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Lacey Turner

Lacey Turner is an English actress who played Stacey Slater in the BBC soap EastEnders from 2004 to 2025 and starred as Molly Dawes in Our Girl.

Lacey Von Erich (Lacey Dawn Adkisson, born 1986), daughter of Kerry Von Erich, is a retired American wrestler; WWE developmental 2007, TNA 2009-2010, one-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with The Beautiful People.

Lach

Lach (pronounced latch) is an American mononymous singer-songwriter, founder of New York's Antifolk movement, creator of the Fort club and the Antihoot at Sidewalk Cafe, whose albums include Contender, Blang!, Kids Fly Free, and Today.

LaChanze

LaChanze (Rhonda LaChanze Sapp, born 1961) is an American Broadway actor and producer, Tony winner as Celie in The Color Purple (2006), Ti Moune originator in Once on This Island, and Tony-winning producer of Kimberly Akimbo and Topdog/Underdog.

Lachau

Lachau (Drôme, France) is a Baronnies village known for the Gallo-Roman sanctuary at Le Luminaïre, with over 10,000 votive oil lamps, Selene dedications, the Romanesque Notre-Dame de Calma church, and the Tour du Riable castrum donjon.

Laches (equity)

Laches (equity), also called estoppel by laches, is an equitable defense barring relief when a claimant's unreasonable delay prejudices the opposing party; distinct from statutes of limitations, narrowed by Petrella (2014) in U.S. copyright law.

Lachesillidae

Lachesillidae is a family of bark lice in the order Psocodea, with more than 420 species in 26 genera, the largest being Lachesilla with 349.

Lachesis Tessera

Lachesis Tessera is a 664-km-wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 44.4°N, 300.1°E, IAU-named in 1985 for the Greek Fate Lachesis, and the namesake of the V-18 quadrangle.

Sep 23, 2026

Lachhmi Narayan Shafiq

Lachhmi Narayan Shafiq (لچھمی نارائن شفیق) was an 18th-century Indian poet, letter-writer, and tazkira author of the Deccan who wrote in Persian and Rekhta under the pen name Shafiq.

Lachin corridor

The Lachin corridor is the 5 km-wide only land link between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, created by the 10 November 2020 trilateral ceasefire, patrolled by Russian peacekeepers, blockaded from December 2022, and checkpointed by Azerbaijan in April 2023.

Lachish

Lachish, also known as Tel Lachish or Tell ed-Duweir, is an ancient Canaanite and Judahite city in the Shephelah of modern Israel, the second city of Judah after Jerusalem.

Lachish comb inscription

The Lachish comb inscription is a Canaanite sentence of 17 letters on an elephant-ivory comb from Tel Lachish, Israel, dated to about 1700–1550 BCE and wishing the tusk would root out lice.

Lachish ewer

The Lachish ewer is a Late Bronze Age pottery jug found at Lachish, Israel, in 1934, bearing an early Canaanite alphabetic inscription dated to the late thirteenth century BC.

Lachish Letters

The Lachish Letters, also called the Lachish ostraca, are Hebrew inscriptions on pottery sherds found at Lachish in the 1930s, dating to just before the Babylonian conquest of Judah.

Lachish reliefs

The Lachish reliefs are gypsum wall panels from Sennacherib's Southwest Palace at Nineveh, made about 700–692 BC, depicting the Assyrian capture of the Judean city of Lachish in 701 BC.

Lachit Borphukan (লাচিত বৰফুকন)

Lachit Borphukan (লাচিত বৰফুকন), Ahom commander-in-chief born 24 November 1622, recovered Guwahati in 1667 and defeated Ram Singh I's Mughal army at the naval Battle of Saraighat in 1671, halting Mughal expansion into Assam.

Oct 20, 2026

Lachlan

The Lachlan River, named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie, is Australia's fourth longest river at 1,448 km, flowing from the Great Dividing Range to the Great Cumbung Swamp in NSW.

Lachlan Galvin

Lachlan Galvin (born 2005, Campbelltown NSW) is an NRL halfback for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, formerly Wests Tigers; 2024 RLPA Rookie of the Year, Bulldog no. 874, contracted through 2028.

Lachlan Gillespie

Lachlan (Lachy) Gillespie, born 1985 in Brisbane, is the Australian Purple Wiggle of The Wiggles since 2012, succeeding Jeff Fatt; WAAPA-trained, keytar player, ex-husband of Emma Watkins, father of twins, epilepsy and prematurity charity ambassador.

Lachlan Kennedy (sprinter)

Lachlan Kennedy (born 2003) is an Australian sprinter, national 100m record holder at 9.85 (Glasgow 2026), second Australian under 10 seconds, 2025 World Indoor 60m silver medallist, and 2026 Commonwealth Games 4x100m gold and 100m silver medallist.

Lachlan Murdoch

Lachlan Murdoch (Lachlan Keith Murdoch), born in 1971, is a media executive who has led Fox Corporation and News Corp since his father Rupert Murdoch stepped down in 2023.

Lachlan Olbrich

Lachlan Olbrich, Australian basketball center-forward born 2003 in Adelaide; UC Riverside freshman, Illawarra Hawks NBL champion, 2024 NZNBL MVP; drafted 55th in 2025 by the Lakers, traded to the Chicago Bulls.

Lachlan Watson

Lachlan Watson (born 2001, Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American nonbinary actor, Theo Putnam in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Glen/Glenda in Chucky season 2; distinct from an Australian camera-department namesake.

Sep 29, 2026

Lachman test

The Lachman test is a knee examination maneuver that assesses the anterior cruciate ligament by pulling the tibia forward with the knee flexed 20 to 30 degrees.

Lachmirowice

Lachmirowice is a village in Kruszwica commune, Kuyavia, Poland, and a multicultural archaeological site (Neolithic to Early Middle Ages) with a Bell Beaker assemblage, a Przeworsk culture cemetery yielding four of Poland's seven known skyfos vessels, and the eponymous Lachmirowice-Apa sword type.

Lachryphagy

Lachryphagy, or tear drinking, is the feeding on tears by moths, butterflies, stingless bees, and flies at the eyes of mammals, birds, and reptiles, driven mainly by sodium; specialists include Lobocraspis griseifusa and the bird tear-drinker Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica.

Lachy Groom

Lachy Groom (born 1994) is an Australian entrepreneur and angel investor who joined Stripe as its 30th employee, led Stripe Issuing, and backed startups including Figma and Notion.

Lachy Hulme

Lachy Hulme (born 1971, Melbourne) is an Australian actor and screenwriter. Known for Dr Martin Clegg in Offspring, Kerry and Frank Packer in Howzat! and Power Games, and Immortan Joe and Rizzdale Pell in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024); also wrote Men with Guns and plays Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.

Laci Green

Laci Green, born Valacia Nusheen Cyrus, is an American sex educator and sex therapist, creator of the popular YouTube sex education series Sex Plus!, which ran from 2009 to 2019.