Leonas
# 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
