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Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano (1919-1978), blind Chicago-born jazz pianist and teacher, recorded the first free jazz performances ("Intuition," "Digression," 1949) with Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh and pioneered overdubbing in jazz.
Lennon (Mercurian crater)
Lennon is a 95 km diameter impact crater on Mercury at 36.41 degrees south latitude, in quadrangle H-14, named for John Lennon and adopted by the IAU on December 16, 2013.
Lennon & Maisy
Lennon & Maisy, Canadian sister duo Lennon and Maisy Stella of Oshawa, Ontario, daughters of the Stellas; viral 2012 cup-percussion cover of Robyn's Call Your Girlfriend, then Maddie and Daphne Conrad on ABC's Nashville (2012-2018).
Lennon Parham
Lennon Parham, American actress and improvisational comedian from Upright Citizens Brigade; co-created Best Friends Forever and Playing House with Jessica St. Clair; known for Veep's Karen Collins and Minx's Shelly; hosts Womp It Up!.
Lennon Stella
Lennon Stella (born 1999) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter and actress from Oshawa, Ontario, formerly of the duo Lennon & Maisy and the TV show Nashville; albums Three. Two. One. (2020) and Sleeping Lion (2026).
Lennon Wall
Lennon Wall (連儂牆): public walls for posted political messages, from the original 1980 Prague wall honoring John Lennon to the post-it-note walls of Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement and 2019 protests.
Lennon–McCartney
Lennon–McCartney is the joint songwriting credit of John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles, agreed as teenagers, covering 168 of 217 Beatles tracks; most songs were primarily written by one of the two, with some authorship disputed.
Lennox Cowie
Lennox Cowie is a British astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, known for deep Keck surveys of faint galaxies and work on the submillimetre background.
Lennox generating station
Lennox Generating Station is a dual-fueled oil and natural gas peaking power station on Lake Ontario in Greater Napanee, Ontario, owned by Ontario Power Generation.
Lennox International
Lennox International is an American heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration manufacturer founded in 1895 by Dave Lennox, who built the world's first riveted-steel furnace, and headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis, born 1965 in London, British-Canadian heavyweight boxer; 1988 Olympic gold, three-time world champion, undisputed 1999, beat Tyson, Holyfield, Klitschko; retired 2004 as champion, 41-2-1, 32 KOs.
Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson
Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson, also billed Lewis-Tyson: Is On, was the June 8, 2002 heavyweight title fight at The Pyramid, Memphis, where Lewis retained the WBC, IBF, and IBO belts by eighth-round knockout.
Lennox Miller
Lennox Valencia Miller (1946-2004), Jamaican sprinter nicknamed Billy, first great Jamaican 100m runner; Olympic 100m silver 1968 (10.04) and bronze 1972 (10.33), 4x100m relay world records, USC star, father of Inger Miller.
Lennox Robinson
Lennox Robinson (Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson, 1886–1958) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and theater administrator who served Dublin's Abbey Theatre for fifty years, reviving it after 1919 and championing George Shiels and Sean O'Casey.
Lennox Yearwood
Lennox Yearwood (born 1944) is a Trinidadian middle-distance runner, lead-off leg on T&T's 1966 Commonwealth 4x440y world-record relay; not the Hip Hop Caucus minister Lennox Yearwood Jr.
Lennox–Gastaut syndrome
Lennox–Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe childhood-onset epilepsy with multiple drug-resistant seizure types, slow spike-and-wave EEG, intellectual disability, and treatments including valproate, lamotrigine, rufinamide, cannabidiol, callosotomy, and vagus nerve stimulation.
Lenny (film)
Lenny (1974) is Bob Fosse's black-and-white biographical drama of comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and Valerie Perrine, adapted from Julian Barry's Tony-winning play, with a mock-documentary structure and six Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
Lenny Abrahamson
Lenny Abrahamson is a Dublin-born Irish director of Adam & Paul, Garage, Frank, the Oscar-nominated Room, The Little Stranger, and the Sally Rooney adaptations Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Lenny Breau
Lenny Breau (Leonard Harold Breau, 1941-1984), Canadian jazz guitarist born in Auburn, Maine, famed for fingerstyle chord-melody playing, harp harmonics, and seven-string guitars; RCA albums with Chet Atkins; killed unsolved in Los Angeles.
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider, 1925–1966), American stand-up comedian and satirist whose freestyle material on sex, religion, and race led to obscenity arrests, a 1964 conviction, and a 2003 posthumous pardon, making him a free-speech landmark.
Lenny Clarke
Lenny Clarke, American stand-up comedian and actor born 1953 in Boston, rose from hosting open mikes at Cambridge's Ding Ho to TV roles as Uncle Teddy on Rescue Me, Officer Adam Hampton on The John Larroquette Show, and his own CBS sitcom Lenny.
Lenny Cooke
Lenny Cooke, Brooklyn-born basketball player ranked the No. 1 high school prospect in 2001 above LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Amar'e Stoudemire; went undrafted in 2002, never reached the NBA, and became the subject of the Safdie brothers' 2013 documentary.
Lenny Dee
Lenny Dee, born Leonardo Didesiderio in 1968, is an American hardcore techno DJ and producer from Brooklyn, New York, who founded the Industrial Strength Records label in 1991.
Lenny Dykstra
Lenny Dykstra, "Nails" (born 1963), American MLB center fielder for the Mets and Phillies, 1985-1996; 1986 World Series champion, three-time All-Star, 1993 NL runs/hits/walks leader and postseason home run record-tyer.
Lenny Henry
Lenny Henry (Sir Lenworth George Henry) is an English comedian, actor, and Comic Relief co-founder born in Dudley in 1958, known for Tiswas, Three of a Kind, The Lenny Henry Show, Chef!, and acclaimed stage roles in Othello.
Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz (born 1964, New York City) is an American rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer; debut Let Love Rule (1989), breakthrough Are You Gonna Go My Way (1993), four consecutive Best Male Rock Vocal Grammys, twelfth album Blue Electric Light (2024).
Lenny Kravitz discography
Lenny Kravitz discography: twelve studio albums from Let Love Rule (1989) to Blue Electric Light (2024), plus Greatest Hits (2000). UK No. 1 album Are You Gonna Go My Way (1993) and only UK No. 1 single Fly Away (1999).
Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg, born Leonid Krayzelburg in 1975 in Odesa, is a Ukrainian-born American swimmer who swept the backstroke events at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and won four gold medals.
Lenny McLean
Lenny McLean, 'The Guv'nor' (1949–1998), English bare-knuckle and unlicensed boxer, bouncer and actor called Britain's hardest man; famous for his three-fight Roy Shaw rivalry, the bestseller The Guv'nor, and Barry the Baptist in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Lenny Montana
Lenny Montana (Leonardo Passafaro, 1926-1992), Italian-American wrestler turned actor, played Luca Brasi in The Godfather (1972) after being spotted on set as a Colombo family bodyguard; also wrestled as The Zebra Kid.