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László Felkai
László Felkai (1941–2014), Hungarian water polo wing nicknamed Róka; Olympic gold at Tokyo 1964, bronze at Rome 1960 and Mexico City 1968; 120 caps, Ferencváros champion, later youth coach. Distinct from namesakes Felkai Mátyás László and Tomisa László.
Laszlo Foltan
Laszlo Foltan (Foltán László, born 1953, Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist, 1980 Moscow Olympic champion in C-2 500 m with István Vaskuti, and three-time world champion (1977, 1978, 1981) in the same event.
László Gajdos
László Gajdos is a Hungarian politician of the Tisza Párt who serves as Minister of the Living Environment, having led the Nyíregyháza Zoo from 1996 until May 2026.
Laszlo Hammerl
László Hammerl (1942–2024), Hungarian sports shooter, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in 50 m small-bore rifle prone (597), also 1968 silver and 1964 bronze; later physician and national team captain.
László Hunyadi
László Hunyadi (Hunyadi László) was a Hungarian magnate and soldier, elder son of János Hunyadi, who killed Ulrik Cillei in 1456 and was beheaded in Buda in 1457.
Laszlo Jeney
László Jeney (Pierre), Hungarian water polo goalkeeper (1923–2006), won Olympic gold 1952 and 1956, silver 1948, bronze 1960, European titles 1954 and 1958, 65 caps.
László Keglovich
László Keglovich (Keglovich László), born 4 February 1940 in Sopron, is a Hungarian footballer who won Olympic gold at Mexico City 1968 and played 312 league matches for Győri Vasas ETO, 1963 Hungarian champion.
László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter, born in 1954, known for absurdist fiction in long winding sentences and the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Laszlo Lorand
Laszlo Lorand (1923–2018) was a Hungarian-born American biochemist who co-discovered the blood-clotting protein Factor XIII, formerly called the Laki-Lorand factor, and spent more than 60 years at Northwestern University.
László Lovász
László Lovász, born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian mathematician known for the Lovász Local Lemma, the LLL lattice algorithm, and the 2021 Abel Prize, shared with Avi Wigderson.
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), Hungarian modernist artist and Bauhaus master 1923–1928, pioneer of photograms and the Light-Space Modulator, founder of Chicago's New Bauhaus, later the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech.
László Nagy (Hungarian physician-scientist)
László Nagy (Laszlo Nagy) is a Hungarian physician-scientist known for work on nuclear hormone receptors and macrophage epigenetics, including landmark 1998 Cell papers on PPARγ.
László Németh
László Németh (1901–1975) was a Hungarian writer, essayist, playwright, and physician, a leading interwar népi figure whose novels, notably Iszony, were translated into many languages.
Laszlo Papp
László Papp (Papp László), Hungarian boxer (1926–2003), first fighter to win three Olympic boxing golds (1948, 1952, 1956), later undefeated professional European champion and national head coach.
László Polgár
László Polgár, born 1946, is a Hungarian educational psychologist who home-schooled his three daughters with intensive chess training to prove geniuses are made, not born.
Laszlo Rajcsanyi
László Rajcsányi (1907–1992), Hungarian sabre fencer; won men's team sabre gold at the 1936, 1948, and 1952 Olympics, fourth individually in 1936; later engineer, Képes Sport publisher, and 1956 fencing federation president.
László Rajk
László Rajk (Rajk László), Hungarian communist politician, Interior Minister 1946–48 and Foreign Minister 1948–49, founder of the ÁVH, executed October 1949 after the Stalinist Rajk show trial; reburied October 6, 1956, catalyzing the Hungarian Revolution.
Laszlo Sarosi
László Sárosi (born 1946, Budapest) is a Hungarian water polo player, Újpesti Dózsa 1958–1980, who won Olympic bronze 1968, silver 1972, and gold 1976, plus 1973 world and 1974 European titles; distinct from the footballer Sárosi László (1932–2016).
Laszlo Szabados
Laszlo Szabados, a Hungarian freestyle swimmer from Subotica, specialized in relays. He won a European title in 1931 and an Olympic bronze in 1932.
László Szíjj
László Szíjj (Hungarian: Szíjj László) is a Hungarian billionaire businessman, cofounder and sole owner of Duna Aszfalt, one of Hungary's largest road and bridge construction companies, built largely on state contracts.
Laszlo Tabori
László Tábori (Laszlo Tabori), Hungarian middle-distance runner (1931–2018), third man to break the four-minute mile (3:59.0, 1955), equalled the 1500m world record 3:40.8, fourth at Melbourne 1956, later a US coach.
László Teleki
László Teleki (Hungarian: Teleki László) was a Hungarian politician, writer, and diplomat who served as the revolutionary government's envoy to Paris and proposed a Danubian confederation.
László Tőkés
László Tőkés (born 1952, Cluj), Hungarian Reformed pastor whose eviction from his Timișoara parish sparked the 1989 Romanian Revolution; later bishop of Királyhágómellék (1990–2009), Member of the European Parliament 2007–2019 and EP Vice-President.
Làszlò Tora
Laszlo Tora is a Hungarian-born molecular biologist and CNRS research director who leads a group at the IGBMC in Strasbourg studying transcription initiation, the TFIID complex, and chromatin.
László Toroczkai
László Toroczkai is a Hungarian politician, founding leader of the Mi Hazánk Mozgalom (Our Homeland Movement) since 2018, a member of parliament since 2022, and former Mayor of Ásotthalom.
László Wolf
László Wolf is a Hungarian banker who has been Deputy CEO of OTP Bank since 1994, heading the Commercial Banking Division and directing its international expansion.
László Zechmeister
László Zechmeister (1889–1972) was a Hungarian chemist who helped revive column chromatography, wrote the first handbook on the method, and studied carotenoid pigments at Caltech from 1940.
LAT
LAT (linker for activation of T cells, also LAT1/pp36/IMD52) is a chromosome 16p11.2 transmembrane adaptor phosphorylated by ZAP-70 that nucleates TCR signaling; loss causes T-cell-deficient SCID with autoimmunity in mice and humans.
Lat Dior
Lat Dior Ngoné Latyr Diop (1842–1886) was a Wolof ruler, damel of Cayor in present-day Senegal, and a leading figure of resistance to French colonial expansion.
Lata Mangeshkar (लता मंगेशकर)
Lata Mangeshkar (लता मंगेशकर), 1929–2022, Indian playback singer born in Indore, called the Nightingale of India; recorded thousands of songs in over 30 languages, won the Bharat Ratna in 2001, and died in Mumbai in 2022.