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Lady Kitty Spencer
Lady Kitty Eleanor Spencer, born 1990 in London, is a British model, socialite, and philanthropist, eldest child of the 9th Earl Spencer and niece of Princess Diana; Dolce & Gabbana and Bulgari ambassador, married Michael Lewis in 2021.
Lady Lady (song)
Lady Lady is a song by Olivia Dean, released in July 2025. It is the lead single from her album, The Art Of Loving, and was written by Dean and Matt Hales.
Lady Lazarus
"Lady Lazarus" is a confessional poem by Sylvia Plath, written in October 1962 and first published in her 1965 collection Ariel, about a woman rising from death.
Lady Leshurr
Lady Leshurr (Melesha Katrina O'Garro), British grime rapper, singer, and producer from Kingshurst, Solihull, near Birmingham; broke through with the viral 2015 "Queen's Speech 4" freestyle, won a 2016 MOBO Award, and received the BEM in 2020.
Lady Li
Lady Li (李夫人) was a consort of Emperor Wu of Han from Zhongshan who bore the Prince of Changyi, died young, and was honored posthumously as Empress Xiaowu.
Lady London
Lady London (Zaire Miylaun Stewart, born 1995) is an American rapper from New York and East Orange, New Jersey; former pre-med Howard and USC graduate whose 2018 viral car freestyle led to the mixtape Lady Like: The Boss Tape and the 2023 Def Jam debut album S.O.U.L.
Lady Louise Windsor
Lady Louise Windsor (Lady Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor, born 2003) is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, 18th in line to the throne, a St Andrews graduate, carriage driver, and non-working royal.
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth is Shakespeare's wife character in Macbeth (First Folio, 1623), who incites Duncan's murder via the 'unsex me here' speech and collapses into the 'Out, damned spot' sleepwalking scene; famous on stage for actresses from Siddons and Terry to Cotillard and, in Verdi's opera, Lise Davidsen.
Lady Macbeth (film)
Lady Macbeth (2016) is William Oldroyd's debut feature, adapted by Alice Birch from Leskov's 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, relocating the story to Victorian northern England with Florence Pugh as Katherine, Cosmo Jarvis as Sebastian, and Naomi Ackie as Anna.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Леди Макбет Мценского уезда), Shostakovich's Op. 29 opera after Leskov, premiered Leningrad 1934, condemned by Pravda's "Muddle Instead of Music" in 1936, revived as Katerina Izmailova.
Lady Madonna
Lady Madonna, a 1968 Beatles single credited to Lennon–McCartney and written mainly by Paul McCartney. Bluesy boogie-woogie song inspired by Fats Domino's Blue Monday; UK No. 1, US No. 4; B-side The Inner Light, final Parlophone single.
Lady Margaret Beaufort
Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509), Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of Henry VII and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty; the most powerful woman in early Tudor England, founder of Christ's and St John's Colleges, Cambridge, and patron of early printing.
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, founded in 1878 as Oxford's first women's college by Edward and Lavinia Talbot, named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, coeducational since 1979, sited by the River Cherwell.
Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones
Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones (Margarita Elizabeth Rose Alleyne Armstrong-Jones, born 2002) is a British jewellery designer, founder of Matita Jewellery, granddaughter of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and a bridesmaid at the 2011 royal wedding.
Lady Marmalade
"Lady Marmalade" is a 1974 funk-soul single by Labelle, written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan, produced by Allen Toussaint in New Orleans, and known for the refrain "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?"; it hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975 and again in the 2001 Moulin Rouge! cover by Aguilera, Pink, Lil' Kim, and Mýa.
Lady Mary Grey
Lady Mary Grey (c.1545-1578), youngest sister of Lady Jane Grey, last Grey heir to the English throne; secretly married Thomas Keyes in 1565, was imprisoned by Elizabeth I, and died in London in 1578.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), English aristocrat, poet, and letter writer; author of the Turkish Embassy Letters and promoter who introduced smallpox variolation to Britain after observing it in Constantinople.
Lady Melville Lake
Lady Melville Lake, an officially named lake in Nunavut, Canada, at 69°8′N 92°30′W on NTS sheet 057C01; name formalized 13 March 1947 and distinct from Labrador's Lake Melville.
Lady Mi
Lady Mi (糜夫人) was a wife of the warlord Liu Bei and sister of the merchants Mi Zhu and Mi Fang, known mainly through the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Lady Miss Kier
Lady Miss Kier, born Kierin Magenta Kirby (1963, Youngstown, Ohio), American singer, DJ, and designer; Deee-Lite frontwoman behind "Groove Is in the Heart" (UK No. 2, US Dance No. 1), later a DJ and litigant in Kirby v. Sega.
Lady of Auxerre
The Lady of Auxerre (French: Dame d'Auxerre) is a 75 cm limestone statuette of a standing woman, made on Crete around 640–620 BC and now in the Louvre.
Lady of Cádiz
The Lady of Cádiz (Dama de Cádiz) is a Phoenician sarcophagus carved with a female figure, found at Cádiz, Spain, in 1980 and dated to about 460 BC.
Lady of Cao
The Lady of Cao (Señora de Cao) is a mummified Moche woman found in 2005 in Peru, regarded as the culture's first documented female ruler.
Lady of the Lake
Lady of the Lake, also Nimue, Viviane, or Niniane, an Arthurian enchantress of early 13th-century French romance who gives Arthur Excalibur, raises Lancelot, and imprisons Merlin; distinct from Walter Scott's 1810 Highland poem of the same title.
Lady of the Lions
The Lady of the Lions was a Canaanite woman who ruled a city in the Shephelah and wrote two letters to the Egyptian pharaoh around 1350 BCE.
Lady Pamela Hicks
. Lady Pamela Hicks, Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten, was a British aristocrat and author. She was the younger daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and first cousin of Prince Philip.
Lady Ponce
Lady Ponce, born Adèle Ruffine Ngono in 1983 in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, is a leading bikutsi singer, songwriter, and dancer nicknamed the Queen of Bikutsi.
Lady Rai
Lady Rai was an Egyptian nursemaid to Queen Ahmose-Nefertari in the early 18th Dynasty, whose mummy, found in 1881 at Deir el-Bahari, shows exceptional embalming.
Lady Randolph Churchill
Lady Randolph Churchill (Jeanette "Jennie" Jerome, 1854–1921), Brooklyn-born socialite, wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Winston Churchill; Primrose League Dame, Boer War hospital ship organizer, thrice married.
Lady Raven (album)
Lady Raven (Original Music From The Motion Picture TRAP), also styled LADY RAVEN, is a 2024 Columbia Records soundtrack album of 14 songs by Saleka Shyamalan as the fictional pop star Lady Raven in her father M. Night Shyamalan's film Trap, with guests Russ, Kid Cudi, and Amaarae.