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Lady Sarah Chatto
Lady Sarah Chatto (Sarah Frances Elizabeth Armstrong-Jones, born 1964) is a British painter, only daughter of Princess Margaret and the 1st Earl of Snowdon, wife of Daniel Chatto, mother of Samuel and Arthur, and a non-working maternal first cousin of King Charles III.
Lady Sarah McCorquodale
Lady Sarah McCorquodale (Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale, born 1955) is the eldest sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, co-executor of her will, former Memorial Fund president, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 2009.
Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill
Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, also known as Lady Sarah Burgos, was a British-born socialite and philanthropist, eldest daughter of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and a granddaughter of Consuelo Vanderbilt.
Lady Shiva
Lady Shiva (Sandra Wu-San/Woosan) is a DC Comics martial artist and assassin, created by Denny O'Neil and Ric Estrada, first appearing in Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #5 (1975); mother of Cassandra Cain.
Lady Sings the Blues (film)
Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 biographical drama directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Diana Ross as Billie Holiday with Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor; based on Holiday's 1956 autobiography, it earned five Oscar nominations and Motown's fastest-selling soundtrack to that time.
Lady Six Sky
Lady Six Sky, also known as Wak Chanil Ajaw, was a Maya queen who arrived at Naranjo in 682 to re-establish its dynasty and ruled in her own right.
Lady Snowblood (修羅雪姫) (film)
Lady Snowblood (修羅雪姫, Shurayuki-hime) is a 1973 Toho Japanese revenge film directed by Toshiya Fujita, starring Meiko Kaji as Yuki, adapted from the Koike-Kamimura manga and a major inspiration for Tarantino's Kill Bill.
Lady Sovereign
Lady Sovereign (Louise Amanda Harman) is an English rapper from London, renowned for her rapid-fire delivery and being the first non-American female artist signed to Def Jam in 2005.
Lady Starlight
Lady Starlight (Colleen Martin, born 1975) is an American DJ and performance artist, Lady Gaga's longtime tour DJ, and a Berlin-based hardware techno producer with Surgeon; releases on Stroboscopic Artefacts, Figure, Tresor.
Lady Sun
Lady Sun (孙夫人) was a woman of the late Han dynasty, sister of Sun Quan, whom Liu Bei married at Gong'an; she returned to Wu after he took Yizhou.
Lady Susan
Lady Susan is Jane Austen's short epistolary novella about the charming, manipulative widow Lady Susan Vernon, written around 1794-95, unpublished until 1871, and surviving as the only complete Austen fiction manuscript, in the Morgan Library.
Lady Trieu
Lady Trieu, also known as Triệu Thị Trinh, was a third-century Vietnamese woman who led an armed uprising against Eastern Wu rule in 248 and died the same year.
Lady Trieu's rebellion
Lady Trieu's rebellion (Khởi nghĩa Bà Triệu) was a 248 uprising against Eastern Wu rule in Vietnam, led by Trieu Thi Trinh and crushed by Luc Dan.
Lady Tsukiyama
Lady Tsukiyama (築山殿), also called Sena-hime or Suruga-gozen, was the first lawful wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the mother of his eldest son Nobuyasu and daughter Kame-hime.
Lady Vengeance (친절한 금자씨)
Lady Vengeance (친절한 금자씨) is Park Chan-wook's 2005 South Korean thriller, the final film of his Vengeance Trilogy, starring Lee Young-ae as Lee Geum-ja, wrongfully imprisoned 13 years, who takes revenge on Mr. Baek (Choi Min-sik); it won the Little Golden Lion at Venice.
Lady Victoria Hervey
Lady Victoria Frederica Isabella Hervey (born 1976) is an English model, socialite, and aristocrat, daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol; a 1990s It girl, Christian Dior model, Akademi boutique founder, Prince Andrew's ex-girlfriend, and a defender of Ghislaine Maxwell and critic of Virginia Giuffre.
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan is a four-act society comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed at London's St James's Theatre in February 1892 and his first hit play.
Lady with an Ermine
Lady with an Ermine (Dama con l'ermellino), Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1489-1490 oil on walnut portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, mistress of Ludovico Sforza; only Leonardo in Polish collections, held in Krakow's Czartoryski Museum.
Lady Xian
Lady Xian (冼夫人), honored as the 谯国夫人, was a hereditary chieftain of the Li people in Lingnan who chose allegiance over separatism and helped the Sui integrate the far south.
Lady Xoc
Lady Xoc, also written Lady Xook or Ix K'ab'al Xook, was a Maya noblewoman of Yaxchilan, principal wife of the ruler Shield Jaguar II, and famous for the bloodletting rite on Lintel 24.
Lady-in-waiting
Lady-in-waiting: a highborn female attendant serving a queen or noblewoman at court, from late medieval households (Philippa of Hainault, Violant de Bar) onward; roles, kinship recruitment, marriage brokerage, and political influence.
Ladybaby
LADYBABY (レディベイビー) is a Tokyo idol group formed March 2015 by Clearstone, mixing idol pop with metal screams as "Kawaii-Death"; four generations, HEROINES-affiliated since 2023, known for "Nippon Manju".
Ladybeard
Ladybeard (レディビアード) is the cross-dressing wrestler and kawaiicore metal singer persona of Australian Richard Magarey, born 1982 in Adelaide; created in Hong Kong, famous in Japan through LADYBABY, Deadlift Lolita, and BABYBEARD.
Ladybird (web browser)
Ladybird, also known as the Ladybird browser, is a free, open-source web browser with an engine written from scratch, targeting its first alpha release in 2026.
Ladybird Books
Ladybird Books is a British children's publishing imprint, founded 1914 by Wills & Hepworth, now part of Penguin Random House. Known for its 56-page wartime hardback format, the Key Words with Peter and Jane reading scheme (about 95 million copies sold), and educational series such as Ladybird Readers.
Ladybird Ladybird
Ladybird Ladybird (also Ladybird, Ladybird) is Ken Loach's 1994 British drama, written by Rona Munro, based on a true story of a mother fighting social services; Crissy Rock won the Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Ladybower Reservoir
Ladybower Reservoir is the largest reservoir in the Peak District, Derbyshire, begun in 1935 and opened by King George VI in 1945 after the villages of Derwent and Ashopton were flooded.
Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie
Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie, also known as Ladybug & Cat Noir Awakening, is a 2023 French animated musical film. It retells the origin of the Parisian superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Ladybugs (film)
Ladybugs is a 1992 American sports comedy directed by Sidney J. Furie, in which Rodney Dangerfield plays a salesman who coaches his company's girls' soccer team.
Ladyhawke (film)
Ladyhawke is a 1985 American medieval fantasy film directed by Richard Donner and starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, and Michelle Pfeiffer as two cursed lovers, a knight and a lady, kept apart by a bishop's spell.