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Leverkusen
Leverkusen: district-free city in North Rhine-Westphalia between Cologne and Düsseldorf; founded 1930, enlarged 1975; named after Carl Leverkus; Bayer chemical city of about 168,300 inhabitants.
Leveson Inquiry
The Leveson Inquiry was a 2011-2012 UK public inquiry chaired by Lord Justice Leveson into press culture, practices and ethics after phone hacking; it made 92 recommendations, led to the Royal Charter, IPSO and IMPRESS, and its Part 2 was cancelled in 2018.
Levetiracetam
Levetiracetam (Keppra) is an SV2A-binding antiseizure medication approved by the FDA in 1999 and in the EU in 2000, used as first-line monotherapy or add-on for focal and generalized seizures, with somnolence and headache as common side effects.
Levi
Levi (Hebrew: לֵוִי) is, in the Hebrew Bible, the third son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Levi, set apart for sanctuary service.
Levi A. Garraway
Levi A. Garraway is an American oncologist and cancer genomicist who is Chief Medical Officer at Roche, co-founded Foundation Medicine, and pioneered high-throughput tumor genome profiling.
Levi Ashcroft
Levi Ashcroft (born 2006) is an Australian rules footballer, a father-son pick 5 in the 2024 AFL draft for the Brisbane Lions; son of Marcus, brother of Will; 2025 premiership player and Rising Star nominee.
Levi Bellfield
Levi Bellfield, British serial killer and former nightclub bouncer, is serving whole-life tariffs for murdering Marsha McDonnell, Amélie Delagrange, and Milly Dowler, and attempted murder of Kate Sheedy; later prison confessions remain disputed.
Levi Brown (actor)
Levi Brown (born 1995) is a British actor from Halesowen, a Guildhall graduate known for lead Dante Williams in BBC's This Town, Christian in the RSC's Cyrano de Bergerac, Payback, and Paramount+'s Girl Taken.
Levi Celerio
Levi Celerio (1910-2002), Filipino composer and lyricist, National Artist for Music and Literature 1997, wrote lyrics for over 4,000 songs including Ang Pasko ay Sumapit and Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, and was the Guinness-listed leaf player.
Levi Coffin
Levi Coffin was an American Quaker abolitionist and merchant who, with his wife Catharine, aided an estimated 3,000 freedom seekers, earning the title President of the Underground Railroad.
Levi Colwill
Levi Lemar Samuels Colwill (born 2003, Southampton) is an English left-footed centre-back for Chelsea and England, a Chelsea academy graduate who won the 2023 U21 Euros, the 2025 Conference League and Club World Cup, and returned from an August 2025 ACL injury in May 2026.
Levi Dean
Levi Dean is an American politician and Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 71st district, and a co-owner of Dean's Plumbing.
Levi Drake Rodriguez
Levi Drake Rodriguez, Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman (#50), 2024 seventh-round pick (232nd) from Texas A&M-Commerce; 2025 NFC Special Teams Player of the Week after a sack and blocked field goal at Detroit.
Levi Eshkol (לוי אשכול)
Levi Eshkol (לוי אשכול), 1895-1969, third Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Israel 1963-1969; Mekorot founder, Settlement Division head, Finance Minister 1952-63, led Israel through the 1967 Six-Day War and first unity government.
Levi García
Levi Samuel García (born 1997, Santa Flora) is a Trinidadian forward for Panathinaikos, on loan from Spartak Moscow; former AEK Athens star, 2023 Greek double winner, Trinidad and Tobago international.
Levi graph
The Levi graph, also called the incidence graph, is the bipartite graph of an incidence structure, with vertices for points and lines and edges for incidences.
Levi Johnston
Levi Keith Johnston (born 1990, Wasilla, Alaska) is an American model, actor, and author, Bristol Palin's former fiancé and father of her son Tripp; known for the 2008 RNC, Playgirl, and his 2011 memoir Deer in the Headlights.
Levi Liu
Levi Liu is a partner at 5Y Capital, a Chinese early-stage venture capital firm based in Beijing, where he invests in enterprise software, artificial intelligence, and intelligent manufacturing.
Levi Marhabi
Levi Salem Musa Marhabi (ليفي سالم موسى مرحبي), born about 1987, is a Yemeni Orthodox Jew, reportedly Yemen's last, held by the Houthis since March 2016 over an ancient Torah scroll, despite 2019 court release orders and US wrongful-detention findings.
Levi Roots
Levi Roots, born Keith Valentine Graham in 1958, is a Jamaican-British reggae musician and entrepreneur whose Reggae Reggae Sauce won £50,000 on Dragons' Den in 2007 and outsold Heinz ketchup at Sainsbury's.
Levi Silliman Ives
Levi Silliman Ives (1797–1867) was an American Episcopal bishop of North Carolina from 1831 to 1852 who resigned his episcopate in 1852 to become a Roman Catholic.
Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss (Löb Strauss, 1829–1902), Bavarian-born Jewish immigrant dry goods merchant of San Francisco; with tailor Jacob Davis held the 1873 riveted-pants patent that created blue jeans and founded Levi Strauss & Co. in 1853.
Levi Strauss & Co.
Levi Strauss & Co. is an American apparel company headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1853 by Levi Strauss, it makes Levi's jeans and sold $6.3 billion in 2025.
Levi Theodore Thompson
Levi Theodore Thompson is an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 and dean of the University of South Florida College of Engineering.
Levi-Civita (lunar crater)
Levi-Civita, a 108.23-km impact crater on the Moon's far side at 23.34°S, 143.14°E, IAU-named 1970 for Italian mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita, with satellite craters A, F, S and a central peak with summit craterlet.
Levi-Civita connection
The Levi-Civita connection, also known as the Riemannian or Christoffel connection, is the unique torsion-free, metric-compatible way to differentiate tensor fields on a Riemannian manifold.
Levi-Civita field
The Levi-Civita field is a non-Archimedean ordered field extension of the real numbers containing infinitesimals, the smallest such extension that is real closed and Cauchy complete.
Levi-Civita symbol
The Levi-Civita symbol, also called the permutation symbol, is a collection of numbers based on the sign of a permutation, equal to +1, −1, or 0.
Levi's Stadium
Levi's Stadium, aka San Francisco Bay Area Stadium during FIFA events, is the 68,500-seat Santa Clara, California home of the San Francisco 49ers, opened 2014; twice LEED Gold certified, host of Super Bowl 50, Super Bowl LX, and six 2026 World Cup matches.
Leviathan (1989 film)
Leviathan (1989 film), also known as an undersea Alien, is a George P. Cosmatos horror film written by David Peoples and Jeb Stuart, about deep-sea miners who uncover a sunken Soviet ship and a mutating genetic experiment.