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Leroy Lita
Leroy Lita (Leroy Halirou Bohari Lita), born 1984 in Kinshasa, English striker for Bristol City, Reading, Middlesbrough, Swansea; England U21; now Sunderland U21 assistant manager.
Leroy M. Fingerson
Leroy M. "Mike" Fingerson (1932–2022) was an American mechanical engineer who co-founded TSI Incorporated, led it for 37 years, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Leroy Merlin
Leroy Merlin is a French DIY and home-improvement retail chain founded by Adolphe Leroy and Rose Merlin at Noeux-les-Mines, the leading banner of the Mulliez family's Adeo group.
Leroy Petry
Leroy Arthur Petry (born 1979, Santa Fe, New Mexico) is a retired U.S. Army Ranger and Medal of Honor recipient who lost his right hand throwing an enemy grenade away from two fellow Rangers in Paktya, Afghanistan, on May 26, 2008.
Leroy Sané
Leroy Aziz Sané, German winger born 1996 in Essen; played for Schalke 04, Manchester City (PFA Young Player 2017/18), and Bayern Munich, now at Galatasaray under a 2025–2028 contract; 80 Germany caps.
Leroy Shear
Leroy Shear was an American physician-scientist who studied ascites and kidney problems in liver cirrhosis, publishing influential papers in the New England Journal of Medicine between 1965 and 1970.
Leroy Sibbles
Leroy Sibbles, born 1949 in Kingston, is a Jamaican reggae singer and bassist, lead singer of the Heptones and the key Studio One session bassist of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Leroy Smart
Leroy Smart, born 1952 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a reggae singer and producer whose hits include "Mother Liza" and "Ballistic Affair" (1976), recorded at Channel One.
Leroy Stevens
Leroy Stevens (1920–2015) was an American developmental biologist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, whose work on mouse teratomas laid the foundation for embryonic stem cells.
Lerwick
Lerwick (Leirvik, "muddy bay") is the capital and only town of Scotland's Shetland Islands, population about 7,500, a herring-fishing port founded on Dutch trade, capital since 1708, with Town Hall (1883) and major harbour.
Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako
Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako, known as Les Ambassadeurs, was a Malian orchestra formed in Bamako in 1970 as the Motel de Bamako's resident band.
Les Antiquités de Rome
Les Antiquités de Rome is a 1558 sonnet sequence of 32 sonnets by the French Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay, meditating on the grandeur and ruin of ancient Rome.
Les Arènes
Les Arènes ("the arenas") names Roman amphitheaters and ancient sites in France, chiefly a Roman theater at Thénac (Pleiades 138190), plus the amphitheaters of Paris, Nîmes, Arles, Poitiers, and Senlis.
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy by Gérard Oury starring Louis de Funès as a racist industrialist disguised as a rabbi; top French box-office hit of 1973 with over 7 million admissions.
Les Averdines
Les Averdines, a toponym southeast of Bourges, Cher, France, names underground Oxfordian limestone quarries (Carrières du Château) worked from Gallo-Roman times, recorded as Barrington Atlas 14 H1, later mushroom farms and a Natura 2000 bat site.
Les Bains Douches (nightclub)
Les Bains Douches, later Les Bains, a Paris nightclub at 7 rue du Bourg l'Abbé opened 21 December 1978 in the 1885 Guerbois bathhouse, with Starck interiors, Joy Division and Depeche Mode concerts, Boukobza and the Guettas, reopened as a hotel-club in 2015.
Les batisseurs
Les Bâtisseurs (The Builders) is Frédéric Henry's Bombyx card game series (Moyen-Âge 2013, Antiquité 2015): 2-4 players, 30 minutes, worker placement and building construction for victory points; distinct from Jim Deacove's cooperative children's game of the same name.
Les Baumelles
Les Baumelles is the site of a Roman maritime villa at Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in the Var, southern France, occupied from the 1st to the 4th century AD.
Les Boardman
Les Boardman (Leslie Boardman, 1889-1975), Australian swimmer of the Sydney Swimming Club; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay for Australasia with world-record times, replacing Bill Longworth on the third leg.
Les Bonnes Femmes
Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Girls) is Claude Chabrol's 1960 French New Wave drama about four Parisian appliance-store shopgirls, Jane, Ginette, Jacqueline, and Rita, whose dreams of love end in disappointment; a flop on release, restored in 2000 and now admired.
Les Brégines
Les Brégines: hamlet of Béziers, Hérault, France; site of a Roman Imperial limestone quarry (pierre des Brégines), a medieval Templar commandery (Lebressinis, 1268), and the Miocene Calcaires de Brégines formation.
Les Bronzés
Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation), 1978 French comedy by Patrice Leconte adapting the Splendid troupe's play Amour, coquillages et crustacés; filmed in Côte d'Ivoire, drew about 2.3-2.5 million admissions and spawned a 1979 ski sequel.
Les Bronzés font du ski
Les Bronzés font du ski (1979) is a French comedy by Patrice Leconte and the Splendid troupe, the sequel to Les Bronzés, set on a ski holiday at Val-d'Isère; it drew about 1.5 million admissions and became a cult film through TV reruns.
Les Burgraves
Les Burgraves is a historical drama in verse by Victor Hugo, first performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris in 1843 and set among the ruined castles of the Rhine.
Les Cahiers du Sud
Les Cahiers du Sud was a French literary magazine published in Marseille from 1925 to 1966, directed throughout by Jean Ballard and read at the national level.
Les Cars
Les Cars is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, about 25 km southwest of Limoges, known for the ruins of the Château des Cars.
Les Chants de l'aurore
Les Chants de l'aurore ("The Songs of Dawn") is Alcest's seventh studio album, released June 21, 2024 on Nuclear Blast; seven tracks, 43:38, self-recorded, peaked at number 14 in Germany.
Les Chants de Maldoror
Les Chants de Maldoror is an 1869 prose-poem in six chants by Isidore Ducasse, writing as the Comte de Lautréamont, whose evil protagonist Maldoror rebels against God and humankind.
Les Charlots
Les Charlots were a French comedy-pop band formed in 1965 as Les Problèmes, whose hits on Disques Vogue led to slapstick film stardom with Les Bidasses en folie (1971).
Les Châtiments
Les Châtiments is an 1853 collection of 98 satirical poems by Victor Hugo, written in exile on Jersey to denounce Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's 1851 coup d'état and his regime.