| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Name day | 20 February (for the Lithuanian name)[1] |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Leonardas, Linus, Leon |
Leonas is a Lithuanian masculine given name and surname;[2] often a diminutive of Leonardas, and a Lithuanianized form of "Leon".[3]
Leonas (Ancient Greek: Λεωνᾶς) was also a Greek[4][5][6][7] and a Latin name.[8]
Surname
- Petras Leonas (1864–1938), Lithuanian attorney and politician
- Silvestras Leonas (1894–1959), Lithuanian military officer and judge
Given name
- Leonas, a Greek rhetorician and sophist. Mentor of the philosopher Proclus[7][4][9]
- Leonas Alesionka (born 1949), Lithuanian politician
- Leonas Apšega (born 1940), Lithuanian politician
- Leonas Baltrūnas (1914–1993), Lithuanian basketball player and coach
- Leonas Bistras (1890–1971), Lithuanian politician, journalist, translator, philosopher and professor
- Leonas Juozapaitis (1901–1980), Lithuanian footballer
- Leonas Koganas (1894–1956), Lithuanian physician
- Leonas Milčius (born 1942), Lithuanian politician
- Leonas Petrauskas (1919–1994), Lithuanian basketball player
- Leonas Prapuolenis (1913–1972), Lithuanian public figure, commander and leader of the June Uprising of 1941 in Lithuania
- Leonas Sapiega (1557–1633), Lithuanian nobleman and statesman
References
- ↑ "Lithuanian Name Days". Behind the Name. 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "Leonas: Surname". Forebrears. 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "Leonas". Behind the Name. 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- 1 2 Suda, la.269
- ↑ Sozomenos, Ecclesiastical History, 4.22.2 - GR
- ↑ Sozomenos, Ecclesiastical History, 4.22.1 - EN
- 1 2 A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology William Smith, Ed., Proclus
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D., Ed.
- ↑ Marinus, Life of Proclus, 8-9
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