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Lauritz Christiansen

Lauritz Christiansen names two Olympic athletes: Karl Lauritz Christiansen (1892-1976), Danish cross-country runner, 14th at Stockholm 1912; and Lauritz Christian Christiansen (1867-1930), Norwegian sailor, 1920 12-metre class gold medalist.

Lauritz Schoof

Lauritz-Johannes Schoof (born 1990, Rendsburg) is a German rower, double Olympic champion in the men's quadruple sculls at London 2012 and Rio 2016, 2015 world champion, now a cardiology physician in Hamburg.

Lauro de Freitas

Lauro de Freitas is a coastal municipality in Bahia, Brazil, contiguous with Salvador in its metropolitan region. Formerly the district of Ipitanga, emancipated in 1962; 203,331 residents (2022), metro Line 2 terminus, GDP R$ 8.9 billion.

Oct 15, 2026

LAURON

LAURON is a series of six-legged walking robots developed since the early 1990s by the FZI Research Center for Information Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, for inspection in difficult terrain.

Laurons

Laurons (Anse des Laurons), Martigues, France: cove with nine ancient and modern wrecks, a Roman port, and the well-preserved c. 1450-1630 fishing boat Laurons XI, excavated since 2021 as a maritime archaeology training site.

Laurum

Laurum (Laurium), Roman limes castellum under Woerden, Netherlands, on the Lower German Limes. Fort from Caligula's reign, destroyed in the Batavian Revolt of 69, stone phase after c.160, garrison cohorts XV Voluntariorum and III Breucorum, seven Roman shipwrecks.

Laurus

Laurus is a small genus of evergreen trees and shrubs in the laurel family, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Macaronesia; its type species, Laurus nobilis, is the bay laurel of cooking.

Sep 19, 2026

Laurus Labs

Laurus Labs is an Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology company founded in Hyderabad in 2005 by Dr Satyanarayana Chava, known for anti-retroviral APIs, oncology products, and CDMO services, and listed since 2016.

Laurus nobilis

Laurus nobilis (bay laurel, sweet bay) is a Mediterranean evergreen Lauraceae tree, source of culinary bay leaves; dioecious, up to 18 m, IUCN Least Concern, leaf essential oil dominated by 1,8-cineole.

Lauryl alcohol (dodecanol)

Lauryl alcohol, also known as dodecanol, is a straight-chain C12 fatty alcohol, a white crystalline solid made from coconut and palm kernel oil and used to make surfactants.

Lauryldimethylamine

Lauryldimethylamine (N,N-dimethyldodecylamine) is a tertiary fatty amine with a twelve-carbon chain and formula C14H31N, used as an intermediate for amine oxides, quats, and betaine surfactants.

Lauryldimethylbenzylammonium bromide

Lauryldimethylbenzylammonium bromide (benzododecinium bromide, lauralkonium bromide, CAS 7281-04-1) is a C12 quaternary ammonium disinfectant; marketed for instrument sterilization in the Americas, it failed sporicidal and tuberculocidal testing.

Lauryldimethylbenzylammonium chloride

Lauryldimethylbenzylammonium chloride (benzododecinium chloride, CAS 139-07-1) is the C12 quaternary ammonium homolog of benzalkonium chloride, a cationic surfactant and disinfectant not approved as an EU pesticide since Decision 2004/129/EC.

Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill (born 1975, South Orange, New Jersey), American singer and rapper, Fugees member; her 1998 solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was the first hip-hop Album of the Year Grammy winner and her only solo studio album.

Lauryn Williams

Lauryn Chenet Williams (born 1983, Pittsburgh) is an American sprinter and bobsledder, four-time Olympian with three medals: 2004 100m silver, 2012 4x100m relay gold, 2014 Sochi bobsled silver; first American woman to medal in both Summer and Winter Olympics.

Laus

Laus, German penalty-avoidance card game related to Ramsch; 3-4 players, 32 cards, jacks as trumps; queens carry 100-300 point penalties cancelled by the diamond queen.

Lausanne

Lausanne, capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud on Lake Geneva's north shore; 145,596 residents (2025), seat of the IOC since 1915, the Federal Supreme Court, UNIL and EPFL, with a new automated m3 metro line approved in 2026.

Oct 10, 2026

Lausanne school

The Lausanne school was a school of economics at the University of Lausanne built around Léon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto, founders of mathematical general equilibrium theory.

Oct 22, 2026

Lausavísa

A lausavísa (plural lausavísur) is a free-standing single stanza of skaldic poetry, usually in dróttkvætt meter, preserved in Old Norse sagas as a character's speech.

Lausse the Cat

Lausse the Cat: anonymous British jazz rap artist in a cat mask, rapping in French and English; EP The Girl, the Cat and the Tree (2018), 2019–2025 hiatus, comeback album The Mocking Stars (2025).

Oct 22, 2026

Laüstic

Laüstic, a Breton word for nightingale, is a 160-line narrative lai by Marie de France, telling of neighboring lovers exposed when the jealous husband kills a nightingale.

Lautaro

Lautaro (Volcán Lautaro) is an ice-covered dacitic stratovolcano, the northernmost and highest volcano of the Andes' Austral Volcanic Zone, on the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile; last erupted 1979, active since ca. 0.17 Ma.

Lautaro Martínez

Lautaro Javier Martínez (born 1997, Bahía Blanca) is an Argentine striker and Inter Milan captain, World Cup 2022 winner, two-time Serie A top scorer (2023/24, 2025/26), Inter's third-highest all-time scorer.

Oct 22, 2026

Lautaro's uprising

Lautaro's uprising (Alzamiento de Lautaro) was the Mapuche campaign of 1553–1557 led by Lautaro, a former page of Pedro de Valdivia, whom it defeated at Tucapel in 1553.

Lauterbrunnen

Lauterbrunnen, a Bernese Oberland village and municipality in the 72-waterfall valley of the White Lütschine between Interlaken and the Jungfrau, known for Staubbach Falls, the Trümmelbach Falls, its 1890s railways, and overtourism pressures.

Lautoka

Lautoka, Fiji's Sugar City, is the second largest city on western Viti Levu, 24 km north of Nadi. Founded around the 1903 CSR sugar mill, it hosts Fiji's second largest port and about 52,000 residents.

Lautrego

Lautrego (Leotricus), ancient settlement in Gallia Aquitania identified with Lautrec, Tarn, France; attested in the Vita Desiderii as a villa bequeathed by Saint Didier; Roman and Late Antique period; Pleiades BAtlas 25 H2 record.

Lauv

Lauv (Ari Staprans Leff, born 1994) is an American independent pop singer-songwriter known for "The Other," "I Like Me Better," the albums ~How I'm Feeling~ (2020) and All 4 Nothing (2022), and his Blue Boy Foundation mental-health nonprofit.

Lauxaniidae

Lauxaniidae (Macquart, 1835) is a diverse family of small acalyptrate flies in the Lauxanioidea superfamily. It consists of 172 genera, 2,150 species, and is found globally.