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Lavanya Tripathi
Lavanya Tripathi (Telugu: లావణ్య త్రిపాఠి), also Lavanya Tripathi Konidela, Indian actress in Telugu cinema; Miss Uttarakhand 2006; debut Andala Rakshasi (2012); breakthrough Bhale Bhale Magadivoy (2015); married Varun Tej 2023. Not the tarot reader Lavanya Arora or the clothing brand Lavanya The Label.
Lavanyavati
Lavanyavati (ଲାବଣ୍ୟବତୀ, also Labanyabati) is an Odia-language kavya by poet Upendra Bhanja, acclaimed as Kabi Samrat, narrating princess Lavanyavati's marriage to prince Chandrabhanu in ornate 18th-century Riti-period verse.
LaVar Arrington
LaVar Arrington (born 1978, Pittsburgh) is a former NFL linebacker, second overall pick in 2000 by Washington, three-time Pro Bowler, 1999 Butkus and Bednarik winner at Penn State, College Football Hall of Famer (2022), now a Fox Sports analyst.
LaVar Arrington II
LaVar Arrington II, Penn State Nittany Lions defensive end (formerly linebacker), No. 11, son of Hall of Fame linebacker LaVar Arrington; Charter Oak HS product, 2025 recruit, moved to DE in 2026.
LaVar Ball
LaVar Ball, born 1967, American businessman and media personality, co-founder and CEO of Big Baller Brand, father of NBA players Lonzo and LaMelo Ball, known for the $495 ZO2 shoe, the JBA league, and bold public predictions.
Lavarand
Lavarand was a Silicon Graphics hardware random number generator, patented in 1996, that produced random seeds by photographing lava lamps and hashing the digitized images.
Lavasa (लवासा)
Lavasa (लवासा) is India's first privately built planned hill city, near Pune in the Western Ghats, developed by Lavasa Corporation Ltd on the Portofino model; planned for 240,000 residents, it was partially built, faced environmental violations, and entered insolvency.
Lavash (լավաշ)
Lavash (լավաշ) is a thin wheat-flour flatbread baked on the wall of a tonir clay oven, central to Armenian cuisine and inscribed by UNESCO in 2014, with a related 2016 multinational flatbread listing; it keeps dry up to six months.
Lavatris
Lavatris (Lavatrae), Roman fort at Bowes, County Durham, England, on the Catterick–Carlisle road guarding the Stainmore Pass; occupied from Agricola to the late 4th century, with vicus, bathhouse, and Bowes Castle within its walls.
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces (Lavaux, vignoble en terrasses): UNESCO World Heritage terraced vineyard on Lake Geneva's north shore, Vaud, Switzerland, inscribed 2007 under criteria iii, iv, v; 30 km of chasselas vines, 10,000 terraces, 450 km of walls dating to the 11th century.
Lavazza
Lavazza: Italian coffee company founded in Turin in 1895 by Luigi Lavazza; pioneer of coffee blending, Italy's largest coffee firm since 1957, now a global group with €3.9 billion revenue, brands like Carte Noire, Merrild, and Kicking Horse.
Låvebrua Island
Låvebrua Island is a 95-metre-high islet 1.3 km east of South Point, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands; named by Norwegian whalers after 1905, also called Islote Chaco (Argentina) and Islote Lautaro (Chile).
Lavell Crawford
Lavell Maurice Crawford, born 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American stand-up comedian and actor, runner-up on Last Comic Standing season 5 and known for playing Huell Babineaux on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Lavell Edwards Stadium
LaVell Edwards Stadium, formerly Cougar Stadium, is BYU's 62,073-seat football stadium in Provo, Utah, opened in 1964, expanded in 1982, and renamed in 2000 for coach LaVell Edwards.
Lavender (2016 film)
Lavender (2016) is a Canadian-American psychological thriller directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, starring Abbie Cornish as an amnesiac photographer; premiered at Tribeca, released March 3, 2017.
Lavender (color)
Lavender is a pale bluish purple color named for the flowers of the lavender plant, recorded as a color term from 1840 and defined in web standards as hex #e6e6fa.
Lavender aromatherapy
Lavender aromatherapy is a complementary clinical method delivering essential oil of Lavandula angustifolia by inhalation, bath, or oral capsule to reduce anxiety, pain, and sleep disturbances, though trial evidence is of low average quality.
Lavender Fields (TV series)
Lavender Fields: Philippine ABS-CBN/Dreamscape action-drama teleserye (2024–2025), 100 episodes, starring Jodi Sta. Maria, Jericho Rosales, Janine Gutierrez. Premiered on Netflix Aug 30, 2024; Jasmin's revenge plot; hit #1 on Netflix PH; Box Office Awards ensemble win.
Lavender marriage
A lavender marriage is a marriage of convenience, typically between two LGBTQ+ people of opposite sexes, contracted to hide their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Lavender Scare
The Lavender Scare was the 1947–1975 US federal purge of homosexual employees under Executive Order 10450's 'sexual perversion' clause, costing an estimated 5,000 to tens of thousands of jobs, contested by Frank Kameny and repealed by EO 13764 in 2017.
Lavender Town
Lavender Town (シオンタウン) is the Kanto Pokémon graveyard town with the seven-story Pokémon Tower, whose eerie theme music inspired the debunked Lavender Town Syndrome creepypasta about child suicides.
Lavender's Blue
Lavender's Blue (Lavender Blue, Dilly Dilly), Roud 3483, is an English folk song from a 1672–1685 broadside, turned into a nursery rhyme by 1805 and a 1949 Disney hit.
Lavenski R. Smith
Lavenski R. Smith, born 1958 in Hope, Arkansas, is a judge on the Eighth Circuit US Court of Appeals, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.
Laver Cup
The Laver Cup is an annual men's team tennis competition between six European players and six from the rest of the world, first held in Prague in 2017.
Laverda
Laverda is an Italian motorcycle brand founded in 1949 in Breganze, best known for its 1970s twins and triples like the 750 SFC and Jota.
Laverna Dorsa
Laverna Dorsa is a 1,100-km-wide dorsum (ridge system) on Venus at 50 S, 132 E, named for the Roman goddess of darkness and income; IAU-approved in 1997.
Laverne & Shirley
Laverne & Shirley, an ABC sitcom (1976-1983) spun off from Happy Days, starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as brewery workers in 1950s Milwaukee; it hit number one in ratings before a sixth-season move to Burbank, California.
Laverne Cox
Laverne Cox (born 1972, Mobile, Alabama), also known as Roderick Leverne Cox, is an American actress and trans rights advocate famous as Sophia Burset on Orange Is the New Black; first openly trans Primetime Emmy acting nominee and Time cover subject.
LaVeyan Satanism
LaVeyan Satanism, also known as LaVeyanism or Antitheistic Satanism, is the atheistic religious philosophy of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, founded in San Francisco in 1966, in which Satan symbolizes pride, liberty, and individualism.
Laveyron
Laveyron (Drôme, 26240) is a French Rhône-side commune with a 1st-century AD Inrap-excavated Roman wine establishment, a SAICA Paper France mill, no listed monuments, and a 2017 PLU.