All articles starting with L

Leningrad Zoo

Leningrad Zoo (Ленинградский зоопарк), founded 1865 by Julius Gebhardt, is one of Russia's oldest zoos, in central Saint Petersburg's Alexandrovsky Park; over 500 species, siege survivor, heritage-protected 7.4 ha site, planned 85.6 ha second zoo.

Oct 15, 2026

Leningrad-Vyborg-State Border Gas Pipeline

The Leningrad-Vyborg-State Border Gas Pipeline is a natural gas transmission pipeline in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, owned by Gazprom and running from near Saint Petersburg to the Finnish border since 1973.

Oct 22, 2026

Leniniana

Leniniana (Лениниана) is the body of literary, artistic, and documentary works about Lenin's life and ideas, begun by Gorky and Mayakovsky and continued after the Soviet collapse.

Leninism

Leninism is the revolutionary theory and practice of V.I. Lenin, also called Marxism-Leninism when codified by Stalin as the USSR's official ideology. Key elements: vanguard party, democratic centralism, imperialism theory, dictatorship of the proletariat.

Leninski Rayon

Leninski Rayon (Ленинский район, Lenin District), name of many Soviet-era administrative districts: Sofia's historical First Rayon, Moscow Oblast district formed 1929, Minsk district (pop 214,701), and former districts in Armenia, Tbilisi, and Kerch.

Leniolisib

Leniolisib (Joenja, CDZ173) is an oral PI3Kδ inhibitor, FDA-approved March 2023 as the first treatment for activated PI3K delta syndrome (APDS), dosed 70 mg twice daily, with high δ selectivity and lower potency than oncology PI3K inhibitors.

Lenka

Lenka (Lenka Eden Kripac, born 1978) is an Australian singer-songwriter and former actress, ex-Decoder Ring vocalist, best known for 2008's "The Show" and albums through Epic and Skipalong Records.

Lenn-Minh Tran

Lenn-Minh Quang Tran (Trần Minh Quang), born 2007, Belgian-Vietnamese right-back from the KRC Genk academy; debuted professionally for MVV Maastricht in 2025, earned 4 Belgium U19 caps, and joined Vietnam's Cong An Ho Chi Minh City in 2026.

Lenna

Lenna, also spelled Lena, is a 512 × 512 digitized photo of Swedish model Lena Forsén that became a standard test image in image processing.

Lenna Gunning-Williams

Lenna Gunning-Williams (born 2005) is an English forward for Tottenham Hotspur Women and England U23s, a former CBBC Jamie Johnson actress who scored on her 2022 debut and spent 2023/24 on loan at Ipswich Town.

Lennard Fisk

Lennard Fisk is an American space physicist at the University of Michigan, known for his 1974 theory of anomalous cosmic rays and his service as a NASA associate administrator.

Lennard Pearce

Lennard Pearce (1915–1984) was an English actor, trained at RADA, best known as Grandad in the first three series of the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses.

Lennard-Jones potential

The Lennard-Jones potential is a two-parameter mathematical model for the interaction energy between a pair of neutral atoms or molecules, and the most widely used pair potential in molecular simulations.

Lennart Brock

Lennart Brock, born 1933, Swedish breaststroke swimmer of SK Poseidon and LUGI; swam on Sweden's 1953 European-record 4x100 m medley relay, later a masters swimming record holder and IFK Lund masters throwing athlete.

Lennart Carleson

Lennart Carleson, born 1928 in Stockholm, is a Swedish mathematician who proved Carleson's theorem on Fourier series in 1966, solved the corona problem, and received the 2006 Abel Prize.

Lennart Hammarström

Lennart Hammarström is a Swedish immunologist at Karolinska Institutet who has published more than 500 papers on primary immunodeficiencies and was the first chair of the ESID registry.

Lennart Karl

Lennart Karl (born 2008, Frammersbach) is a German left-footed attacking midfielder and right winger for Bayern Munich, number 42. Youngest Bayern Champions League scorer (17 years 242 days) and a March 2026 Germany senior debutant.

Oct 10, 2026

Lennart Lindegren

Lennart Lindegren, born 1950 in Sweden, is a Swedish astronomer at Lund Observatory who established the data-reduction methods for ESA's Hipparcos and Gaia missions, sharing the 2022 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

Lennart Ljung (electrical engineer)

Lennart Ljung, born 1946 in Malmö, Sweden, is a Swedish electrical engineer and professor emeritus at Linköping University, known for the modern theory of system identification.

Oct 22, 2026

Lennart Meri

Lennart Georg Meri (1929–2006) was an Estonian writer, filmmaker, and politician who served as President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001, the first elected after independence was restored.

Lennart Mucke

Lennart Mucke is a physician-scientist who founded and directs the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco and is a UCSF professor known for Alzheimer's research.

Sep 20, 2026

Lennart Philipson

Lennart Philipson (1929–2011) was a Swedish molecular biologist and virologist known for adenovirus research, who led EMBL from 1982 to 1993 and founded the Skirball Institute in New York.

Lennart Randau

Lennart Randau is a German microbiologist who studies RNA biology in prokaryotes, known for split tRNA genes in Nanoarchaeum equitans and the 2008 Nature paper "Life without RNase P".

Lennart Strand

Lennart Strand (1921–2004), Swedish 1,500 m runner of MAI Malmö; 1946 European champion, 1948 Olympic silver medallist, and 1947 co-holder of the 3:43.0 world record; distinct from sprinter Lennart Strandberg.

Lennart van Lierop

Lennart van Lierop (Leonard van Lierop), Dutch rower born 1994, A.A.S.R. Skøll; Olympic gold 2024 men's quadruple sculls, 2023 European single sculls champion, 2023 world quad champion, 2026 men's four silver.

Oct 10, 2026

Lennart von Post

Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post (1884–1951) was a Swedish geologist who introduced the quantitative pollen diagram, reconstructing postglacial vegetation and climate history from fossil pollen in peat bogs.

Lenni Viitala

Lenni Viitala (Vilho Lennart Viitala, 1921-1966), Finnish freestyle wrestler; Olympic flyweight (52 kg) gold at London 1948, 1946 European champion, missed his medal ceremony after getting lost in the London Underground.

Lennie Briscoe

Lennie Briscoe is a fictional NYPD detective on Law & Order, played by Jerry Orbach from 1992 to 2004, who appeared in 274 episodes and retired in 2004.

Lennie James

Lennie James (born 1965, Nottingham) is a British actor and screenwriter, Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, creator-star of Save Me, and 2025 BAFTA Leading Actor winner for Mr Loverman.