Leonas

Leonas is a Lithuanian masculine given name and surname;[2] often a diminutive of Leonardas, and a Lithuanianized form of "Leon".[3]

Leonas

Gender	Male
Name day	20 February (for the Lithuanian name)[1]
Other names
Related names	Leonardas, Linus, Leon

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. Suda, la.269
5. Sozomenos, Ecclesiastical History, 4.22.2 - GR
6. Sozomenos, Ecclesiastical History, 4.22.1 - EN
7. 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