Leonidas (disambiguation)
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Leonidas was the king of Sparta who ruled c. 489–480 BC, and who led the allied Greek forces in a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Leonidas may also refer to:
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People
Antiquity
- Leonidas I, Greek king of Sparta, ruled c. 489–480 BC
- Leonidas II, Greek king of Sparta, ruled c. 254–235 BC
- Leonidas of Rhodes, ancient Greek Olympic runner
- Leonidas of Tarentum, Greek poet
- Leonidas of Epirus, teacher of Alexander the Great
- Leonidas of Alexandria, Greek poet
Saints
- Saint Leonidas (disambiguation), any of several people
Modern times
Given name
Leonidas is a masculine given name mainly in Greece:
- Leônidas (footballer, born 1913), Brazilian football player born 1913
- Leônidas (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian football player born 1995
- Leonidas Kestekides, founder of the Belgian chocolate company
- Leonidas Alaoglu, American mathematician of Greek descent
- Leonidas Bott, Australian cricketer
- Leonidas Burwell, Canadian businessman and politician
- Leonidas Ferreira de Paulo Junior, Brazilian football player
- Leonidas M. Godley, American Civil War Union Army soldier; recipient of the Medal of Honor
- Leonidas Hamline, 19th-century American Methodist clergyman and lawyer, and founding benefactor of Hamline University
- Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer
- Leonidas Kavakos, Greek violinist
- Leonidas Kouris, Greek politician
- Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician
- Leonidas Langakis, Greek shooter
- Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer
- Leonidas Pantelides, Cypriot diplomat
- Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek military officer and politician
- Leonidas Polk, Confederate general in the American Civil War
- Leonidas L. Polk, American agrarian leader and North Carolina's first Commissioner of Agriculture
- Leonidas Pyrgos, Greek fencer
- Leonidas I. Robinson, American Coast Guard third lieutenant
- Leonidas Sampanis, Greek weightlifter
- Leonidas Shaver, American judge from the Utah Territory
- Leonidas Skoutaris, Greek basketball player
- Leônidas Soares Damasceno, Brazilian football player
- Leonidas Jefferson Storey, American politician from Texas
- Leonidas Tsiklitiras, Greek gymnast
- Leonidas Varouxis, Greek journalist and a politician
- Leonidas Vargas, Colombian drug lord
- Leonidas Veliaroutis, Greek writer
- Leonidas Vokolos, Greek footballer
Surname
- Georgina Leonidas, British actress
- Stephanie Leonidas, British actress
Nickname
- Nate Ebner (nicknamed Leonidas), American football player in the National Football League
Other
- Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Dominican President
Fictional characters
- Leonidas (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
- Leonidas Witherall, fictional character created by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Places
In the United States:
Vessels
- Leonidas (ship), labour ship that brought the first indentured servants from India to Fiji in 1879
- USS Leonidas, either of two ships in the US Navy
- HMS Leonidas, either of two ships in the Royal Navy
Other uses
- ELBO Leonidas-2, Greek-built armored personnel carrier
- Epirus Leonidas, a high-power microwave (HPM) weapon system
- Leonidas (sculpture), a 5th-century BC sculpture
- Leonidas at Thermopylae, a 19th-century oil painting by Jacques-Louis David
- Leonidas, an 1894 secular oratorio by Max Bruch
- Leonidas Squadron (Leonidas Staffel), experimental Luftwaffe unit of suicide pilots that tested crewed versions of the V-1 flying bomb
- Leonidas, the codename for Fedora 11
- Leonidas (chocolate maker), a chocolate producer
- RKSV Leonidas, a Dutch amateur football club from Rotterdam