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Lars Ahlin
Lars Ahlin (1915–1997) was a Swedish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, ranked among the leading Swedish novelists of the twentieth century; he debuted with Tåbb med manifestet in 1943.
Lars Amund Vaage
Lars Amund Vaage, born 1952 in Kvinnherad, Norway, is a Nynorsk author whose music-inflected novels include the breakthrough Rubato (1995) and the Brage Prize-winning bestseller Syngja (2012).
Lars and the Real Girl
Lars and the Real Girl is a 2007 American comedy-drama directed by Craig Gillespie, starring Ryan Gosling as a shy man whose plastic doll girlfriend becomes real to his town.
Lars Balk
Lars Balk, Dutch field hockey defender (born 1996, Vianen), SV Kampong player, 176 caps for the Netherlands, Olympic gold Paris 2024, EuroHockey titles 2021 and 2023, retired from Oranje in October 2026.
Lars Bender
Lars Bender, born 1989 in Rosenheim, German defensive midfielder; twin of Sven Bender; Bayer 04 Leverkusen captain 2015–2021, 19 Germany caps, Euro 2012 semifinalist, 2016 Olympic silver; later DFB and Bayern youth coach.
Lars Bertram
Lars Bertram is a German physician-scientist who studies Alzheimer's disease genetics, known for the AlzGene database and a professor of genome analytics at the University of Lübeck.
Lars Bildsten
Lars Bildsten is an American theoretical astrophysicist who directs the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara and studies stellar explosions and gravitational waves.
Lars Björck
Lars Björck is a Swedish infection-medicine researcher and professor at Lund University, known for the IgG-degrading enzyme IdeS and the bacterial proteins protein G and protein L.
Lars Bjorkstrom
Lars Sigurd Björkström, Swedish-born Brazilian sailor (born 1943, Gothenburg), won Tornado class gold with Alex Welter at Moscow 1980, Brazil's first Olympic sailing gold, ending a 24-year national gold drought.
Lars Bojer Madsen
Lars Bojer Madsen (born 1970) is a Danish theoretical physicist and professor at Aarhus University, known for strong-field ionization theory and attosecond physics, elected an American Physical Society Fellow in 2018.
Lars Chıttka
Lars Chittka is a German zoologist and professor at Queen Mary University of London, known for research showing bees can learn, count, and may have emotions.
Lars E.o. Svensson
Lars E.o. Svensson is a Swedish economist credited with advancing inflation targeting, who served as Deputy Governor of Sveriges Riksbank from 2007 to 2013 and taught at Princeton.
Lars Edvard Phragmén
Lars Edvard Phragmén (1863–1937) was a Swedish mathematician known for the Phragmén–Lindelöf principle in complex analysis and a load-balancing proportional election method still part of Swedish law.
Lars Eidinger
Lars Eidinger (born 1976, Berlin) is a German actor, Schaubühne ensemble member since 1999, known for Ostermeier's Hamlet, Everyone Else, Clouds of Sils Maria, Dying, and as Brainiac in James Gunn's Man of Tomorrow (2027).
Lars Ernster
Lars Ernster (Ernster László; 1920, Budapest – 1998, Stockholm) was a Hungarian-born Swedish biochemist who made Stockholm University a leading center of mitochondrial bioenergetics and served on the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.
Lars Förberg
Lars Förberg, born in 1965, is a Swedish investor who co-founded and leads Cevian Capital as managing partner, Europe's largest activist investor, and is based near Zurich.
Lars Frederiksen
Lars Frederiksen (Lars Everett/Erik Dapello, b. 1971, Campbell, California), American punk guitarist and co-vocalist of Rancid since 1993; also Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Old Firm Casuals, Stomper 98, producer.
Lars Fugger
Lars Fugger, born in 1960, is a Danish physician-scientist and Professor of Neuroimmunology at Oxford, known for a humanized transgenic mouse model of multiple sclerosis.
Lars Gårding
Lars Gårding (1919–2014) was a Swedish mathematician and professor at the University of Lund from 1952 to 1984, known for Gårding's inequality and for advising Lars Hörmander.
Lars Gustafsson
Lars Gustafsson (1936–2016) was a Swedish writer and philosopher, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, best known for the novel cycle Cracks in the Wall.
Lars Gyllensten
Lars Gyllensten (1921–2006) was a Swedish author, physician, and histologist who was permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy and chaired the Nobel Foundation from 1987 to 1993.
Lars Hall
Lars Hall (Lars Göran Ivar Hall, 1927–1991), Swedish modern pentathlete; won individual Olympic gold at Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956, first civilian champion and first to defend the title.
Lars Hernquist
Lars Hernquist is a theoretical astrophysicist, the Mallinckrodt Professor at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, known for galaxy-formation simulations including Illustris and IllustrisTNG, and a 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recipient.
Lars Holmberg
Lars Holmberg is a Swedish cancer epidemiologist and oncology researcher, Professor Emeritus at King's College London and Uppsala University, best known for the SPCG-4 trial of prostatectomy versus watchful waiting.
Lars Hörmander
Lars Hörmander (1931–2012) was a Swedish mathematician at Lund University, the leading figure in the theory of linear partial differential equations and winner of the 1962 Fields Medal.
Lars James Blackmore
Lars James Blackmore is an aerospace engineer at SpaceX who leads Starship's entry, descent, and landing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Lars Jørgen Madsen
Lars Jørgen Madsen (1871–1925), Danish sport shooter and physician, won five Olympic medals (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) across five Games 1900–1924 and 13 World Championship medals, first Dane with five Olympic medals.
Lars Klareskog
Lars Klareskog, born 1945, is a Swedish rheumatology researcher at Karolinska Institutet who showed how smoking and HLA-DR genes trigger immunity to citrullinated proteins in rheumatoid arthritis, and led the 2004 TEMPO trial.
Lars Klingbeil
Lars Klingbeil, born 1978, is a German Social Democratic politician serving as Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance and as chairman of the SPD.
Lars Køber
Lars Køber is a Danish cardiologist, Clinical Professor at the University of Copenhagen and based at Rigshospitalet, known for leading the landmark heart failure trials TRACE and DANISH.