. 1955), a Russian opera and film composerLeonid Gaidai, (1923–1993) a popular Soviet comedy film director and People's Artist of the USSR in 1991Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs 1,000-meter sprint canoerLeonid Gobyato (1875–1915), a Russian lieutenant-general and designer of the modern, man-portable mortarLeonid Feodorov (1879–1935), a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, and survivor of the GULAGLeonid Filatov (1946–2003), a Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer, and People's Artist of Russia in 1996Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), Russian-born American economist and mathematician who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in EconomicsLeonid Kadeniuk (b. 1951), the first astronaut of independent Ukraine who flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) a Soviet/Russian mathematician, economist, and only winner from the USSR of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1975)Leonid Kolumbet (b. 1937), Soviet-Ukrainian Olympic cyclist medalistLeonid Krasin (1870–1926), Soviet/Russian engineer and politicianLeonid Kravchuk (b. 1934) a Ukrainian politician who was elected the first President of Ukraine in 1991Leonid Kuchma (b. 1938), the second President of Ukraine (1994–2005)Leonid Kuravlyov (b. 1936) a Russian actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1976Leonid Levin (b. 1948), a Soviet-American computer scientistLeonid the Magnificent, (Leonid Filatov, b. 1973) a Russian performance artist who became known nationwide after his appearances on America's Got TalentLeonid Fyodorovich Myasin/Léonide Massine (1896–1979), Russian choreographer and ballet dancerLeonid Mezheritski (1930–2007), USSR and Israeli still-life, portrait and landscape painterLeonid Moseyev (b. 1952), Soviet-Russian long-distance runnerLeonid Pasternak (1862–1945), a Russian Impressionist painterLeonid Reiman (or Reyman) (b. 1957), a Russian businessman and government official, currently Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian FederationLeonid Rozhetskin, (b. 1966) an international financier and lawyer credited with bringing significant financial and legal advances to modern RussiaLeonid Sagayduk (1929–1998), a Soviet swimmerLeonid Sobinov (1872–1934), a Russian opera singer and the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1923Leonid Stadnyk (b. 1971), a Ukrainian man named "world's tallest living man" by Guinness World Records 2008Leonid Stein (b. 1934) Soviet Grandmaster chess player from Ukraine who was among the world's top ten players in the 1960sLeonid Taranenko (b. 1956) 1980 gold medallist in weightlifting for the Soviet UnionLeonid Utyosov (Leyzer (Lazar) Vaysbeyn, or Weissbein) (1895–1982) a Russian jazz singer and comic actor, and People's Artist of the USSR in 1965Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938–2016), Soviet weightlifter and Olympic gold medalistFictional characters include:
Leonid, the protagonist in Alexander Bogdanov’s 1908 Russian science fiction novel Red StarLeonid, the protagonist in the Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written in the late 1990s by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko (Labyrinth of Reflections, False Mirrors, and Transparent Stained-Glass Windows).Leonid Gorbovsky, a character in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe written from the 1960s through the 1980s.Leonid Kovar, a Russian superhero also known as Red StarLeonid Pavel, a Russian nuclear scientist in The Dark Knight Rises