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Lars Konermann

Lars Konermann is a chemist and professor at Western University known for protein mass spectrometry and for work on the mechanism of electrospray ionization.

Lars Levi Laestadius

Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861) was a Swedish Lutheran pastor and botanist of Sámi descent who founded the Laestadian revival movement, one of the largest in the Nordic countries.

Lars Lindholm

Lars Lindholm, also known as Lars H Lindholm, is a Swedish hypertension researcher and professor of general practice at Umeå University whose 2005 meta-analysis questioned beta blockers.

Lars Løkke Rasmussen (born 1964, Vejle) is a Danish politician, leader of Moderaterne and Foreign Minister since December 2022, reappointed 3 June 2026. Former Venstre leader and twice Prime Minister (2009–2011, 2015–2019).

Sep 19, 2026

Lars Magnus Ericsson

Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926) was a Swedish instrument maker who founded the telephone workshop in Stockholm in 1876 that became LM Ericsson, leading it until 1900.

Lars Mikkelsen

Lars Mikkelsen (Lars Dittmann Mikkelsen, born 1964, Gladsaxe) is a Danish actor trained at Statens Teaterskole (1995) and brother of Mads Mikkelsen. Known for Troels Hartmann in The Killing, Magnussen in Sherlock, Petrov in House of Cards, Stregobor in The Witcher, and the voice of Grand Admiral Thrawn; won a 2018 International Emmy for Ride Upon the Storm. Not the politician Lars Kramer Mikkelsen.

Lars Nelson

Lars Nelson (Lars Fredrik Nelson, born 1985) is a Swedish cross-country skier of Åsarna IK who won gold in the 4x10 km relay at Sochi 2014, skied the first leg, and placed ninth in the skiathlon.

Lars Nieberg

Lars Nieberg, born 1963 in Wittingen, Germany, is a German show jumper with Olympic team jumping gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, plus 1998 World and 1997 European team titles; father of rider Gerrit Nieberg.

Lars Nootbaar

Lars Taylor-Tatsuji Nootbaar (born 1997, El Segundo, CA) is an American MLB outfielder, drafted 243rd overall by the Cardinals in 2018, a 2023 World Baseball Classic champion for Japan, traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2026.

Oct 22, 2026

Lars Norén

Lars Norén was a Swedish poet, playwright, and director whose partly autobiographical family dramas of the early 1980s made him one of Sweden's internationally best-known dramatists.

Lars O. Hedin

Lars O. Hedin, also published as Lars Hedin, is an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist at Princeton University known for showing that intact tropical forests naturally leak nitrogen.

Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-born physical chemist and theoretical physicist who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his reciprocal relations in irreversible thermodynamics.

Lars Peter Hansen

Lars Peter Hansen is an American econometrician at the University of Chicago who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics for his empirical analysis of asset prices.

Lars Riedel

Lars Riedel is a German discus thrower, born in Zwickau in 1967, who won Olympic gold at Atlanta 1996, silver in 2000, and five world titles.

Oct 22, 2026

Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen is a Norwegian novelist, poet, and screenwriter born in Oslo in 1953 whose breakthrough novel Beatles (1984) became one of Norway's biggest sales successes.

Lars Samuelson (Swedish physicist)

Lars Samuelson (born 1948) is a Swedish physicist and professor emeritus at Lund University, known for III-V nanowire epitaxy, founding NanoLund in 1988, and four nanotech start-ups.

Oct 10, 2026

Lars Sillén

Lars Gunnar Sillén (1916–1970) was a Swedish chemist, professor of inorganic chemistry at KTH in Stockholm, who created the first model of ocean chemistry regulation.

Lars Sjöström

Lars Sjöström is a Swedish physician-scientist, professor emeritus at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg, who founded the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study in 1987, the first long-term controlled trial of bariatric surgery.

Lars Søndergaard

Lars Søndergaard is a Danish interventional cardiologist and professor of cardiology at the University of Copenhagen who heads structural heart intervention at Rigshospitalet and led the NOTION and REDUCE trials.

Sep 20, 2026

Lars Steinmetz

Lars M. Steinmetz is a geneticist who leads research groups at EMBL Heidelberg and Stanford, where he is Professor of Genetics and Co-Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center.

Lars Stindl

Lars Stindl, full name Lars Edi Stindl, is a German former attacking midfielder who scored the only goal in the 2017 Confederations Cup final, winning the tournament with Germany.

Lars Stixrude

Lars Stixrude is a mineral physicist and professor at UCLA, known for first-principles quantum-mechanical studies of deep-Earth minerals, including a 1993 Nature paper on lower-mantle perovskite stability.

Lars Sullivan

Lars Sullivan, ring name of Dylan Miley (born 1988), American WWE wrestler, monster heel in NXT and on Raw/SmackDown 2017–2021; Freak Accident finisher; fined $100,000 in 2019, released February 2021.

Sep 19, 2026

Lars Sunnanväder

Lars Sunnanväder (born 1940) is a Swedish-born medical-technology entrepreneur based in Hechingen, Germany, who co-founded the covered-stent maker Bentley InnoMed there in 2009 and won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 award for Germany.

Oct 10, 2026

Lars Terenius

Lars Terenius is a Swedish pharmacologist who in 1973 was among the first to demonstrate opiate receptors in the brain, winning the 1978 Canada Gairdner International Award.

Lars Thorn

Lars Thörn (Lars Einar Vilhelm Thörn, 1904–1990), Swedish 5.5 Metre sailor; Olympic gold skipper of Rush V at Melbourne 1956 and silver with Rush VII at Tokyo 1964, KSSS club.

Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer, songwriter, and businessman, co-founded Metallica with James Hetfield in Los Angeles in 1981; his riff-centric drumming, Napster activism, and debated technique define him.

Lars Vagberg

Lars Vågberg (Lars Magnus Vågberg), Norwegian curler born 1967 in Sollefteå, Sweden; third on Pål Trulsen's Stabekk team that won 2002 Olympic gold, later 2006 Games and world and European medals.

Oct 10, 2026

Lars Vegard

Lars Vegard (1880–1963) was a Norwegian physicist, professor at Kristiania/Oslo from 1918 to 1952, known for Vegard's law on mixed crystals and for identifying over 500 auroral spectral lines.