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Lina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi (Achillina Bo, 1914–1992), Italian-born Brazilian architect of MASP and SESC Pompéia; known for 'arquitetura pobre', the 8-metre suspended MASP gallery, Habitat magazine, and the 2021 Venice Golden Lion in memoriam.
Lina Cheryazova
Lina Cheryazova (Лина Черязова), Uzbek freestyle aerials skier born 1968 in Tashkent, won the first Olympic women's aerials gold at Lillehammer 1994, still Uzbekistan's only Winter Olympic medal; world champion 1993, died 2019 in Novosibirsk.
Lina Esco
Lina Esco (born 1985, Miami) is an American actress, director, and activist of Colombian descent, known as Chris Alonso on S.W.A.T. (2017–2022) and for the Free the Nipple film and campaign.
Lina Gálvez
Lina Gálvez Muñoz is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician, a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 who chairs the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Lina Heydrich
Lina Heydrich, née Lina Mathilde von Osten (1911–1985), wife of SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, joined the Nazi Party in 1929, pushed his career toward Himmler, used camp prisoners as labor on her Bohemian estate, and after 1945 defended his reputation in memoirs and interviews.
Lina Hidalgo
Lina Hidalgo, Democratic Harris County Judge (county executive) in Houston since January 2019, first woman and first Latina elected county judge; unseated Ed Emmett in 2018, won a narrow 2022 reelection, and is not seeking a third term in 2026.
Lina Kaciusyte
Lina Inga Kačiušytė (Лина Качюшите), born 1963 in Vilnius, Soviet-Lithuanian breaststroke swimmer; 1980 Olympic 200 m breaststroke champion (2:29.54), 1978 world champion, and three-time 200 m world record holder.
Lina Khan
Lina Khan, American antitrust scholar and FTC Chair June 2021 to January 2025; author of the 2017 Yale Law Journal article "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox"; youngest-ever FTC chair at 32.
Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko (Ліна Костенко), born 19 March 1930, is a Ukrainian poet and a leading figure of the shistdesiatnyky, whose works include Marusia Churai (1979) and Berestechko (1999).
Lina Lazaar
Lina Lazaar (born 1983, Riyadh) is a Tunisian-Swiss curator and vice president of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation; she founded Ibraaz, the JAOU biennial, and curated Tunisia's 2017 Venice Biennale pavilion.
Lina M. Obeid
Lina M. Obeid (Lina Marie Obeid) was an American physician-scientist who showed that ceramide triggers programmed cell death, opening the field of sphingolipid signaling in cancer.
Lina Medina
Lina Medina is a Peruvian woman, born in 1933, who became the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth to son Gerardo at age five in 1939.
Lina Prokofiev
Lina Prokofiev (Carolina Codina Nemísskaia, Lina Llubera), Spanish-born soprano (1897-1989), wife of composer Sergei Prokofiev, Gulag prisoner 1948-1956, later London-based founder of the Prokofiev Foundation.
Lina Radke Batschauer
Lina Radke-Batschauer (Karoline, 1903-1983), German runner, won the inaugural women's Olympic 800m at Amsterdam 1928 in world-record 2:16.8, Germany's first athletics gold; the event was then dropped until 1960.
Lina Soualem
Lina Soualem, born 1990 in Paris, is a French-Algerian-Palestinian documentary director, daughter of Zinedine Soualem and Hiam Abbass; films Leur Algérie (2020) and Bye Bye Tiberias (2023), Prix Alice Guy 2025 winner.
Linaceae
Linaceae, the flax family, is a cosmopolitan family of about 9 genera and 280 species in the order Malpighiales, including Linum, the source of linen and linseed oil.
Linaclotide
Linaclotide (Linzess, Constella) is a 14-amino-acid guanylate cyclase-C agonist peptide for IBS-C, chronic idiopathic constipation, and pediatric functional constipation; US-approved 2012, pediatric IBS-C approval November 2025, main adverse effect diarrhea.
Linagliptin
Linagliptin (Trajenta, Tradjenta) is a DPP-4 inhibitor for type 2 diabetes, 5 mg once daily, eliminated mainly in faeces via bile, needing no dose adjustment in renal or hepatic impairment; CARMELINA and CAROLINA showed cardiovascular noninferiority.
Linalool
Linalool, also known as linalyl alcohol, is an acyclic monoterpene alcohol found in over 200 plant species and one of the most heavily used fragrance ingredients.
Linalyl acetate
Linalyl acetate is the acetate ester of linalool, a colorless liquid with a sweet, floral-fruity odor that is a major component of lavender and bergamot oils.
Linamara Rizzo Battistella
Linamara Rizzo Battistella is a Brazilian physiatrist, Titular Professor at the University of São Paulo, and first São Paulo State Secretary for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Linaprazan glurate (X842)
Linaprazan glurate (X842, CX842) is an ester prodrug of the potassium-competitive acid blocker linaprazan, developed by Cinclus Pharma and approved in China in December 2024 for reflux esophagitis.
Linares Deportivo
Linares Deportivo, Spanish football club founded 2009 in Linares, Jaén, successor to CD Linares (1990-2009); plays at Estadio de Linarejos, Segunda RFEF Group IV, SAD controlled by Pop Hellanes after 2026 ownership dispute.
Linaria vulgaris
Linaria vulgaris (yellow toadflax, butter-and-eggs, common toadflax) is a Eurasian perennial plantain with yellow spurred snapdragon-like flowers, invasive in North America via seeds and root buds, noxious in 10 U.S. states.
LINC00312
LINC00312, also called NAG7, is a human long non-coding RNA gene at 3p25.3 producing an intronless, single-exon transcript that acts as a tumor suppressor, is downregulated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and lung cancers, binds DNA-PKcs and YBX1, and modulates chemoradiation sensitivity.
Lincang Shi
Lincang Shi (临沧市), a prefecture-level city in southwestern Yunnan, China, between the Lancang and Nu rivers on the Myanmar border. 1 district, 4 counties, 3 autonomous counties; 2.195 million people; GDP 115.0 billion yuan (2024); Dianhong tea hometown.
Lince Capital
Lince Capital is an independent Portuguese venture capital firm founded in Lisbon in 2016 by Vasco Pereira Coutinho, managing funds from €9M to €146M for Portuguese businesses.
Lince Dorado
Lince Dorado (José Cordero) is a Puerto Rican masked luchador, WWE 2016-2021 with Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Gran Metalik), Chikara King of Trios 2008 winner, now coach and wrestler for AAA and WWE.
Lincoln (film)
Lincoln (2012) is Steven Spielberg's historical drama on Abraham Lincoln's final months and the fight for the Thirteenth Amendment, scripted by Tony Kushner from Team of Rivals, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, with 12 Oscar nominations and two wins.
Lincoln (novel)
Lincoln: A Novel is Gore Vidal's 1984 Random House historical novel (657 pages) about Abraham Lincoln's presidency, part of his Narratives of Empire cycle, adapted by NBC in 1988 and disputed by Lincoln scholars over factual accuracy.