Famous People with Name Leena

Leena Palotie            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Leena Palotie: a Finnish geneticist.Palotie received her Doctor of Medicine degree (higher doctoral degree in Finland, resembling a PhD) from the University of Oulu. Palotie has contributed to the discovery of 15 genes for heritable diseases in the Finnish population, including arterial hypertension, schizophrenia, lactose intolerance, arthrosis and multiple sclerosis.From 1998 to 2002 Palotie helped to found the UCLA Human Genetics Genome Center. She has had a professorial position in the Academy of Finland since 2003. In April 2005 Palotie was employed in the University of Helsinki and the National Public Health Institute of Finland. She is also project director in the EU project GenomEUtwin that was formed to define and characterize the genetic components in the background of different diseases. Since 2004, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of Orion Corporation, the largest Finnish pharmaceutical company. In September 2007, Palotie joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as the head of Human Genetics.

Leena Krohn            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Leena Krohn: a Finnish author.[1] Her large and varied body of work includes novels, short stories, children's books, and essays. In her books she deals with topics that include man's relationship with himself and the world, morality, borders between reality and illusion, and the problem of life, especially through observing different kinds of artificial intelligence.Krohn has received several prizes, including the Finlandia Prize for literature in 1992. Her short novel Tainaron: Mail From Another City was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award in 2005. Her books have been translated into English, Bulgarian, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and Swedish. Leena Krohn used the Internet in her literary work as early as mid-1990s. Her sister, Inari Krohn, is a graphic artist.

Leena Khamis            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Leena Khamis: is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Sydney FC in the Australian W-League. She represented Australia at the 2004 FIFA World Under 19 Women's Championship in Thailand.

Leena Silvennoinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Leena Silvennoinen: is a Finnish orienteering competitor and world champion.She won a gold medal in the relay event at the 1979 World Orienteering Championships in Tampere, with Leena Salmenkylä and Liisa Veijalainen on the Finnish relay team.[1]

Yukari Kinga            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Yukari Kinga: is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Fortuna Hjørring in the Danish Elitedivisionen. She represented Australia at the 2004 FIFA World Under 19 Women's Championship in Thailand. She finished the inaugural W-League season as top scorer with 7 goals; winning the Golden Boot award.

Abraham ("Bram") Cornelis Willem Leenards            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Abraham ("Bram") Cornelis Willem Leenards: is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who competed in two Summer Olympics for his native country. In 1960 he finished in eighth position with the Dutch Men's Team. Four years later in Tokyo he once again became eighth with the Holland squad.