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Ladislaus II of Hungary

Ladislaus II of Hungary, also known as Ulászló II, was a Jagiellonian king who reigned over Bohemia from 1471 and Hungary from 1490 until 1516.

Ladislaus IV of Hungary

Ladislaus IV of Hungary, called Ladislaus the Cuman, was king of Hungary and Croatia from 1272 to 1290, son of Stephen V and a Cuman princess.

Oct 10, 2026

Ladislaus Laszlo Marton

Ladislaus Laszlo Marton (1901–1979) was a Hungarian-born physicist who built one of the first electron microscopes in Brussels and recorded the first biological electron microscope images in 1934.

Oct 10, 2026

Ladislaus Marton

Ladislaus Marton (1901–1979 or 1980) was a Hungarian-born physicist who took the first electron micrographs of biological material and warned in 1934 that electron beams destroy cells.

Ladislaus the Posthumous

Ladislaus the Posthumous, born four months after his father's death, was king of Hungary and Bohemia and duke of Austria who died at 17 without heir.

Ladislav Fuks

Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994) was a Czech prose writer best known for psychological fiction about fear, persecution, and the Holocaust, including Pan Theodor Mundstock and The Cremator.

Sep 27, 2026

Ladislav Kamenický

Ladislav Kamenický is a Slovak politician of Smer-SSD serving as Minister of Finance of Slovakia, where he defends fiscal consolidation and leads preparation of the 2027 state budget.

Ladislav Moc

Ladislav Moc (1931–2022), Czechoslovak race walker, set 50 km walk world records in 1955 and 1956, placed 8th and 11th at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and coached Olympic champion Jozef Pribilinec.

Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé, born Ladislav Nádaši (1866–1940), was a Slovak physician and prose writer from Dolný Kubín, a leading exponent of Slovak naturalism whose works include Adam Šangala and Cesta životom.

Ladislav Vacha

Ladislav Vácha (1899–1943), Czech Sokol gymnast from Brno, won five Olympic medals including parallel bars gold at Amsterdam 1928 and world team titles in 1926 and 1930; he died in 1943 after Gestapo torture as a resistance member.

Ladislav Vizek

Ladislav Vízek is a Czech former footballer who was top scorer of Czechoslovakia's gold-medal 1980 Moscow Olympic team and scored 115 goals in 310 league games for Dukla Praha.

Oct 20, 2026

Ladispoli

Ladispoli, also called the city of Ladislao Odescalchi, is a Tyrrhenian coastal town in Lazio founded in 1888, autonomous from Cerveteri since 1970, on the territory of the ancient Roman colony of Alsium.

Ladki: Dragon Girl

Ladki: Dragon Girl (लड़की; Enter the Girl Dragon, 龙女孩) is a 2022 Indo-Chinese martial arts film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and Jing Liu, starring debutante Pooja Bhalekar as a Bruce Lee-inspired fighter; released 15 July 2022, it earned ₹0.02 crore in India and $190,000 in China.

Ladle Hill Iron Age Fort

Ladle Hill Iron Age Fort: an unfinished Early Iron Age hillfort on Ladle Hill, Hampshire, scheduled with a saucer barrow, disc barrow and Bronze Age linear earthworks; its abandoned defences show hillfort construction methods.

Lado Enclave

The Lado Enclave was a leased territory on the west bank of the Upper Nile, administered by the Congo Free State under Leopold II from 1894 to 1909.

Lado Gogoladze

Lado Gogoladze (Vladimer Gogoladze, ვლადიმერ გოგოლაძე), Soviet artistic gymnast from Tbilisi, 1988 Seoul Olympic team gold medalist, 1985 European all-around and parallel bars bronze medalist; died 2026.

Lado Gudiashvili

Lado Gudiashvili (ლადო გუდიაშვილი; born Vladimir Gudiashvili, 1896–1980) was a Georgian painter, graphic artist, and muralist and a leading Tbilisi modernist, known for Paris-period works like The Fish Alive.

Ladoga Lacus

Ladoga Lacus is a 110-km-wide hydrocarbon lake at 74.8°N on Titan, named after Russia's Lake Ladoga and approved by the IAU in 2013, one of the methane-ethane lakes of Titan's north polar region.

Ladoke Akintola

Samuel Ladoke Akintola was a Nigerian politician, lawyer, and journalist who served as Premier of the Western Region and was assassinated in Ibadan on January 15, 1966.

Ladon Valles

Ladon Valles, a 278 km-wide valley system in Margaritifer Terra on Mars, carved by Late Noachian to Hesperian floods of the Uzboi-Ladon-Morava outflow system draining into Ladon basin, with clay-bearing sediments recording long-lived water.

Ladozhskaya

Ladozhskaya (Ладожская) is a stanitsa of about 14,800 people in Ust-Labinsky District, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, on the Kuban River, with Maeotian and Sarmatian-era archaeology; distinct from the Saint Petersburg metro station, a Moscow street, and an ornithological station of the same name.

Ladrones (band)

Ladrones is a Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico band formed in 2021, known for "Flow Pesado", a fusion of nu metal, hip hop, and corridos tumbados. Albums: Flow Pesado (2024), Mexican Pesado (2025), Arriba La L (2026, Rise Records). Distinct from the grupera band Ladron.

Ladurée

Ladurée (Maison Ladurée) is a Parisian luxury pâtisserie founded in 1862 on rue Royale, famous for the double-shell ganache macaron and early tea salon; Holder family-owned since 1993 with 100-plus shops worldwide.

Lady

Lady: English word for a woman, from Old English hlæfdige (loaf-kneader), female counterpart of lord; a British peerage title and, in modern usage, a polite or contested alternative to woman.

Lady (2025 film)

Lady (2025 film) is Samuel Abrahams's British mockumentary comedy, also called Lady Isabella's story, starring Sian Clifford as an aristocrat who turns invisible; premiered at BFI London Film Festival 2025, distinct from Olive Nwosu's Lagos film of the same name.