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Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard Latimer (1848–1928) was an American inventor and patent draftsman, the son of escaped slaves, known for his 1882 carbon filament process and Bell's telephone patent drawings.
Lewis J. Fetters
Lewis J. Fetters (1936–2023) was an American polymer chemist, professor at the University of Akron from 1967 to 1983 and then a Senior Research Associate at Exxon Research and Engineering.
Lewis J. Liman
Lewis J. Liman, born Lewis Jeffrey Liman in 1960, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2019.
Lewis J. Rubin
Lewis J. Rubin is an American pulmonologist and Emeritus Professor at UC San Diego whose trials brought prostacyclin therapy, first epoprostenol, into routine use for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Lewis K. Dahl
Lewis K. Dahl was an American internist and hypertension researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory who demonstrated that dietary salt raises blood pressure and that susceptibility depends on genetic background.
Lewis Kay
Lewis E. Kay is a Canadian molecular biophysicist at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children who develops NMR methods for studying protein structure and dynamics.
Lewis L. Lanier
Lewis L. Lanier is an American immunologist known for seminal work on natural killer cells and a longtime professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
Lewis Landsberg
Lewis Landsberg (1938–2021) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and metabolism whose research showed that diet regulates the sympathetic nervous system, linking obesity to high blood pressure.
Lewis M. Branscomb
Lewis McAdory Branscomb (1926–2023) was an American physicist who directed the National Bureau of Standards, served as IBM's vice president and chief scientist, and taught at Harvard.
Lewis Moody
Lewis Moody (born 1978), nicknamed Mad Dog, English rugby union flanker, 71 England caps, 2003 World Cup winner, Leicester Tigers and Bath, Lions 2005; diagnosed with MND in 2025 and fundraising for the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation.
Lewis Morgan (footballer)
Lewis Morgan (born 1996) is a Scottish forward or left winger at Toronto FC, formerly St Mirren, Celtic, Sunderland, Inter Miami, New York Red Bulls, and San Diego FC; 7 Scotland caps, 34 MLS goals.
Lewis Morris (1833–1907)
Sir Lewis Morris (1833–1907) was a Welsh poet and barrister whose best-selling Epic of Hades ran to over 50,000 copies, and who led Welsh education reform.
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892) was an American amateur astronomer who pioneered astronomical photography and stellar spectroscopy, made superior diffraction gratings, and was an original National Academy of Sciences member.
Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), American historian, architectural critic, and philosopher of technology; author of Technics and Civilization and The City in History (National Book Award); New Yorker 'Sky Line' critic; theorist of the megamachine.
Lewis Nixon III
Lewis Nixon III (1918–1995), U.S. Army captain and Easy Company intelligence officer, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; D-Day, Market Garden, Varsity veteran; Band of Brothers figure.
Lewis Nkosi
Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010) was a South African novelist, playwright, and critic who left apartheid South Africa in 1960 and spent most of his career in exile.
Lewis number
The Lewis number is a dimensionless number, the ratio of thermal diffusivity to mass diffusivity, used in simultaneous heat and mass transfer and named for Warren Kendall Lewis.
Lewis OfMan
Lewis OfMan is the stage name of Lewis Delhomme, a French record producer and vocalist from Paris whose music updates the classic French house lineage of Daft Punk and Cassius.
Lewis Orford (footballer)
Lewis Orford (Lewis William Orford, born 2006) is an English central midfielder for West Ham United, an academy product who debuted in the Premier League in January 2025, won the 2022/23 FA Youth Cup, and has England U16-U20 youth caps.
Lewis P. Rowland
Lewis P. Rowland (1925–2017) was an American neurologist who chaired neurology at Columbia University for 25 years, edited Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, and led ALS research and clinical trials.
Lewis Peatlands
Lewis Peatlands (Ramsar UK13028, SPA, SAC) is a vast blanket bog and loch complex on Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, designated 7 December 2000, notable for breeding divers, dunlin, and one of Europe's largest blanket bogs.
Lewis Powell (conspirator)
Lewis Thornton Powell (aliases Lewis Paine/Payne), 1844-1865, Confederate soldier and Lincoln assassination conspirator who stabbed Secretary of State Seward on April 14, 1865, and was hanged July 7, 1865.
Lewis Pullman
Lewis James Pullman (born 1993, Los Angeles) is an American actor, son of Bill Pullman, known for Top Gun: Maverick, Lessons in Chemistry, and Thunderbolts as Bob/Sentry.
Lewis R. Goldfrank
Lewis R. Goldfrank is an American emergency physician and medical toxicologist at NYU Langone Health and Bellevue Hospital, considered a founder of both emergency medicine and medical toxicology.
Lewis Ralph Jones
Lewis Ralph Jones (1864–1945) was an American plant pathologist who founded plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin and first led the American Phytopathological Society.
Lewis Ranieri
Lewis Ranieri, also known as Lou Ranieri, is an American bond trader who built the mortgage-backed securities market at Salomon Brothers between 1978 and 1987.
Lewis Rudolph
Lewis Rudolph, born William Lewis Rudolph, was an American doughnut executive, brother of Krispy Kreme founder Vernon Rudolph and vice president of the company from 1947.
Lewis S. Edelheit
Lewis S. "Lonnie" Edelheit is an American physicist who helped develop CT X-ray imaging at General Electric, led its CT business, and headed corporate research until retiring in 2001.
Lewis Stadler
Lewis Stadler (1896–1954) was an American maize geneticist at the University of Missouri and USDA geneticist, a pioneer of X-ray-induced mutation in plants and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Lewis Strauss
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (1896–1974) was an American financier and naval officer who chaired the Atomic Energy Commission and presided over the 1954 hearing that ended J. Robert Oppenheimer's career.