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Leopold is an originally Germanic name composed of two stems, common to Germanic names. The first part is related to the Latin word "Leo", meaning lion (Although some say the first part is related to Old High German "liut" meaning "people"). The Germanic peoples had no word for "lion" as they weren't aware of their existence until they established contacts with the Romans. The second part is of Germanic origin and means "brave", compare "bold". The name hence originally meant something close to "as brave as a lion". The name has been observed since the 5th century, including by the Frank Gregory of Tours, and the name gradually spread across Western Europe and during the 16th century it became popular in the southern Holy Roman Empire, due to the influence of the Margraves of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty.[1][2]
Notable people named Leopold edit
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People known principally by their first name: edit
- Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, Prince of Tuscany, later Leopold Wölfling
- Archduke Leopold Joseph of Austria (1700–1701), only son of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, died in infancy
- Archduke Leopold Joseph of Austria (1682–1684), son of Emperor Leopold I and Archduke of Austria, died in infancy
- Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, military commander, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, patron of the arts
- Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine, Duke of Teschen
- Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, fourth Grand Duke of Baden
- Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (pretender), Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (pretender)
- Leopold, Prince of Salerno
- Leopold of Styria, Leopold the Strong, Margrave of Styria
- Leopold of Limburg Stirum, count of Limburg Styrum
- Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, first Margrave of Austria
- Leopold I, Duke of Austria, Duke of Austria and Styria
- Leopold I of Belgium, first King of the Belgians
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor (elect), King of Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia and Slavonia, King in Germany (formally King of the Romans), Archduke of Austria and Further Austria, Duke of Teschen, Prince of Transylvania
- Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold I, Prince of Lippe, first Prince of Lippe
- Leopold II, Margrave of Austria, King of the Belgians and Duke of Brabant
- Leopold II, Duke of Austria, son of Otto, Duke of Austria
- Leopold II of Belgium
- Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor (elect), King of Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia and Slavonia, King in Germany (formally King of the Romans), Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany
- Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold II, Prince of Lippe
- Leopold III, Margrave of Austria, Saint Leopold III
- Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, first Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III, Duke of Austria Duke of Austria, Duke of Styria, Duke of Carinthia, Count of Tyrol
- Leopold III of Belgium, King of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant
- Leopold III, Prince of Lippe
- Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, Duke of Anhalt, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen
- Leopold IV, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, Margrave of Austria
- Leopold IV, Duke of Austria, Duke of Further Austria
- Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Prince of Lippe, Regent of Lippe
- Leopold V, Duke of Austria, Duke of Austria and Styria
- Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, Governor, later Archduke of Further Austria
- Leopold VI, Duke of Austria, Duke of Austria and Styria
- Leopold Philippe d'Arenberg, fourth Duke of Arenberg
- Prince Leopold, Count of Siracusa, member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
- Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, member of the British Royal Family, son of Queen Victoria, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow
- Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Count of Hainaut, Duke of Brabant
- Prince Leopold of Battenberg, known as Lord Leopold Mountbatten from 1917
- Prince Leopold of Bavaria (b. 1846), German Field Marshal and titular King of Greece
- Prince Leopold of Bavaria (b. 1943), member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and retired racecar driver
- Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary, prince of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Other edit
- Leopold Amery, known as Leo Amery or L. S. Amery, British Conservative Party politician and journalist, noted for his interest in military preparedness, India, and the British Empire
- Léopold Anoul, Belgian footballer who earned 48 caps and scored 20 goals for the Belgium national football team
- Leopold Arends, Russian writer and inventor of a system of stenography
- Leopold van Asten, Dutch show jumping equestrian
- Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique
- Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer
- Leopold Auerbach, German anatomist and neuropathologist, discoverer of Auerbach's plexus after whom Friedreich-Auerbach disease is partly named
- Leopold Barschandt, Australian footballer
- Léopold Battel, Canadian diplomat, High Commissioner to Brunei
- Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War
- Léopold Biha, Burundian Prime Minister
- Léopold Boilly, French painter
- Leopold Cohn (author), German author and philologist
- Leopold Cohn (Messianic clergyman), founder of Chosen People Ministries
- Léopold Corriveau, Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
- Leopold Damrosch, German American orchestral conductor
- Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal
- Leopold David, first mayor of Anchorage, Alaska
- Léopold Victor Delisle, French bibliophile and historian
- Leopold Dukes, Hungarian critic of Jewish literature
- Leopold Eidlitz, New York architect who worked on New York State Capitol
- Leopold Engel, Russian occultist and writer
- Leopold Engleitner, Holocaust survivor and conscientious objector, subject of the documentary Unbroken Will
- Léopold Eyharts, French astronaut
- Leopold Figl, Austrian politician, first Federal Chancellor after the Second World War
- Leopold Fischer (disambiguation)
- Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist
- Leopold Flam, Belgian philosopher, founder of Vlaamse vereniging voor Wijsbegeerte (Flemish League for Philosophy)
- Léopold de Folin, author, oceanographer and malacologist
- Leopold Frade, Episcopal Bishop
- Leopold Friedrich, Austrian weightlifter and Olympic bronze medallist
- Leopold Gegenbauer, Austrian mathematician after whom Gegenbauer polynomials are named
- Leopold Gmelin, German chemist
- Léopold Gnininvi, Togolese politician and the Secretary-General of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples
- Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist, composer, and teacher
- Leopold Godowsky, Jr., American violinist and chemist who jointly created Kodachrome, the first practical color transparency film
- Leopold Gottlieb, artist who painted Diego Rivera and Helena Rubinstein
- Leopold Gratz, Austrian politician
- Leopold Hager, Austrian conductor
- Leopold Hawelka, Austrian cafetier, founder of the Café Hawelka
- Leopold Hoffer, English chess player and journalist
- Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer of classical music
- Leopold Horner, German chemist and publisher of the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
- Leopold Infeld, Polish physicist who collaborated with Albert Einstein
- Leopold Janauschek, Austrian Cistercian historian
- Leopold Jansa, Bohemian violinist, composer, and teacher
- Leopold Jessner, producer and director of German Expressionist theater and cinema
- Leopold Karpeles, flagbearer in the Union Army, received the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War
- Leopold Katzenstein, German Naval Architect and Marine engineer
- Leopold Kielholz, Swiss footballer
- Leopold Kohr, Austrian economist, jurist, political scientist and practising philosopher who inspired the "small is beautiful" movement
- Leopold Kompert, Bohemian Jewish writer
- Leopold Kozeluch, Czech composer and teacher of classical music
- Leopold Kronecker, 19th-century mathematician
- Leopold Kronenberg, Polish banker
- Leopold Labedz, anti-communist Anglo-Polish commentator on the Soviet Union
- Léopold Langlois, Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian
- Léopold Leau, French mathematician with ties to international auxiliary languages
- Leopold Davis Lewis, English dramatist
- Leopold Lichtenberg, Jewish American violinist
- Leopold Lindtberg, Austrian Swiss film and theatre director
- Leopold Löw, pioneering Hungarian rabbi
- Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician, known for his work in mathematical logic
- Leopold Loyka, chauffeur of the car carrying Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at the point of Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo in 1914
- Leopold Lummerstorfer, Austrian film director, author and producer
- Leopold Macaulay, Canadian politician and lawyer
- Leopold Mandić, a Catholic saint
- Leopold Mannes, American musician who jointly created Kodachrome, the first practical color transparency film
- Leopold Maxse, journalist and editor of National Review
- Leopold Mitrofanov, Russian chess composer and International Master
- Leopold Moczygemba, Polish-born Catholic priest and pioneer who founded Panna Maria and Bandera, Texas
- Leopold Morse, United States Representative from Massachusetts
- Lord Leopold Mountbatten, grandson of Queen Victoria, previously known as Prince Leopold of Battenberg
- Leopold Mozart, father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Leopold Nowak, musicologist, edited works by Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society
- Leopold Okulicki, General of the Polish Army and last commander of the underground Home Army during World War II
- Leopold Pfefferberg, aka Leopold Page, Polish-Jewish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the book Schindler's Ark, which became the film Schindler's List.
