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Lille
Lille, known in Dutch as Rijsel, is a city in northern France near the Belgian border, the prefecture of the Nord department and center of the Lille European Metropolis.
Lille OSC
Lille OSC (LOSC, Lille Olympique Sporting Club), French Ligue 1 club founded 1944 from the merger of Olympique Lillois and SC Fives; four titles (1946, 1954, 2011, 2021), six Coupes de France, home at Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
Lillebælt
Lillebælt (Little Belt), Danish strait between Jutland/Als and Funen/Ærø, ~130 km long, deepest ~80 m at Marens Hul; Ramsar site 154, Natura 2000 no. 112, Naturpark Lillebælt, dense porpoise population, marine naturnationalpark from 2026.
Lillehammer
Lillehammer, municipality and town in Innlandet county, Norway, on northern Mjøsa; merged with Fåberg in 1964, host of the 1994 Winter Olympics, UNESCO Literature City since 2017, 29,669 inhabitants in 2026.
Lillehammer affair
Lillehammer affair: 21 July 1973 killing of Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi by Mossad in Lillehammer, Norway, mistaken for Black September leader Ali Hassan Salameh; five agents convicted, later pardoned.
Lillestrøm
Lillestrøm, Norwegian municipality in Akershus (Nedre Romerike) between Oslo and Gardermoen airport; formed 1 January 2020 from Skedsmo, Fet, and Sørum; Norway's ninth largest with about 97,300 residents.
Lillet
Lillet, known as Kina Lillet until its 1986 relaunch, is a French aromatized wine aperitif, or quinquina, made in Podensac in the Graves region south of Bordeaux.
Lillete Dubey
Lillete Dubey (born 1953, Pune) is an Indian actor and theatre director, founder of the Primetime Theatre Company (1991), known for Dance Like a Man and film roles in Monsoon Wedding, Zubeidaa, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Lillgrund
Lillgrund is an offshore wind farm in the Øresund between Denmark and Sweden, commissioned in 2007, with 48 Siemens turbines totaling 110 MW, owned and operated by Vattenfall.
Lilli Kay
Lilli Kay, American actress, Carnegie Mellon drama graduate (2017), known as Fia Baxter in Your Honor, Clara Brewer in Yellowstone, and Zero in Apple TV+'s Stick; also appeared in Rustin and Task.
Lilli Palmer
Lilli Palmer (Lilli Marie Peiser, 1914–1986), German actress, writer, and painter; exiled 1933, starred in Body and Soul, The Four Poster (Venice Volpi Cup 1953), and Lotte in Weimar; married Rex Harrison then Carlos Thompson; best-selling autobiographer.
Lilli Tagger
Lilli Tagger (born 2008, Lienz, Austria) is an Austrian tennis player, 2025 Roland Garros girls' singles champion and 2026 Prague WTA titlist, known for her one-handed backhand and coached by Francesca Schiavone.
Lillian Board
Lillian Barbara Board (1948-1970), British sprinter and 800 m runner, London Olympiades. 1968 Olympic 400 m silver (52.12), 1969 European 800 m and 4x400 m relay gold, three world records, MBE; died of cancer at 22.
Lillian Bonsignore
Lillian Bonsignore, 37th FDNY Fire Commissioner sworn in January 6, 2026 under Mayor Zohran Mamdani; former FDNY Chief of EMS Operations (2019-2022), first openly gay commissioner, advocate of EMS pay parity.
Lillian C. Borrone
Lillian C. Borrone (born 1945) is an American civil engineer who in 1988 became the first woman in the world to head a major port.
Lillian Copeland
Lillian Copeland (Lillian Drossin, 1904–1964), American discus, shot put, and javelin thrower; 1928 Olympic discus silver, 1932 Olympic discus gold at 133 ft 2 in, nine AAU titles, 1935 Maccabiah triple gold, 1936 Berlin boycott participant.
Lillian Disney
Lillian Disney (Lillian Marie Bounds, 1899–1997), Walt Disney's wife, Disney studio inker who named Mickey Mouse, Carolwood Pacific right-of-way, and $50 million donor behind Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Lillian Droniak
Lillian Droniak (Grandma Droniak), born 1930, Shelton, Connecticut influencer on TikTok @grandma_droniak; started YouTube with grandson Kevin in 2012, viral funeral-rules TikTok 2022, ~15M TikTok followers by 2025.
Lillian Fanjul de Azqueta
Lillian Fanjul de Azqueta is an American businesswoman and director of Fanjul Corp., the sugar and real estate group behind Florida Crystals and Domino Sugar.
Lillian Gelberg
Lillian Gelberg is an American family physician and health services researcher, professor of family medicine at UCLA, known for the Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish, born Lillian Diana de Guiche, was an American actress called the greatest of the silent era, whose film career ran 75 years, from 1912 to 1987.
Lillian Gordy Carter
Lillian Gordy Carter (1898–1983), "Miss Lillian," was Jimmy Carter's mother, a registered nurse from Plains, Georgia who joined the Peace Corps at 68, served in India, and championed civil rights.
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), American playwright and memoirist; wrote The Children's Hour (691 performances) and The Little Foxes; refused to name names before HUAC in 1952; later wrote acclaimed but disputed memoirs.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878–1972), American industrial psychologist and engineer, 'Mother of Modern Management,' co-developer of time-and-motion study with Frank Gilbreth, first female NAE member and Purdue engineering professor, kitchen designer.
Lillian Roth
Lillian Roth (1910–1980), born Lillian Rutstein, American vaudeville, Broadway, and early-sound-film singer-actress of Animal Crackers and The Love Parade, later famous for her alcoholism memoir I'll Cry Tomorrow and its 1955 Susan Hayward film.
Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell (Helen Louise Leonard, 1860 or 1861-1922) was America's leading comic opera and operetta soprano of the 1880s-1890s, star of Tony Pastor, Casino Theater, and Weber and Fields shows, famed for "Come Down Ma Evenin' Star" and Gilded Age celebrity.
Lillian Schwartz
Lillian Schwartz (1927–2024) was an American artist and pioneer of computer-mediated art who spent 1968 to 2002 at Bell Labs making computer-animated films and proposing the Mona Leo hypothesis.
Lillian Siu
Lillian L. Siu is a Canadian medical oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the University of Toronto, known for early-phase anticancer drug trials and cancer genomics.
Lillie Langtry
Lillie Langtry (Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, 1853–1929), the Jersey Lily, a British professional beauty and actress, mistress of Edward VII, famed for her US tours, Pears Soap endorsements, and the Texas town Langtry named for her.
Lilliput and Blefuscu
Lilliput and Blefuscu are the two fictional island empires of Part I of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), at 12:1 scale, at war over which end of an egg to break, satirizing Whigs, Tories, and English religious history.