Leon S. Kennedy

Leon S. Kennedy
Resident Evil character
Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 4
First game	Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Created by	Hideki Kamiya Noboru Sugimura
Designed by	Isao Ohishi (Resident Evil 2)
Voiced by (English)	Paul Haddad (Resident Evil 2) Paul Mercier (Resident Evil 4, The Darkside Chronicles, Degeneration) Christian Lanz (Operation Raccoon City) Matthew Mercer (Resident Evil 6, Damnation)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Jin Yamanoi (Degeneration) Toshiyuki Morikawa (Operation Raccoon City, Damnation, Resident Evil 6 (Special Package), Project X Zone 2)
Motion capture	Teruaki Ogawa (Resident Evil 4) O.C. Ormond (Degeneration) Kevin Dorman (Damnation) Jason Faunt (Resident Evil 6)
Portrayed by	Brad Renfro (RE2 commercial) Johann Urb (Retribution)
Fictional profile
Birthplace	United States
Nationality	American

Leon Scott Kennedy (レオン・スコット・ケネディ, Reon Sukotto Kenedi^?) is a fictional character in the Resident Evil horror media franchise by Capcom. He debuted as one of the two playable protagonists of the video game Resident Evil 2. Leon later returned as the protagonist of Resident Evil 4 and as one of the six protagonists in Resident Evil 6. The character was met with positive critical reception.

During the events of Resident Evil 2, Leon is a rookie police officer who arrives in the doomed Raccoon City late for his first day on the job, only to confront a zombie outbreak first-hand. During the course of the game, he teams up with civilian survivor Claire Redfield, rescues the young Sherry Birkin, and is aided by the mysterious Ada Wong. Six years later, in Resident Evil 4, Leon returns as a secret agent for the U.S. federal government assigned to rescue the president's daughter from a sinister cult. In Resident Evil 6, he continues to work for the U.S. government and reunites with Ada and a grown-up Sherry.

Leon also appears as a player character in several other video games, and has a leading role in three CG animated films: Resident Evil: Degeneration in 2008 and Resident Evil: Damnation in 2012 and Resident Evil: Vendetta in 2017, in which he is a special agent for the government. The version of Leon in the live-action film series is portrayed by Johann Urb in Resident Evil: Retribution.