Famous People with Name Leonid

Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich: was a Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist. He is famous for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975 and the only winner of this prize from the USSR.

Leonidc            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Leonidc: is a Russian mathematician, currently residing in the U.S., who specializes in dynamical systems and known for his discovery of focusing chaotic billiards (the "Bunimovich stadium") and (more recently) for the Bunimovich mushroom, a billiard with mixed re

Leonid Dimov            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Leonid Dimov: was a Romanian poet and translator. The son of Nadejda Dimov, he was one of the main representatives (together with, amongst others, Dumitru Tepeneag) of onirism in Romanian poetry, explorer of the dream as an absolute, objective reality.

Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan: was a Armenian mathematician who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous for his Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm w

Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky: is the most famous and influential contemporary Soviet Ukrainian composer to emerge in Kiev during the 1950s. Leonid studied economics at Kyiv University (1951–1956), and from 1954 composition with Boris Lyatoshynsky and Lev Revutsky at Kyiv Conservatory

Alfredo C. "Toto" Leonidas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alfredo C. "Toto" Leonidas: is an American Poker player with over $3,200,000 in live tournament lifetime winnings. His 24 cashes as the WSOP account for $812,218 of those winnings.

Oleh Anatoliyovych Leonidov            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Oleh Anatoliyovych Leonidov: is a professional Ukrainian football defender who plays for FC Lviv in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Giorgi Leonidze            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Giorgi Leonidze: was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and literary scholar. Leonidze was born in the village of Patardzeuli in the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti. He graduated from the Tbilisi Theological Seminary in 1918 and continued his studies at the Tbilisi State