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Leela Majumdar
Leela Majumdar (Bengali: লীলা মজুমদার, 1908–2007) was an Indian Bengali writer of more than 125 children's books who co-edited the magazine Sandesh for decades and won the Rabindra Puraskar.
Leela Mishra (लीला मिश्रा)
Leela Mishra (लीला मिश्रा, 1908–1988), Hindi cinema character actress in over 200 films across five decades; the Mausi of Sholay (1975), Best Actress for Naani Maa (1981) at the Moscow Film Festival.
Leela Samson
Leela Samson (born 1951, Coonoor), Bharatanatyam dancer of the Kalakshetra bani trained under Rukmini Devi Arundale; Kalakshetra director 2005–2012, Sangeet Natak Akademi and CBFC chairperson, founder of Spanda Dance Company, Padma Shri 1990.
Leeladhar Jagudi
Leeladhar Jagudi, born 1940, is a Hindi poet from Uttarakhand who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997, the Padma Shri in 2004, and the Vyas Samman in 2018.
Leelah Alcorn
Leelah Alcorn, born Joshua Ryan Alcorn, was an American transgender teenager from Kings Mills, Ohio, whose December 2014 suicide and Tumblr note sparked international outcry, the Leelah's Law petition, and US movement against conversion therapy.
Leelathilakam
Leelathilakam (ലീലാതിലകം, Lilathilakam) is a 14th-century Sanskrit treatise on grammar and poetics that defines Manipravalam, the mixed Sanskrit-Malayalam register of Kerala, and is regarded as the first grammar of Malayalam.
Leelavathi (ಲೀಲಾವತಿ) (actress)
Leelavathi (ಲೀಲಾವತಿ), born Leela Kiran (1937/1938-2023), was a Kannada film actress with over 600 films, known for Bhakta Kumbara and Gejje Pooje, the Dr. Rajkumar Award, and her Rajkumar film partnership.
Leelee Sobieski
Leelee Sobieski (Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski, born 1983) is an American former actress of Deep Impact, Eyes Wide Shut, and Joan of Arc fame who retired from acting in 2012 and now works as painter Leelee Kimmel.
Leem Lubany
Leem Lubany (ليم لوباني) is a Palestinian actress and singer from Nazareth, Israel, born August 31 (1996 or 1997 by source). Known for her debut as Nadia in Omar (2013) and as Gabrielle Joubert in Condor, distinct from singer Lana Lubany.
Leema Rose Martin
Leema Rose Martin (லீமா ரோஸ் மார்ட்டின்), AIADMK MLA for Lalgudi since May 2026, wife of lottery businessman Santiago Martin; won by 2,739 votes and declared ₹5,863.73 crore in assets, the highest in the 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly.
LeeMcKrazy
LeeMcKrazy is the stage name of Linda Mnisi, a South African amapiano vocalist from Diepkloof Zone 5, Soweto, known for hits such as Kokotela, Jealousy, Kwelanga 2.0, and Funk99.
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Leemor Joshua-Tor is an Israeli-born structural biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for solving Argonaute's structure and identifying it as Slicer.
LeeMujin Service (리무진 서비스)
LeeMujin Service (리무진 서비스) is a KBS Kpop YouTube live music talk show hosted by singer-songwriter Lee Mujin, premiering February 22, 2022 with (G)I-DLE's Minnie; guests perform about four live songs per roughly 36-minute episode.
Leena Chandavarkar (लीना चंदावरकर)
Leena Chandavarkar (लीना चंदावरकर), born 1950 in Dharwad, Karnataka, is a Hindi film actress of the 1970s (Humjoli, Mehboob Ki Mehndi) and the fourth wife of singer Kishore Kumar, previously widowed at 25.
Leena Meri
Leena Meri is a Finnish politician of The Finns Party who has served as Minister of Justice since 2023 and as a Member of Parliament since 2015.
Leena Nair
Leena Nair is a British-Indian business executive who has been global CEO of the French luxury house Chanel since January 2022, after a 30-year Unilever career ending as its chief human resources officer.
Leena Peltonen-Palotie
Leena Peltonen-Palotie, known as Leena Peltonen, was a Finnish geneticist who identified genes behind the Finnish disease heritage and led human genetics at the Sanger Institute.
Leeor Kronik
Leeor Kronik (ליאור קרוניק) is an Israeli theoretical chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for density functional theory and optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functionals.
Leeroy Jenkins
Leeroy Jenkins, also spelled Leroy Jenkins, is a World of Warcraft paladin played by Ben Schulz, famous from the staged May 2005 PALS FOR LIFE video of a reckless charge that killed his whole raid party.
Leeroy Thornhill
Leeroy Thornhill (Lee Roy Paul Thornhill), English DJ and producer born 1968, founding dancer of The Prodigy 1990-2000, later Flightcrank, Hyper, and Smash HiFi, author of the 2024 memoir Wildfire.
Leersia
Leersia, commonly called cutgrass, is a genus of 18 accepted species of annual and perennial wetland grasses in the rice tribe Oryzeae, found worldwide and closely related to rice.
Lees Hall Roman Camp (United Kingdom)
Lees Hall Roman Camp: a Roman temporary camp near Haltwhistle, Northumberland, 680m south of Hadrian's Wall's vallum, unique among British camps for its encircling outwork, suggesting occupation lasting a season or more.
Leesburg, Virginia
Leesburg, Virginia: county seat of Loudoun County, founded 1758 as George Town and renamed for the Lee family; largest incorporated town in Virginia, about 50,000 residents, historic 1970 National Register district, site of the 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff.
Leeseo (이서)
Leeseo (이서), born Lee Hyun-seo in 2007, is the maknae and a vocalist of the Starship Entertainment girl group IVE, which debuted 1 December 2021; known for dance-line work, the OST May Lily, and the Super Icy solo stage.
LeeSoRa
LeeSoRa (이소라), born 1969, is a South Korean singer and lyricist who went solo in 1995, released eight studio albums, and sold over 2.2 million records.
Leet
Leet (1337, leetspeak), from "elite," is an internet writing style replacing letters with lookalike numbers and symbols; it arose on 1980s BBSs to evade text filters and spread through gaming.
Leeteuk
Leeteuk (이특), real name Park Jung-soo (박정수), born 1983, is the leader and oldest member of Super Junior since its 2005 debut under SM Entertainment, a variety host and sole DJ of Super Junior's Kiss the Radio, and since 2026 half of the subunit Super Junior-83z with Heechul.
Leeuwarden
Leeuwarden (Ljouwert) is the capital of the Dutch province of Fryslân, a city of about 130,000 residents formed from three terp settlements granted city rights in 1435, seat of the Hof van Friesland since 1498, and European Capital of Culture 2018.
Leeuwenhoek (lunar crater)
Leeuwenhoek: IAU-named lunar far-side impact crater, 125 km diameter, centered at 29.28°S 178.87°E inside the South Pole–Aitken Basin; its central peak shows compositional heterogeneity with pristine Class 6 material.
Leeuwin Current
The Leeuwin Current is the poleward-flowing eastern boundary current of the south Indian Ocean, carrying warm low-salinity water south along Western Australia to the Great Australian Bight, driven by the Indonesian Throughflow pressure gradient, peaking in austral winter at about 1.8 Sv.