Leander (given name)
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, Catholic saint and bishop who converted the son of the Visigothic king from Arianism
- Leander Babcock, United States Representative from New York
- Leander Clark, American businessman, politician and Union Army officer during the American Civil War
- Leander Cox, United States Representative from Kentucky
- Leander Czerny, Czech entomologist
- Leander Dendoncker, Belgian footballer
- Leander Ditscheiner, Austrian physicist and mathematician
- Leander F. Frisby, American politician, lawyer and Wisconsin Attorney General
- Leander Haußmann, German theatre and film director
- Leander Starr Jameson, British colonial statesman best known for the Jameson Raid on the Transvaal Republic in Africa
- Leander Jordan, American National Football League offensive tackle
- Leander Kahney, American journalist and author
- Leander J. McCormick 1819–1900), American inventor, manufacturer, philanthropist and businessman
- L. Hamilton McCormick, American author, inventor, art collector and sculptor, son of the above
- Leander H. McNelly, Confederate officer and Texas Ranger captain
- Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
- Leander Perez, American Democratic Party political boss in Louisiana
- Leander Richardson, American journalist, playwright and theatrical writer
- Leander J. Talbott, American realtor and politician, former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
- Lee Talbott , American track and field athlete
- Leander Tomarkin, Swiss imposter who claimed to have invented a miracle medicine
- Leander Watts, author of young adult literature
Fictional characters include:
