All articles starting with L

Len Bias

Len Bias (Leonard Kevin Bias) was a Maryland basketball star drafted second by the Boston Celtics in 1986 who died of cocaine intoxication two days later.

Len Blavatnik, also known as Leonard Blavatnik, is a Ukrainian-born American-British billionaire investor and philanthropist who founded Access Industries, whose holdings include Warner Music Group and LyondellBasell.

Len Cariou

Len Cariou (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor and singer who originated Sweeney Todd on Broadway in 1979, winning the Tony, and later played Henry Reagan in Blue Bloods.

Len Dawson

Len Dawson (Leonard Ray Dawson, 1935-2022), American quarterback for the Steelers, Browns, and Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs; three AFL titles, Super Bowl IV MVP, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1987, later a Kansas City broadcaster.

Len Deighton

Len Deighton (1929–2026), British spy novelist and author of The Ipcress File and the Bernard Samson series beginning with Berlin Game; anti-Bond realism, over 30 million copies sold.

Len Goodman

Len Goodman (Leonard Gordon Goodman, 1944–2023), British ballroom dancer and head judge of Strictly Come Dancing (2004–2016) and Dancing with the Stars (2005–2022, 31 seasons), founder of the Goodman Dance Academy in Dartford, four-time British Exhibition champion.

Len Lesser

Len Lesser, born Leonard King Lesser, was an American character actor whose six-decade screen career peaked with his role as Uncle Leo on Seinfeld from 1991 to 1998.

Len Neckers

Len Neckers, born Leonard M. Neckers (1949–2025), was a cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute whose work established the chaperone Hsp90 as a drug target in cancer.

Len Roberts-Smith

Len Roberts-Smith (Leonard William Roberts-Smith) is a retired WA Supreme Court judge, inaugural WA Court of Appeal member, Corruption and Crime Commissioner, and former Judge Advocate General; father of Ben Roberts-Smith.

Len Stephens

Len Stephens, also known as Len R. Stephens, is a molecular biologist at the Babraham Institute near Cambridge known for defining how PI3K signaling works in neutrophils.

Lena (landform)

The Lena is a large river in eastern Siberia that flows north from near Lake Baikal to the Laptev Sea, delivering about 15 percent of the freshwater entering the Arctic Ocean.

Lena (protected area)

Lena (protected area) covers the protected areas of the Lena River system in Siberia, chiefly the Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve and Lena Pillars Nature Park, within the Arctic's largest delta, a Polar Freshwaters ecoregion with 34 native fish species.

Lena (ലേന) (actress)

Lena (ലേന), also Lenaa, born 1981, is an Indian actress in Malayalam cinema, debut Sneham (1998), over 100 films, Kerala State and Filmfare South award winner, author of The Autobiography of God.

Lena Carlsson

Lena Carlsson is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of clinical metabolic research at the University of Gothenburg who has led the Swedish Obese Subjects bariatric surgery study since 2005.

Lena Claesson-Welsh

Lena Claesson-Welsh is a Swedish vascular biologist and Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Uppsala University, known for mapping VEGF receptor signaling and vascular permeability, elected to EMBO in 2017.

Lena Delta

Lena Delta (Lena River Delta), Siberian Arctic river delta at the Laptev Sea; largest Arctic delta, ~30,000 km², 6,500 km of channels, continuous permafrost, Lena Delta Reserve.

Lena Derriecott Bell King

Lena Derriecott Bell King (1923-2024) was a corporal in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only predominantly African American women's battalion to serve overseas in WWII, later honored with the Congressional Gold Medal and portrayed in Tyler Perry's The Six Triple Eight.

Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham (born 1986, New York City), American actress, writer, director, producer; creator of HBO's Girls (2012–2017); first woman to win the DGA Award for Best TV Comedy Director; later work: Sharp Stick, Catherine Called Birdy, Too Much.

Lena Goeßling

Lena Goeßling (born 1986, Bielefeld) is a German former footballer, midfielder and center back, with 106 caps. Olympic gold 2016, Euro 2013, IFFHS World's Best Woman Playmaker 2013, two Champions League and six Bundesliga titles with VfL Wolfsburg.

Sep 24, 2026

Lena goldfields massacre

The Lena goldfields massacre (Ленский расстрел) was the shooting of striking gold miners by tsarist troops at the Lena goldfields near Bodaibo, Siberia, on 17 April 1912, killing hundreds.

Sep 27, 2026

Lena Gonzalez

Lena Gonzalez is an American Democratic politician who has represented Long Beach and Southeast Los Angeles in the California State Senate since 2019, serving as Majority Leader from 2024 to 2025.

Lena Góra

Lena Góra (born 1990, Gdańsk) is a Polish actress and screenwriter. Known for Król (2020), Roving Woman, Imago, The Eastern Gate (Przesmyk), and Erupcja with Charli xcx; Gdynia and Tofifest award winner.

Lena Hall

Lena Hall (Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal, born 1980), American actress and singer; 2014 Tony winner as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinky Boots' original Nicola, Snowpiercer's Miss Audrey, and Ali Cooper in Apple TV+'s Your Friends & Neighbors.

Lena Headey

Lena Kathren Headey (born 1973, Hamilton, Bermuda) is a British actress known for Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones (2011–2019, five Emmy nominations), Gorgo in 300, Sarah Connor, Ma-Ma in Dredd, and The Abandons.