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Leo VII

Pope Leo VII was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from 3 January 936 to his death.

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Pope

Leo VIII

Pope Leo VIII was a Roman prelate who claimed the Holy See from 963 until 964 in opposition to John XII and Benedict V and again from 23 June 964 to his death.

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Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)

Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903.

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French politician (1872–1950)

Léon Blum

André Léon Blum was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France.

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Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)

Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Trotsky, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.

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Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer.

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Russian playwright, author and poet (1871–1919)

Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of expressionism in Russian literature.

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First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980.

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German historian and founder of modern source-based history (1795-1886)

Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history.

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