Leandro (given name)

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Other names
Related names| Leander, Lysander

Leandro is a masculine Italian, Portuguese and Spanish given name.[1] The name is a variant of two other names: Leander, a character in the Greek myth Hero and Leander, and Lysander, a relative of the Greek name Alexander. There's also a variation of the name in French: Léandre.[2][3]

## Given name[edit]

* Leandro de Sevilla (534–600), bishop of Seville honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church
* Leandro Alem (1841–1896), Argentine politician and founder of the Radical Civic Union
* Leandro Marcolini Pedroso de Almeida (born 1982), Brazilian-Hungarian footballer
* Leandro Augusto (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
* Leandro Lessa Azevedo (born 1980), Brazilian footballer
* Leandro Baccaro (born 1973), Argentine field hockey player
* Leandro Barbosa (born 1982), Brazilian basketball player
* Leandro Bassano (1557–1622), Italian artist
* Leandro Bottasso (born 1986), Argentine track and road cyclist
* Leandro Campagna (born 1994), Italian footballer
* Leandro Cedeño (born 1998), Venezuelan baseball player
* Leandro Chaparro (born 1991), Argentine footballer
* Leandro Damião (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
* Leandro Gomes (born 1976), Azerbaijani footballer
* Leandro Grimi (born 1985), Argentine footballer
* Leandro Joaquim Ribeiro (born 1995), Brazilian footballer
* Leandro de Oliveira da Luz (born 1983), Brazilian footballer
* Leandro Ruiz Machado (born 1977), Brazilian water polo player
* Leandro Moldes (born 1986), German/Swiss singer
* Leandro Montagud (born 1989), Spanish footballer
* Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), Spanish dramatist
* Leandro de Deus Santos (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
* Leandro da Silva (disambiguation), multiple persons
* Leandro Dos Santos (born 1986), Brazilian footballer known by the mononym Leandro
* José Leandro Ferreira (born 1959), Brazilian footballer
* Leandro V. Locsin, Philippine National Artist for Architecture
* Leandro (Leandro Bernardi Silva; born 1979), Brazilian footballer
* Leandro Verì (1903–1938), Italian carabiniere
* Leandro Lo (Leandro Pereira do Nascimento Lo; born 1989), Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt 8x world champion
* Weverson Leandro Oliveira Moura (born 1993), known as Leandro, Brazilian footballer who plays in Japan

## Italian variant[edit]

* Aleandro

## References[edit]

1. ^ Albaigès, Josep M.; Olivart, J.M.A. (1993). Diccionario de nombres de personas (in Spanish). Universitat de Barcelona. p. 156\. ISBN 978-84-475-0264-6. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
2. ^ Leandro, Nameberry.com
3. ^ Leandro, Behind the Name

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