title: Leonas
text: # Leonas
  
  Leonas is a Lithuanian masculine given name and surname; often a diminutive of Leonardas, and a Lithuanianized form of "Leon".
  
  Leonas (Ancient Greek: Λεωνᾶς) was also a Greek and a Latin name.
  
  ## 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
  * 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
  