(b. 1934), Soviet Grandmaster chess player from Ukraine among the top ten players in the 1960s Leonid Taranenko (b. 1956), 1980 Olympic weightlifting champion for the Soviet Union Leonid Teyf, Russian-Israeli businessman Leonid Toptunov (1960–1986), reactor control engineer killed in the Chernobyl disaster Leonid Utyosov (Leyzer (Lazar) Vaysbeyn, or Weissbein) (1895–1982), Soviet and Russian jazz singer and comic actor Leonid Volkov (b. 1980), Russian opposition politician, IT specialist, Alexei Navalny аssociate Leonid Voskresensky (1913–1965), Soviet rocket engineer and launch director for Sputnik Leonid Yakubovich (b. 1945), Russian television host Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938–2016), Soviet weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist Fictional characters include: Leonid, the protagonist in Alexander Bogdanov’s 1908 Russian science fiction novel Red StarLeonid, the protagonist in the Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written in the late 1990s by Russian science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko (Labyrinth of Reflections, False Mirrors, and Transparent Stained-Glass Windows). Leonid Gorbovsky, in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe Leonid Kovar, Russian superhero also known as Red Star Leonid McGill, Manhattan private detective in fiction written by Walter Mosley Leonid Pavel, Russian nuclear scientist in The Dark Knight Rises'' See also Alvis Leonides, a British air-cooled radial piston aero-engine Leonidas (disambiguation) Ukrainian masculine given names Russian masculine given names Bulgarian masculine given names Macedonian masculine given names Given names of Greek language origin