Leonas

Leonas
GenderMale
Name day20 February (for the Lithuanian name)[1]
Other names
Related namesLeonardas, 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

  1. ^ "Lithuanian Name Days". Behind the Name. 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Leonas: Surname". Forebrears. 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Leonas". Behind the Name. 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b Suda, la.269
  5. ^ Sozomenos, Ecclesiastical History, 4.22.2 - GR
  6. ^ Sozomenos, Ecclesiastical History, 4.22.1 - EN
  7. ^ a b A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology William Smith, Ed., Proclus
  8. ^ Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D., Ed.
  9. ^ Marinus, Life of Proclus, 8-9
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