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Name Origin

Leonardo is an Italian masculine given name meaning 'brave lion.' It originates from the combination of the Germanic elements 'leo' (lion) and 'hard' (brave, strong).

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Famous People

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Polymath (painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer)

  • Mona Lisa
  • The Last Supper
  • Vitruvian Man

Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-)

Actor and Film Producer

  • Academy Award for Best Actor (The Revenant)
  • Known for roles in films like Titanic, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street

Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1250)

Mathematician

  • Introduced the Fibonacci sequence to Western mathematics