Leander is a given name. The most famous bearer of the name is mythological, from the story of Hero and Leander.
People named Leander include:
- Leander of Seville (c. 534–600 or 601), Catholic saint and bishop who converted the son of the Visigothic king from Arianism
- Leander Babcock (1811–64), United States Representative from New York
- Leander Clark (1823–1910), American businessman, politician and Union Army officer during the American Civil War
- Leander C. Cole (1849–1933), American politician from Ohio
- Leander Cox (1812–65), United States Representative from Kentucky
- Leander Czerny (1859–1944), Czech entomologist
- Leander Dendoncker (born 1995), Belgian footballer
- Leander Ditscheiner (1839–1905), Austrian physicist and mathematician
- Leander F. Frisby (1825–89), American politician, lawyer and Wisconsin Attorney General
- Leander Haußmann (born 1959), German theatre and film director
- Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917), British colonial statesman best known for the Jameson Raid on the Transvaal Republic in Africa
- Leander Jordan (born 1977), American National Football League offensive tackle
- Leander Kahney (born 1965), American journalist and author
- Leander J. McCormick 1819–1900), American inventor, manufacturer, philanthropist and businessman
- L. Hamilton McCormick (1859–1934), American author, inventor, art collector and sculptor, son of the above
- Leander H. McNelly (1844–1877), Confederate officer and Texas Ranger captain
- Leander Paes (born 1973), Indian tennis player
- Leander Perez (1891–1969), American Democratic Party political boss in Louisiana
- Leander Richardson (1856–1918), American journalist, playwright and theatrical writer
- Leander J. Talbott (1849–1924), American realtor and politician, former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
- Lee Talbott (Leander James Talbott, Jr.) (1887–1954), American track and field athlete
- Leander Tomarkin (1895–1967), Swiss imposter who claimed to have invented a miracle medicine
- Leander Watts, author of young adult literature
Fictional characters include:
- Leander Sydnor, in the television series The Wire
- Leander Wapshot, in the novel The Wapshot Chronicle and its sequel by John Cheever
See also
- Leander (surname)
- Leandro, the equivalent form in Castilian and Portuguese
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