leakey

Noun leakey has 3 senses

• leakey(n = noun.person) richard erskine leakey, richard leakey - English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944);
is a kind of anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist

• leakey(n = noun.person) mary douglas leakey, mary leakey - English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996);
is a kind of anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist

• leakey(n = noun.person) louis leakey, louis seymour bazett leakey - English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972);
is a kind of anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist