Famous People with Name Leon

Leon Polk Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Polk Smith: was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and his style has been associated with the Hard-edge school, of which he is considered one of the founders.[1] Smith was born near Chickasha, Oklahoma a year before it became a state, to parents who were part Cherokee. He grew up among American Indians of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes. He graduated from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma in 1934. He moved to New York City in 1936, where he attended Columbia University, and remained in New York for the rest of his life.

Leon Golub            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Golub: was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively.Golub, who always painted in a unique figural style, drew upon diverse representations of the body from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, to photographs of athletic competitions, to gay pornography; often pulled directly from a huge database he assembled of journalistic images from the mass media. He likened his painting process to sculptural technique and employed a method of layering and scraping away paint, sometimes using a meat cleaver, leaving varying amounts of canvas untouched.

Leon Festinger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Festinger: a prominent social psychologist, responsible for the development of the theory of cognitive dissonance, social comparison theory, and the discovery of the role of propinquity in the formation of social ties as well as other contributions to the study of social networks.Festinger is perhaps best known for the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, which suggests that inconsistency among beliefs or behaviors will cause an uncomfortable psychological tension. This will lead people to change their beliefs to fit their actual behavior, rather than the other way around, as popular wisdom may suggest.

Leon Duray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Duray: was an American racecar driver active in the 1920's. Born George Stewart, he legally changed his name in tribute to fellow driver Arthur Duray. Interestingly, the full name of driver Jigger Sirois is Leon Duray Sirois.

Leon Henkin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leon Henkin: was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for the "Henkin completeness proof": his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic.He was born in Brooklyn, into a Russian

Isidoro (Becerra) Leon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Isidoro (Becerra) Leon: (January 4, 1911 - July 25, 2002) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945. The 34-year-old rookie was a native of Cruces, Cuba.

José Miguel Granadino León            Origin/Culture/Country: American

José Miguel Granadino León: is a Salvadoran football Defender who currently plays for C.D. FAS.

Medardo Jim "Jimmy" Leon, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Medardo Jim "Jimmy" Leon, Jr.: was an American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, best known by his ringname "Bad Boy" Ricky (Ricki) Lawless, who competed in Eastern, Mid-Atlantic and Southern regional territories during the early-to mid 1980s, being a veteran of Internationa

Taylor Leon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Taylor Leon: is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour and on the Duramed FUTURES Tour.Leon was a two-time Rolex Junior Second-Team All-America, won two AJGA events, and represented the United States on the 2003 PING Junior Solheim Cup Team