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Leri Khabelovi
Leri Khabelovi (ლერი•ხაბელოვი), Georgian freestyle heavyweight wrestler born 1964 in Tbilisi; 1992 Olympic gold for the Unified Team, 1988 silver, five-time world champion, Georgian NOC president since 2012.
Leri pleonosteosis
Leri pleonosteosis, also known as Léri's pleonosteosis, is a very rare autosomal dominant skeletal condition causing joint contractures, short stature, and spade-shaped broad thumbs and great toes.
Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis
Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis (LWD, Léri-Weill syndrome, OMIM 127300) is a pseudoautosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia from SHOX haploinsufficiency, causing short stature, mesomelia, and Madelung wrist deformity; biallelic SHOX loss causes Langer mesomelic dysplasia.
Lerida
Lerida (Catalan Lleida): Spanish football identity of UE Lleida, founded 1939, two La Liga seasons (1950-51, 1993-94), Segunda champion 1993, dissolved 2011, continued as Lleida Esportiu and Lleida CF.
Leriglitazone
Leriglitazone (MIN-102), marketed as Nezglyal, is a brain-penetrant selective PPARγ agonist and pioglitazone metabolite by Minoryx; EU-approved in 2026 as the first drug for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy in boys aged 2-12.
Lerisetron
Lerisetron (F-0930-RS2) is a 2-piperazinylbenzimidazole 5-HT3 receptor antagonist antiemetic developed by FAES Farma for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting; it reached phase III trials but was never marketed.
Lerista
Lerista (sliders) is an endemic Australian genus of about 90-96 fossorial skink species in Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae, 33-103 mm long, famous for repeated independent limb reduction, including fully limbless species.
Lerma - Chapala
The Lerma-Chapala basin is a river basin and freshwater ecoregion in central Mexico, where the Río Lerma flows more than 700 km into Lago de Chapala.
Lermontov (Mercurian crater)
Lermontov is a large impact crater on Mercury in the Kuiper quadrangle, about 152-166 km across, with a bright floor hosting pyroclastic vents and hollows first imaged by Mariner 10.
Lerna (Λέρνη)
Lerna (Λέρνη), prehistoric settlement and archaeological site at Myloi in the Argolid, Greece, 10 km southwest of Argos; famous for the Early Helladic House of Tiles and the mythological Lernaean Hydra of Herakles' second labor.
Lerna Regio
Lerna Regio is a 581-km bright, SO2-rich regio in Io's south polar region (Ji-4 quadrangle), named in 1979 from Greek myth; mapped by USGS (I-1549, I-2055) and volcanically active, with the Xihe eruptive center.
Lernaean Hydra (Λερναῖα Ὕδρα)
The Lernaean Hydra was a many-headed serpent of Greek mythology, defeated by Heracles with Iolaus at Lerna. Its regenerating heads and poisonous blood shaped later myths and imagery.
Lernaeus Labyrinthus
Lernaeus Labyrinthus is a 167-km-wide labyrinth terrain, a dissected organic plateau with dense valleys, in Titan's far south polar region (83.4S, 138W), IAU-named in 2017 after a Dune-series planet where Miles Teg retires.
LeRobot
LeRobot is an open-source PyTorch library, dataset format, and low-cost hardware ecosystem for real-world robot learning, created by Hugging Face in 2024 under Rémi Cadène, a former Tesla research scientist.
Lerodalcibep
Lerodalcibep (Lerochol, lerodalcibep-liga; EU name Lyrokaul) is a third-generation PCSK9 inhibitor fusion protein (adnectin plus albumin) by LIB Therapeutics, dosed 300 mg subcutaneously monthly, FDA-approved 2025 for hypercholesterolemia including HeFH.
LeRoi Moore
LeRoi Moore (LeRoi Holloway Moore, 1961–2008), American saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band; also known as Roi or Gary Lee Moore; classically trained multi-reed player, DMB arranger and co-writer who died in 2008 from ATV accident complications.
Leronlimab
Leronlimab (PRO 140, Vyrologix) is a humanized IgG4 anti-CCR5 monoclonal antibody, formerly Progenics' and now CytoDyn's investigational HIV entry blocker; unapproved, with failed COVID-19 trials and ongoing cancer studies.
Lerotholi
Lerotholi (Letsie Lerotholi, 1836–1905) was Paramount Chief of the Basotho of Basutoland, now Lesotho, from 1891 to 1905; the Laws of Lerotholi, the territory's codified customary law, are named for him.
Leroy & Stitch
Leroy & Stitch (リロイ＆スティッチ) is Disney's 2006 animated TV film, the fourth Lilo & Stitch movie and finale of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, in which Dr. Hämsterviel clones Leroy, Stitch's evil twin (Experiment 629), into an army defeated by the song "Aloha Oe."
LeRoy Apker Award
The LeRoy Apker Award is an annual American Physical Society prize recognizing outstanding undergraduate physics research in the United States, established in 1978 and given to two students each year.
Leroy Burrell
Leroy Burrell (born 1967), American sprinter and coach; twice 100m world record holder (9.90 in 1991, 9.85 in 1994), 1992 Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist, later University of Houston head coach.
Leroy Chang
Leroy Chang (张立纲, Zhang Ligang; 1936–2008) was a Chinese-born American condensed-matter physicist who spent three decades at IBM turning the semiconductor superlattice and resonant tunneling into working devices.
Leroy Comrie
Leroy Comrie is an American Democratic politician representing the 14th district in southeast Queens in the New York State Senate, where he chairs the Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions.
Leroy D. Vandam
Leroy D. Vandam (1914–2004) was an American anesthesiologist who led anesthesia at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1954 to 1979 and published over 250 papers.
Leroy F. Liu
Leroy F. Liu (劉昉) is a molecular pharmacologist who established DNA topoisomerases as targets of antitumor drugs, working at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, and Taipei Medical University.
Leroy Fer
Leroy Johan Fer, born 1990 in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, is a Dutch defensive midfielder who played for Feyenoord, FC Twente, and English clubs, and scored the Netherlands' opening goal against Chile at the 2014 World Cup.
Leroy H. Smith Jr.
Leroy Harrington Smith Jr., known professionally as Roy Smith, was an American mechanical engineer and pioneer of modern turbomachinery aerodynamics who spent his career at General Electric in Evendale, Ohio.
LeRoy Homer Jr.
LeRoy Wilton Homer Jr. (1965-2001), First Officer of United Airlines Flight 93, Air Force Academy graduate and Reserve Major, died when the hijacked plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania; his foundation funds young pilots.
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood is an American biologist who developed the first automated fluorescent DNA sequencer at Caltech and co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle in 2000.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Leroy Jethro Gibbs, also called Jethro Gibbs, is the fictional NCIS Major Case Response Team leader from NCIS, played by Mark Harmon 2003–2021 and Austin Stowell in NCIS: Origins, known for Gibbs' Rules and four marriages.