In England

• Leigh, Dorset
  Leigh, Dorset
  Leigh is a village in northwest Dorset, England, six miles southwest of Sherborne. The village has a population of 509 . In a field just south of the village lie the remains of the "Miz Maze", an earthwork of uncertain origin that, centuries ago, folklore attributes to having connections with...
  
  
• Leigh, Greater Manchester
  Leigh, Greater Manchester
  Leigh is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It is southeast of Wigan, and west of Manchester. Leigh is situated on low lying land to the north west of Chat Moss....
  
  
  • Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)
    Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)
    Leigh is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
    
    
• Leigh, Kent
  Leigh, Kent
  Leigh , historically spelled Lyghe, is a village and a civil parish located in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. It is located six miles south of Sevenoaks town and three miles west of Tonbridge....
  
  
• Leigh, Staffordshire
• Leigh, Surrey
  Leigh, Surrey
  Leigh is a village and civil parish in Surrey, between Reigate and Dorking.It is located in the Mole Valley district. The civil parish has a population of 856 and covers 1,382 hectares....
  
  
• Leigh, Wiltshire
  Leigh, Wiltshire
  Leigh is a village in north Wiltshire, England. It is located on the edge of the Cotswold Water Park and near to the border with Gloucestershire.-All Saints Church:...
  
  
• Leigh, Worcestershire
  Leigh, Worcestershire
  Leigh is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.With just a few hundred inhabitants the parish lies on the A4103, the main Worcester to Hereford road, about 5 miles out of Worcester, whilst Malvern is also about 5 miles away...
  
  
• Leigh-on-Mendip
  Leigh-on-Mendip
  Leigh-on-Mendip or Leigh upon Mendip is a small village on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. It lies roughly equidistant from Frome, Radstock and Shepton Mallet at about from each town....
  
  , Somerset (also known as Leigh upon Mendip)
• Leigh-on-Sea
  Leigh-on-Sea
  Leigh-on-Sea , sometimes called Leigh, is a civil parish in Essex, England. It is part of Southend-on-Sea for administrative purposes. It became a civil parish in 1996. The council tax was increased to support it. A town council was formed. Leigh is the only parish in Southend...
  
  , Essex
• Little Leigh
  Little Leigh
  thumb|right|200px|Map of civil parish of Little Leigh within the former borough of Vale RoyalLittle Leigh is a civil parish and village within the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is located approximately 2 miles north of Weaverham...
  
  , Cheshire
• North Leigh
  North Leigh
  North Leigh is a village and civil parish about northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of East End, and since 1932 has also included the hamlet of Wilcote.-Early history:...
  
  , Oxfordshire

Elsewhere

• Leigh, County Tipperary, Ireland
• Leigh, Nebraska
  Leigh, Nebraska
  Leigh is a village in Colfax County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 442 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Leigh is located at ....
  
  
• Leigh, New Zealand
  Leigh, New Zealand
  Leigh is a small coastal community in the north of the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It lies on the west side of Omaha Cove, a small inlet within Omaha Bay to the south of Cape Rodney. It is 13 km from Matakana, 21 km from Warkworth and approximately 92 km north of Auckland City...
  
  
• Leigh, Texas, USA

Royalty

• Augusta Leigh
  Augusta Leigh
  Augusta Maria Byron, later Augusta Maria Leigh , styled "The Honourable" from birth, was the only daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father, by his first wife, Amelia Osborne .-Early...
  
  , the only daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron
• Thomas Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown
  Thomas Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown
  Thomas Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown , was a British barrister, judge and politician.-Background:Born Thomas Pemberton, in London, Leigh was the eldest son of Thomas Pemberton, a chancery barrister....
  
  , the eldest son of Thomas Pemberton

Politics

• Benjamin W. Leigh
  Benjamin W. Leigh
  Benjamin Watkins Leigh was an American lawyer and politician from Richmond, Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and represented Virginia in the United States Senate. Benjamin Watkins Leigh was born in Chesterfield County on June 18, 1781, the son of the Reverend William Leigh...
  
  , American lawyer and politician from Richmond, Virginia
• Edward Leigh
  Edward Leigh
  Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a British Conservative politician. He has sat in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Gainsborough in Lincolnshire since 1997, and for its predecessor constituency of Gainsborough and Horncastle between 1983 and 1997...
  
