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Lester M. Field

Lester M. Field was an American electrical engineer who created modern traveling-wave tube structures, taught at Stanford and Caltech, and directed microwave research at Hughes Research Laboratories.

Lester Maddox

Lester Garfield Maddox (1915–2003), segregationist Atlanta restaurateur and owner of the Pickrick, was Georgia's 75th governor (1967–1971), chosen by the legislature despite losing the popular vote, then lieutenant governor under Jimmy Carter.

Lester Pelton

Lester Allan Pelton (1829–1908) was an American inventor and millwright who developed the Pelton wheel, a split-bucket water wheel that roughly doubled water wheel efficiency and became a foundation of hydroelectric generation.

Lester Piggott

Lester Keith Piggott (1935-2022), English Flat jockey nicknamed The Long Fellow; record nine Epsom Derby wins, record 30 British Classics, 11 championships, 4,493 British winners, 1987 tax-fraud prison term, 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile comeback.

Lester R. Ford

Lester R. Ford, born Lester Randolph Ford, was an American mathematician known for Ford circles and for Automorphic Functions (1929), the first English treatise on automorphic functions.

Lester Reiff

Lester Reiff (1877–1948), American jockey, champion in England 1900 with 143 wins and 1901 Derby winner on Volodyovski; banned by the Jockey Club in October 1901 for not trying in the New Barns Plate at Manchester, ending his career.

Lester Russell Brown

Lester Russell Brown (born 1934) is an American environmental analyst who founded the Worldwatch Institute in 1974 and the Earth Policy Institute in 2001, publishing 54 books.

Lester Speight

Lester Speight, also known as Mighty Rasta, is an American actor and former professional wrestler born in 1963 in Baltimore, known for voicing Augustus "Cole Train" Cole in Gears of War.

Lester Steers

Lester "Les" Steers (born 16 June 1917) is an American high jumper who set the men's high jump world record of 2.11 m on 17 June 1941 in Los Angeles, the first man over 2.10 m; the mark stood 12 years.

Lester Street Massacre

The Lester Street Massacre, also called the Lester Street murders, was the March 2, 2008 killing of six people, including two children, at 722 Lester Street, Memphis, by Jessie Dotson, who received six death sentences.

Lester Young

Lester Young (1909-1959), nicknamed Prez by Billie Holiday, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist with Count Basie and Holiday whose light, lyrical style contrasted with Coleman Hawkins and shaped cool jazz.

Lesti

Lesti, also known as Lesti Kejora, is an Indonesian dangdut and pop singer who rose to fame winning the first season of Indosiar's D'Academy in 2014 at age 14.

Lestrimelitta

Lestrimelitta (robber bees) is a Neotropical genus of 26 obligate cleptobiotic stingless bee species that raid other Meliponini nests for food, using citral pheromones, chemical masquerade, and thick mandibles; distinct from Cleptotrigona.

Lestvichnaya system of succession

The Lestvichnaya system of succession (Лествичный порядок престолонаследия), or ladder system, passed thrones among Rurikid princes of Kievan Rus' by genealogical seniority, not father to son.

Lesvos Island UNESCO Global Geopark

Lesvos Island UNESCO Global Geopark covers the whole Greek island of Lesvos, designated in 2015, centered on the Miocene Petrified Forest near Sigri, managed by the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest, and a founding Global Geoparks Network member.

Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka, pen name of Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka, was a Ukrainian poet and playwright (1871–1913) who developed the dramatic poem and wrote The Forest Song.

Leszek Balcerowicz

Leszek Balcerowicz, Polish economist and politician born 1947, architect of the Balcerowicz Plan of January 1990 that replaced Poland's planned economy with a market system; later finance minister again, National Bank of Poland president 2001-07, and Bruegel chair.

Leszek Blanik

Leszek Robert Blanik (born 1977, Wodzisław Śląski) is a Polish vault specialist, Olympic vault champion Beijing 2008 (16.537) and bronze medalist Sydney 2000, with the FIG element 332 named "blanik"; later PZG president.

Leszek I the White

Leszek I the White (Polish: Leszek Biały) was a Piast duke who ruled Kraków and Sandomierz from 1194, the last Polish ruler whose seniorate worked in practice.

Leszek Miller

Leszek Miller (born 1946, Żyrardów), Polish SLD politician, former PZPR Politburo member and Minister of Labour and Interior, Prime Minister 19 October 2001 – 2 May 2004 who took Poland into the EU on 1 May 2004 and resigned the next day amid corruption allegations; MEP since 2019.

Let All That We Imagine Be the Light

Let All That We Imagine Be the Light is the eighth studio album by rock band Garbage, released May 30, 2025 via BMG. Written after Shirley Manson's hip surgery, it mixes political anger with themes of hope and recovery; Metascore 80.

Let Go (Avril Lavigne album)

Let Go is Avril Lavigne's debut album, released June 2002 on Arista Records. Produced largely with The Matrix, it yielded Complicated and Sk8er Boi, sold over 16 million copies, and topped charts in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and Singapore.

Let God Sort Em Out

Let God Sort Em Out is the fourth studio album by Virginia Beach rap duo Clipse (Pusha T and Malice), released July 11, 2025 via Roc Nation Distribution. Fully produced by Pharrell Williams in Paris, it features Kendrick Lamar, Nas, and Tyler, The Creator.

Let Her Go

"Let Her Go" is a 2012 folk-pop ballad by Passenger (Mike Rosenberg) from All the Little Lights, released as a single in April 2013; it peaked at UK No. 2 and US Hot 100 No. 5, topped charts in 19 countries, and became a UK million seller.

Let Him Go

Let Him Go is a 2020 American neo-Western drama thriller written and directed by Thomas Bezucha, adapted from Larry Watson's 2013 novel and starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane.

Let It Be (1970 film)

Let It Be (1970 film), tied to the Get Back project, is Michael Lindsay-Hogg's documentary of the Beatles' January 1969 sessions and rooftop concert, released May 1970 after the breakup, Oscar-winning, long suppressed, restored on Disney+ May 8, 2024.

Let It Be (Beatles album)

Let It Be is the Beatles' final released studio album (8 May 1970, Apple Records), recorded in January 1969 as the Get Back project, re-produced by Phil Spector, and later reissued as Let It Be... Naked (2003) and in 2021 Super Deluxe editions.

Let It Be (Beatles song)

"Let It Be" is a 1970 Beatles song written by Paul McCartney, released as a single on 6 March 1970 and as the title track of the album Let It Be.

Let It Be... Naked

Let It Be... Naked (2003) is a remixed Beatles album, also called Let It Be Naked, stripping Phil Spector's orchestrations from the 1970 Let It Be; adds Don't Let Me Down, drops Dig It and Maggie Mae, instigated by Paul McCartney.

Let It Bleed

Let It Bleed is a 1969 studio album by the Rolling Stones, released on London and Decca records and anchored by "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want".