Leonidas (disambiguation)

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:

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

Given name
Leonidas is a masculine given name mainly in Greece:
 * Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian football player
 * 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:
 * Leonidas, New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Leonidas, Minnesota
 * Leonidas Township, Michigan

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

 * 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.
 * ELBO Leonidas-2, Greek-built armored personnel carrier
 * 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