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Leila George
Leila George (Leila George D'Onofrio), Australian actress born 1992 in Sydney, daughter of Vincent D'Onofrio and Greta Scacchi; known for Animal Kingdom's young Smurf, Mortal Engines, and Young Catherine in Cuarón's Disclaimer.
Leila Khaled (ليلى خالد)
Leila Khaled (ليلى خالد), Palestinian PFLP militant born 1944 in Haifa, famous for hijacking TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and attempting El Al Flight 219 in 1970; later PFLP Political Bureau member living in Amman.
Leila Khan (actress)
Leila Khan is an English actress known as Sahar Zahid in Netflix's Heartstopper (joined season 2 via open casting call), Amira Dhawan in BBC One's Crookhaven, and Jess Kirkman in ITV's Adultery; ARU drama graduate.
Leïla Lacan
Leïla Lacan (Leila Lacan), French guard born 2004 in Rodez; drafted 10th overall in 2024 by the Connecticut Sun, AP All-Rookie 2025, Olympic silver medalist with France.
Leila Pahlavi (لیلا پهلوی)
Leila Pahlavi (لیلا پهلوی), 1970–2001, youngest daughter of Iran's last Shah and Empress Farah; exiled at nine after the 1979 revolution; died in London aged 31 of quinalbarbitone poisoning.
Leila Pereira
Leila Pereira is a Brazilian billionaire finance executive who has been president of the football club Palmeiras since 2021, the first woman in the post, after building her fortune co-leading the lender Crefisa.
Leila Pirhaji
Leila Pirhaji is an Iranian-born computational systems biologist who developed PIUMet, a network-based method for interpreting metabolomics data, and founded the Cambridge, Massachusetts startup ReviveMed.
Leila Takayama
Leila Takayama is an American human-robot interaction researcher who has held research roles at Willow Garage and Google X and is now Vice President of design and HRI at Robust.AI.
Leilah Fluctus
Leilah Fluctus is a 190 km-wide radar-bright flow feature on Titan at 50.5°N, 77.8°W, IAU-named in 2007 for a Persian goddess, now interpreted as alluvial depositional fans rather than cryovolcanic flows.
Leilani Dowding
Leilani Dowding (born 1980, Bournemouth) is an English model, Miss Great Britain 1998 and Miss Universe 1998 contestant, Page 3 glamour model, VH1 Tough Love Miami star, and founder of the Leiluna Collection clothing line.
Leili Anvar
Leili Anvar, born in Tehran in 1967, is a French Iranist, writer, and translator at INALCO in Paris, best known for her verse translation of Attar's Cantique des oiseaux.
Leilongwan power station
Leilongwan power station (雷龙湾电厂), also known as Zhaoshipan power station, is a coal-fired power station in Yulin, Shaanxi, China, with two 1,000 MW ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2018 and 2019.
Leiming Kehua / Huaibei Mining
Huaibei Mining Holdings Co., formerly Anhui Leimingkehua (雷鸣科化), is a Chinese state-controlled coal mining and coal-chemicals group in Anhui province, listed in Shanghai since 1999.
Leimkuhler–Matthews method
The Leimkuhler–Matthews method is a numerical integrator for overdamped Langevin dynamics that modifies Euler–Maruyama by averaging consecutive Gaussian noise increments, giving second-order accuracy for invariant averages.
Leinen los!
Leinen los! is a 1996 Alex Randolph children's dexterity game (Haba; Sonderpreis Kinderspiel des Jahres 1997; Zoch reissue 2017) where players push two-part wooden boats with one fingertip while an opponent times each turn by winding rope around a bollard.
Leinier Pero
Leinier (Lenier) Pero, El Justiciero, Cuban southpaw heavyweight boxer born 1992 in Camagüey; Youth Olympic and two-time Pan American Games gold medalist, 2016 Olympian, pro record 13-1 (8 KOs), first loss to Jarrell Miller in 2026 WBA eliminator.
Leiningen
Leiningen, often shortened to lein, is a build automation and project management tool for Clojure, configured through a project.clj file and first released in 2009.
Leinster
Leinster (Irish: Cúige Laighean) is the easternmost of the four traditional provinces of Ireland, comprising twelve counties, including Dublin, and holding over half the Republic's population.
Leinster Rugby
Leinster Rugby, founded 1879, is a Dublin-based Irish professional rugby union province and Ireland's most successful club, with four Champions Cup titles and recent URC championships, playing at Laya Arena under head coach Leo Cullen.
Leiocephalus
Leiocephalus (curly-tailed lizards), Gray 1827, sole genus of Leiocephalidae, West Indian iguanian lizards centered on Hispaniola; about 24-30 species, several extinct, with tail-curling anti-predator displays.
Leioceras
Leioceras is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods that lived during the Aalenian stage of the Middle Jurassic; its first appearance defines the base of the Aalenian stage.
Leiodidae
Leiodidae, round fungus beetles (Fleming, 1821), a family of small 1–7 mm detritivorous beetles feeding on fungi, carrion, and decaying matter, including the large subterranean radiation Leptodirini.
Leiomyoma of uterus
Leiomyoma (uterine fibroid, myoma) is a benign smooth muscle tumor of the uterus, the most common uterine tumor, affecting over half of women over 45; treated with medication, myomectomy, embolization, or hysterectomy.
Leiomyosarcoma
Leiomyosarcoma, or lyomyosarcoma, is an aggressive cancerous tumor of smooth muscle cells that can arise almost anywhere, most often in the uterus, abdomen, or pelvis.
Leiomyosarcoma of small intestine
Leiomyosarcoma of the small intestine, a rare smooth-muscle sarcoma most often in the ileum, distinguished from GIST by SMA/desmin positivity and CD117/DOG1 negativity; treated mainly by surgical resection.
Leiomyosarcoma of stomach
Gastric leiomyosarcoma, a rare malignant smooth muscle tumor of the stomach (under 1% of gastric malignancies), distinguished from GIST by desmin/SMA positivity and CD117/DOG1 negativity; treated mainly by complete surgical excision.
Leiomyosarcoma of the cervix uteri
Leiomyosarcoma of the cervix uteri (cervical leiomyosarcoma, CLMS) is a rare malignant smooth-muscle tumor of the cervix, 21% of cervical sarcomas, with under 40 reported cases; hysterectomy is first-line treatment.
Leiosporoceros
Leiosporoceros (L. dussii) is a monotypic Neotropical hornwort genus in its own class Leiosporocerotopsida, with smooth monolete spores, Nostoc strands, no pyrenoid, and a contested sister-to-all-hornworts position.
Leiostomus xanthurus
Leiostomus xanthurus, the spot or spot croaker, is a western Atlantic sciaenid fish from Massachusetts to northern Mexico, a bottom-feeding estuary-dependent species supporting major US Atlantic recreational and commercial fisheries.
Leipsydrion
Leipsydrion (Λειψύδριον, also spelled Leipsydrium) was a fort on Mt. Parnes in ancient Attica where the exiled Alcmaeonidae made a failed attempt to liberate Athens from the Peisistratid tyranny.