Leeds (gbr)

Leeds

Leeds ranks 226th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kassel, Königsberg, and Omaha, Nebraska. Memorable people born in Leeds include Nevill Francis Mott, Peter O'Toole, and Christopher Tolkien. Memorable people who died in Leeds include Zygmunt Bauman, MF Doom, and Bobby Collins. Leeds has been the birth place of many actors, and soccer players and the death place of many soccer players, and philosophers. Leeds is located in United Kingdom.

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production and trading centre in the 17th and 18th centuries. Read more on Wikipedia