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Leslie (Gaelic, derived from a surname meaning 'garden of hollies' or 'garden by the pool') can refer to any of the following:
Places
in Scotland:
in Ireland:
in the United States of America:
Other
- The Clan Leslie is a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast".
- The Leslie speaker system, named after its inventor, Donald Leslie
People
The following people bear the first name Leslie:
- the character played by Elizabeth Taylor in the film Giant
- Leslie (comedienne), American stand-up comedian and actress
- Leslie (singer), French R&B singer
- Leslie Howard Bogart, daughter of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- Leslie Caron, French actress
- Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor-singer (b. 1956—2003)
- Leslie Cochran, famous vagrant transvestite of Austin, Texas
- Leslie Erganian, American artist
- Leslie Townes Hope, American actor-comedian known as Bob Hope
- Leslie Hornby, British model known as Twiggy
- Leslie Howard (actor), British actor
- Leslie Howard (musician), Australian pianist and composer
- Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the birth name of 38th President Gerald R. Ford
- Leslie Mancia, contestant America's Next Top Model cycle 6
- Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS
- Leslie Nielsen, American actor
- Leslie Uggams, American actress
- Leslie Crocker Snyder, American lawyer and former judge
The following people bear the surname of Leslie:
- Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross
- Alexander Leslie (c.1580-1661), First Earl of Leven
- Charles Leslie (1650-1722) British Jacobite nonjuror and controversialist
- Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859), American genre painter
- Edgar Leslie (1885-1976), American songwriter, Lyricist, charter member of ASCAP
- Frank Leslie (1821-80), Publisher of Frank Leslie's Weekly
- Henry David Leslie (1822-1896), English composer and conductor
- Sir John Leslie (1766-1832), Scottish mathematician and physicist
- Lew Leslie (1886-1963), Broadway producer
- Lisa Leslie (born 1972), female basketball player
- Luke Leslie, an Irish film maker
- Miriam Leslie (1828-1914), wife of Frank Leslie
- Patrick Leslie (1815-1881), an early settler in Australia
- Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie (1827-82), Irish economist
- Walter Leslie, Lord of Ross
- Lieutenant Leslie, a character from Star Trek, played by Eddie Paskey.
- Leslie Baca real life
References
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Leslie.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
- Behind THe Name