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L. Andrew Lyon
L. Andrew Lyon (Louis Andrew Lyon) is an American chemist known for research on microgels and hydrogels, and a professor at Chapman University since 2014.
L. Andrew Staehelin
L. Andrew Staehelin (1939–2022) was a Swiss-trained cell biologist and electron microscopist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studied plant Golgi and cell division and promoted high-pressure freezing.
L. Clifford McDonald
L. Clifford McDonald is an American infectious diseases physician and researcher at the CDC, known for his work on the epidemiology and prevention of Clostridioides difficile infection.
L. Darryl Quarles
L. Darryl Quarles, also known as Leigh Darryl Quarles, is an American nephrologist known for establishing FGF23 as a bone-derived hormone regulating phosphate and vitamin D metabolism.
L. David Montague
L. David Montague is an American aerospace engineer who led Lockheed Martin's Missile Systems Division and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
L. David Sibley
L. David Sibley is an American molecular microbiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for his research on the parasite Toxoplasma gondii.
L. Dolina
Larisa Dolina (Лариса Долина) is a Soviet and Russian jazz and estrada singer and People's Artist of Russia, born in Baku in 1955, known for the 1996 hit "Погода в доме".
L. Eric Cross
L. Eric Cross, born Leslie Eric Cross (1923–2016), was a British-born materials scientist at Pennsylvania State University who established the phenomenology of PZT and relaxor ferroelectrics.
L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), American author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and 13 Oz sequels; also Father Goose, His Book, the 1902 stage musical, and the Oz Film Manufacturing Company.
L. Gary Leal
L. Gary Leal is an American chemical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for work on the fluid mechanics and rheology of complex fluids.
L. Haydock
L. Haydock (Louisa Haydock), American sprinter, set the women's 75-yard dash world record of 8 3/5 seconds at New Haven on 26 April 1913; the only ratified record in that event, dropped after 1927.
L. J. Lander
L. J. Lander (Leon J. Lander) was an American mathematician who, with T. R. Parkin, found in 1966 the first counterexample to Euler's sum of powers conjecture.
L. J. Sevin
L. J. Sevin, born Leonce John Sevin Jr., is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded and led Mostek, then co-founded Sevin Rosen Funds, an early investor in Compaq.
L. J. Smith (author)
L. J. Smith (1958–2025), whose full name was Lisa Jane Smith, was an American writer of young adult fiction known for The Vampire Diaries and Night World. Her publisher describes her as.
L. Jackson Roberts
L. Jackson Roberts II, known as Jack Roberts, was an American clinical pharmacologist and Vanderbilt professor who co-discovered the isoprostanes, free-radical lipid products used to measure oxidative stress.
L. Jan Anton Koster
L. Jan Anton Koster is a Dutch physicist at the University of Groningen, full professor of novel semiconductors and devices since 2022, studying organic semiconductor charge transport.
L. Jay Guo
L. Jay Guo is a University of Michigan electrical engineer known for nanoimprint lithography, including the first silicon nano-transistors made by the method in 1997.
L. Joseph Melton
L. Joseph Melton III is a physician-epidemiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose population-based studies showed bone density predicts fractures up to 20 years later.
L. K. Advani (लाल कृष्ण आडवाणी)
L. K. Advani, born Lal Krishna Advani in 1927 in Karachi, is an Indian politician who served as Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government.
L. Kent Thomas
L. Kent Thomas, born Leonard Kent Thomas, was an American petroleum engineer who spent 40 years developing reservoir simulators at Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
L. Kristin Newby
L. Kristin Newby, also published as Laura Kristin Newby, is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Duke University, known for acute coronary syndrome trials and the MURDOCK Study.
L. L. Zamenhof
L. L. Zamenhof (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludoviko, Eliezer Zamenhof), 1859–1917, Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist born in Białystok who created Esperanto, publishing the Unua Libro in 1887 and the Fundamento in 1905.
L. Lin Wood
L. Lin Wood is a retired Atlanta defamation attorney known for representing Richard Jewell, the Ramseys, and Gary Condit, and for 2020 election litigation that led him to surrender his Georgia law license in 2023.
L. Logan Lewis
L. Logan Lewis was an American engineer, a University of Kentucky graduate who became chief engineer of Carrier's air conditioning subsidiary in 1909 and co-founded Carrier Engineering in 1915.
L. Louis Hegedus
L. Louis Hegedus (1941–2017) was a Hungarian-born American chemical engineer known for catalytic converter research at General Motors and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
L. Louise Lucas
L. Louise Lucas is an American Democratic politician who has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992 and is its President pro tempore, representing parts of Chesapeake and Portsmouth.
L. M. Milne-Thomson
L. M. Milne-Thomson (Louis Melville Milne-Thomson, 1891–1974) was a British applied mathematician, professor at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, known for Theoretical Hydrodynamics and the circle theorem.
L. Mario Amzel
L. Mario Amzel was an Argentine-born structural biologist and biophysicist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who determined the structures of antibodies and enzymes, dying in 2021.
L. Maximilian Buja
L. Maximilian Buja is an American cardiovascular pathologist known for research on platelet aggregation and thrombosis in unstable angina, and Dean Emeritus of McGovern Medical School.
L. Murugan
Dr. L. Murugan (born 1977), Indian BJP politician and lawyer from Namakkal, Tamil Nadu; former BJP Tamil Nadu president, NCSC vice-chairman, and Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs; resigned October 2026 to work for the BJP in Tamil Nadu.