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Layla al-Akhyaliyya
Layla al-Akhyaliyya (ليلى الأخيلية) was an Arab poetess of the Umayyad caliphate, of the tribe of Uqayl, famed for her elegies on the warrior-poet Tawba ibn al-Humayyir.
Layla and Majnun (مجنون ليلى)
Layla and Majnun (مجنون ليلى), also Leyli o Majnun, is a 7th-century Arabian tale of Qays ibn al-Mulawwaḥ's unrequited love, immortalized by Nizami's 1188 Persian poem and retold across Islamic literatures.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is Derek and the Dominos' only studio album, a double LP released November 1970 on Atco/Polydor, recorded at Criteria Studios Miami with Duane Allman; initially a modest seller, now a Grammy Hall of Fame album.
Layla Anna-Lee
Layla Anna-Lee (birth name Layla Machado) is an English TV presenter, born 1983 in London, known as the narrator of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, for football interviews with Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo and Pele, UFC Connected and Cage Warriors MMA work, The Munch Box, and marriage to fighter Ian Garry.
Layla Diggs
Layla Diggs (Breanna Covington, born 1998, Fresno) is an American WWE wrestler on NXT and Evolve, a former triple jump athlete, #1 NXT Women's North American title contender in 2026, and a member of The Dungeon.
Layla El
Layla El (born 1977), ring name Layla, English dancer and retired WWE wrestler of Moroccan descent. Won the 2006 Diva Search; last original WWE Women's Champion and one-time Divas Champion; LayCool member; retired July 2015.
Layla Moran
Layla Moran, British Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon since 2017, 2020 leadership runner-up to Ed Davey, and chair of the Health and Social Care Committee since 2024.
Layla Taylor
Layla Taylor (born 2001) is an American reality TV personality, main cast member of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (2024), MomTok influencer, its youngest and only biracial cast member, and an executive producer as of 2026.
Layne Staley
Layne Staley (born Layne Rutherford Staley, 1967–2002), founding vocalist of Alice in Chains and Mad Season, known for his 'yarling' baritone; died April 5, 2002.
Layoff
A layoff, also called a workforce reduction or rightsizing, is a permanent termination of employment for reasons attributable to the employer, such as contraction or restructuring, not the employee's conduct.
Layout versus schematic
Layout versus schematic (LVS) is a physical verification check in integrated circuit design that compares the layout netlist with the schematic to verify the layout implements the intended circuit.
Lays of Ancient Rome
Lays of Ancient Rome is Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1842 collection of four ballads (Horatius, Lake Regillus, Virginia, Prophecy of Capys) written as lost Roman minstrel poems; a Victorian bestseller later attacked by Matthew Arnold.
Laysan
Laysan (Kauō) is a 4.1 km² low coral sand island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands' Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, with a hypersaline lake, huge albatross colonies, endangered Laysan ducks and finches, and a history of guano mining and rabbit-driven extinctions reversed after 1923.
Laysla De Oliveira
Laysla De Oliveira (born 1992, Toronto) is a Brazilian-Canadian actress and model known as Dodge in Locke & Key and Cruz Manuelos in Taylor Sheridan's Paramount+ series Lioness (2023–2026).
Laytime
Laytime is the period contractually allowed to a charterer for loading and discharging cargo under a voyage charterparty, after which the charterer pays demurrage to the shipowner.
Layton Williams
Layton Williams (born 1994, Manchester) is a British actor, dancer and singer, the first Black Billy Elliot on the West End, star of Bad Education and Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Strictly 2023 finalist, and 2025 Olivier winner for Titanique.
Layvin Kurzawa
Layvin Kurzawa, French left-back born 1992 in Fréjus; AS Monaco academy product, Paris Saint-Germain 2015–2024 (153 matches, 14 goals, first defender hat-trick in Champions League history vs Anderlecht 2017), 13 France caps, later Fulham, Boavista, and Persib Bandung.
Layyah District
Layyah District (ضلع لیہ) is a district in southern Punjab, Pakistan, part of Dera Ghazi Khan Division. It was created in 1982 from Layyah Tehsil of Muzaffargarh District.
Layyah power station
Layyah power station, also written Al Layyah power plant (محطة كهرباء اللية), is a gas-fired power and water desalination station in Sharjah, UAE, owned by SEWA.
Layzie Bone
Layzie Bone, born Steven Howse and also known as L-Burna, is an American rapper from Cleveland, Ohio, best known as a member of the Grammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
Laz Alonso
Laz Alonso (born 1974, Washington D.C.) is an American actor, a Howard University business graduate and former Merrill Lynch banker, known for Tsu'tey in Avatar, Fenix in Fast & Furious, the Budweiser Wassup ads, and Mother's Milk in The Boys. Not the Mexican League ballplayer Lazaro Alonso.
Laz people
The Laz people are a Kartvelian ethnic group of the eastern Black Sea coast in northeastern Turkey (Rize, Artvin) and southwestern Georgia, speaking Laz, a South Caucasian language closely related to Mingrelian, historically tied to Lazica and Islamized under Ottoman rule.
LAZ1
LAZ1 was a five-member Thai boy group formed in 2022 through the survival show LAZ iCON, a Lazada Thailand and One31 collaboration, debuting with "TASTE ME".
Lazada
Lazada is a Singapore-headquartered e-commerce marketplace operating in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, founded in 2012 by Rocket Internet and controlled by Alibaba Group since 2016.
Lazar Branković
Lazar Branković (Лазар Бранковић; c. 1421 – 1458) was a Serbian despot, the youngest son of Đurađ Branković, who ruled the Serbian Despotate from 1456 to 1458.
Lazar Hrebeljanović
Lazar Hrebeljanović (Лазар Хребељановић), popularly called Tsar Lazar, was a Serbian prince who ruled the largest state to emerge from the Nemanjić Empire and died after the 1389 Battle of Kosovo.
Lazar J. Greenfield Sr.
Lazar J. Greenfield Sr. is an American vascular surgeon who developed the Greenfield vena cava filter, introduced in 1973, and later chaired surgery at the University of Michigan.
Lazar Kaganovich (Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович)
Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich (Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович, 1893–1991), Soviet Politburo member and Stalin's longtime deputy; led Ukraine, Moscow (Metro), railways, and heavy industry; expelled in 1961 for Stalin-era repressions.
Lazar Lyusternik
Lazar Lyusternik, also known as Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik, was a Soviet mathematician and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, known for the Lyusternik–Schnirelmann category and the three geodesics theorem.
Lazar Marković (Лазар Марковић)
Lazar Marković (Лазар Марковић), born 1994 in Čačak, Serbian right winger; Partizan and Benfica treble winner, £20m Liverpool signing 2014 with 34 appearances, 22 Serbia caps, later Fulham, Partizan, Apollon Limassol.