Famous People with Name Leopold

Léopold Demers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Léopold Demers: was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was an agrologist by career.He was first elected at the Laval—Two Mountains riding in a 20 December 1948 by-election. In the 1949 federal election, he was re-elected at Laval then re-elected for successive terms in 1953 and 1957. Demers was defeated in the 1958 election by Rodrigue Bourdages of the Progressive Conservative party.

Isaiah Edwin Leopold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Isaiah Edwin Leopold: was a popular American comedian and actor noted for both his Perfect Fool comedy character and his later career as a dramatic actor.In his youth, Wynn worked as an onstage assistant to W. C. Fields. Fields caught him mugging for the audience during his "Pool Room" routine and knocked him unconscious with his cue. Wynn became a headliner in vaudeville in the early-1910s, and was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914. He was best known as a comedian, billed as The Perfect Fool (and starring in a musical revue of that name on Broadway in 1921). Wynn also wrote, directed and produced many shows. He was famous for his silly costumes and props, and he always worked "clean," making his shows suitable for the entire family.

Luna Bergere Leopold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luna Bergere Leopold: was a leading U.S. geomorphologist, and son of Aldo Leopold.A famous U.S. hydrologist, he suggested that a new philosophy of water management is needed, one based on geologic, geographic, and climatic factors as well as traditional economic, social, and political factors. He argued that the management of water resources cannot be successful as long as it is naïvely perceived from an economic and political standpoint, as it is in the status quo.He was the 1973 recipient of the G. K. Warren Prize from the National Academy of Sciences.[1] In 1991 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He was also awarded The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science in 2006.[2]