People
Lev is a male first name and sometimes last name of Slavic origin, which translates as "lion". The name also appears in the forms Liev, Lyev, Leo and Leon. People with this name include:
- Lev Alburt
- Leo I of Halych (Lev Danylovych)
- Lev Gumilev
- Lev Kamenev
- Lev Kuleshov
- Lev Landau
- Lev Leviev
- Lev Sedov
- Lev Shatilo
- Lev L. Spiro
- Lev Tolstoy
- Lev Trotsky (Liev Davidovitch Trotsky)
- Lev Vainshtein
- Lev Vygotsky
- Lev Yashin
- Lev Yilmaz
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)
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—David Cronenberg (b. 1943)
“What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)