Pierre R. Léon (March 12, 1926 – September 11, 2013)[1] was a French-Canadian linguist and writer.
He received a PhD from the University of Besançon in 1960 and a Doctor of Arts from the Sorbonne in 1972, where he also worked as an assistant professor.
[2] He founded the academic journals Studia Phonetica, 3L and Information et Communication.
At U of T, he founded and headed the laboratory of phonetics research in the department of French Studies.
[3] Léon died of cancer on September 11, 2013, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.