All articles starting with L

Lilia Izquierdo

Lilia Izquierdo (Lilia Izquierdo Aguirre), Cuban setter born 1967 in Havana, won Olympic volleyball gold with Cuba at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996, plus World Championship, World Cup, Pan American, and Central American and Caribbean Games titles.

Lília Momplé

Lília Momplé (born 1935) is a Mozambican fiction writer from Ilha de Moçambique whose works, including the novel Neighbours, retell Mozambique's colonial and postcolonial history from the perspective of women.

Lilia Podkopayeva (Лілія Олександрівна Подкопаєва)

Liliya Podkopaieva (Лілія Подкопаєва, also spelled Lilia Podkopayeva), born 1978 in Donetsk, is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast: 1996 Olympic all-around and floor champion, 1995 world all-around champion, retired 1998, Hall of Fame 2008.

Liliaceae

Liliaceae, the lily family (Liliales), is a conserved family of monocot herbs with bulbs, 3+3 tepals, six stamens, and superior ovaries; about 700 species in 15 genera including Lilium and Tulipa, mostly north temperate, split from the old broad Liliaceae by APG molecular classifications.

Liliales

Liliales is an order of flowering plants in the monocots, containing about 1,300 species including true lilies and tulips, with nectaries on the tepals and anthers opening outward.

Lilian Garcia

Lilian Garcia, WWE ring announcer who debuted on Raw in August 1999, first female to announce WrestleMania (WrestleMania 22), singer of albums ¡Quiero Vivir! and My Time, PFL cage announcer, and host of the podcast Chasing Glory.

Sep 27, 2026

Lilian Greenwood

Lilian Greenwood is a British Labour politician who has been MP for Nottingham South since 2010 and a Work and Pensions minister since July 2026.

Lilian Harpur

Lillian Harpur (born 1948) is an Irish-born Australian race walker for South Australia, 1970-1983, with six national titles, a 1977 world best 20 km of 1:43:38, and a 5:27:11 50 km walk.

Lilian Jackson Braun

Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011), American cozy mystery author of the 29-book The Cat Who... series (1966–2007) featuring columnist Jim Qwilleran and Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum; 18-year hiatus, Edgar-nominated return in 1986; MWA award endowed by her estate.

Sep 27, 2026

Lilian Jiménez

Lilian Jiménez is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 4th district, chairing the House Housing Committee.

Lilian Ngoyi

Lilian Masediba Ngoyi, known as Ma Ngoyi, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and trade unionist who led 20,000 women in the 1956 anti-pass march on the Union Buildings.

Lilian Odira

Lilian Odira (born 1999, Migori County, Kenya) is a Kenyan 800m runner and Kenya Prisons Service officer; world champion Tokyo 2025 in a championship record 1:54.62, Commonwealth silver 2026, African silver 2024.

Sep 19, 2026

Lilian Renaud

Lilian Renaud is a French folk-chanson singer-songwriter, born in 1991 in the Doubs, who won The Voice France in 2015 and now records on his own label.

Lilian Thuram

Lilian Thuram (Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien, b. 1972, Pointe-à-Pitre), French defender, 142-cap record holder, 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winner; clubs Monaco, Parma, Juventus, Barcelona; later anti-racism foundation founder.

Sep 27, 2026

Lilian Tschan

Lilian Tschan is a German politician of the SPD who has served as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs since 2022.

Sep 21, 2026

Liliana Attisano

Liliana Attisano is a biochemist at the University of Toronto known for defining how cells receive signals through TGFβ and activin receptors and for her work on Smad2.

Oct 20, 2026

Liliana Gafencu

Liliana Gafencu, Romanian rower (born 1975), triple Olympic champion in the women's eight at Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, and Athens 2004 with Dinamo București; also world champion in the eight in 1997 and 1998.

Liliana Heker

Liliana Heker (born 1943, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist who co-founded the influential magazines El Escarabajo de Oro and El Ornitorrinco.

Liliana Nastase

Liliana Năstase (née Alexandru), Romanian heptathlete and hurdler born 1962 in Vânju Mare; 1991 World heptathlon silver (6493), 1992 Olympic fourth with Romanian record 6619, 1992 European indoor pentathlon champion.

Sep 21, 2026

Liliana Ossowski

Liliana Ossowski is a cancer researcher and Professor Emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for studies of tumor invasion, metastasis, and dormancy.

Sep 19, 2026

Liliana Saumet

Liliana "Li" Saumet is a Colombian singer from Santa Marta who is the vocalist, lyricist, and frontwoman of Bomba Estéreo, the electro-cumbia band behind "Soy Yo" and "To My Love".

Liliana Szilagyi

Liliana Szilagyi (Szilágyi Liliána), born 1996 in Budapest, Hungarian butterfly swimmer; double 2014 Youth Olympic champion, 2016 European 200 fly silver medalist, two-time Olympian; in 2021 accused her father Zoltán Szilágyi of abuse; now a yoga instructor.

Liliana's Invincible Summer

Liliana's Invincible Summer (El invencible verano de Liliana) is Cristina Rivera Garza's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir reconstructing her sister Liliana's 1990 femicide in Mexico City and her search for the fugitive killer.

Liliane Bettencourt

Liliane Bettencourt was a French heiress and businesswoman who inherited L'Oréal from her father Eugène Schueller in 1957 and was the world's richest woman at her 2017 death.

Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi

Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi is an American computational neuroscientist at Stony Brook University who applies control theory to brain imaging and won a 2010 PECASE award.

Lilies Not for Me

Lilies Not for Me (2024) is Will Seefried's debut period drama, premiering at Edinburgh, about a 1920s gay novelist (Fionn O'Shea) institutionalized for conversion treatment, recounting a relationship with Philip (Robert Aramayo) that turned to testicular transplant surgery.

Lilies of the Field (1963 film)

Lilies of the Field (1963) is Ralph Nelson's black-and-white comedy-drama, adapted from William E. Barrett's novel, in which Sidney Poitier's Homer Smith builds a chapel for German nuns in Arizona and wins the first Best Actor Oscar given to a Black actor.