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Lázár Mészáros

Lázár Mészáros (Mészáros Lázár; 1796–1858) was a Hungarian hussar officer and statesman who, as the first Hungarian minister of war, organized the honvéd army of 1848–49.

Lazăr Șăineanu

Lazăr Șăineanu, known in France as Lazare Sainéan, was a Romanian-born philologist, linguist, and folklorist. Denied Romanian citizenship, he settled in Paris in 1901 and turned to French linguistics.

LazarBeam

LazarBeam, real name Lannan Neville Eacott (born 1994), is an Australian YouTuber from New South Wales with about 23 million subscribers, known for Madden challenges, Fortnite meme content, and his 2021 Fortnite Icon Series skin.

Lazard

Lazard, also known as Lazard Frères, is an independent financial advisory and asset management firm founded in 1848, publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 2005.

Lazare Isidor

Lazare Isidor (1813–1888) was a French rabbi who served as chief rabbi of Paris from 1847 to 1866, then as Grand Rabbin du Consistoire central, France's chief rabbinate.

Lazareth

Lazareth is a 2024 American post-apocalyptic thriller directed and written by Alec Tibaldi, starring Ashley Judd as an aunt raising nieces (Katie Douglas, Sarah Pidgeon) in an isolated cabin during a pandemic; released by Vertical on May 10, 2024.

Lazaretto (album)

Lazaretto, Jack White's second solo studio album, released June 10, 2014 on Third Man/XL/Columbia after Blunderbuss. Notable for songs from his age-19 writings, a Grammy-winning title track, and an Ultra LP vinyl that set a 1991-era US weekly vinyl sales record.

Lazarevskoye

Lazarevskoye (Лазаревское) is a Sochi microdistrict and center of Lazarevsky District, Krasnodar Krai, at the Psezuapse river mouth; founded 1839 as Fort Lazarev, village from 1869, in Sochi since 1961.

Lazarillo de Tormes

Lazarillo de Tormes (La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes) is an anonymous 1554 Spanish novella, first of the picaresque genre; banned in 1559, expurgated until 1834, authorship still disputed.

Lázaro Cárdenas

Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (1895–1970), Mexican revolutionary general and president 1934–1940; carried out massive ejido land reform, the 1938 oil expropriation, and founded the IPN and INAH.

Lazaro Vargas

Lázaro Vargas (Lázaro Vargas Álvarez, La Bestia Negra), Cuban third baseman born 1964, won Olympic baseball gold in 1992 and 1996, hit the first Olympic cycle, and starred for Industriales.

Lazarus (British TV series)

Harlan Coben's Lazarus is a 2025 six-episode British supernatural thriller on Prime Video, created by Coben and Danny Brocklehurst, starring Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy as psychiatrists investigating cold-case murders; distinct from the 2025 Watanabe anime Lazarus.

Lazarus (David Bowie song)

"Lazarus" is a 2015 David Bowie song, second single from Blackstar and title song of his off-Broadway musical with Enda Walsh; sung as Thomas Newton, released December 18, 2015, it became his farewell after his January 2016 death.

Lazarus (musical)

Lazarus is a musical with music and lyrics by David Bowie, book by Enda Walsh, premiering off-Broadway in 2015 and inspired by The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo

Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo were Italian conjoined twins born in Genoa in 1617; Lazarus carried his malformed parasitic twin, and they toured Europe as performers.

Lazarus Fletcher

Sir Lazarus Fletcher (1854–1921) was a British mineralogist and museum director who led the British Museum (Natural History) and wrote an influential 1891 memoir on the optical indicatrix.

Lazarus Fuchs

Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs (1833–1902) was a German mathematician, a pupil of Weierstrass, who characterized the Fuchsian class of linear differential equations; Poincaré named Fuchsian functions in his honor.

Lazarus Group

Lazarus Group (Hidden Cobra, Labyrinth Chollima, ZINC/Diamond Sleet; MITRE G0032) is a North Korean state-sponsored hacking cluster attributed to the Reconnaissance General Bureau, known for the 2014 Sony Pictures attack, WannaCry, the APT38/BlueNoroff bank-theft subunit, and record cryptocurrency thefts including the 2025 Bybit hack.

Lazarus of Bethany

Lazarus of Bethany (Λάζαρος, Hebrew Eleazar, "God helps") is the Gospel of John's friend of Jesus, brother of Martha and Mary, raised after four days dead; distinct from Luke's parable Lazarus.

Lazarus sign

Lazarus sign: complex spinally mediated arm-flexion movement in brain-dead patients, named by Ropper 1984, occurring in about 2% during apnea testing or ventilator withdrawal; does not invalidate brain-death diagnosis.

Lazarus syndrome

Lazarus syndrome, or autoresuscitation, is the delayed unassisted return of spontaneous circulation minutes after CPR is stopped and death declared; about 76 reported cases since 1982, mechanisms include auto-PEEP and delayed drug effects.

Lazarus taxon

A Lazarus taxon, plural Lazarus taxa, is a species or group thought extinct that is later found alive again, a term attributed to paleontologists Karl Flessa and David Jablonski in 1983.

Lazer Dim 700

Lazer Dim 700 (Devokeyous Hamilton), also formerly Luh4thagod, is a Cordele, Georgia rapper of the dark plugg scene, known for BandLab-recorded off-beat stream-of-consciousness rap, the viral "Asian Rock," albums Injoy and Keepin It Cloudy, and 2025 XXL Freshman selection.

Lazer Team

Lazer Team is a 2016 science fiction comedy about four men who find an alien battle suit. It was financed by an Indiegogo campaign that raised over $2.4 million.

Lazertinib

Lazertinib (YH25448; Leclaza, Lazcluze) is an oral, brain-penetrant third-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor for NSCLC, approved in South Korea in 2021 and, with amivantamab, in the US in 2024.

Lazic War

The Lazic War, also called the Egrisi War or Colchidian War, was a 21-year conflict between the Byzantine Empire and Sasanian Iran for control of Lazica.

Laziness

Laziness, also called sloth or idleness, is the disinclination to work or expend effort. Not a psychiatric diagnosis; modern research explains it via motivation quality, effort-based decision making, depression, and apathy.

Lazio

Lazio, historically Latium, is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy, located in the center of the peninsula. Its capital is Rome, the national capital, where most of its 5.7 million residents live.

Lazwaal Ishq

Lazwaal Ishq (لازوال عشق, Eternal Love), also spelled Lazawal Ishq, is Pakistan's first Urdu reality dating show, adapted from Turkish Aşk Adası, hosted by Ayesha Omar, filmed in Istanbul, streamed on YouTube from 29 September 2025, blocked in Pakistan after 50 episodes.

Lazy Dog (bomb)

The Lazy Dog, also called the Red Dot Bomb, was a small unguided kinetic antipersonnel projectile dropped from United States aircraft in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.