Researching Leonard Nathan
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 998 people with the Nathan surname? In that year Nathan was ranked number 2594 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Leonard means "like a lion" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Leonard Nathan on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Leonard Nathan and the Nathan Family History
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 1567 people with the Nathan surname in the UK? Nathan is now ranked number 2642 for popularity in the UK. |
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Leonard Nathan
Leonard E. Nathan, (November 8 1924 - June 3, 2007) was an American poet, critic, and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley where he retired in 1991.
Born in El Monte, California, Nathan earned a bachelor's degree in English at UC Berkeley in 1950, a master's degree in English in 1952 and a Ph.D. in 1961. He was then hired as a lecturer in UC Berkeley's Department of Speech, and was promoted to associate professor in 1965 and to professor in 1968.
Among other honors, he received the National Institute of Arts and Letters prize for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Phelan Award for Narrative Poetry, and three silver medals from the Commonwealth Club of California, including one for The Potato Eaters. His poems were also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New England Review and The Georgia Review, among other publications.
Source: Leonard Nathan, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Nathan
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