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L. P. Hartley
L. P. Hartley, full name Leslie Poles Hartley (1895–1972), was an English novelist and short-story writer whose reputation rests chiefly on The Go-Between and the Eustace and Hilda trilogy.
L. Patrick Gray
L. Patrick Gray III (1916–2005), American lawyer and Navy captain, was Acting FBI Director May 1972–April 1973 during Watergate; his failed 1973 confirmation over passing files to John Dean and destroying Hunt's papers forced his resignation.
L. Q. Jones
L. Q. Jones (Justice Ellis McQueen Jr., 1927–2022) was an American character actor in Westerns and war films, a Sam Peckinpah stock-company member in The Wild Bunch, and writer-director of the Hugo-winning A Boy and His Dog (1975).
L. R. Ford, Jr.
L. R. Ford, Jr., full name Lester Randolph Ford, Jr. (1927–2017), was an American mathematician at RAND who co-founded network flow theory with Fulkerson and devised the Ford–Johnson sorting algorithm.
L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard, born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, was an American writer who founded Dianetics in 1950 and then the Church of Scientology, leading it until his death in 1986.
L. S. Lowry
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976), English painter of industrial Manchester and Salford with 'matchstick men' figures; rent collector 1910–1952, first London show 1939, RA 1962, declined a knighthood.
L. Scott Caldwell
L. Scott Caldwell (Laverne Scott, born 1950, Chicago) is an American actress; Tony winner 1988 for Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Rose Nadler on Lost, Broadway credits Home and Proposals, films The Fugitive and Bingo Hell.
L. Stirling Churchman
L. Stirling Churchman is an RNA biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for pioneering NET-seq and for showing that mitochondrial and cytosolic translation are synchronized.
L. Subramaniam
L. Subramaniam (Lakshminarayana Subramaniam), born 1947 in Madras, is an Indian Carnatic violinist, composer, and conductor, Padma Vibhushan awardee, pioneer of global fusion, and creator of over 200 recordings.
L. Thompson Bowles
L. Thompson Bowles is an American thoracic surgeon and academic medicine leader who was dean of the George Washington University School of Medicine from 1976 to 1988.
L. V. Prasad (అక్కినేని లక్ష్మీ వర ప్రసాద రావు)
L. V. Prasad (అక్కినేని లక్ష్మీ వర ప్రసాద రావు), 1908–1994, Telugu film director, producer, and actor; acted in the first talkies of Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu; founded Prasad Studios and the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute; Dadasaheb Phalke Award 1982.
L. Wally Holm
L. Wally Holm, born Leroy Wallace Holm, was an American petroleum engineer at Unocal and a pioneer of carbon dioxide flooding, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.
L.A. (Light Album)
L.A. (Light Album) is the Beach Boys' 1979 studio album on Caribou Records, their last of the 1970s, known for the 11-minute disco "Here Comes the Night" and Dennis Wilson's final major contributions.
L.A. Beast
L.A. Beast, also known as Kevin Thomas Strahle, is a professional competitive eater who has set Guinness World Records, including eating nine powdered doughnuts in three minutes.
L.A. by Night
L.A. by Night is an American actual play web series where performers play Vampire: The Masquerade, led by Storyteller Jason Carl, running from 2018 to 2021.
L.A. Confidential
L.A. Confidential: James Ellroy's 1990 crime novel, third of the L.A. Quartet, about three corrupt LAPD detectives and the Nite Owl Massacre, and Curtis Hanson's 1997 Oscar-nominated film adaptation with Spacey, Crowe, and Pearce.
L.A. Confidential (film)
L.A. Confidential (1997), also known by its full title, is Curtis Hanson's neo-noir crime film adapted from James Ellroy's novel, starring Spacey, Crowe, Pearce, and Basinger; nine Oscar nominations, two wins, Cannes 1997 premiere.
L.A. Guns
L.A. Guns (LA Guns) is a Los Angeles glam metal/hard rock band formed in 1983 by Tracii Guns, briefly including Axl Rose before the 1985 merger that formed Guns N' Roses; known for the gold albums L.A. Guns (1988) and Cocked and Loaded (1989), a 2006-2012 two-band schism, and the 2016 Guns-Lewis reunion.
L.A. Law
L.A. Law is an NBC legal drama created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, running eight seasons from 1986 to 1994, set at the fictional Los Angeles firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, winner of 15 Emmy Awards.
L.A. Live
L.A. Live (L.A. LIVE) is AEG's sports and entertainment district in Downtown Los Angeles surrounding Crypto.com Arena and Peacock Theater, built in three phases from 2007 to 2010, home to the Emmys and, from 2029, the Oscars.
L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire (LA Noire) is a 2011 Team Bondi detective game published by Rockstar, set in 1947 Los Angeles with Cole Phelps, MotionScan facial capture, Metacritic 89, and a VR Case Files spin-off.
L.A. Reid
Antonio "L.A." Reid (born 1956, Cincinnati) is an American record executive, producer, and three-time Grammy winner who co-founded LaFace Records with Babyface and led Arista, Island Def Jam, and Epic Records.
L.A. Story
L.A. Story (1991) is an American romantic comedy directed by Mick Jackson, written by and starring Steve Martin as weatherman Harris K. Telemacher, who follows advice from a talking freeway sign while romancing Victoria Tennant and Sarah Jessica Parker.
L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman (also "LA Woman") is the Doors' sixth and final studio album with Jim Morrison, released April 19, 1971 on Elektra, produced by Bruce Botnick and the band at their Santa Monica Boulevard workshop, their bluesiest record with "Riders on the Storm" and "Love Her Madly."
L.A.'s Finest
L.A.'s Finest is an American action crime drama television series spun off from the Bad Boys films, starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba as LAPD partners.
L.E. Borgman
L.E. Borgman (Leon E. Borgman, 1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer at the University of Wyoming, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
L.F. Rothschild
L.F. Rothschild, also known as L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, was a New York investment bank founded in 1899, known for underwriting technology companies before its 1989 bankruptcy.
L.H.O.O.Q.
L.H.O.O.Q. is Marcel Duchamp's 1919 Dada readymade: a cheap Mona Lisa reproduction with a penciled mustache and goatee, titled with the French pun "Elle a chaud au cul"; later versions include the 1930 replica and 1965 L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved.
L.I.V.E. in São Paulo
L.I.V.E. in São Paulo (Live Immersive Virtual Experiment) is a 2026 concert film and live album by Bring Me The Horizon, documenting their biggest headline show, November 30, 2024 at Allianz Parque, São Paulo, for 50,000 fans; cinema release March 25 and 28, 2026, album April 10, 2026.
L.K. Sudhish
L.K. Sudhish, DMDK treasurer and Vijayakanth's brother-in-law, is a Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu (2026–2032), the party's first MP, elected unopposed with DMK backing after losing the 2019 Kallakurichi Lok Sabha race.