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John Ljunggren
John Arthur Ljunggren (1919–2000), Swedish race walker, five Olympics 1948–1964; 50 km walk gold 1948, bronze 1956, silver 1960; European gold 1946; six world records; never disqualified in 499 races.
John Lloyd (tennis)
John Lloyd is a British former professional tennis player, a former British No. 1 who reached the 1977 Australian Open final and won three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles with Wendy Turnbull.
John Lloyd Cruz
John Lloyd Cruz (born 1983, Pasay City) is a Filipino actor known for the ABS-CBN loveteam with Bea Alonzo (One More Chance, A Second Chance), Gawad Urian and Locarno Boccalino d'Oro Best Actor awards, and a 2021 GMA Network comeback.
John Lloyd Wright
John Lloyd Wright (John Kenneth Wright, 1892–1972) was an American architect, the second son of Frank Lloyd Wright, best known as the inventor of Lincoln Logs, patented in 1920.
John Lloyd Young
John Lloyd Young (born 1975) is an American actor and singer, original Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys; 2006 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World winner, later the 2014 Eastwood film and Grammy-winning cast album.
John Locke
John Locke (1632–1704), English philosopher and physician, founder of British empiricism with his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and liberal political theorist of natural rights, consent, toleration, and the Two Treatises of Government.
John Locke (Lost)
John Locke is a fictional character on ABC's Lost (2004-2010), played by Terry O'Quinn; a paralyzed man healed on the island, the show's man of faith opposite Jack Shephard, later impersonated by the Man in Black.
John Loder (actor)
John Loder (born John Muir Lowe, 1898-1988) was a British leading man in films from silent-era Germany to Sabotage, How Green Was My Valley and Now, Voyager; third husband of Hedy Lamarr.
John Lodge (musician)
John Lodge (1943–2025) was the English bass guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and songwriter of the Moody Blues from 1966, writer of "Ride My See-Saw" and "I'm Just a Singer," Blue Jays collaborator with Justin Hayward, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
John Logan (writer)
John David Logan (born 1961, San Diego) is an American playwright and screenwriter: writer of Gladiator, The Aviator, Skyfall, and Hugo; Tony-winning author of Red; creator of Penny Dreadful and book writer for Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor who gave the first public demonstration of television in London in 1926 and later showed the first mechanical color television.
John Lone
John Lone (尊龍), born 1952 in Hong Kong, is a Chinese-American actor trained in Peking Opera, known for The Last Emperor (1987), M. Butterfly, and two Golden Globe nominations; distinct from John Lennon subjects.
John Louis Emil Dreyer
John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926) was a Danish-born astronomer who spent his career in Ireland, directing Armagh Observatory and compiling the New General Catalogue of 7,840 nebulae and clusters.
John Lovick (Washington politician)
John Lovick is an American Democratic politician serving in the Washington State Senate from the 44th district, appointed in December 2021 after serving in the House.
John Lowe (darts player)
John Lowe, 'Old Stoneface' (born 1945), English darts player; only world champion in three decades (1979, 1987, 1993) and thrower of the first televised nine-dart finish (1984, £102,000).
John Lowe III
John Lowe III (1916–2012) was an American geotechnical engineer who worked on more than 45 dams and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) was an English banker, Liberal politician, and scientist who coined Palaeolithic and Neolithic and steered the Bank Holidays Act 1871 through Parliament.
John Lucas II
John Lucas II (born 1953, Durham, NC) is a retired NBA point guard and coach; first pure point guard taken No. 1 overall (1976, Houston), 14 seasons, 6,454 assists, later coached the Spurs, 76ers, and Cavaliers.
John Lujan
John Lujan is an American Republican politician and former San Antonio firefighter serving in the Texas House of Representatives from District 118, first elected in 2016.
John Lundstram
John Lundstram (John David Lundstram, born 1994, Liverpool), English defensive midfielder; Everton academy product who starred for Sheffield United and Rangers, reached the 2022 Europa League final, played for Trabzonspor, and joined Leicester City on a free transfer in September 2026.
John Lurie
John Lurie (born 1952, Minneapolis) is an American saxophonist, actor, and painter who co-founded the Lounge Lizards, starred in Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law, created Fishing with John and HBO's Painting with John, and wrote the 2021 memoir The History of Bones.
John Luther Adams
John Luther Adams (born 1953, Meridian, Mississippi) is an American composer of Alaskan wilderness-inspired music, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean and the 2015 Grammy; distinct from composer John Adams.
John Luttig
John Luttig is a Partner at Founders Fund, where he rose from Associate to Principal to Partner around December 2022, known for AI investments including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Scale AI.
John Lydon
John Lydon, born 1956 in London, known as Johnny Rotten, fronted the Sex Pistols from 1975 to 1978 and then founded post-punk pioneers Public Image Ltd, later writing Anger is an Energy and feuding with former Pistols bandmates.
John Lyly
John Lyly (c. 1554–1606) was an English playwright and prose writer whose Euphues novels created euphuism, and whose court comedies shaped Shakespeare's early comic practice.
John Lyman
John Lyman (born 19 March 1912) is an American shot putter who set the shot put world record of 16.48 m on 21 April 1934 at Stanford, held it six days, and was AAU runner-up to Jack Torrance in 1934.
John Lynch (actor)
John Lynch (born 1961, Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish actor and novelist, not the American actor John Carroll Lynch. Debut in Cal (1984); known for In the Name of the Father, Some Mother's Son, Angel Baby, The Fall, and novels Torn Water and Falling Out of Heaven.
John Lynch (American football)
John Lynch, Hall of Fame safety (Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1993-2003, Denver Broncos 2004-07), nine Pro Bowls, Super Bowl XXXVII champion, now San Francisco 49ers general manager since 2017.
John Lynch (New Hampshire governor)
John H. Lynch (born 1952), four-term Democratic governor of New Hampshire 2005-2013, former Knoll CEO, later Tuck and Harvard Business School lecturer; distinct from other John Lynches.
John M. Allegro
John M. Allegro (1923–1988) was an English philologist on the original Dead Sea Scrolls editorial team, best known for his 1970 book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.