Leah (given name)
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Leah is a Hebrew
, female given name. The origin of the name is not certain, but it would appear to derive from the Akkadian for cow. According to popular false etymologies, the name means delicate or weary
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Variants include:
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
, female given name. The origin of the name is not certain, but it would appear to derive from the Akkadian for cow. According to popular false etymologies, the name means delicate or weary
Weary
Weary is a surname, and may refer to:*Jake Weary*Fred Weary*Emily Pohl-Weary...
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Variants include:
- Léa FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
- Lea CroatianCroatian languageCroatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
, DanishDanish languageDanish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
, DutchDutch languageDutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
, FinnishFinnish languageFinnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
, GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, NorwegianNorwegian languageNorwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
, Slovene, SwedishSwedish languageSwedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish... - Leah EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, HebrewHebrew languageHebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such... - Leia Koine GreekKoine GreekKoine Greek is the universal dialect of the Greek language spoken throughout post-Classical antiquity , developing from the Attic dialect, with admixture of elements especially from Ionic....
- Lía GalicianGalician languageGalician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
- Lia Ecclesiastical LatinEcclesiastical LatinEcclesiastical Latin is the Latin used by the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in all periods for ecclesiastical purposes...
, ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, PortuguesePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
People
- Leah ApplebaumLeah ApplebaumLeah Applebaum is an American voice actress.- Anime :* Erika, Susie and Natalie in Pokémon* Nanami Kiryuu in Revolutionary Girl Utena* Nanami the Cow in "Utena: The Movie"- Internet Radio :* Sci Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre...
, American voice actress - Leah AyresLeah AyresLeah Ayres is an American actress who played Valerie Bryson on the daytime serial, The Edge of Night, in the early 1980s. Ayres is well known for her role in Bloodsport, alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme...
(born 1957), American actress - Leah BettsLeah BettsLeah Sarah Betts was a schoolgirl from Latchingdon in Essex, England, United Kingdom. She is notable for the extensive media coverage and moral panic that followed her death several days after her 18th birthday. On 11 November, she took an Ecstasy tablet, and then drank approximately 7 litres of...
(1977-1995), British water intoxication / ecstasy victim - Leah BracknellLeah BracknellLeah Bracknell is an English actress, best known for her role as Zoe Tate in the long-running soap opera, Emmerdale.-Career:...
(born 1964), British actress - Leah CairnsLeah CairnsLeah Cairns is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as one of the Raptor pilots, Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson, on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.-Biography:...
(born 1974), Canadian actress - Leah ChaseLeah ChaseLeah Chase is a New Orleans chef, author and television personality. A daughter of the same name is a professional singer; see Leah Chase ....
(born 1923), American chef - Leah ClarkLeah ClarkLeah Clark is an American theatre actress, voice actress, ADR Director, and Script Writer who works for Funimation Entertainment and OkraTron 5000...
, American-born Japanese voice actor and entertainer - Leah DizonLeah DizonLeah Dizon is an American-born former gaijin tarento, singer, and model in Japan. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, she moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2006 to pursue a career in entertainment...
(born 1986), American-born Japanese model and singer - Leah FortuneLeah FortuneLeah Lynn Gabriela Fortune is an American-association footballer for the University of Texas and the Brazil under-20 women's national team. She was born in São Paulo to missionary parents and grew up in Illinois....
(born 1990), Brazilian-American football (soccer) player - Leah GoldbergLeah GoldbergLeah Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature and remain very popular among Hebrew speaking Israelis.-Biography:...
(1911-1970), Israeli writer - Leah GoldsteinLeah GoldsteinLeah Goldstein is a professional Israeli road racing cyclist.Born in Canada, Goldstein was raised in Israel. She spent 9 years in the Israeli commandos and secret police. A natural athlete she won the 1989 World Bantamweight Kickboxing Championship, and was Israel's Duathlon champion...
(born 1969), Israeli cyclist - Lea GottliebLea GottliebLea Gottlieb is an Israeli swimwear fashion designer. She emigrated to Israel from Hungary after World War II, and founded the Gottex company.-Early life:...
(born 1918), Israeli fashion designer - Leah HaywoodLeah HaywoodLeah Haywood is an Australian pop rock singer-songwriter and producer. Born in New Zealand, she grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and recorded a top 40 album, Leah, released in 2001 on Epic Records, which contained her Top 10 single, "We Think It's Love". Two more Top 40 hits followed with...
(born 1976), Australian singer - Leah KrinskyLeah KrinskyLeah Krinsky is an American comedy writer. She has written for Dennis Miller Live, for which she won an Emmy in 1998.- References :...
