Leda

Leda and similar may refer to:

Places

• Leda (river), tributary of the Ems in Germany
• Leda, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
• Leda, Burkina Faso
• Leda Ridge, Antarctica

Astronomy

• Leda (moon), a moon of Jupiter
• 38 Leda, an asteroid
• LEDA, the Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database, an astronomical catalog of galaxies
• LEDA, the Large Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Ages is a radio interferometer

Computing

• LEDA, the Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms
• Leda (programming language), a multiparadigm programming language

Entertainment

• Leda and the Swan, a 1924 poem by William Butler Yeats
• Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid, a Demi-Caractère ballet
• Leda Serene Films, a film, television, and theatre production company based in Toronto, Canada
• Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, a 1985 Japanese OVA
• Web of Passion, a French film released in the US as Leda

Ships

• Leda-class frigate, a type of frigate in the British Royal Navy
• HMS Leda, the name of six ships of the British Royal Navy
• TS Leda, North Sea ferry

Persons

• Leda (mythology), queen of Sparta
• Leda Cosmides (born 1957, 1957), American psychologist
• Leda, guitarist in Japanese rock band DELUHI. Earlier bassist in Galneryus
• Ferdinando Leda (born 1980), Brazilian football player
• Leda Gloria (1912–1997), Italian film actress
• Leda Luss Luyken (born 1952), Greek/American conceptual artist, who lives and works in German
• Leda Mileva (1920–2013), Bulgarian writer, translator and diplomat
• Leda Sanford (born 1933), author, speaker, former publisher and former advertising director

Other uses

• Leda clay, also called quick clay, a unique form of marine clay
• LEDA — ICAO code for Lleida–Alguaire Airport

See also

• leader