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Leopold

American  
[lee-uh-pohld] / ˈli əˌpoʊld /

noun

  1. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “people” and “bold.”


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Blame it on Mozart, whose astonishing genius was already self-evident at age 5, when he wrote his first opus , and whose father Leopold controlled his life and career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

And then there’s the most famous Irish person of Jewish heritage, who despite being a fictional character can be said to have changed the world: Leopold Bloom, the ambiguous protagonist of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Katherine Leopold, a tutor at Greenwich Business School, echoes this.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Earlier this year, Fluidstack announced that it raised $830 million in a round led by Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness before that fund tumbled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Unfortunately, Germany was also the land of Leopold Kronecker, the mathematician who would hound Cantor into a mental institution.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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