Léon Tolstoï, nom francisé de Lev Nikolaïevitch Tolstoï, né le 28 août 1828 à Iasnaïa Poliana, et mort le 7 novembre 1910 à Astapovo, est un écrivain russe. Il est célèbre pour ses romans et ses nouvelles qui dépeignent la vie du peuple russe à l'époque des tsars, mais aussi pour ses essais, dans lesquels il condamne les pouvoirs civils et ecclésiastiques. Il est excommunié par l'Église orthodoxe russe ; après sa mort, ses manuscrits sont détruits par la censure tsariste. Il veut et entend mettre en lumière dans ses œuvres les grands enjeux de la Civilisation. Il laisse également des contes et des pièces de théâtre.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. Along with Vladimir Lenin, he was a central figure in the October Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, Trotsky's writings and thought inspired a school of the ideology known as Trotskyism.
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism. His influential textbook Language, published in 1933, presented a comprehensive description of American structural linguistics. He made significant contributions to Indo-European historical linguistics, the description of Austronesian languages, and description of languages of the Algonquian family.
Leonard Merrick was an English novelist. Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers; J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."
Leonard Sidney Woolf was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. Leonard and Virginia did not have any children.
Leonard Woolsey Bacon was an American clergyman, born in New Haven, Connecticut. He was a social commentator and a prolific author on religious, social, and historical matters. In social, political, and religious issues of his times, he often broke with the traditions of his countrymen, sometimes causing "great sensation."
Leonardo Bruni, detto Leonardo Aretino, è stato un politico, scrittore e umanista italiano originario della Toscana, attivo soprattutto a Firenze, nella cui Repubblica ricoprì la più alta carica di governo (Cancelliere) nella prima metà del Quattrocento.
