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Linda V. Parker

Linda Vivienne Parker, born 1958 in Detroit, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014.

Linda Walker (林思望) (character)

Linda Walker, originally Lin Siwang (林思望), is the heroine of the Chinese vertical micro-drama The Heiress Who Won With Brains (真千金她是学霸), played by Zhang Yingfei. A poor top student switched at birth with a fake heiress, she is known for a 719 mock-exam score, a stated IQ of 180, and going viral in the Philippines in 2026.

Linda Watson

Linda Watson (Linda Margaret Watson, born 1955), Zimbabwean field hockey player, Harare Sports Club; won gold in the first Olympic women's hockey tournament at Moscow 1980, Zimbabwe's first Olympic gold.

Linda Womack

Linda Womack (Zeriiya Zekkariyas), born 1953, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, daughter of Sam Cooke; with husband Cecil Womack she formed Womack & Womack, whose 1988 hit was "Teardrops".

Linda World

Linda World (哈尔滨世界欢乐城, Harbin World Happy City, Linda World Carnival) is a 315,000 m² cultural-tourism resort by Beijing Linda Group in Songbei District, Harbin, with European architecture, holographic stage plays, amusement venues, and an on-site Metropark hotel.

Linda Yaccarino

Linda Yaccarino is an American media and advertising executive who was CEO of X (formerly Twitter) from June 2023 until her 2025 resignation, after 12 years at NBCUniversal.

Linda Zingerle

Linda Zingerle (born 2002, San Candido, Italy) is an Italian biathlete, daughter of Andreas Zingerle; 2020 Youth Olympic mixed relay gold and pairs relay silver, 2022 junior world relay gold, 2025 European bronze medals.

Linda-Gail Bekker

Linda-Gail Bekker is a South African physician-scientist at the University of Cape Town who directs the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre and led the PURPOSE 1 lenacapavir trial.

Linda-Philomène Tsoungui

Linda-Philomène Tsoungui, known as Philo Tsoungui, is a German-Cameroonian drummer, composer, and producer based in Berlin, classically trained in Munich and Mannheim, The Mars Volta's touring drummer since 2022, and winner of the 2024 Female Producer Prize.

Lindane

Lindane (gamma-HCH, CAS 58-89-9) is an organochlorine insecticide registered in the 1940s, now restricted to second-line lice and scabies treatment; IARC Group 1 carcinogen, Stockholm Convention Annex A.

Lindau Gospels

The Lindau Gospels is a Latin gospel book written and illuminated at the Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland around 880–890, best known for its jeweled treasure binding.

Lindbergh kidnapping

The Lindbergh kidnapping: the March 1, 1932 abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in Hopewell, New Jersey; Bruno Richard Hauptmann's 1935 trial, 1936 execution, the Lindbergh Law, and lasting guilt controversy.

Lindblad equation

The Lindblad equation, also called the GKSL equation, is a master equation describing how the density matrix of an open quantum system evolves under Markovian, completely positive dynamics.

Linde Engineering

Linde Engineering is the plant-engineering division of Linde plc that designs and builds turnkey industrial plants for air separation, natural gas processing, hydrogen, and petrochemicals.

Linde plc

Linde plc, also known as The Linde Group, is an Irish-registered industrial gases and engineering company, formed in 2017 to merge Linde AG and Praxair.

Lindeberg's condition

Lindeberg's condition is a condition on triangular arrays of independent random variables requiring no single summand to dominate the total variance, yielding a normal limit for normalized row sums.

Lindelöf hypothesis

The Lindelöf hypothesis, also known as the Lindelöf conjecture, is a 1908 conjecture of Ernst Leonard Lindelöf asserting the Riemann zeta function grows slowly on the critical line.

Lindemann (band)

Lindemann was a German-Swedish industrial metal duo formed by Rammstein vocalist Till Lindemann and Peter Tägtgren of Hypocrisy and Pain, which released two albums before ending in 2020.

Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem

The Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem is a result in transcendental number theory, proved by Karl Weierstrass in 1885, stating that exponentials of distinct algebraic numbers are linearly independent over the algebraic numbers.

Linden Ashby

Linden Ashby (Clarence Linden Garnett Ashby III, born 1960) is an American actor and director, Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat (1995) and Sheriff Stilinski in Teen Wolf (2011–2017), also known for Melrose Place and The Young and the Restless.

Linden Capital Partners

Linden Capital Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm founded in 2004 that invests exclusively in middle-market healthcare companies, managing over $13 billion and closing its largest fund at $5.4 billion in 2025.

Linden Kemkaran

Linden Mary Kemkaran is the Reform UK leader of Kent County Council since May 2025, a former BBC News journalist and MoD private secretary, known for the leaked 'suck it up' video and a 3.99% council tax rise.

Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra

The Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra, also called the Lindenbaum algebra, is the algebra of formulas of a logic modulo provable equivalence, introduced by Lindenbaum and Tarski in 1926–27.

Lindenberg Island

Lindenberg Island (Lindenbergzuckerhut) is a small circular volcanic island rising 200 m above the Larsen Ice Shelf off the Nordenskjöld Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, discovered and named by Carl Anton Larsen on 11 December 1893 for C. Lindenberg of Hamburg.

Lindenwood University

Lindenwood University is a private nonprofit university in Saint Charles, Missouri, founded in 1832 by George and Mary Easton Sibley (corrected from 1827 in 2023), HLC-accredited since 1921, NCAA Division I in the Ohio Valley Conference since 2022.

Lindera

Lindera (spicebush) is a genus of about 100 aromatic trees and shrubs in Lauraceae, native from Asia to Queensland and eastern North America, with dioecious umbellate flowers, 2-celled anthers, and uses in medicine, timber, and horticulture.

Lindero Atravesado Occidental Oil and Gas Field

Lindero Atravesado Occidental is an unconventional onshore oil and gas field in Argentina's Neuquén Basin, near Neuquén city and operated by Pan American Energy with YPF.

Lindgren Patera

Lindgren Patera, a 110-km-wide patera (volcanic crater) on Venus at 28.10°N, 241.40°E, IAU-approved 2006, named for Swedish author Astrid Lindgren; one of 73 named Venus paterae.

Lindi Region

Lindi Region (Mkoa wa Lindi), south-eastern coastal region of Tanzania on the Indian Ocean; capital Lindi town; 67,000 km², 1.19 million people (2022), six councils, cashew and coconut farming, Songosongo natural gas.

Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, is a tidal island off Northumberland linked by a causeway, site of the 635 monastery of St Aidan, the 793 Viking raid, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and Lutyens' castle.