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Leo or Léo (with an accent) is a proper noun, inspired by Latin Leo, which gave the word Lion in French, and which can be referred to as:

Abbreviation
Leo is an abbreviation of these below:


 * LEO GmbH (Link Everything Online), a German business who proposes in line some translation dictionaries dedicated to the German language and notably, a German–French dictionary.
 * Low Earth Orbit, low Earth orbit of artificial satellites, in astronomy and astronautics.
 * Lyons Electronic Office, the first computer used for commercial application.

Given name and family name
Léo can be a diminutive or variant of the names Léon, Léonard, Léonardon, Leonardo , Léonid, Léonor, Léonore, Eléonore, Léopold and Léonie.

Today, Léo is also a full-fledged given name and the feminine variant is Léa.

Leo is used equally as surname and a pseudonym.

Christian saint(s)

 * Leo Tanaka († 1617), with Ferdinando de Ayala and Alfonso Navarrete, blessed, Spanish missionaries, beheaded martyrs at Omura in Japan; celebrated on June 1st.

Other people with the given name or surname of Leo

 * Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744), Italian composer
 * Leo Au (born 1990), Hong Kong squash player
 * Léo Morandini, Italian architect
 * Léo Ferré (1916-1993), French poet and singer-songwriter
 * Léo Battesti, Corsican politician
 * Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), French composer
 * Léo Lacroix (né en 1937), Alpine skier
 * Léo Lagrange (1900-1940), Under-Secretary of State for Sports and Recreation under the Popular Front
 * Léo Poll (1899 - 1988), French musician of Russian origin


 * See also

Pseudonym

 * Leo (the pseudonym of Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira, born 1944), author of Brazilian comics
 * Léo (the pseudonym of Léo Quiévreux, born 1971), author of French comics
 * Léo is an eminent Armenian historian, born at Artsakh, which has published several studies, particularly inside Mourdj
 * Léo (1975-), Leonardo Lourenço Bastos, Brazilian footballer
 * Léo (1980-), Leonardo Ferreira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
 * Léo Mineiro (1990-), Leonardo Henrique Santos de Souza, Brazilian footballer
 * Léo Jabá (1998-), Leonardo Rodrigues Lima, Brazilian footballer
 * Léo Paulista (1983-), Leopoldo Roberto Markovsky, Brazilian footballer

Fictional Characters

 * Leo Wyatt, male character in the series Charmed
 * Léo, administrator of the first generation PC boxes in Pokémon with Pokémon Red and Blue Version
 * Léo, the lion in the animation Animal Crackers,
 * Leo, fictional character in the TV series, That '70s Show,
 * Leo (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's)

Theatre

 * Leo is the name of the iconic lion of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has appeared at the head of all productions of the American major since 1957 and, under another name, of one of the studios that came before it, Goldwyn Pictures, since 1924.

Written Works

 * Léo, comic book from the Louis la Guigne series
 * Léo et Popi, children’s literature created by Helen Oxenbury.
 * Le Roi Léo, a manga created by Osamu Tezuka
 * Léo bête à part, a comic book published in Pif Gadget from 1969.

Songs

 * See the 34 francophone songs whose titles contain the given name Léo

Transportation

 * Léo (formerly Vivacité), urban transport network of the Auxerre agglomeration.
 * Liaison Est-Ouest au Sud d'Avignon, national road and French expressway, constructed in 2010, which bypasses the city of Avignon to the south.

Astronomy

 * Leo, Leonis, the Latin name and genitive of the constellation of the Lion
 * Leo I, Leo II and Leo A, three dwarf galaxies of the Local Group, satellites of the Milky Way.

Places
Léo is the name of these notable places:


 * Léo is the name of a city in the Burkina Faso, capital of the province of Sissili, and situated in the department of the same name.
 * Leo is an islet of the Ebon Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Other

 * Les Hurlements d'Léo, a French musical group.
 * LEO, bar of biscuit chocolate made by Milka and distributed in Belgium
 * Leo, Thai beer, brewed by Singha, with an alcohol content of 5%
 * Leo (software) is the name of the high school virtual learning environment of Picardy, and it is a declination of the OpenENT.

Notes and References