- Leopold Pokagon, Potawatomi Wkema (chief)
- Leopold Prowe, German historian and school teacher
- Leopold von Ranke, German historian, one of the founders of modern source-based history
- Louis-Leopold Robert, Swiss painter
- Leopold Ross, English musician, record producer and brother of Atticus Ross
- Leopold de Rothschild, British banker and thoroughbred race horse breeder
- Leopold Rügheimer, German chemist after whom the Staedel-Rügheimer pyrazine synthesis is partly named
- Leopold Rutowicz, Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer and journalist
- Leopold Sánchez, Spanish comic book artist
- Leopold Schefer, German poet, novelist, and composer
- Leopold von Schrenck, Russian zoologist, geographer and ethnographer
- Leopold von Schrötter, Austrian medical doctor, internist and laryngologist
- Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal
- Léopold Simoneau, French-Canadian lyric tenor opera singer
- Leopold Skulski, prime minister of Poland from 1919 to 1920
- Leopold Spinner, Ukrainian-born, British-domiciled composer and editor
- Leopold Staff, Polish modernist poet
- Leopold Steinbatz, German Luftwaffe fighter ace, sole non-Officer recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords during World War II
- Leopold Stokowski, a 20th-century conductor
- Leopold Sulerzhitsky, Russian theatre director of Polish descent
- Léopold Survage, French painter of Russian-Danish-Finnish descent
- Léopold Szondi, Hungarian psychiatrist known for the Szondi test
- Leopold Takawira, Zimbabwean politician
- Leopold Trepper, organizer of the Soviet spy ring Rote Kapelle
- Leopold Tyrmand, Polish-Jewish novelist and editor
- Leopold Ullstein, German publisher of Jewish heritage; publications include B. Z. and Berliner Morgenpost
- Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician and supercentenarian
- Leopold Wharton, American film director, producer and writer
- Leopold Widhalm, Austrian maker of lutes, violins and violoncellos
- Leopold Wittelschöfer, Austrian physician, author of "Wiener Heil- und Humanitätsanstalten,"
- Leopold Wölfling, formerly Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, Prince of Tuscany
- Leopold Wenzel, Italian conductor and composer
- Leopold Zborowski, Polish poet and art dealer.
- Leopold Zunz, founder of the movement Wissenschaft des Judentums
Fiction edit
- Leopold Bloom, protagonist of Ulysses by James Joyce
- Leopold the Cat, Soviet animation series
- Leopold Stotch, a.k.a. Butters Stotch, in South Park television series
- Leopold, Springfield Elementary School administrator in The Simpsons television series
Notable people with the surname Leopold edit
- Aldo Leopold, American ecologist, forester and environmentalist
- Bobby Leopold, American football linebacker who played five seasons in the NFL
- David Leopold, Academic, politics
- Ethelreda Leopold, American film actress
- Glenn Leopold, writer at Hanna-Barbera Productions
- J. H. Leopold (1865-1925), Dutch poet
- Jason Leopold, American investigative reporter
- John R. Leopold, American politician
- Jordan Leopold, American professional ice hockey player
- Luna Leopold, leading U.S. geomorphologist, son of Aldo Leopold
- Nanouk Leopold, Dutch film maker
- Robert Lawrence Leopold (1916-1941), American sailor
- Stratton Leopold, American film producer
- Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., one of Leopold and Loeb, University of Chicago students sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Bobby Franks
References edit
- ^ "Nederlandse Voornamen Databank".
- ^ "Leopold". Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. Retrieved 2008-10-11.