, American comedy writer - Leah LaimanLeah LaimanLeah Laiman is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.- Background :This Emmy Award winning writer got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s when General Hospital's Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, quit the show with the entire writing team...
(born 1946), American writer - Leah ManningLeah ManningDame Elizabeth Leah Manning DBE was a British educationalist, social reformer, and Labour Member of Parliament in the 1930s and 1940s...
(1886-1977), British activist and politician - Leah MillerLeah MillerLeah Miller is a former MuchMusic VJ from Toronto, and current host for So You Think You Can Dance Canada. She is also a correspondent for the entertainment news show ETalk.-Early life:...
(born 1981), Canadian actress - Leah MooreLeah MooreLeah Moore is an English comic book writer. She is the daughter of Alan Moore and Phyllis Moore, and is married to John Reppion. She has worked with both Alan and John on the comic Albion. She has also written for other comics and publications including Tom Strong and The End Is Nigh...
(born 1978), British comic book writer - Leah NeubergerLeah NeubergerLeah Thall-Neuberger , nicknamed Miss Ping, was an American table tennis player.Leah Thall-Neuberger was ranked the # 3 table tennis player in the world in 1951.-Table tennis career:...
(1915-1993), American table tennis player - Leah PellsLeah PellsLeah Marlee Pells is a retired female track and field athlete from Canada, who competed in the middle distance events and was once ranked first in the world in the 1500 metres. She represented Canada at three consecutive Summer Olympics, from in 1992 to 2000. Pells finished fourth in the 1500...
(born 1964), Canadian track and field athlete - Leah PinsentLeah PinsentLeah Pinsent is a Canadian television and film actress.She was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Canadian actors Gordon Pinsent and Charmion King....
(born 1968), Canadian actress - Leah PipesLeah PipesLeah Marie Pipes is an American actress. She is most notable for starring in the television series Life Is Wild and slasher film remake Sorority Row.-Life and career:...
(born 1988), American actress - Leah PurcellLeah PurcellLeah Purcell is an Australian actor, director and writer.-Biography:She is a film, television and theatre actor, singer, director and playwright. She is the youngest of seven children of Aboriginal and white Australian descent. Her father was a butcher and a boxing trainer...
(born 1970), Australian actress - Leah Rabin (1928-2000), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- Leah ReminiLeah ReminiLeah Marie Remini is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens and as Stacey Carosi on the NBC sitcom Saved by the Bell...
(born 1970), American actress - Leah RhodesLeah RhodesLeah Rhodes was an American costume designer.She began her Hollywood career in 1939. After proving her mettle on a series of B-movies throughout the 40s, she started to gain more attention after working on The Big Sleep in 1946...
(1902-1986), American costume designer - Leah Ward SearsLeah Ward SearsLeah Ward Sears is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Sears was the first African-American female Chief Justice in the United States...
(born 1955), American judge
Fictional characters
- Leah, in the radio series The Space Gypsy AdventuresThe Space Gypsy AdventuresThe Space Gypsy Adventures are a set of sci-fi comedy stories created by Cumbrian broadcaster and cartoonist Terry Askew. They were first broadcast on British Hospital Radio in 1986 and featured as a cartoon strip in The West Cumberland Times and Star newspaper in 1987...
- Leye (ashkenazic pronunciation), in the play The Dybbuk
- Leah Brahms, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Leah CainDiablo IIIDiablo III is an upcoming dark fantasy/horror-themed action role-playing game in development by Blizzard, making it the third installment in the Diablo franchise...
, niece of Deckard Cain, who assists and accompanies players like Deckard used to - Deckard himself is also supposed to appear in Diablo IIIDiablo IIIDiablo III is an upcoming dark fantasy/horror-themed action role-playing game in development by Blizzard, making it the third installment in the Diablo franchise...
. - Leah Clearwater, in the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer
- Leah Cornish, in Shadows by Stella Cameron
- Leah Estrogen, in the 2001 film Osmosis Jones
- Leah Mordecai, title character of the 1856 novel by Belle K. Abbott
- Leah Patterson-BakerLeah Patterson-BakerLeah Helena Adara Patterson-Baker is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Ada Nicodemou. She debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 22 March 2000...
, in the Australian television series Home and Away - Leah RoseLeah RoseLeah Rose is a fictional character in the Left Behind series. Former head nurse at Arthur Young Memorial Hospital in Palatine, Illinois, she helped Cameron "Buck" Williams get Ken Ritz out without compromising the Tribulation Force's cover, and after helping deliver Hattie Durham's stillborn baby...
, in the Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins