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Leixões S.C.

Leixões Sport Club, Portuguese football club founded 28 November 1907 in Matosinhos from a merger of three local groups; won the 1960-61 Taca de Portugal, plays at Estadio do Mar, and competes in Liga Portugal 2.

Leiyang power station

Leiyang power station is a coal-fired power station in Leiyang, Hengyang, Hunan, China, built between 1988 and 2004 with a combined capacity of 1,020 MW.

Leizhou Peninsula

Leizhou Peninsula (雷州半岛), China's third-largest peninsula at mainland China's southern tip in Guangdong, lies between the South China Sea and Beibu Gulf, separated from Hainan by the Qiongzhou Strait; volcanic basalt terrain, tropical monsoon climate, Zhanjiang port.

Leizhou power station

Leizhou power station (大唐雷州电厂) is a two-unit, 2,000 MW coal-fired power plant in Leizhou, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China, owned by China Datang, with units commissioned in December 2019 and January 2020.

Leju Robotics

Leju Robotics (乐聚机器人) is a Chinese humanoid robot developer headquartered in Shenzhen, making the Aelos education robots, the Roban research platform, and the full-size Kuavo humanoid.

Lejweleputswa District Municipality

Lejweleputswa District Municipality, a Free State district municipality of South Africa based in Welkom, comprising Matjhabeng, Masilonyana, Nala, Tokologo, and Tswelopele; gold mining and maize farming dominate its economy.

Leka Halasima

Leka Halasima (Selumiela Halasima), born 2005 in Tofoa, Tonga, is a Tongan international rugby league second-rower for the New Zealand Warriors; NRL debut 2024, 50 games and 23 tries by 2026, signed until 2029.

Leka, Prince of Albania

Leka, Prince of Albania, also Crown Prince Leka II, born 1982 in Johannesburg, is head of the House of Zogu and claimant to Albania's defunct throne since 2011.

Lekai Optoelectronics (乐凯光电材料有限公司) (乐凯光电)

Lekai Optoelectronics (乐凯光电材料有限公司) is a Chinese manufacturer of TAC optical film for LCD polarizers, based in Suqian, Jiangsu and majority owned by Shanghai-listed Lucky Film since 2023.

Lekar Hum Deewana Dil (लेकर हम दीवाना दिल)

Lekar Hum Deewana Dil (लेकर हम दीवाना दिल) is a 2014 Hindi romantic comedy-drama directed by Arif Ali and starring Armaan Jain and Deeksha Seth.

Lekë Dukagjini

Lekë Dukagjini (c. 1410–1481) was an Albanian prince who fought the Ottomans and Venice and gave his name to the Kanun, the customary law of northern Albania.

Lekë Matrënga

Lekë Matrënga, in Italian Luca Matranga (1567–1619), was an Arbëresh Orthodox cleric of Sicily, author of the 1592 catechism E mbsuame e krështerë, the second printed book in Albanian.

Leketi-Mbama

Leketi-Mbama, Ramsar Site no. 2222, is a 774,965-hectare inland wetland of lakes, marshes, and floodplains in Cuvette-Ouest, Republic of the Congo, designated 2 February 2015; it shelters western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, hippos, and elephants.

Lekha Dodi

Lekha Dodi (לכה דודי, "Come, my beloved") is a Hebrew liturgical poem sung on Friday evening to welcome the Sabbath, composed in Safed by Shlomo Alkabetz in the sixteenth century.

Lekha Washington

Lekha Washington, Indian actress, sculptor and product designer; SS Music VJ (2006), breakthrough as Brindha in Jayamkondaan (2008); films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi; founded Ajji (2011), later Lekha Washington Studio.

Lekhnath Paudyal

Lekhnath Paudyal (लेखनाथ पौड्याल, 1884 or 1885 – 1966) was a Nepali poet honored as Kavi Shiromani and regarded as a founding father of modern Nepali poetry.

Lekhwair Oil and Gas Field

Lekhwair Oil and Gas Field (الخوير) is an onshore oil and gas field in northwest Oman, discovered in 1968, producing since 1976, and under waterflood since the early 1990s.

Lekki

Lekki: coastal peninsula in Eti-Osa, Lagos State, Nigeria, along the Lekki-Epe Expressway; upscale residential corridor with severe flood risk, home to Lekki Phase 1 and, in Ibeju-Lekki, the $1.5bn Lekki Deep Sea Port and Dangote Refinery.

Lekki Deep Sea Port

The Lekki Deep Sea Port is Nigeria's first deep seaport and first fully automated port, a deep-water container port at Ibeju-Lekki in Lagos State commissioned in 2023.

Leksvik

Leksvik, former Norwegian municipality (kommunenummer 1718) in Nord-Trøndelag on the Trondheimsfjord; about 3,450 inhabitants and 430 km²; merged voluntarily with Rissa on 1 January 2018 to form Indre Fosen.

Lela Alston

Lela Alston is a Democratic politician who served 34 years in the Arizona Legislature, including stints in the Senate from 1977 to 1995 and from 2019 until her 2026 retirement.

Lela Loren

Lela Loren (Lela Maria Loren Avellaneda Sharp) is an American actress born in 1980 in California, known for playing federal prosecutor Angela Valdes on Starz's Power (2014-2020, 63 episodes) and roles in Altered Carbon, American Gods, Snitch, and Knox Goes Away.

Lela Rochon

Lela Rochon (Lela Rochon Staples, born 1964) is an American actress known for Robin in Waiting to Exhale, Sunshine in Harlem Nights, Mr. and Mrs. Loving, and Big Shirley Duncan in The Family Business: New Orleans; wife of director Antoine Fuqua.

Lelac

Lelac is a modern two-player board game by Mike Zapawa (2020), related to mancalas: ten pits in a circle, ten seeds, and die-driven counterclockwise sowing; a player wins by gathering all ten seeds onto their own semicircle. It is distributed and playable through the Ludii general game system.

Lelaki Harimau

Lelaki Harimau, published in English as Man Tiger, is a 2004 novel by Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan about a young man who conceals a supernatural female white tiger.

Leland Chapman

Leland Chapman, born Leland Blaine Chapman, is an American bail bondsman and bounty hunter, son of Duane "Dog" Chapman and star of A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Leland Clark

Leland Clark (1918–2005) was an American biochemist and bioengineer who invented the Clark oxygen electrode, built an early heart–lung machine, and created the first biosensor in 1962.

Leland D. Melvin

Leland Devon Melvin, born 1964, is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1986 who flew twice on the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Leland H. Johnston

Leland H. Johnston was a yeast molecular geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, known for Nature papers on cell-cycle control of DNA synthesis genes.

Leland Hartwell

Leland Hartwell is an American cell-cycle geneticist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for identifying genes controlling cell division in yeast and introducing the checkpoint concept.