All articles starting with L

Leland Hayward

Leland Hayward (1902-1971), born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, was an American talent agent and Broadway, film, and television producer whose agency merged with MCA in 1945 and whose productions included Mister Roberts, South Pacific, Gypsy, and The Sound of Music.

Leland J. Walker

Leland Jasper Walker (1923–2014) was an American geotechnical engineer who founded Northern Testing Laboratories in Montana, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984, and served as ASCE president.

Sep 21, 2026

Leland John Haworth

Leland John Haworth (1904–1979) was an American experimental physicist who directed Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1948 to 1961 and the National Science Foundation from 1963 to 1969.

Leland Orser

Leland Jones Orser (born 1960, San Francisco) is an American character actor known for Sam Gilroy in the Taken trilogy, Dr. Lucien Dubenko on ER, and roles in Se7en and Alien Resurrection; married to Jeanne Tripplehorn since 2000.

Sep 21, 2026

Leland Ossian Howard

Leland Ossian Howard (1857–1950) was an American economic entomologist who led the US Bureau of Entomology for thirty-three years and was a leading authority on mosquitoes.

Leland Sklar

Leland (Lee) Sklar, born 1947 in Milwaukee, is an American session bassist with over 2,500 album credits, a founding member of the Section, creator of the Frankenstein bass, and bassist of The Immediate Family.

Leland Stanford

Leland Stanford, born Amasa Leland Stanford, was an American railroad magnate and politician who led the Central Pacific Railroad, served as California governor and US senator, and founded Stanford University.

Sep 24, 2026

Lelang Commandery

Lelang Commandery (낙랑군; 樂浪郡) was a Han commandery founded in 108 BC on the territory of Gojoseon, centered on present-day Pyongyang, until Goguryeo absorbed it in 313.

Lele Pons

Lele Pons (Eleonora Pons Maronese), Venezuelan-American entertainer born 1996 in Caracas, first Vine user to 1 billion loops, later a Latin pop singer, author, and TV host.

LELECHA (乐乐茶)

LELECHA (乐乐茶) is a Shanghai-based new-style tea chain founded in 2016, selling fresh fruit cheese tea and soft European-style bread, once grouped with HeyTea and Nayuki.

Lelek (band)

LELEK: Croatian all-female ethno-pop group from Zagreb, founded September 2024; distinct from the Polish folk group Lelek (2015). Won Dora 2026 with "Andromeda" (173 points), placed fifteenth at Eurovision 2026 with 124 points.

Leleti Khumalo

Leleti Khumalo (born 1970, Kwa Mashu, Durban) is a South African actress famous as Sarafina on stage and screen, lead of Oscar-nominated Yesterday, and star of Generations, Uzalo, and Imbewu; honorary LLD from Rhodes University in 2026.

Lelio H. Mejia

Lelio H. Mejia is an American geotechnical earthquake engineer specializing in the seismic safety of dams and levees, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Sep 20, 2026

Lelio Orci

Lelio Orci (1937–2019) was an Italian-born cell biologist and endocrinologist at the University of Geneva, known for electron-microscopy studies of the islets of Langerhans and discovery of the COPI coat complex.

Lelis syndrome

Lelis syndrome, or ectodermal dysplasia-acanthosis nigricans syndrome (OMIM 608290), is a rare autosomal recessive disorder with hypotrichosis, hypohidrosis, acanthosis nigricans, palmoplantar hyperkeratosis, nail dystrophy, hypodontia, and intellectual deficit; named for Lithuanian dermatologist Jonas Lelis.

Lelo

Lelo is a Swedish sexual wellness company founded by Filip Sedic in Stockholm in 2003, selling premium massagers, menstrual cups, and condoms in over 160 countries.

Lelouch Lamperouge (ルルーシュ・ランペルージ)

Lelouch Lamperouge (ルルーシュ・ランペルージ), also Lelouch vi Britannia, is the protagonist of Sunrise's Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. A deposed Britannian prince with the Geass of absolute obedience, he leads the Black Knights as Zero and becomes the Empire's 99th emperor.

Lely

Lely is a Dutch agricultural technology company headquartered in Maassluis, the Netherlands, founded in 1948 by the brothers Cornelis and Arij van der Lely to automate dairy farming.

Lely Astronaut

The Lely Astronaut is an automatic milking robot by Lely Industries of the Netherlands, on the market since 1995, that milks cows without a person present.

Lem Billings

Kirk LeMoyne Billings, known as Lem Billings, was an American advertising executive at Lennen & Newell and the closest friend of President John F. Kennedy.

Lemaire Channel

The Lemaire Channel, nicknamed Kodak Gap, is an 11 km narrow passage in Antarctica between Booth Island and the Kiev Peninsula, known for mirror-calm, scenic waters.

Lemaire Island

Lemaire Island (Le Maire, isla; Lemaire, Isla) is an Antarctic island 4.5 mi long off the west coast of Graham Land, forming the north side of Paradise Harbour; discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-99 and named for Charles Lemaire.

Lemaître (lunar crater)

Lemaître is a 93.70-km-wide impact crater on the far side of the Moon at 61.36°S, 149.98°W, named for Belgian mathematician Georges Lemaître and IAU-approved in 1970 among the first far-side crater names.

Leman gas field

The Leman gas field is a natural gas field in the Southern North Sea on the UK Continental Shelf, discovered by Shell and Esso and producing since 1968.

Lemar

Lemar (Lemar Obika, born 1978, Tottenham, London) is an English R&B/soul singer-songwriter, third-place Fame Academy 2002 finalist, with seven UK Top 10 singles, two BRIT and three MOBO Awards, and albums from Dedicated to Page in My Heart.

LeMat Revolver

The LeMat Revolver, nicknamed the Grapeshot Revolver, was a percussion revolver patented in 1856 by New Orleans physician Jean Alexandre François LeMat, with a nine-shot cylinder around a central shotgun barrel.

Lemba Lakkous

Lemba-Lakkous (Lemba Lady site), a Chalcolithic round-house village near Paphos, Cyprus, occupied c. 3500–2400 BC in three phases, excavated 1976–1983 by Peltenburg's Lemba Archaeological Project.

Lemba people

Lemba (Remba), a southern African people of claimed Semitic and Black African origin living in Limpopo, southern Zimbabwe, and Mozambique; no distinct language; oral tradition of origin from Sena; contested Y-chromosome evidence of Middle Eastern ancestry.

Lembang

Lembang, a highland district (kecamatan) in West Bandung Regency, West Java, at the foot of Tangkuban Perahu north of Bandung; a Dutch-era sanatorium, tourism town, and agricultural hub near the Lembang Fault.