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Lash (comics)

Lash is a Marvel Comics Inhuman supervillain created by Charles Soule and Joe Madureira, first appearing in Inhuman #1 (June 2014). An Orollan Inhuman who judges new Inhumans, he differs from the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. version, Andrew Garner's alter ego.

Lasha Khutsishvili

Lasha Khutsishvili (ლაშა ხუციშვილი) is a Georgian politician who serves as Minister of Finance of Georgia, representing the country with the IMF and Asian Development Bank.

Lasha Talakhadze (ლაშა თალახაძე)

Lasha Talakhadze (ლაშა ტალახაძე), Georgian superheavyweight weightlifter born 1993; three Olympic golds (2016, 2020, 2024) and absolute world records of 225 kg snatch, 267 kg clean and jerk, 492 kg total.

LaShae Sharp-Collins

LaShae Sharp-Collins is an American Democratic politician elected in November 2024 to the California State Assembly from the 79th district, and appointed Assistant Majority Leader in 2025.

Lasham Gliding Society

Lasham Gliding Society is a private, not-for-profit gliding club at Lasham Airfield in Hampshire, England, with over 700 members and a claim to be the world's largest gliding club.

Lashana Lynch

Lashana Lynch (Lashana Rasheda Lynch), British actress born 1987 in London, of Jamaican descent: Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel, first Black female 007 (Nomi) in No Time to Die, BAFTA EE Rising Star 2022, The Woman King, Rita Marley in Bob Marley: One Love, and Bianca Pullman in The Day of the Jackal.

LaShann M. D. Hall

LaShann M. D. Hall, born 1970, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2015.

Oct 20, 2026

Lashawn Merritt

LaShawn Merritt (born 1986, Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American 400m sprinter, 2008 Olympic champion, three-time Olympic gold medalist, and eight-time world champion who served a 21-month doping ban.

Oct 15, 2026

Lashburn East Waseca Oil Pool

The Lashburn East Waseca Sand Pool is a designated heavy oil pool near Lashburn and Waseca, Saskatchewan, producing from the Waseca Formation and developed with steam injection since 2014.

LaSheena Weekly

LaSheena Weekly is a Chicago activist, mother of slain drill rapper FBG Duck (Carlton Weekly), administrator of his estate, and plaintiff in wrongful-death litigation against Lil Durk, OTF, and King Von's estate.

Oct 20, 2026

Lashinda Demus

Lashinda Demus (born 1983, Inglewood, California), American 400m hurdler; 2011 world champion, PB 52.47; upgraded to 2012 Olympic gold after Antyukh's doping DQ, medal received in Paris 2024.

Lashkar-e-Taiba (لشکرِ طیبہ)

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT, لشکرِ طیبہ), also Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, is a Pakistan-based Salafist militant group seeking Pakistani control of Kashmir; founded mid-1980s as Markaz Dawat-ul Irshad's armed wing, notorious for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, led by Hafiz Saeed, designated an FTO since 2001.

LaShonda A. Hunt

LaShonda Annette Hunt is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2023, appointed by President Biden.

LaShonda Holloway

LaShonda "L.J." Holloway is an American politician and Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Florida's 4th district, facing Republican incumbent Aaron Bean in 2026.

Lashrecse Aird

Lashrecse Aird is an American Democratic politician, a member of the Virginia Senate since 2024 who earlier served three terms in the Virginia House of Delegates.

LASIK

LASIK (Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis) is eye surgery in which a hinged corneal flap is folded back and an excimer laser reshapes the cornea to treat refractive errors.

Lasiodiplodia theobromae

Lasiodiplodia theobromae (syn. Botryodiplodia theobromae, teleomorph Botryosphaeria rhodina) is a Botryosphaeriaceae fungus, type species of Lasiodiplodia, infecting over 500 plant hosts and occasionally humans, with 134 reported secondary metabolites.

Lasionycteris

Lasionycteris is a monotypic vesper-bat genus (Peters, 1866) whose only species is the silver-haired bat, Lasionycteris noctivagans, a dark, silver-tipped migratory tree bat of North America; IUCN Least Concern but COSEWIC Endangered in Canada (2023).

Lasiopodomys

Lasiopodomys Lataste, 1887 is a vole genus (Cricetidae, Arvicolinae, tribe Arvicolini) with two living Eurasian species, Brandt's vole and Mandarin vole, a disputed generic status, and Pleistocene fossils.

Lasith Malinga (සෙපරමාදු ලසිත මාලිංග)

Separamadu Lasith Malinga (සෙපරමාදු ලසිත මාලිංග), Sri Lankan right-arm fast bowler born 1983 in Galle; 546 international wickets, first ODI four-wickets-in-four-balls (2007 World Cup), 2014 T20 World Cup-winning captain, retired 2021.

Lasiurus

Lasiurus (hairy-tailed bats, red bats) is a New World vesper bat genus in tribe Lasiurini, type species Vespertilio borealis; its hoary bat L. cinereus is the top wind-turbine mortality victim, and its one-genus versus three-genera taxonomy is actively debated.

LASK

LASK (Linzer Athletik Sport Klub), Austrian football club from Linz founded 1908; black and white; first non-Vienna champion and cup double winner 1965, repeated the double 2025/26, and reached the Champions League group stage in 2026 after a 5-1 comeback over Celtic.

Oct 3, 2026

Laskar Pelangi

Laskar Pelangi (The Rainbow Troops) is a 2008 Indonesian film directed by Riri Riza, adapted from Andrea Hirata's 2005 novel about ten poor students on Belitung.

Laskarina Bouboulina

Laskarina Bouboulina (Λασκαρίνα Μπουμπουλίνα), 1771-1825, Spetses shipowner and naval commander of the Greek War of Independence; built the corvette Agamemnon, blockaded Nafplio and Monemvasia, and was posthumously made an Admiral.

Lasker Award

The Lasker Award, also called the Lasker Prize, is an annual American prize for biomedical research given by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation since 1946.

Sep 19, 2026

Lasmid

Lasmid (Ladsmid Nathaniel Owusu, born 1999 in Takoradi) is a Ghanaian Afrobeats and highlife singer, winner of MTN Hitmaker season 8 and best known for the 2022 viral hit "Friday Night".

Lasmiditan

Lasmiditan (Reyvow, formerly COL-144/LY573144) is a selective 5-HT1F receptor agonist, the first ditan, FDA-approved 11 October 2019 for acute migraine in adults; non-vasoconstricting, 50-200 mg, one dose per 24 h, 8-hour driving restriction, Schedule V.