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LisAni! Live
LisAni! Live (リスアニ!ライブ) is a Japanese anime-song concert event produced by the media brand LisAni!, held every winter since 2010, mostly at Nippon Budokan, with every act performing with a live band.
Lisania
Lisania is an extinct genus of trilobites from the Cambrian of China and the type genus of the family Lisaniidae, named by Charles D. Walcott in 1911.
Lisanne de Roever
Lisanne de Roever (born 1979, Amstelveen) is a Dutch former field hockey goalkeeper, 40 caps 2001-2008, Olympic gold 2008 and silver 2004, world champion 2006, later Topsport Haarlemmermeer coordinator and DISC trainer.
LisaRaye McCoy
LisaRaye McCoy (also LisaRaye; born 1967, Chicago) is an American actress, director, and entrepreneur: Diamond in The Players Club (1998), Neesee James on All of Us, Keisha Greene on Single Ladies, former First Lady of Turks and Caicos.
Lisav Eissat
Lisav Naif Eissat (ליסב עיסאת), born 2005 in Haifa, is a Romanian centre-back at Bristol City, signed from Maccabi Haifa in July 2026 for £2.1m, who chose Romania over Israel through his Romanian mother and grandmother.
Lisbela and the Prisoner
Lisbela and the Prisoner (Lisbela e o Prisioneiro) is a 2003 Brazilian romantic comedy directed by Guel Arraes, adapted from Osman Lins's play and starring Selton Mello and Débora Falabella.
Lisbeth B. Schorr
Lisbeth B. Schorr is an American social policy and public health figure, a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy and a lecturer at Harvard.
Lisbeth Bech-Nielsen
Lisbeth Bech-Nielsen is a Danish politician of the Socialist People's Party who serves as Minister for Societal Security and Emergency Preparedness, the second person to hold the post.
Lisbeth List
Lisbeth List, also known as Liesbeth List (1941–2020), was a Dutch chanson and schlager singer known for duets with Ramses Shaffy, Brel interpretations, and the first ZDF-Hitparade in 1969.
Lisbeth Salander
Lisbeth Salander is the punk hacker heroine of Stieg Larsson's Millennium crime novels (2005–2007), continued by David Lagercrantz and Karin Smirnoff; over 100 million copies sold, portrayed by Noomi Rapace, Rooney Mara, and Claire Foy.
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa), capital of Portugal since 1255 on the Tagus estuary; Phoenician Alis-Ubbo, Roman Olisipo, reconquered 1147. Destroyed by the 1 November 1755 earthquake, fire, and tsunami; rebuilt as the Pombaline Baixa; today a tourism-driven capital of 548,703 facing a housing crisis.
Lisbon Academy of Sciences
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Lisbon Academy of Sciences), Portugal's national academy, founded 24 December 1779 under Queen Maria I; two Classes of Sciences and Letters, state consultative body on language, publisher of the VOLP and Portuguese reference dictionaries.
Lisbon Airport
Lisbon Airport, also known as Humberto Delgado Airport or Portela airport, is Portugal's main international airport, opened in 1942 and hub of TAP Air Portugal.
Lisbon District
Lisbon District (Distrito de Lisboa), one of Portugal's 18 mainland districts on the western coast: 16 municipalities, 2,761 km², 2,275,385 residents (2021 Census), Portugal's most populous and most expensive district housing market.
Lisbon Lions
Lisbon Lions: the Celtic FC side that won the 1966-67 European Cup, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon on 25 May 1967 as the first British club, all eleven players born within 30 miles of Glasgow.
Lisbon metropolitan area
Lisbon metropolitan area (Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, AML): Portuguese intermunicipal entity created by Law 44/91, grouping 18 municipalities around Lisbon, about 2.8 million inhabitants, governed by a 55-member council, responsible for transport, planning, and regional development.
Lisbon Story
Lisbon Story (Viagem a Lisboa) is Wim Wenders' 1994 German-Portuguese comedy-drama, commissioned for Lisbon 94 European Capital of Culture, starring Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Madredeus, and Manoel de Oliveira.
Lisburn
Lisburn (Lios na gCearrbhach, formerly Lisnagarvey) is a Northern Ireland city on the River Lagan southwest of Belfast, founded by the Conways in the 1620s and a leading Irish linen centre through the Crommelin, Coulson, and Barbour enterprises; city status 2002.
Lisch epithelial corneal dystrophy
Lisch epithelial corneal dystrophy, also called band-shaped and whorled microcystic dystrophy, is a rare corneal dystrophy with feathery gray opacities that first appear in childhood and slowly progress.
Lisdexamfetamine
Lisdexamfetamine, sold as Vyvanse and Elvanse, is a central nervous system stimulant prodrug bonding dextroamphetamine to l-lysine, approved for ADHD and moderate to severe binge eating disorder.
Lisdoonvarna
Lisdoonvarna (Lios Dúin Bhearna), County Clare, Ireland's only active spa town, grew around sulphur and iron springs in the Clare Shales and hosts Europe's largest September matchmaking festival, drawing over 60,000 visitors.
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner (1878–1968) was an Austrian-born physicist who gave the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission with Otto Frisch, though the 1944 Nobel Prize went to Otto Hahn alone.
Lisell Jaatma
Lisell Jäätma (born 1999) is an Estonian compound archer from Türi, sister of Robin Jäätma. Three-time Nimes champion, Estonian record holder (709), and 2026 Shanghai World Cup gold medalist.
Liselott Linsenhoff
Liselott Linsenhoff (1927–1999), German dressage rider, née Schindling; won five Olympic medals 1956–1972 and was the first woman to win Olympic equestrian gold, individual dressage on Piaff at Munich 1972. Not her granddaughter Liselott Marie Linsenhoff.
Liselotte Landbeck
Liselotte Landbeck (1916-2013), Austrian-born speed skater and figure skater for Belgium; first woman under 1 minute at 500 m, five world records, 1933 unofficial world allround champion, fourth at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Lisette Melendez
Lisette Melendez, born 1967, is a Puerto Rican-American freestyle and dance-pop singer from Spanish Harlem, New York, best known for her 1991 hit "Together Forever".
Lisette Model
Lisette Model (1901–1983), born Elise Stern in Vienna, was an Austrian-born American photographer known for confrontational street portraits of ordinary people and for decades of influential teaching.
Lisette Sevens
Lisette Sevens (Elisabeth Anthonius Maria Ignatius Sevens, born 1949, Helmond) is a Dutch field hockey midfielder and captain who won gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and four World Cups (1974, 1978, 1979, 1983) with the Netherlands.
Lisey's Story
Lisey's Story is Stephen King's 2006 Scribner novel about widow Lisey Landon, her late novelist husband Scott, and the supernatural land Boo'ya Moon; King's self-declared favorite, adapted as an eight-episode Apple TV+ miniseries in 2021.
Lisey's Story (miniseries)
Lisey's Story is an 8-episode 2021 Apple TV+ horror-drama miniseries written by Stephen King from his 2006 novel, directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen.