This guitar was made famous by Artists such as Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and Leo Kottke are famous 12 string players.

Fahey contemporary Robbie Basho added elements of Indian classical music and Leo Kottke used a Faheyesque approach to make the first solo steel-string guitar " hit " record.

* Balance ( Leo Kottke album )

* Clone ( Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon album ), the first studio album from Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon.

* 1945 – Leo Kottke, American guitarist

A reminder of their earlier folk incarnation was Kaukonen's solo acoustic guitar tour de force, " Embryonic Journey " ( his first composition ), which referenced contemporary acoustic guitar masters such as John Fahey and helped to establish the popular genre exemplified by acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke.

* Leo Kottke, acoustic guitarist

* The Best ( Leo Kottke album )

Acts range from newer bands just emerging onto the scene ( such as Tea Leaf Green, Nellie McKay and Raq ) to big name acts and jam rock staples, such as Les Claypool, Blues Traveler, and Mike Gordon ( of Phish fame ), to pop rock icons, such as Leo Kottke, The Flaming Lips, The Violent Femmes, and most recently, Perry Farrell.

* Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke in concert Kansas City 2008

Leo Kottke received an honorary Doctorate in Music Performance from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee on May 18, 2008, where he gave the commencement address.

In 1976, Kottke collaborated with arranger Jack Nitzsche on the release Leo Kottke, which featured Kottke backed by a small orchestral section on a number of tracks.

* Official Leo Kottke website

* Unofficial Leo Kottke web site ( fan site )

He has paid significant attention to the evolution of guitar playing across genres, however, and is familiar with the playing of notables from the likes of rocker Eddie Van Halen to Leo Kottke.

Numerous other musicians use it as their main instrument, including Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, Marvin B Naylor, Matt Nathanson, James Blackshaw, John Butler, both Justin Hayward and John Lodge of the Moody Blues, David Arkenstone, Cory Stuteville and former Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips.

The city's local folk scene produced a few well-known performers in the 1960s, besides Dylan who spent much of his early career based in New York, including the guitarist Leo Kottke and the trio Koerner, Ray & Glover.

The album was slightly more successful than its predecessor, reaching # 111 on the Billboard 200, and was notable for its collaboration with Leo Kottke, its musical diversity, and a cover of David Bowie's " Rebel Rebel ", which was slated to be the title track for the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry, when Bowie's publishing pulled the plug by asking for too much money from the little independent movie.

* Adrian Leo Doyle ( born 1936 ), Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

People born under the astrological signs of Aries, Leo and Sagittarius are thought to have dominant fire personalities.

* Cyril Leo Heraclius, Prince Toumanoff ( born Toumanishvili ) ( 1913 – 1997 ), Russian-born historian and genealogist who was a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University

Leo Damrosch writes, " an eighteenth-century Genevan liturgy still required believers to declare ‘ that we are miserable sinners, born in corruption, inclined to evil, incapable by ourselves of doing good '.

Leo, whose original name was Konon, was born in Germanikeia ( Maraş / Turkey ) in the Syrian province of Commagene.

Pope John VIII: John, of English extraction, was born at Mentz ( Mainz ) and is said to have arrived at Popedom by evil art ; for disguising herself like a man, whereas she was a woman, she went when young with her paramour, a learned man, to Athens, and made such progress in learning under the professors there that, coming to Rome, she met with few that could equal, much less go beyond her, even in the knowledge of the scriptures ; and by her learned and ingenious readings and disputations, she acquired so great respect and authority that upon the death of Pope Leo IV ( as Martin says ) by common consent she was chosen Pope in his room.

Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA ( 1890 – 1969 ), who was serving in the British Indian Army.

* June 19 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer ( born 1482 )

* January 9 – Pope Adrian VI ( born Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens, Dedens or Dedel ; Hadrianus in Latin ) succeeds Pope Leo X as the 218th pope.

Norman Quentin Cook ( born Quentin Leo Cook on 16 July 1963 in Bromley, England ), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, musician, and record producer.

Paul Leo Molitor ( born August 22, 1956 ), nicknamed " Molly " and " The Ignitor ", is an American former Major League Baseball designated hitter and infielder.

Leo V was born at a place called Priapi, near Ardea.

Leo VI was born into Roman family, and his father was Christophorus, who had been Primicerius under Pope John VIII around the year 876.

Pope Leo XI ( 2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605 ), born Alessandro Ottaviano de ' Medici, was Pope from 1 April 1605 to 27 April of the same year.

He was born in Florence: his mother, Francesca Salviati, was a daughter of Jacopo Salviati and Lucrezia de ' Medici, a sister of Leo X, while his father, Ottaviano, was a more distant scion of the Medici family.

Pope Leo X ( 11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521 ), born Giovanni di Lorenzo de ' Medici, was the Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521.

Heckart was born Anna Eileen Herbert in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Esther Stark, who wed Leo Herbert at her own mother's insistence so her child would not be born with the stigma of illegitimacy.

Here is an example: a person born on, say August 28, 2002 would come to understand that his / her Sun sign was in Virgo according to western astrology ( conventional Sun sign dates August 23, to September 22, of every year ), but Sun on that same calendar date of the year 2002 was in the constellation Leo ( where it had been since August 10, 2002 and would remain until September 15, when it would then finally cross into Virgo ).

After Charles Martel countered the Moorish invasion from Spain ( 732 — Poitiers ), the King Charlemagne ( born close to Liège in Herstal or Jupille ) brought a huge part of Europe under his rule and was crowned the " Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire " by the Pope Leo III ( 800 in Aachen ).

File: Leo africanus. jpg | Leo Africanus, born in Granada

Pope Leo XII ( 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829 ), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 1823 to 1829.

Pope Leo XIII ( 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903 ), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903.

Wiener was born in Columbia, Missouri, the first child of Leo Wiener and Bertha Kahn, Jews of Polish and German descent, respectively.