Leonel

Leonel is a given name. Notable people with the name include:


 * Leonel Altobelli (born 1986), Argentine footballer
 * Leonel Álvarez (born 1965), former Colombian football defensive midfielder
 * Leonel Bastos or Lionel Bastos, singer, songwriter and music producer
 * Leonel Beaudoin or Léonel Beaudoin (1924–2021), Canadian politician and insurance agent
 * Leonel Brizola (1922–2004), Brazilian politician
 * Leonel Campos, baseball player
 * Leonel Cárcamo (born 1965), retired Salvadoran football player
 * Leonel Conde, retired Uruguayan football goalkeeper
 * Fernando Leonel Cortés (born 1988), Mexican football striker
 * Leonel Cubas (died 2007), football player from El Salvador
 * Leonel da Silva Araujo, also known as Leonel (born 1986), football player
 * Léonel de Moustier (1882–1945), French businessman and politician
 * Leonel Fernández (born 1953), Dominican lawyer, academic, President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000, and from 2004 to 2012
 * Leonel Galeano (born 1991), Argentine football defender
 * Leonel García of Sin Bandera, a Latin pop duo based in Mexico
 * Leonel Grave de Peralta (born 1976), Cuban activist and dissident
 * Leonel Guevara (born 1983), Salvadoran footballer
 * Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (born 1947), bishop of the Catholic Church in Guatemala
 * Leonel Jules, Contemporary Canadian painter from Montreal, Quebec, originally from Haiti
 * Leonel Kaplan (born 1973), Argentine trumpet player
 * Leonel Liberman (born 1972), former footballer
 * Leonel Manzano (born 1984), American cross-country and track and field athlete
 * Leonel Mário d'Alva (born 1935), São Toméan politician
 * Leonel Marshall Steward, Sr. (born 1954), Cuban former volleyball player
 * Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, Baron of Alencar (1832–1921), Brazilian lawyer and diplomat, ambassador of Brazil
 * Leonel Medeiros or Lionel Medeiros (born 1977), retired Portuguese footballer
 * Leonel Mena (born 1982), Chilean Midfielder
 * Leonel Cota Montaño (born 1958), Mexican politician
 * Leonel Moreira (born 1990), Costa Rican football player
 * Leonel Moura (born 1948), conceptual artist
 * Leonel Munder (born 1988), male beach volleyball player from Cuba
 * Leonel Noriega (born 1975), Guatemalan football midfielder
 * Leonel Núñez (born 1984), Argentine football striker
 * Leonel Olmedo (born 1981), Mexican footballer
 * Leonel Paulo (born 1986), Angolan basketball player
 * Leonel Pernía (born 1975), Argentine racing driver
 * Leonel Pilipauskas (born 1975), Uruguayan footballer
 * Leonel Pontes (born 1972), Portuguese football coach
 * Leonel Power (1370–1445), English composer of the late Medieval and early Renaissance eras
 * Leonel Godoy Rangel (born 1950), Mexican lawyer, politician and former Governor of Michoacán
 * Leonel Reyes (born 1976), Bolivian football midfielder
 * Leonel Ríos (born 1983), Argentine football midfielder
 * Leonel Rocco (born 1966), former Uruguayan footballer
 * Leonel Herrera Rojas (born 1978), former Chilean footballer
 * Leonel Romero (born 1987), Peruvian football defender
 * Leonel Saint-Preux (born 1985), Haitian footballer
 * Leonel Sánchez (1936–2022), former professional football player
 * Leonel Sharp (1559–1631), English churchman and courtier, royal chaplain, archdeacon of Berkshire
 * Leonel Herrera Silva (born 1971), former Chilean footballer
 * Leonel "Bebito" Smith (1909–2000), Cuban multiple gold medalist swimmer at the 1926 Central American Games in Mexico City
 * Leonel Suárez (born 1987), male decathlete from Cuba
 * Leonel Vangioni (born 1987), Argentine football left-winger
 * António Leonel Vidigal or Toni Vidigal (born 1975), retired Portuguese professional footballer
 * Leonel Vieira (born 1969), Portuguese film director
 * Leonel Vielma (born 1978), Venezuelan football defender
 * Luciano Leonel Cuello (born 1984), Argentine boxer in the Light Middleweight division
 * Marcos Leonel Posadas (born 1938), Mexican politician
 * Marvin Leonel Esch (1927–2010), politician from the U.S. state of Michigan
 * Sergio Leonel "Kún" Agüero del Castillo or Sergio Agüero (born 1988), Argentine footballer