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Le Yu
Le Yu (于乐) is a Chinese materials chemist and professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, known for designing hollow nanostructured electrode materials for batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalysis.
Le Zénith Paris
Le Zénith Paris, also known as Zénith Paris - La Villette, is a modular concert hall of about 6,300 capacity in the Parc de la Villette, Paris, opened in 1984.
Lê–Mạc transition
The Lê–Mạc transition was the 1527 transfer of the Vietnamese throne from the Later Lê dynasty to the Mạc dynasty founded by the general Mạc Đăng Dung.
Le'Veon Bell
Le'Veon Bell, NFL running back 2013-2021 (Steelers, Jets, Chiefs, Ravens, Buccaneers), known for patient rushing style, 2018 franchise-tag holdout, and four-year $52.5M Jets contract.
Le'Veon Moss
Le'Veon Moss (born 2002), Texas A&M running back from Walker, Louisiana; 1,767 career rushing yards and 22 touchdowns; All-SEC 2024; knee and ankle injuries; 2026 undrafted free agent signee of Miami who retired in May 2026.
LEA
LEA, born Lea-Marie Becker in Kassel in 1992, is a German singer-songwriter and pianist known for "Leiser" and "110", and was Germany's most-streamed artist in 2021 and 2022.
Lea & Perrins
Lea & Perrins is the British brand founded in Worcester in 1837 by chemists John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, inventor of Worcestershire sauce; its recipe remains a Heinz trade secret, the sauce matures 18 months, and it still ships to over 130 countries.
Lea Alaerts
Lea Alaerts is a Belgian retired sprinter, born in 1954 in Leuven, who competed at the 1976 Montreal and 1980 Moscow Olympics and held fifteen Belgian records.
Lea DeLaria
Lea DeLaria (born 1958, Belleville, Illinois) is an American comedian, actor, and jazz singer, the first openly gay comic on American TV (Arsenio Hall Show, 1993), Big Boo on Orange Is the New Black, an Obie-winning On the Town star, and a jazz vocalist whose albums include Play It Cool and House of David.
Lea Henry
Lea Henry (Ludi "Lea" Henry-Manning), born 1961 in Colquitt, Georgia, is an American basketball point guard who won 1984 Olympic gold and later head-coached Mercer and Georgia State.
Lea Michele
Lea Michele (Lea Michele Sarfati, born 1986), American actress and singer, Broadway star since age 8 in Les Misérables, Rachel Berry on Glee 2009–2015, Fanny Brice in Funny Girl 2022–2023, Florence Vassy in the 2025–2026 Chess revival.
Lea Nienhaus
Lea Nienhaus is a chemist known for solid-state perovskite-sensitized photon upconversion, turning infrared light into visible light; she has been an associate professor at Rice University since 2024.
Lea Nordheim
Lea Nordheim (Helena Nordheim, 1903–1943), Dutch Jewish gymnast, won gold in the first Olympic women's gymnastics team event at Amsterdam 1928 (316.75 points); murdered with her husband Abraham Kloot and daughter Rebecca at Sobibór on 2 July 1943.
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga (Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga, born 1971, Manila) is a Filipina star of musical theatre, Tony winner as Kim in Miss Saigon (1991), singing voice of Disney's Jasmine and Mulan, Disney Legend, and Time100 Impact Award recipient.
Léa Seydoux
Léa Seydoux (Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne), French actress born 1985 in Paris, star of Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Bond's Madeleine Swann, and 2026's Gentle Monster, The Unknown, and Alpha Gang.
Lea Thompson
Lea Thompson (born 1961, Rochester, Minnesota) is an American actress and director known for Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy, Howard the Duck, Caroline in the City, Switched at Birth, and directing the USA series Anna Pigeon.
Lea Webb
Lea Webb is an American Democratic member of the New York State Senate, representing the 52nd district since 2023 after eight years on the Binghamton City Council.
Leabua Jonathan
Joseph Leabua Jonathan was a Lesotho politician, hereditary chief, and founder of the Basotho National Party who served as the first prime minister of independent Lesotho, 1965 to 1986.
LEACH protocol
LEACH (Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) is a clustering-based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks, reported in 2000, that rotates cluster heads to balance energy use.
Leachate
Leachate is the contaminated liquid that has passed through or emerged from solid waste, generated in landfills when water infiltrates waste and picks up pollutants.
Leaching (chemistry)
Leaching, also called lixiviation, is the transfer of a soluble substance from a solid into a liquid, used in metal extraction and studied as an environmental contaminant pathway.
Leaching test
A leaching test is a standardized laboratory procedure that contacts a solid with a liquid and measures which constituents dissolve out, to assess environmental mobility of contaminants.
Lead
Lead (symbol Pb, from the Latin plumbum) is a soft, dense, dull silvery-gray post-transition metal with atomic number 82, mined for more than 6,000 years.
Lead (group)
Lead is a Japanese dance-vocal group formed in Osaka, which debuted in 2002 with "Manatsu no Magic" and won Japan Record Awards prizes in 2004 and 2005.
Lead azide
Lead azide, Pb(N₃)₂, is a toxic primary explosive, the lead salt of hydrazoic acid, that detonates from weak stimuli and initiates secondary explosives in detonators, blasting caps, and fuzes.
Lead Bell Shale
Lead Bell Shale: Cambrian shale formation in the Portneuf Range, southeastern Idaho, named for the abandoned Lead Bell mine; defined 1971 (USGS PP 394); overlies Twin Knobs Formation, underlies Bancroft Limestone, middle Middle Cambrian.
Lead Belly
Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter, c. 1888–1949) was a Louisiana-born American folk-blues singer and twelve-string guitarist, first recorded in prison by the Lomaxes in 1933; his songs "Goodnight, Irene" and "Rock Island Line" shaped folk, skiffle, and rock.
Lead Children
Lead Children (Ołowiane dzieci) is a 2026 six-episode Polish Netflix drama directed by Maciej Pieprzyca, starring Joanna Kulig as pediatrician Jolanta Wadowska-Król, who exposed 1970s lead poisoning of children near the Szopienice Steelworks in Katowice.
Lead chloride
Lead chloride (PbCl₂) is a white crystalline lead compound, found in nature as the volcanic mineral cotunnite and used in lead recovery and perovskite solar cells.
Lead chromate
Lead chromate (PbCrO₄) is an inorganic compound found in nature as the red-orange mineral crocoite and used industrially as the chrome yellow pigments, whose lead and hexavalent chromium content has made them tightly regulated.