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John Lander
John Lander (John Gerard Heath Lander, 1907-1941), British rower and Leander Club member; gold medalist in the coxless fours at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; killed in the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, the only British Olympic gold medalist killed in action in World War II.
John Landis
John Landis (born 1950), American film director of Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, and Michael Jackson's Thriller; acquitted in the Twilight Zone set-deaths manslaughter trial.
John Landsteiner
John Landsteiner (born 1990, Mankato, Minnesota) is an American curler, lead for Team Shuster, three-time Olympian, and 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic gold medalist, the first US Olympic curling title; also a civil engineer.
John Landy
John Landy (1930-2022), Australian middle-distance runner, second man under four minutes for the mile (3:57.9, Turku 1954), former mile and 1500m world record holder, 1956 Olympic 1500m bronze medallist, and 26th Governor of Victoria 2001-2006.
John Langalibalele Dube
John Langalibalele Dube (Mafukuzela), 1871–1946, South African educator, minister, and first president of the SANNC (later ANC). Founded Ohlange Institute (1901) and the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal (1903).
John Larroquette
John Larroquette (born 1947, New Orleans) is an American actor, five-time Emmy winner as Dan Fielding on Night Court, also a Tony winner for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
John Larry Kelly
John Larry Kelly Jr. (1923–1965) was an American Bell Labs physicist known for the 1956 Kelly criterion and the 1961 machine singing of "Daisy Bell."
John Lasseter
John Lasseter (born 1957, Hollywood) is an American animator, director, and producer, Pixar co-founder and director of Toy Story (1995), the first fully computer-animated feature; two-time Oscar winner, Disney CCO 2006–2018, later head of Skydance Animation.
John Laurens
John Laurens (1754–1782), American Revolutionary War lieutenant colonel, aide-de-camp to George Washington, advocate of enlisting enslaved men with freedom, envoy to France, killed at the Combahee River; distinct from the Australian politician John Laurens (1821–1894).
John Laurie
John Paton Laurie (1897–1980) was a Scottish Shakespearean stage actor and prolific film character actor, best known as Private Frazer with the catchphrase 'We're doomed!' in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977).
John Laurinaitis
John Laurinaitis (Johnny Ace, born 1965), American retired wrestler and former WWE Executive Vice President of Talent Relations; named defendant in Janel Grant's 2024 sex abuse lawsuit, settled and dismissed with prejudice May 2025.
John Lawrence LeConte
John Lawrence LeConte (1825–1883) was an American physician and entomologist, the leading nineteenth-century authority on North American beetles, who described or named some 3,800 species and coauthored the 1883 Classification of the Coleoptera of North America.
John Lawrence Oncley
John Lawrence Oncley (1910–2004) was an American biophysical chemist at Harvard and Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947, known for protein dielectric studies and the LDL/HDL distinction.
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, was a British administrator born in Yorkshire in 1811 who reformed the Punjab and served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.
John Laws
John Laws (1935–2025), the "Golden Tonsils", was an Australian talkback radio broadcaster whose 71-year career, mainly at Sydney's 2UE and 2SM, brought two million listeners, 17 prime minister interviews, a $11.6 million pay peak, and the 1999 cash-for-comment scandal.
John Layfield
John Layfield (JBL, John Charles Layfield), American retired wrestler, commentator and 2020 WWE Hall of Famer; APA tag team star whose 280-day 2004–05 WWE Championship reign ended at WrestleMania 21 against John Cena.
John le Carré
John le Carré, pen name of David John Moore Cornwell (1931–2020), British MI5 and MI6 officer turned novelist; author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the Smiley novels, and 26 books over six decades.
John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, 1912–1983) was an English character actor, the genteel Sergeant Arthur Wilson in BBC's Dad's Army (1968–1977), a BAFTA-winning lead in Traitor, married three times including Hattie Jacques; not the same-named Jeremy Thorpe plot figure.
John LeClair
John LeClair (born 1969, St. Albans, Vermont), American NHL left wing; 406 goals, 819 points in 967 games; 1993 Stanley Cup with Montreal; first U.S.-born player with three straight 50-goal seasons with the Flyers' Legion of Doom line.
John LeConte
John LeConte (1818–1891) was an American physicist and physician who discovered the sensitive flame and led the newly founded University of California as president from the mid-1870s to 1881.
John Lee (business executive)
John Lee is a business executive who co-founded Everex Systems, a Fremont, California personal computer maker, in 1983, and was appointed its chairman in 1993 as the company filed for bankruptcy.
John Lee Hancock
John Lee Hancock (John Lee Hancock Jr., born 1956), American screenwriter-director from Texas, ex-lawyer; wrote A Perfect World and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed The Rookie, The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks, The Founder, The Highwaymen, The Little Things, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, and Talamasca: The Secret Order (2025).
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (1917–2001), the "King of the Boogie," was a Mississippi-born, Detroit-based blues guitarist and singer whose one-chord boogie style, "Boogie Chillen," "Boom Boom," and late-career album The Healer shaped blues and rock.
John Leech (British mathematician)
John Leech (1926–1992) was a British mathematician and computing pioneer who discovered in 1965 the Leech lattice, which gives the optimal sphere packing in 24 dimensions.
John Lefelhocz
John Lefelhocz (born 1967) is an American conceptual artist based in Athens, Ohio, known for quilts made from non-textile materials such as bicycle chain links and pennies.
John Legend
John Legend (John Roger Stephens, born 1978, Springfield, Ohio) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and EGOT winner whose 2004 debut Get Lifted, released via Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music, yielded "Ordinary People" and later "All of Me."
John Legere
John Legere is an American telecommunications executive who served as president and CEO of T-Mobile US from 2012 until 2020, known for the "Un-carrier" strategy that eliminated service contracts and overage fees.
John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, comedian, and playwright born in Bogotá, known for one-man shows (Mambo Mouth, Freak, Latin History for Morons), an Emmy, a Special Tony, Ice Age's Sid, and Latino representation advocacy.
John Leguizamo filmography
John Leguizamo filmography: screen credits of the Colombian-American actor (born 1960), from Mixed Blood and Carlito's Way to Sid the Sloth in Ice Age, Bruno in Encanto, and Eumaeus in Nolan's The Odyssey (2026).
John Leland
John Leland (1691–1766) was a Presbyterian minister in Dublin whose works against English deism, especially A View of the Principal Deistical Writers (1754), became standard apologetic references.