  , politician in the United Kingdom
• Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown
  Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown
  Robert "Robin" Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, is a crossbencher on the House of Lords, and was formerly a lawyer and banker....
  
  , cross-bencher on the House of Lords
• Baron Leigh
  Baron Leigh
  Baron Leigh is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of England 1643 when Sir Thomas Leigh, 2nd Baronet, was created Baron Leigh, of Stoneleigh in the County of Warwick...
  
   of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England
• Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet was a British mill-owner, who used his fortune to buy a newspaper and launch his career as a Conservative Party politician....
  
   (1884–1959), British mill-owner, newspaper-proprietor and Conservative Party politician

Music

• Carolyn Leigh
  Carolyn Leigh
  Carolyn Leigh was an American lyricist for Broadway, movies, and popular songs. She is best known as the writer with partner Cy Coleman of the pop standards "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come."-Biography:...
  
  , American lyricist and composer for Broadway and movies
• Danni Leigh
  Danni Leigh
  Danni Leigh is an American honky tonk-style country music singer. At age 19, she relocated to Orlando, Florida, intending to audition as a singer at Disney World but ended up moving to Nashville in 1994....
  
  , American honky tonk-style country music singer
• Mitch Leigh
  Mitch Leigh
  Mitch Leigh is an American musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the musical Man Of La Mancha.-Biography:Leigh was born in Brooklyn, New York) as Irwin Michnick...
  
  , musical theatre composer
• Richard Leigh (songwriter)
  Richard Leigh (songwriter)
  Richard Leigh is an American country music songwriter and singer. He is best known for penning "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" . In 1978 he received a Grammy Award for "Best Country Song" for the popular song...
  
   (born 1951), American country music songwriter
• Walter Leigh
  Walter Leigh
  Walter Leigh was an English composer. Leigh is most famous for his Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra, written in 1934. Other famous works include the overture Agincourt and The Frogs of Aristophanes for chorus and orchestra...
  
  , English composer

Television and film

• Chyler Leigh
  Chyler Leigh
  Chyler Leigh is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Dr. Lexie Grey on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. She also portrayed Janey Briggs in Not Another Teen Movie.-Early life:...
  
  , American actress
• Ed Leigh
  Ed Leigh
  -Broadcasting career:Leigh presents the BBC2 show Ski Sunday during the winter and Red Bull X-Fighters World Series for Dave alongside Rob Warner in the summer....
  
  , British television presenter
• Janet Leigh
  Janet Leigh
  Janet Leigh , born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis....
  
  , American actress
• Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts...
  
  , American actress
• John Leigh (actor), New Zealand actor
• Katie Leigh
  Katie Leigh
  Katherine "Katie" Leigh is an American voice actress best known for her role as Connie Kendall on the Focus on the Family radio program Adventures in Odyssey since 1987...
  
  , American voice actress
• Leigh Francis
  Leigh Francis
  Leigh Szaak Francis is an English impressionist born in Leeds. He is best known for his work as the creator of Channel 4's Bo' Selecta!, and for his portrayal of Keith Lemon for several ITV programmes. Francis lives in Camden Town, London, and on October 31, 2003, at Allerton Castle, North...
  
  , British comedian
• Leigh McCloskey
  Leigh McCloskey
  Leigh Joseph McCloskey is an American film and television actor.-Career:McCloskey was classically trained as an actor at the Juilliard School in Lincoln Center, New York. As an actor, he is perhaps most widely known for his role as Mitch Cooper on the CBS soap opera Dallas...
  
  , American actor
• Leigh Taylor-Young
  Leigh Taylor-Young
  Leigh Taylor-Young is an American actress who has appeared on stage, screen, and television.-Early life:Leigh Taylor-Young was born on January 25, 1945 in Washington, D.C. Her last name is an amalgamation of the last names of her father, a diplomat, and her stepfather, a successful Detroit executive...
  
  , American actress
• Megan Leigh
  Megan Leigh
  Megan Leigh Megan Leigh Megan Leigh (born Michelle Maira Schei on (March 2, 1964 – June 16, 1990) was an American stripteaser and star of adult videos.Leigh was born in Oakland, California, USA. She ran away from home for the first time at age 14 and by 16 was working at a Guam massage parlor....
  
  , American actress
• Mike Leigh
  Mike Leigh
  Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...
  
  , British screenwriter and director
• Nelson Leigh
  Nelson Leigh
  Nelson Leigh was a prolific motion picture actor of the 1940s and 1950s.-Career:...
  
