Leakey
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- Colin LeakeyColin LeakeyColin Louis Avern Leakey is a leading plant scientist in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Biology, and a world authority on beans.-Background:...
(b. 1933), English botanist - David LeakeyDavid LeakeyLieutenant-General Arundell David Leakey CMG, CBE is a former British military commander. He was Director General of the European Union Military Staff in the Council of the European Union, Brussels...
(b. 1952), British military general - Jonathan LeakeyJonathan LeakeyJonathan Harry Erskine Leakey is a businessman and former palaeoanthropologist. He is the first son of famed anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey....
, businessman and former archaeologist - Louis LeakeyLouis LeakeyLouis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there...
(1903–1972), Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist - Louise LeakeyLouise LeakeyLouise Leakey is a Kenyan paleontologist. She does research and field work related to human fossils in Eastern Africa. She first became actively involved in fossil discoveries in 1977, at the age of six, when she became the youngest person to find hominid fossils...
(b. 1972), Kenyan paleontologist - Mary LeakeyMary LeakeyMary Leakey was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island and also a noted robust Australopithecine called Zinjanthropus at Olduvai. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge,...
(1913–1996), British archaeologist - Louise LeakeyLouise LeakeyLouise Leakey is a Kenyan paleontologist. She does research and field work related to human fossils in Eastern Africa. She first became actively involved in fossil discoveries in 1977, at the age of six, when she became the youngest person to find hominid fossils...
(b. 1977), British Artist/Writer - Matt Leakey (b. 1980), British Automotive Engineer
- Meave LeakeyMeave LeakeyMeave G. Leakey is together with her husband Richard Leakey one of the most renowned contemporary paleontologists. She studies the origin of mankind in Africa.-Flat-Faced Man of Kenya:...
(b. 1942), British paleontologist - Nigel Gray LeakeyNigel Gray LeakeyNigel Gray Leakey VC was a Kenyan recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
(1913-1941), Kenyan recipient of the Victoria Cross - Phil LeakeyPhil LeakeyPhilip Leakey was a British make-up artist known chiefly for his work on Hammer films.He provided Christopher Lee's celebrated makeup for Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein , whose "monster" had to be memorable and terrifying without infringing the copyright on Universal's earlier makeup, created...
(1908-1992), British make-up artist - Philip LeakeyPhilip LeakeyPhilip Leakey was educated at Leighton Park School and is a former member of the Kenyan Parliament. He represented the KANU party led by then president Daniel Arap Moi. He was an MP of Langata Constituency from 1979 and served as a cabinet minister for a short stint...
(b. 1949), Kenyan politician - Rea Leakey, British military tank commander, co-inventor of the Coles Universal Sun Compass
- Richard LeakeyRichard LeakeyRichard Erskine Frere Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey...
(b. 1944), Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist - Leakey's AngelsLeakey's AngelsLeakey's Angels is a relatively recent name given to three women sent by archaeologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments. The three are Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutė Galdikas...
, three primatologists sent by Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environment
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- Leakey (crater)Leakey (crater)Leakey is a small, undistinguished lunar impact crater that is located in an area of rough terrain in the eastern part of the Moon. The immediate area is not notable for crater features, although some distance to the southwest is the crater pair of Capella and Isidorus...
, lunar impact crater - Leakey, TexasLeakey, TexasLeakey is a city in and the county seat of Real County, Texas, United States. The population was 387 at the 2000 census. A U.S. Census Bureau estimate of July 1, 2008, placed the population at 359....
, city in Real County, Texas, United States - Leakey Independent School DistrictLeakey Independent School DistrictThe Leakey Independent School District is a public school district based in Leakey, Texas, United States.The district is located primarily in Real County with a small portion extending into north central Uvalde County...
, public school district based in Leakey, Texas, United States - Mr. Leakey, a fictional magician, invented by J. B. S. HaldaneJ. B. S. HaldaneJohn Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS , known as Jack , was a British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist. A staunch Marxist, he was critical of Britain's role in the Suez Crisis, and chose to leave Oxford and moved to India and became an Indian citizen...
in My Friend Mr Leakey (1937).