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Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi (Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini), Argentine forward born 1987 in Rosario; Barcelona, PSG, Inter Miami and Argentina legend with a record 8 Ballons d'Or, 45 trophies, the 2022 World Cup, 900+ career goals, and 208 caps before his 2026 international retirement.
Lionel Penrose
Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898–1972), British psychiatrist and geneticist, third Galton Professor at UCL, Colchester Survey researcher, opponent of eugenics, pioneer of medical genetics and Down syndrome maternal-age link.
Lionel Plumenail
Lionel Plumenail (born 1967, Bordeaux) is a French left-handed foil fencer, Olympic silver medalist in individual foil at Atlanta 1996 and Olympic team foil champion at Sydney 2000, later a French national fencing coach.
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie (Lionel Brockman Richie Jr., born 1949, Tuskegee, Alabama), Commodores singer-songwriter and 1980s pop-R&B solo star; 125M+ albums, four Grammys, Oscar for "Say You, Say Me," co-wrote "We Are the World," Gershwin Prize 2022.
Lionel Scaloni
Lionel Sebastián Scaloni, Argentine coach of the national team 2018-2026; won Copa América 2021 and 2024, Finalissima 2022, and World Cup Qatar 2022; lost the 2026 final to Spain.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver, 1957) is an American novelist and Spectator columnist, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003), winner of the 2005 Orange Prize and adapted into Lynne Ramsay's 2011 film starring Tilda Swinton.
Lionel Stander
Lionel Jay Stander (1908–1994), American gravel-voiced character actor of stage, radio, film, and TV; blacklisted after defying HUAC in 1953, worked as a stockbroker, then starred as Max the chauffeur on Hart to Hart (1979–84), winning a 1983 Golden Globe.
Lionel Tate
Lionel Tate, Florida case of a 12-year-old tried as an adult for the 1999 killing of Tiffany Eunick; youngest reported modern life sentence, reversed in 2003 on competency grounds, later 30-year term for probation violation.
Lionel Trilling
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) was an American literary critic, teacher, and novelist who spent his career at Columbia University; his best-known book, The Liberal Imagination (1950), argued that literary imagination was essential to democracy.
Lionel W. McKenzie
Lionel W. McKenzie (1919–2010) was an American economist at the University of Rochester and a chief architect of modern general equilibrium theory, publishing the first proof of competitive equilibrium in 1954.
Lionel Wendt Theatre
The Lionel Wendt Theatre is a theater in Colombo, Sri Lanka, opened in December 1953 and named for photographer Lionel Wendt; it hosts much of Colombo's drama and concerts.
Lionel Whitby
Sir Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby (1895–1956) was a British haematologist who identified sulphapyridine as effective against pneumonia and commanded the British Army's Blood Transfusion Service during World War II.
Lionel-Groulx station
Lionel-Groulx station is a Montreal métro station in the borough of Sud-Ouest, opened in 1978, serving as the transfer point between the Green and Orange lines.
Lioness of Gobedra
The Lioness of Gobedra, locally Misle Anbesa, is a large feline carved in sunk relief on a boulder at the Aksumite quarries of Gobo Dura, about 5 km west of Aksum, Ethiopia.
Lionhead rabbit
Lionhead rabbit, a small domestic rabbit breed from France and Belgium with a wooly head mane from the mane gene (Swiss Fox × Netherland Dwarf cross); BRC-recognized 2002, ARBA-recognized 2013/2014, 2.5–3.75 lbs, 7–9 year lifespan.
Lionhead Studios
Lionhead Studios was a British video game developer in Guildford, England, founded by Peter Molyneux in 1997, known for Black & White and the Fable series.
Lionheart (1990 film)
Lionheart (1990 film), also known as Wrong Bet, is an American action film directed by Sheldon Lettich. It stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as a French Foreign Legion deserter.
Lionheart (2018 film)
Lionheart (2018) is Genevieve Nnaji's directorial debut, a Nigerian comedy-drama about Adaeze saving her father's Enugu bus company; the first Netflix original film from Nigeria, disqualified from the Oscars for its English dialogue.
Lionheart (UK wrestler)
Lionheart (Adrian McCallum), Scottish pro wrestler, ICW World Heavyweight Champion, Pro Wrestling Elite owner, died 19 June 2019 at 36 after an 18-year UK indie career.
Lions (United Rugby Championship)
The Lions, officially the Emirates Lions, are a South African professional rugby union team from Johannesburg that has played in the United Rugby Championship since 2021.
Lions Clubs International
Lions Clubs International (LCI), founded 1917 by Melvin Jones in Chicago, is a service club organization with 1.4 million Lions in 50,000 clubs across 200 countries, known for vision service, LCIF grants, and the MISSION 1.5 growth goal.
Lions for Lambs
Lions for Lambs (2007) is Robert Redford's political drama, the first film of the relaunched United Artists, starring Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise in three interwoven War on Terror stories; it earned 28% on Rotten Tomatoes and about $15 million.
Lionsgate Films
Lionsgate Films is the film production and distribution arm of Lionsgate Studios Corp. (NYSE: LION), founded 1997 by Frank Giustra, with a 20,000+ title library, John Wick and Hunger Games franchises, and Starz separated in May 2025.
Lionsgate Studios
Lionsgate Studios Corp. is a Vancouver-based Canadian film and television studio, publicly traded on the NYSE as LION, with a library of 18,000 titles and franchises like The Hunger Games and John Wick.
Lionsgate+
Lionsgate+ (formerly STARZPLAY) is Starz's premium international streaming service, launched May 2018, rebranded in 35 markets on September 29, 2022, then largely shut down across Europe, Latin America, and the UK by May 2024, leaving Canada, India, and a US Amazon Prime Video add-on at $6.99 per month.
Lionshare
Lionshare is a majority Black-owned investment holding company based in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded by Ike Cha (Isaac Chalumbira) and investing in real estate, fuel retail, transport, and energy.
Liopleurodon
Liopleurodon, a genus of macropredatory pliosaurid plesiosaurs from the Callovian Oxford Clay of England and France; revised 2026 estimates put L. ferox at 2.46–8.09 m, far below the 25 m Walking with Dinosaurs figure.
Lior Elbaz
Lior Elbaz is an Israeli electrochemist and full professor at Bar-Ilan University whose research on precious-metal-free fuel-cell catalysts led him to found the Israeli Fuel Cells Consortium in 2016.
Lior Pachter
Lior Pachter is an American computational biologist, the Bren Professor of Computational Biology at Caltech since 2017, known for the RNA-seq software kallisto and Cufflinks.
Lior Prosor
Lior Prosor is an Israeli venture capital investor, co-founder and General Partner of Hanaco Ventures, which managed about $2 billion before winding down fundraising in 2025.