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Lenny Pruss

Lenny Pruss is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Amplify Partners, which he joined in 2017, known for early backing of Datadog, HashiCorp, and LightStep.

Lenny Rush

Lenny Rush (born 2009, Essex) is a British BAFTA-winning actor with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita; known for Ollie in Am I Being Unreasonable?, Morris Gibbons in Doctor Who, Children in Need's first child presenter, and Slow Horses season 6.

Lenny Von Dohlen

Lenny Von Dohlen (Leonard Harold Von Dohlen IV) was an American actor known for Miles Harding in Electric Dreams (1984) and Harold Smith in Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me; he died July 5, 2022, in Los Angeles.

Lenny Wilkens

Lenny Wilkens (1937-2025), NBA point guard and Hall of Fame head coach; 1,332 wins over a record 2,487 games, 1979 SuperSonics title, 1996 Olympic gold, three-time Hall of Fame inductee.

Lenograstim

Lenograstim (Granocyte, Neutrogin) is a glycosylated recombinant human G-CSF made in CHO cells, approved in Europe in 1993, used for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, transplantation support, and progenitor cell mobilization; not FDA-approved.

Lenora Crichlow

Lenora Isabella Crichlow (born 1985, Westminster, London) is an English actress known as the ghost Annie Sawyer in BBC's Being Human, as Sugar in Sugar Rush, in Fast Girls, Black Mirror's "White Bear", and US series Avenue 5 and Deception.

Lenora Fulani

Lenora Branch Fulani (born 1950) is an American psychologist, social therapist, and New Alliance Party presidential candidate in 1988 and 1992, the first woman and first African American on presidential ballots in all 50 states.

Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum (born 1942) is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for the Blum–Shub–Smale theory of computation over the real numbers and for advancing women in computing at Carnegie Mellon.

Lenore J. Launer

Lenore J. Launer is an epidemiologist who led neuroepidemiology research at the National Institute on Aging, known for studies linking midlife blood pressure and diabetes to dementia.

Lenore Kight-Wingard

Lenore Kight-Wingard (1911-2000), American freestyle swimmer for the Carnegie Library Athletic Club; Olympic silver 1932 and bronze 1936 in the 400 m freestyle, seven world records, 23 AAU titles, ISHOF 1981.

Lenore Tawney

Lenore Tawney (Leonora Agnes Gallagher, 1907–2007), American fiber artist of Coenties Slip, New York; pioneer of sculptural "woven forms," open-warp weaving, Cloud series, collage, and mail art.

Lenovo (联想集团有限公司)

Lenovo (联想集团), formally Lenovo Group Limited, is a Hong Kong-listed Chinese technology company founded in 1984 that acquired IBM's PC business in 2005 and is the world's largest personal computer vendor.

Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group

Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group (LCIG, 联想创投) is Lenovo's venture capital and incubation arm, launched in Beijing in 2016, which has invested in more than 300 technology companies.

Lenovo Center

Lenovo Center, formerly PNC Arena, RBC Center, and Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena, is Raleigh's 20,000-capacity arena, home of the Carolina Hurricanes and NC State men's basketball, undergoing a $300 million renovation through 2028.

Lenovo Legion Go

The Lenovo Legion Go is a Windows 11 handheld gaming PC released by Lenovo in October 2023, with an 8.8-inch touchscreen, rear kickstand, and detachable controllers like the Nintendo Switch's.

Lenovo LOQ

Lenovo LOQ (pronounced "lock") is Lenovo's budget gaming PC sub-brand, positioned below its premium Legion line for new and first-time gamers; announced March 23, 2023 with 15- and 16-inch laptops and the LOQ Tower.

Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox Hill Hospital, founded 1857 as the German Dispensary, renamed 1918, is a Northwell Health teaching hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 100 East 77th Street, with a 5-star CMS rating and a $2 billion expansion approved in 2025.

Lens

A lens, or optical lens, is a piece of transparent material shaped to refract light and form images, used in magnifying glasses, cameras, and the human eye.

Lens epithelium-derived growth factor, integrase-binding domain

Integrase-binding domain (IBD), residues 347-429 of human LEDGF/p75 (PSIP1), a PHAT alpha-helical domain necessary and sufficient for HIV-1 integrase binding, absent from LEDGF/p52, also binding MLL fusion proteins and targeted by LEDGIN inhibitors.

Lens fibre membrane intrinsic protein

Lens fibre membrane intrinsic protein (LIM2, MP20, CTRCT19) is an eye lens-specific junctional membrane protein of lens fiber cells, a calmodulin receptor in 16-17 nm junctions, distinct from MIP/AQP0.

Lens flare

Lens flare is a family of image artifacts caused when bright light reflects, scatters, or diffracts inside a camera lens, appearing as haze, ghost shapes, or streaks.

Lens space

A lens space, written L(p,q), is a closed 3-dimensional manifold formed by gluing two solid tori, or as a quotient of the 3-sphere by a cyclic group.

Lens Technology

Lens Technology (蓝思科技) is a Chinese precision-manufacturing company headquartered in Liuyang, Hunan, founded by Zhou Qunfei in 2003, a core Apple supplier making cover glass and assembling devices.

LENSAR

LENSAR is an Orlando, Florida-based medical device company that makes femtosecond laser systems for cataract surgery and corneal astigmatism, including the ALLY Robotic Cataract Laser System.

Lense–Thirring precession

Lense–Thirring precession, or Lense–Thirring effect, is the frame-dragging precession of orbits and gyroscopes caused by a rotating body, first derived by Josef Lense and Hans Thirring in 1918.

Lensectomy

Lensectomy is the surgical removal of the eye's crystalline lens, performed through the pars plana rather than routine corneal incisions, for unstable, subluxated, or displaced lenses.

Lenses

A lens is a transparent optical component of glass or plastic that refracts light to converge or diverge it, forming images in eyeglasses, cameras, microscopes, and telescopes.

Lenskart

Lenskart, formerly Valyoo Technologies, is an Indian eyewear company founded by Peyush Bansal in 2010. It is India's largest eyewear retailer and listed on the stock exchanges in 2025.

Lensless holographic microscopy

Lensless holographic microscopy is a label-free imaging method that records in-line holograms directly on an image sensor without lenses, then reconstructs amplitude and phase images computationally.

Lensless imaging

Lensless imaging is a computational imaging method that replaces a camera's focusing lens with a thin coded mask or diffuser on a bare sensor, reconstructing the image algorithmically.