Leontis () was a phyle (tribe) of Ancient Attica.
The phyle is shown on the base of a statue made after an anthippasia to commemorate the victory of the phyle at the mock battle.P. Wilson - The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage published by Cambridge University Press, September 18, 2003 (reprint), 452 pages, [Retrieved 2015-12-22](also looked at )
Themistocles belonged to this phyle.Plutarch (Translated by J. Langhorne, W. Langhorne) - Volume 1 published by A. J. Valpy 1831, Issues 23-29 of Family Classical Library [Retrieved 2015-12-22]
Two horse-men are listed as part of the Catalogus Hippeum in history who possibly belonged to this phyle, they were Euktimenos and Euthymenes, both living during the 3rd century B.C.E.G.R. Bugh - The Horsemen of Athens published by Princeton University Press July 14, 2014, 304 pages, , Princeton Legacy Library [Retrieved 2015-12-22]H. W. Pleket - Supplementum epigraphicum graecum published by J.C. Gieben 1991, 699 pages, [Retrieved 2015-12-22]
The demes of Leontis were: Aethalidae, Halimus, Deiradiotae, Hecale, Eupyridae, Cettus, Colonae, Cropia, Leuconoe, Oeum, Kerameikos, Paeonidae, Peleces, Upper Potamos, Lower Potamus, Deiradiotae, Scambonidae, Sounion, Hybadae, Phrearrhii, Cholleidae.
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