Leah (given name)
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Leah is a female given name which has likely derived from the Hebrew word לְאָה (le'ah) meaning "weary". Alternatively, it might derive from a Chaldean name meaning "mistress" or "ruler" in Akkadian.
Variants include:
- Lea – Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Slovene, Swedish, Polish
- Léa – French
- Leah – English, Hebrew
- Leia – Koine Greek
- Lėja – Lithuanian
- Lia – Ecclesiastical Latin, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
- Lía – Galician
- Λεία (Lia) – Greek
- Liia – Estonian
Royalty
- Leah Isadora Behn, the second daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Public figures
- Leah Manning (1886–1977), British activist and politician
- Leah Rabin (1928–2000), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- Leah Ward Sears (born 1955), American judge
Arts and sports
- Leah Applebaum, American voice actress
- Leah Ayres (born 1957), American actress
- Leah Baird (1883–1971), American actress
- Leah Betts (1977–1995), British water intoxication / ecstasy victim
- Leah Bracknell (born 1964), British actress
- Leah Cairns (born 1974), Canadian actress
- Leah Chase (born 1923), American chef
- Leah Clark, American-born Japanese voice actor and entertainer
- Leah Dizon (born 1986), American-born Japanese model and singer
- Leah Fortune (born 1990), Brazilian-American football (soccer) player
- Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli writer
- Leah Goldstein (born 1969), Israeli cyclist
- Lea Gottlieb (born 1918), Israeli fashion designer
- Leah Haywood (born 1976), Australian singer
- Leah Horowitz (born 1933), Israeli Olympic hurdler
- Leah Krinsky, American comedy writer
- Leah Laiman (born 1946), American writer
- Leah Miller (born 1981), Canadian actress
- Leah Moore (born 1978), British comic book writer
- Leah Neuberger (1915–1993), American table tennis player
- Leah Pells (born 1964), Canadian track and field athlete
- Leah Pinsent (born 1968), Canadian actress
- Leah Pipes (born 1988), American actress
- Leah Purcell (born 1970), Australian actress
- Leah Remini (born 1970), American actress
- Leah Rhodes (1902–1986), American costume designer
- Léa Seydoux (born 1985), French actress
- Leah Song, American musician and activist
- Leah Williamson (born 1997), English footballer
Fictional characters
- Leah, in the radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
- Leye (ashkenazic pronunciation), in the play The Dybbuk
- Leah Brahms, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Leah Cain, niece of Deckard Cain, a character in Diablo III, who assists and accompanies players.
- Leah Clearwater, in the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer
- Leah Estrogen, in the 2001 film Osmosis Jones
- Leah Mordecai, title character of the 1856 novel by Belle K. Abbott
- Leah Patterson-Baker, in the Australian television series Home and Away
- Leah Rose, in the Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
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