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Lisa Franchetti
Lisa Marie Franchetti: 33rd US Chief of Naval Operations (November 2023 to February 2025), first woman as Navy service chief and Joint Chiefs member; retired admiral later on Cincinnati Financial's board, removed by Hegseth without explanation.
Lisa Frank
Lisa Frank, born in 1955, is an American artist and businesswoman who founded Lisa Frank Incorporated in Tucson, Arizona, in 1979, building it into a school-supplies brand with $1 billion in sales.
Lisa Frankenstein
Lisa Frankenstein (2024) is a Focus Features romantic horror comedy, Zelda Williams's directorial debut, written by Diablo Cody, starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse; set in 1989, it earned $9.9M worldwide on a $13M budget.
Lisa Frizell
Lisa Frizell is an American Republican politician serving in the Colorado Senate from District 2, previously a state representative elected in 2022 and a two-term Douglas County Assessor.
Lisa G. Wood
Lisa G. Wood, also known as Lisa Godbey Wood, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Georgia since 2007.
Lisa Gaye
Lisa Gaye (Leslie Gaye Griffin, 1935–2016), American actress and dancer of Rock Around the Clock (1956), Shake Rattle & Rock!, and TV's How to Marry a Millionaire as Gwen Kirby; sister of Debra Paget; distinct from the 1960-born Troma actress Lisa Gaye.
Lisa Gelius
Lisa Gelius (1909–2006) was a German athlete from Munich who won the javelin throw at the 1938 European Championships and took silver in the 80 m hurdles.
Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard, Australian contralto singer and film composer, co-founder of Dead Can Dance with Brendan Perry; Golden Globe winner for the Gladiator score with Hans Zimmer, vocalist on Dune, and no longer in Dead Can Dance as of 2026.
Lisa Gerritsen
Lisa Gerritsen (born 1957, Los Angeles), also Lisa Orszag, former American child actress who played Bess Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off Phyllis, and Lydia Monroe on My World and Welcome to It, active roughly 1968-1977.
Lisa Gill
Justice Lisa Gill is an Indian judge, Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court from 25 April 2026 and its first woman Chief Justice, formerly a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court appointed 31 March 2014.
Lisa Giocomo
Lisa M. Giocomo is a neuroscientist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies grid cells in the entorhinal cortex and the brain's spatial navigation system.
Lisa Grafstein
Lisa Grafstein is an American politician and civil rights attorney serving as a Democratic member of the North Carolina State Senate from District 13 since 2023.
Lisa Grub
Lisa Grub, German rifle shooter born 1992 in Weingarten, Bundeswehr sports soldier with SV Berg; world record 630.7 in 50m rifle prone at Osijek 2026, multiple world and European champion.
Lisa Guerrero
Lisa Guerrero (born 1964, Chicago; born Lisa Marie Coles) is an American investigative journalist, former Rams cheerleader and sportscaster, Monday Night Football sideline reporter in 2003, and Inside Edition chief investigative correspondent 2010–2025, author of Warrior: My Path to Being Brave.
Lisa Hammer
Lisa Hammer (born 1967) is a New York independent filmmaker, singer, and composer; voice of Triana Orpheus on The Venture Bros., frontwoman of Requiem in White, Mors Syphilitica, and Radiana, and director of Pus$bucket and Under the Midnight Sun.
Lisa Hammond (actress)
Lisa Hammond (actress), born 1983 in Chichester, is an English actress and writer with pseudoachondroplasia, known as Donna Yates in EastEnders (2014-2018), Kerry in Psychoville, and co-writer of the play Still No Idea.
Lisa Hanawalt
Lisa Hanawalt, American cartoonist and animator, creator of Tuca & Bertie and production designer of BoJack Horseman and Long Story Short; UCLA graduate, Drawn & Quarterly author, James Beard and Ignatz Award winner based in Los Angeles.
Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Hannigan (born 1981, Kilcloon, County Meath) is an Irish singer-songwriter, ex-vocal partner of Damien Rice, Mercury Prize-nominated for Sea Sew (2008), with albums Passenger and At Swim, and voice roles in Song of the Sea and Steven Universe.
Lisa Harrow
Lisa Harrow, New Zealand actress (born 1943 or 1945), RADA-trained, Royal Shakespeare Company Olivia in Twelfth Night (1969), BBC's Nancy Astor (1982), AFI Award for The Last Days of Chez Nous, ONZM honoree.
Lisa Hartman Black
Lisa Hartman Black, born 1956 in Houston, Texas, also known as Lisa Hartman, is an American actress and singer, star of Tabitha and Knots Landing, wife of Clint Black, and ACM-winning duet partner on "When I Said I Do."
Lisa Hayden-Johnson
Lisa Hayden-Johnson is a British woman from Brixham, Devon, jailed in 2010 for fabricating illness in her healthy son, a leading British case of fabricated or induced illness.
Lisa Haydon
Lisa Haydon (Lisa Haydon Lalvani, born 1986, Chennai) is an Australian model-turned-actress in Bollywood, known for Vijayalakshmi in Queen (2013), Aisha, Housefull 3, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, and marriage to Dino Lalvani.
Lisa Hernandez
Elizabeth "Lisa" Hernandez is an American Democratic politician representing Illinois' 2nd House district and serving as Deputy Majority Leader; she previously advised Lt. Governor Patrick Quinn and worked 17 years in Cicero Public Schools.
Lisa Hochstein
Lisa Hochstein, born 1982 in Toronto, is a Canadian-American model, Playboy centerfold, and Real Housewives of Miami cast member since 2012, known for her divorce from Lenny Hochstein and businesses Fly Beauty and Splitwell.
Lisa Hoffman
Lisa Hoffman is an American fragrance entrepreneur who founded Lisa Hoffman Beauty in Los Angeles in 2006, known for fragrance jewelry with refillable scented beads.
Lisa Hope Harris
Lisa Hope Harris is an American physician-researcher at the University of Michigan who studies abortion-provider stigma and reproductive health policy, testified against Michigan's 1931 abortion ban in 2022, and is a National Academy of Medicine member.
Lisa Jacob
Lisa Jacob (Lisa Rae Jacob, born 1974) is an American freestyle swimmer who won two relay golds at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, plus three golds and a silver at the 1991 Pan American Games.
Lisa Jakub
Lisa Jakub (born 1978, Toronto) is a Canadian retired actress, author, and mental wellness advocate known as Lydia in Mrs. Doubtfire and Alicia in Independence Day; she retired at 22, wrote two books, and founded BlueMala and Mission Flexible.
Lisa Jo Chamberlin
Lisa Jo Chamberlin, Mississippi's only woman on death row, was sentenced to death in 2006 for the 2004 Hattiesburg murders of Vernon Hulett and Linda Heintzelman, whose bodies were found in a Kansas freezer; appeals, including Batson and Andrew v. White claims, have been denied.
Lisa Joy
Lisa Joy (Lisa Joy Nolan), American screenwriter, director, and producer born in New Jersey; Stanford and Harvard Law graduate. Co-creator of HBO's Westworld, executive producer of Prime Video's Fallout, and president of production at Kilter Films with husband Jonathan Nolan. Distinct from the true crime author, realtor, and other namesakes.