Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.[1] He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931) and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of the villainous Mr Potter character in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr Leonard Gillespie in MGM's nine Dr Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled The Story of Dr Kildare. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.
Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and rated by many in the sport as the greatest of all time, Messi is the only player in history to win five FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, four of which he won consecutively, and was the first to win three European Golden Shoes. With Barcelona he has won eight La Liga titles and four UEFA Champions League titles, as well as six Supercopa de España titles, four Copas del Rey, three UEFA Super Cups, and three FIFA Club World Cups. Both a prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals scored in La Liga, a La Liga season, a football season, and a calendar year, as well as the most goals in the Supercopa de España and most goals in El Clásico, and also those for most assists made in La Liga and the Copa América. He has scored over 500 senior career goals for club and country, making him the 10th most prolific goalscorer of all time.
Lionel is the name of the creative and sarcastic lion cub in the kids show "Between the Lions." I, personally, do not like this name but it'd definitely be something I'd name one of my favorite characters in a book I might publish.
― Anonymous User 4/3/2006
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Lionel is the first name of the fictional character Lionel Luthor, who is the father of Superman rival Alexander Joseph (Lex) Luthor in the television series Smallville. Lionel was the president and CEO of LuthorCorp.