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Lassa mammarenavirus
Lassa mammarenavirus (Lassa virus, LASV), an Old World arenavirus with a bisegmented ambisense RNA genome, causes Lassa fever, a West African rodent-borne hemorrhagic fever; ribavirin is standard care despite weak evidence, and no vaccine is licensed.
Lassana Diarra
Lassana Diarra, also Lass Diarra, French midfielder born 1985 in Paris; played for Chelsea, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Real Madrid, Marseille, and PSG, won 34 France caps, and won the 2024 CJEU transfer-rules case against FIFA.
Lasse Andersson
Lasse Andersson (Lasse Bredekjær Andersson), Danish handball left back born 1994; world, European, and Olympic champion with Denmark; played for FC Barcelona and Füchse Berlin, then joined HØJ Elite in 2026.
Lasse Braun
Lasse Braun (Alberto Ferro, 1936–2015), Italian-born pioneer of European pornographic film; made 8mm loops, won Denmark's 1969 obscenity case, directed French Blue, Sensations, Body Love; father of Axel Braun.
Lasse Efskind
Lasse Efskind (Lasse Daniel Efskind, born 1944, Oslo) is a Norwegian former sprint speed skater, 1972 Olympian, and 1973 Davos world-record holder at 500 m and 1,000 m, later a physician, surgeon, and author of Trylleringen.
Lasse Hallström
Lasse Hallström (Lars Sven Hallström, born 1946, Stockholm) is a Swedish director of ABBA music videos, My Life as a Dog, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, and Hilma, an Oscar-nominated Hollywood literary adapter.
Lasse Heje Pedersen
Lasse Heje Pedersen, also known as Lasse Pedersen, is a financial economist at Copenhagen Business School and AQR Capital Management, known for his work on liquidity risk and asset pricing.
Lasse Kjus
Lasse Kjus, born in 1971, is a Norwegian former alpine ski racer who won 16 Olympic and World Championship medals and two overall World Cup titles.
Lasse Lindahl
Lasse Lindahl is a molecular biologist who showed that ribosomal protein L4 represses its own synthesis in E. coli, and later studied yeast ribosome biogenesis at UMBC.
Lasse Lund
Lasse Lund (born 1992) is a Finnish-Norwegian dual citizen and viral social media figure who says he grew up alone on Mumbai's streets; his mother disputes the account, and Finland's foreign ministry admits consular failings.
Lasse Norman Hansen
Lasse Norman Hansen, since 2022 Lasse Norman Leth, Danish track cyclist born 1992; double Olympic champion (omnium 2012, Madison 2020 with Mørkøv) with five Olympic medals and four world titles.
Lasse Schöne
Lasse Schöne (Lasse Schøne), Danish midfielder born 1986; Ajax 2012-2019 (287 games, 64 goals, three titles), later Genoa, Heerenveen, NEC; 51 Denmark caps; retired 2025.
Lasse Svan
Lasse Svan (Lasse Jemon Svan Hansen, born 1983) is a retired Danish handball right wing who won Olympic, World, and European gold and the 2014 EHF Champions League with SG Flensburg-Handewitt, and now works as a mental and performance coach.
Lassell (Martian crater)
Lassell is an 85.60-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 20.61°S, 297.54°E, IAU-approved in 1973 and named for British astronomer William Lassell, who also has a smaller lunar crater of the same name.
Lassen (supercomputer)
Lassen was an unclassified IBM/NVIDIA supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the companion to the classified Sierra system, commissioned in 2018 and retired in 2025.
Lassen Peak
Lassen Peak: dacite lava dome in northern California, southernmost active Cascade volcano, world's largest lava dome at 10,457 ft. Erupted 1914–1917, climactically May 22, 1915, before Mount St. Helens 1980.
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park: northern California park established August 9, 1916 after Lassen Peak's 1914–1917 eruptions; over 106,000 acres with all four volcano types, active hydrothermal features, and a Very High USGS threat rating.
Lassi (ਲੱਸੀ)
Lassi (ਲੱਸੀ, لسّی) is a chilled Punjabi yogurt drink made by churning dahi with water or milk, served sweet (meethi) or salted (namkeen); mango lassi is a modern diaspora variant, and the word is first attested in English in 1882.
Lassie
Lassie, also known from Lassie Come Home, is a fictional female Rough Collie created by Eric Knight in 1938, played on screen since 1943 only by male descendants of the dog Pal.
Lassie (1954 TV series)
Lassie is an American television series that follows a Rough Collie's adventures; it aired on CBS until 1971 before running in first run syndication.
Lassiter Coast
Lassiter Coast is the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Mackintosh to Cape Adams, on the Weddell Sea side of southern Palmer Land, named in 1947 for pilot James W. Lassiter.
Lasso
Lasso, also known as Reata, is a dynamically typed, object-oriented programming language and server platform for building data-driven web applications, first released in 1996 as FileMaker middleware.
Lasso (statistics)
The lasso, or least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, is a regression method introduced by Robert Tibshirani in 1996 that shrinks some coefficients to exactly zero, giving sparse, interpretable models.
Lasswell's model of communication
Lasswell's model of communication (Lasswell formula): Harold Lasswell's 1948 five-question framework, "Who says what in which channel to whom with what effect?", mapping communication research into control, content, media, audience, and effect analysis; a linear model criticized for omitting feedback and noise.
Lasswitz (Martian crater)
Lasswitz is an impact crater on Mars near Gale Crater, about 111 km across, named in 1976 for German author Kurd Lasswitz and imaged by Mars Global Surveyor in 1997.
Last
A last, also known as a shoe last, is the foot-shaped form or mold around which a shoe is constructed, determining its fit, appearance, and comfort; lasts have been used since around 400 BCE.
Last Action Hero
Last Action Hero (1993) is a John McTiernan fantasy action comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a fictional cop pulled into reality by a boy's magic ticket; it opened June 18, 1993, grossed $137.3 million worldwide on an $85 million budget, and was Sony's first SDDS film.
Last Action Hero (soundtrack)
Last Action Hero: Music from the Original Motion Picture (Columbia, June 8, 1993) is the 12-song hard rock and metal soundtrack to the 1993 Schwarzenegger film, featuring AC/DC, Alice in Chains, Megadeth, and Michael Kamen's separate score album.
Last and First Men
Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon is a future-history science fiction novel narrated telepathically by the Last Man, spanning two billion years and eighteen human species across Earth, Venus, and Neptune.
Last battle of Bismarck
The last battle of Bismarck, also called the sinking of the Bismarck, was the German battleship's destruction by British warships in the North Atlantic on 27 May 1941.