  , American film actor
• Shannan Leigh
  Shannan Leigh
  Shannan Leigh was born in Manhattan, New York and has appeared in numerous fantasy, sci-fi and erotic thrillers, such as Virgins of Sherwood Forest and Platinum Blonde. Leigh has also had appearances in the series Kama Sutra, Lady Chatterly" and "Bedtime Stories. She appeared in the movie...
  
  , American film actor
• Suzanna Leigh
  Suzanna Leigh
  Suzanna Leigh is a former English actress.Born to a manufacturer of car engines Suzanna Leigh grew up in the Belgrave district of Leicester, England and later went to convent schools outside London...
  
  , British film actress
• Vivien Leigh
  Vivien Leigh
  Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark...
  
  , British actress

Sport

• Edward Chandos Leigh
  Edward Chandos Leigh
  Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, KCB, KC, was born in Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire on 22 December 1832, died in London on 18 May 1915.Edward Chandos Leigh’s cricketing career and first class stats might be considered average but he was a popular choice as President of the MCC in its first centenary year...
  
  , English cricketer
• Howard Leigh
  Howard Leigh
  Howard Leigh is an Australian radio personality, sports journalist, and veteran boxing announcer from Melbourne, Australia.-Boxing announcer:...
  
  , veteran boxing announcer from Melbourne, Australia
• Jennifer Leigh
  Jennifer Leigh
  Jennifer Leigh is an American professional poker player.Leigh was introduced to poker by Robert Boyd years after they met each other on Internet Relay Chat....
  
  , professional poker player
• Peter Leigh, semi-professional football player for Woking F.C.
  Woking F.C.
  Woking Football Club is a football club from in Woking, Surrey, England, formed in 1889. They are playing in the Conference South in the 2011–12 season. For the 2011/2012 season, Woking are sharing their ground with Conference National club Hayes & Yeading United.-Promotion to the...
  
  
• Syd Leigh
  Syd Leigh
  Alfred Sydney Leigh , known as Syd Leigh, was a professional association footballer who played in The Football League for Derby County and Bristol Rovers....
  
  , English professional footballer who played during the inter-war period
• Leigh Centurions
  Leigh Centurions
  Leigh Centurions is an English professional rugby league club based in Leigh, Greater Manchester who play in the Co-operative Championship.The club was founded in 1878 as Leigh Rugby Football Club and is one of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in...
  
  , a Rugby League football club in Greater Manchester

Literature

• Julia Leigh
  Julia Leigh
  Julia Leigh is an Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Born in 1970 in Sydney, Australia, Leigh is the eldest of three daughters of a doctor and maths teacher. She initially studied law but shifted to writing. For a time she worked at the Australian Society of Authors...
  
   (* 1970), Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter
• Richard Leigh (author)
  Richard Leigh (author)
  Richard Harris Leigh was a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey, USA to a British father and an American mother, who spent most of his life in the UK. Leigh earned a BA from Tufts University, a Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D...
  
   (1943–2007), co-author of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
• Richard Leigh (poet)
  Richard Leigh (poet)
  Richard Leigh , English poet, was the younger son of Edward Leigh and Elizabeth Talbot of Rushall, Staffordshire. He entered Queen’s College, Oxford in 1666 at age sixteen. Sources rumor that, after school, Leigh left Oxford for London and became an actor in the Duke of York’s or King's Company...
  
   (1649–1728), English poet
• Roberta Leigh
  Roberta Leigh
  Janey Scott Lewin , well known as Roberta Leigh is a British author and artist. She wrote romance fiction and children's stories as Roberta Leigh, Rachel Lindsay, and Janey Scott....
  
  , British writer of romance fiction and children's stories
• Stephen Leigh
  Stephen Leigh
  Stephen W. Leigh is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, artist, and musician. He also works as a lecturer at Northern Kentucky University, teaching creative writing.Steve Leigh lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.- Works :...
  
  , American science fiction and fantasy writer

Military

• Gustavo Leigh
  Gustavo Leigh
  Air General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán was a Chilean general, who represented the Air Force in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and, for a time, in the ruling junta that followed. Leigh was forced out of the military government in 1978.-Biography:Leigh was born in Santiago, son of Hernán Leigh Bañados and...
  
  , Chilean general
• Trafford Leigh-Mallory
  Trafford Leigh-Mallory
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory KCB, DSO & Bar was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. Leigh-Mallory served as a Royal Flying Corps pilot and squadron commander during World War I...
  
  , air chief marshal
• Vera Leigh
  Vera Leigh
  Vera Leigh was a British spy during World War II who assisted the French Resistance. In 1944 she was captured by the Germans and executed.-Early life:...
  
  , First Aid Nursing Yeomanry officer and Special Operations Executive spy
• Leigh Light
  Leigh light
  The Leigh Light was a British World War II era anti-submarine device used in the Second Battle of the Atlantic.It was a powerful carbon arc searchlight of 24 inches diameter fitted to a number of the British Royal Air Force's Coastal Command patrol bombers to help them spot surfaced...
  
  , an antisubmarine device used in World War II

Modelling

• Alex Leigh
  Alex Leigh
  Alexandra Dallas Leigh is an English fashion model. She was born in Manchester on 2 October in 1978 and was formerly a waitress for William's Tavern. She went to school at Altrincham Grammar School for girls and speaks fluent Spanish, having lived there as a child.Leigh started modelling at the...
  
  , English fashion model
• Dorian Leigh
  Dorian Leigh
  Dorian Leigh was an American model and one of the earliest modelling icons of the fashion industry. She is considered one of the first supermodels and was well known in the United States and Europe.-Biography:Dorian Leigh Parker was born in San Antonio, Texas, to George and Elizabeth Parker...
  
  , one of the world's first supermodels
• Monica Leigh, model

Other

• Jack Leigh
  Jack Leigh
  John David "Jack" Leigh II , a native of Savannah, Georgia and a graduate of The Savannah Country Day School and the University of Georgia, was a photographer and author, best known for the cover photograph on the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...
  
  , photographer
• James Mathews Leigh
  James Mathews Leigh
  James Mathews Leigh was an English art educator, painter, writer, dramatist and critic. He is best known as the founder of a popular private art school in London known as "Leigh's Academy", which eventually became the present day Heatherley School of Fine Art.-Life and work:Leigh was born in...
  
   (1808–1860), art educator, writer and dramatist.
• Leigh Leigh
  Murder of Leigh Leigh
  The murder of Leigh Leigh is a case concerning the rape and murder of Leigh Leigh, a 14-year-old girl from Stockton, Australia, in 1989.Leigh Leigh's body was found in sand dunes at Stockton Beach following a 16-year-old boy's birthday party. Her body had severe genital damage and a crushed skull...
  
  , murder victim
• Michael Leigh, artist
• Molly Leigh
  Molly Leigh
  Molly Leigh was an English woman who was accused of witchcraft, died before being tried, and had her grave disturbed following claims that she still haunted the town....
  
  , alleged witch
• Richard Leigh (martyr)
  Richard Leigh (martyr)
  Blessed Richard Leigh was an English martyr born in Cambridgeshire. He studied in Reims and Rome and was ordained in Rome in 1586. On his return to England he was arrested in London and banished. He returned to England again and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1588...
  
   (1561–1588), Catholic martyr
• Theophilus Leigh
  Theophilus Leigh
  Theophilus Leigh D.D. was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.Leigh was elected Master of Balliol College, Oxford on 12 May 1726, a post he held until his death in 1785....
  
   (died 1785), English academic administrator
• Vera Leigh
  Vera Leigh
  Vera Leigh was a British spy during World War II who assisted the French Resistance. In 1944 she was captured by the Germans and executed.-Early life:...
  
  , milliner who died in the Nazi concentration camp at Natzweiler

In fiction

• Amyas Leigh, fictional character
• Sir Leigh Teabing, fictional character in the popular 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on it
• Lorelai "Rory" Leigh Gilmore, fictional carecter in the popular television sereies Gilmore Girls
  Gilmore Girls
  Gilmore Girls is an American family comedy-drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. On October 5, 2000, the series debuted on The WB and was cancelled in its seventh season, ending on May 15, 2007 on The CW...
  
  

See also

• LEA (disambiguation)
• Leah (disambiguation)
  Leah (disambiguation)
  Leah is the first wife of the Biblical patriarch Jacob.Leah may also refer to:*Leah *Leah, a sculpture by Michelangelo*John Leah , English footballer*Sandy Leah , Brazilian singer, songwriter, producer, and actress...
  
  
• Lee (disambiguation)