famous people born under the leo star sign
Famous People Born Under The Leo Star Sign
Were you born under the Leo star sign? If your answer is in the affirmative, you might share your birth date with some of these notable personalities. Let us take a look at a list of celebrity Leo men and women who have made their mark in history.
Andy Warhol
Date of Birth: August 6, 1928
Profession: Artist
Famous Quote: "My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing."Sam Worthington
Date of Birth: August 2, 1976
Profession: Actor
Famous Quote: "I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important."Roger Federer
Date of Birth: August 8, 1981
Profession: Tennis Player
Famous Quote: "I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper."Earvin 'Magic' Johnson
Date of Birth: August 14, 1959
Profession: Basketball Player (Retired)
Famous Quote: "If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better."Bill Clinton
Date of Birth: August 19, 1946
Profession: 42nd President of the United States of America
Famous Quote: "Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening."Andrew Garfield
Date of Birth: August 20, 1983
Profession: Actor
Famous Quote: "My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings."Ben Affleck
Date of Birth: August 15, 1972
Profession: Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Famous Quote: "Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are."Steve Martin
Date of Birth: August 14, 1945
Profession: Actor, Comedian, Musician, Writer, Producer
Famous Quote: "The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready."Daniel Radcliffe
Date of Birth: July 23, 1989
Profession: Actor
Famous Quote: "I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behavior of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person."H.P. Lovecraft
Date of Birth: August 20, 1890
Profession: Author
Famous Quote: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."Alfred Hitchcock
Date of Birth: August 13, 1899
Profession: Director, Producer
Famous Quote: "There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."Wes Craven
Date of Birth: August 2, 1939
Profession: Director, Producer, Writer, Actor
Famous Quote: "All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps."Usain Bolt
Date of Birth: August 21, 1986
Profession: Olympic Athlete
Famous Quote: "I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race."Robert De Niro
Date of Birth: August 17, 1943
Profession: Actor, Producer
Famous Quote: "I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum."Meriwether Lewis
Date of Birth: August 18, 1774
Profession: Explorer, Soldier, Politician
Famous Quote: "The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten."Neil Armstrong
Date of Birth: August 5, 1930
Profession: Astronaut
Famous Quote: "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."Jason Statham
Date of Birth: July 26, 1967
Profession: Actor, Martial Artist
Famous Quote: "Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding."Arnold Schwarzenegger
Date of Birth: July 30, 1947
Profession: Actor, Model, Producer, Director, Writer, Businessman, Politician, Philanthropist
Famous Quote: "Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life."Orville Wright
Date of Birth: August 19, 1871
Profession: Inventor, Aviation Pioneer
Famous Quote: "If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."Christopher Nolan
Date of Birth: July 30, 1970
Profession: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Famous Quote: "I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed."Terry Gene Bollea 'Hulk Hogan'
Date of Birth: August 11, 1953
Profession: Professional Wrestler, Actor, Television Personality, Musician
Famous Quote: "If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult."James Cameron
Date of Birth: August 16, 1954
Profession: Filmmaker, Inventor, Engineer, Philanthropist, Deep-Sea Explorer
Famous Quote: "There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith."Wesley Snipes
Date of Birth: July 31, 1962
Profession: Actor, Producer, Martial Artist
Famous Quote: "I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!"Alexandre Dumas
Date of Birth: July 24, 1802
Profession: Writer
Famous Quote: "How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."Napoleon Bonaparte
Date of Birth: August 15, 1769
Profession: Emperor of France from 1804 - 1815
Famous Quote: "Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."Carl Jung
Date of Birth: July 26, 1875
Profession: Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist (Founder of Analytical Psychology)
Famous Quote: "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."Pete Sampras
Date of Birth: August 12, 1971
Profession: Former Tennis Player
Famous Quote: "I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles."Fidel Castro
Date of Birth: August 13, 1926
Profession: President of Cuba from 1976 - 2008
Famous Quote: "I began a revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."Robert Redford
Date of Birth: August 18, 1936
Profession: Actor, Director, Producer, Businessman, Philanthropist, Environmentalist
Famous Quote: "All the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies."François Hollande
Date of Birth: August 12, 1954
Profession: President of France, Co-prince of Andorra
Famous Quote: "Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right."Antonio Banderas
Date of Birth: August 10, 1960
Profession: Actor, Director, Producer
Famous Quote: "I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one."Stanley Kubrick
Date of Birth: July 26, 1928
Profession: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Cinematographer
Famous Quote: "Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."Barack Obama
Date of Birth: August 4, 1961
Profession: 44th President of the United States of America
Famous Quote: "The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."Chris Hemsworth
Date of Birth: August 11, 1983
Profession: Actor
Famous Quote: "I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait."Michael 'Mick' Jagger
Date of Birth: July 26, 1943
Profession: Singer, Songwriter, Actor
Famous Quote: "People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people."Dustin Hoffman
Date of Birth: August 8, 1937
Profession: Actor, Director
Famous Quote: "So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."Benito Mussolini
Date of Birth: July 29, 1922
Profession: Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 - 1943
Famous Quote: "It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."