Leslie
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Leslie (Gaelic, derived from a surname meaning 'garden of hollies' or 'garden by the pool')[1] can refer to any of the following:
[edit] Places
in Nigeria:
- Leslie, Lagos
- Leslie, Delta State
in Lagos:
- Leslie, Glaslough County Monaghan
in the United States of America:
[edit] Other
- The Clan Leslie is a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast".
- The Leslie speaker system, named after its inventor, Donald Leslie
[edit] People
The following people bear the first name Leslie:
- the character played by Elizabeth Taylor in the film Giant
- Leslie (comedienne), American stand-up comedienne and actress
- Leslie (singer), a 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, the birth name of actor-comedian Bob Hope
- Leslie Hornby, the birth name of the model known as Twiggy
- Leslie Howard (actor), a British actor
- Leslie Howard (musician), an 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, actor
- 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
- 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
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