All articles starting with L

Lev Okun

Lev Borisovich Okun (Лев Борисович Окунь) was a Russian theoretical particle physicist at ITEP in Moscow who coined the term "hadron" in 1962 and campaigned against relativistic mass.

Lev P. Pitaevskii

Lev P. Pitaevskii, also known as Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii, was a Soviet and Italian theoretical physicist, co-namesake of the Gross–Pitaevskii equation governing ultracold Bose gases.

Lev Parnas (Лев Парнас), born 1972 in Odesa, is a Ukrainian-American businessman and former Rudy Giuliani associate central to the Trump–Ukraine impeachment inquiry; convicted in 2021 of campaign finance and wire fraud offenses, sentenced in 2022 to 20 months.

Lev Petrovich Gorkov

Lev Petrovich Gorkov (Лев Петрович Горьков; 1929–2016) was a Soviet and American theoretical physicist who in 1959 derived the Ginzburg–Landau equations of superconductivity from BCS theory, founding the GLAG framework.

Lev Petrovich Yakubinski

Lev Petrovich Yakubinski (Лев Петрович Якубинский) was a Russian linguist, born in Kiev in 1892, who helped found the theory of poetic language in the OPOYAZ circle.

Lev Pontryagin

Lev Pontryagin, also known as Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, was a Soviet mathematician who, though blind from age fourteen, created the Pontryagin characteristic classes and the maximum principle.

Lev Schnirelmann

Lev Schnirelmann, also known as Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann (Лев Генрихович Шнирельман), was a Soviet mathematician who created Schnirelmann density and made the first unconditional progress on Goldbach's problem.

Lev Shlosberg (Лев Маркович Шлосберг)

Lev Markovich Shlosberg (Лев Маркович Шлосберг), Russian opposition politician, journalist and Yabloko deputy chairman; longtime Pskov branch leader and Oblast Assembly deputy; reported 2014 paratrooper funerals; foreign agent 2023; sentenced 17 August 2026 to 11 years and 1 month.

Lev Shubnikov

Lev Shubnikov (Лев Шубников) was a Soviet low-temperature physicist who worked in Leiden from 1926 to 1930, founded the first Soviet cryogenic laboratory in Kharkiv, and died in the purges in 1937.

Lev Tahor (לב טהור)

Lev Tahor (לב טהור, Hebrew for "pure heart") is an anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect founded in Jerusalem in 1988, known for strict dress rules for women and girls.

Oct 20, 2026

Lev Voronin

Lev Voronin (Лев Геннадиевич Воронин), born 1971 in Astrakhan, Russian right wing handballer; 1996 European and 1997 World champion, 2000 Olympic gold medalist; later coach and general director of the Russian Handball Federation.

Lev Vygotsky

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (Лев Семёнович Выготский), 1896–1934, Soviet founder of cultural-historical psychology; known for the zone of proximal development, mediation, and internalization, distinct from Piaget's individualist developmental theory.

Oct 20, 2026

Lev Yam

Lev Yam, Hebrew for "heart of the sea," is a water-sports club at the Tel Aviv Marina next to Gordon Beach, teaching sailing, windsurfing, and paddling since the 1980s.

Lev Yashin (Лев Иванович Яшин)

Lev Yashin (Лев Иванович Яшин), the Black Spider, Soviet goalkeeper for Dynamo Moscow 1949–1971; only goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or (1963), 1956 Olympic and 1960 European champion, IFFHS Goalkeeper of the Century.

Sep 19, 2026

Lev3l

Lev3l is an American bass music producer and DJ from Orange County, California, working in dubstep and deathstep since 2014 and playing festivals like Forbidden Kingdom and Rampage Open Air.

Leva Bates

Leva Bates (b. May 21, 1983, Madisonville, Kentucky), also Blue Pants and The Librarian, American cosplay wrestler; Team 3D Academy trainee, SHIMMER/SHINE tag champion, original AEW women's division signer (2019–2023) with backstage makeup, wardrobe, and PR roles.

Levacetylleucine

Levacetylleucine, also known as N-acetyl-L-leucine and marketed as Aqneursa, is an oral drug approved in 2024 for neurological symptoms of Niemann-Pick disease type C and in 2026 for ataxia in ataxia-telangiectasia.

Levallorphan

Levallorphan (Lorfan) is a discontinued morphinan opioid antagonist with partial kappa-agonist activity, used to reverse opioid respiratory depression; unlike naloxone it depresses respiration and was superseded by it.

Levamfetamine

Levamfetamine (levoamphetamine, L-amphetamine) is the (R)-enantiomer of amphetamine, C9H13N, CAS 156-34-3. Weaker CNS stimulant than dextroamphetamine but stronger peripherally; US anorectic products withdrawn in 1973; distinct from levmetamfetamine.

Levamisole

Levamisole, also called tetramisole's laevo isomer (brand Ergamisol, Decaris), is a synthetic imidazothiazole anthelmintic and immunomodulator acting at nematode L-subtype nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; withdrawn for human use in the US (2000) and EU (2026), still used in veterinary medicine.

Levamlodipine

Levamlodipine, also called (S)-amlodipine or levoamlodipine (brand Conjupri), is the active S-enantiomer of the racemic calcium channel blocker amlodipine, FDA-approved December 19, 2019 for hypertension; 5 mg is bioequivalent to 10 mg racemic amlodipine.

Oct 22, 2026

Levan of Kakheti

Levan of Kakheti, also known as Leon (Georgian: ლევანი), was king of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from around 1518 to 1574, winning independence from Kartli in 1520.

Levan Saginashvili

Levan Saginashvili (ლევან საგინაშვილი), the Georgian Hulk, born 1988, is a Georgian superheavyweight armwrestler; multi-time world champion on both arms who beat Devon Larratt 6-0 in 2022 and 4-0 in 2024.

Levan Tediashvili

Levan Tediashvili (ლევან თედიაშვილი), Georgian freestyle wrestler for the USSR; two Olympic golds (1972, 1976), four freestyle world titles, 1973 sambo world champion; died 17 February 2024.

Levan Uchaneishvili (ლევან უჩანეიშვილი)

Levan Uchaneishvili (ლევან უჩანეიშვილი), born 1958 in Tbilisi, is a Georgian and American actor known as Levani, star of Kukaracha (1982) and Hollywood films Air Force One, Blade, Independence Day, and 25th Hour.

Levanger HK

Levanger HK (Levanger Håndballklubb) is a Norwegian handball club from Levanger, Trøndelag, founded 1990; its women's team plays in 1. divisjon at Trønderhallen after nine Eliteserien seasons (2005-2014).

Levant

The Levant (al-Mashriq, Bilad al-Sham) is the eastern Mediterranean region of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus, a land bridge between Asia, Europe and Africa defined by the Dead Sea transform, Mediterranean-to-desert climate gradients, and early agriculture.

Levant consuls and capitulations

Levant consuls and capitulations describe the system by which European consuls in Ottoman port cities exercised treaty-based jurisdiction over their nations' traders, lasting until the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.

Levante UD

Levante UD (Levante Unión Deportiva), granota club of Valencia, founded 1909 as Levante FC, merged with Gimnástico in 1939, renamed Levante UD 1941; plays at Estadi Ciutat de València in LaLiga.