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Lewis Burwell Puller Jr.
Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. (1945-1994), son of Marine general Chesty Puller, was a Vietnam Marine lieutenant who lost both legs to a booby trap in 1968, became a lawyer and Defense Department attorney, and won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his memoir Fortunate Son.
Lewis C. Becker
Lewis C. Becker is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who co-founded the GeneSTAR family heart study in 1982 and led research on platelet genetics.
Lewis C. Cantley
Lewis C. Cantley, born 1949, is an American biochemist known for discovering PI3K, a signaling enzyme central to cancer and diabetes, and for cancer metabolism research.
Lewis Capaldi
Lewis Capaldi (born 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Bathgate whose ballad "Someone You Loved" topped UK and US charts; his debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent was the UK's biggest seller of 2019 and 2020; diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in 2022.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), Oxford mathematician at Christ Church, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, logician, photographer, and voting theorist.
Lewis chessmen
Lewis chessmen, medieval walrus-ivory chess pieces from a 93-piece hoard found 1831 at Uig, Isle of Lewis; made in Norway around 1200, probably Trondheim; 82 in the British Museum, 11 in National Museums Scotland.
Lewis Clive
Lewis Clive (1910–1938), British rower and Labour politician; won Olympic gold in the coxless pairs with Hugh Edwards at Los Angeles 1932, later killed fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
Lewis Collins
Lewis Collins (1946–2013), English actor who played William Bodie in all 57 episodes of ITV's The Professionals (1977–83) and starred in Who Dares Wins (1982); also a Territorial Army paratrooper rejected by the SAS for being too famous.
Lewis Cook (footballer, born 1997)
Lewis John Cook is an English midfielder for Premier League club AFC Bournemouth who captained England to the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup and debuted for the senior team in 2018.
Lewis Cope
Lewis Cope, also known as Nicky Milligan in Emmerdale, is an English actor and dancer born 1995 in Hartlepool. A former Billy Elliot child performer and Got to Dance runner-up, he reached the Strictly Come Dancing 2025 quarter-final with Katya Jones and now leads Channel 5's Forever Home as Kaden Barrie.
Lewis Dexter
Lewis Dexter (1910–1995) was an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital who first catheterized the pulmonary artery, in 1944, defining hemodynamics of congenital heart disease.
Lewis Dunk
Lewis Carl Dunk (born 1991, Brighton), Brighton & Hove Albion captain and centre-back since 2010; 500+ club appearances, two promotions, first European campaign, 6 England caps and Euro 2024 finalist.
Lewis E. Braverman
Lewis E. Braverman (1929–2019) was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Boston University School of Medicine who demonstrated in 1970 that thyroxine is converted to triiodothyronine in humans.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. (1907–1998), American Supreme Court associate justice 1972–1987, Nixon appointee succeeding Hugo Black, swing vote of the Burger Court, author of Bakke and McCleskey, and writer of the 1971 Powell memo.
Lewis family (Canada)
Lewis family (Canada): a four-generation Canadian political family of Moishe, David, Stephen, and Avi Lewis, Bund-rooted social democrats central to the CCF and NDP; David Lewis was the first Jewish federal party leader.
Lewis Ferguson
Lewis Ferguson (born 1999, Hamilton, Scotland) is a Scottish midfielder and Bologna captain, formerly of Hamilton Academical and Aberdeen; Serie A midfielder of the year 2023/24, Coppa Italia winner 2025, and Scotland international with 31 caps.
Lewis Fry Richardson
Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953) was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, and pacifist who pioneered numerical weather forecasting and later compiled quantitative statistics on the causes of war.
Lewis G. Longsworth
Lewis G. Longsworth was an American chemist and biochemist who spent his entire career, 1928 to 1970, at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, known for electrophoresis and diffusion measurements.
Lewis Grabban
Lewis Grabban, English striker born 1988 in Croydon; Crystal Palace, Millwall, Brentford, Rotherham, Bournemouth, Norwich, Sunderland, Villa, Forest. 138 goals in 414 games, 111 in the Championship, 1 in 24 Premier League games.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, pen name of Scottish writer James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), author of A Scots Quair; Sunset Song (1932) blends Doric, Scots and English and was voted Scotland's best loved novel in 2016.
Lewis Grizzard
Lewis Grizzard, full name Lewis McDonald Grizzard Jr. (1946–1994), was an American columnist and humorist whose Atlanta Journal-Constitution column ran in some 450 newspapers and produced 25 best-selling books.
Lewis gun
The Lewis gun was a light machine gun designed by Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911, the British Army's most widely used machine gun of the First World War.
Lewis H. Morgan
Lewis H. Morgan was an American ethnologist, lawyer, and financier in Rochester, New York, a principal founder of anthropology whose Ancient Society (1877) proposed a theory of social evolution.
Lewis H. Nosanow
Lewis H. Nosanow is a physicist who co-suggested in 1976 that spin-polarized hydrogen stays a gas at any temperature, launching the search for Bose–Einstein condensation.
Lewis Hall (footballer)
Lewis Hall (born 2004, Slough) is an English left-back for Newcastle United and England, a former Chelsea academy player signed permanently in 2024 for about £35m, a 2024/25 Carabao Cup winner, with 7 senior England caps.
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton, born 1985 in Stevenage, is a British F1 driver with seven world titles, record 106 wins and 104 poles, racing for McLaren, Mercedes, and now Ferrari, and founder of Mission 44.
Lewis Hancox
Lewis Hancox (born 1989) is a British trans author, illustrator, filmmaker, and comedy creator from St Helens, known for the Scholastic graphic memoirs Welcome to St. Hell and Escape from St Hell, the Eisner-nominated trans teen memoir, viral comedy videos, and co-founding My Genderation.
Lewis Hastings Sarett
Lewis Hastings Sarett was an American organic chemist at Merck & Co. who achieved the first synthesis of cortisone in 1944, during World War II.
Lewis Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), American sociologist and photographer, documented child labor for the National Child Labor Committee 1908-1924; over 5,100 captioned prints at the Library of Congress; also Ellis Island, Red Cross, and Empire State Building work; helped spur US child labor reform.
Lewis Holtby
Lewis Harry Holtby, born 1990, is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Schalke 04, Tottenham Hotspur, and Hamburger SV, retiring in 2026.