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Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress
The Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress (लाहौर अधिवेशन), held at Lahore in December 1929, rejected dominion status and declared Purna Swaraj, complete independence, its goal.
Lahore University of Management Sciences
LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) is Pakistan's first private university, chartered 1985 in Lahore, founded by Syed Babar Ali. Five schools, 100-acre DHA campus, AACSB-accredited business school, top QS subject ranks in Pakistan.
Lahori Zeera
Lahori Zeera is a packaged carbonated cumin soft drink made by Chandigarh-based Archian Foods, founded in 2017 by three cousins and sold at Rs 10 a bottle.
Lahti
Lahti is a city of about 122,000 in southern Finland, capital of Päijät-Häme on Lake Vesijärvi, founded 1905, European Green Capital 2021, Salpausselkä Geopark, and a record host of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Lahti L-39
The Lahti L-39, nicknamed Norsupyssy, was a Finnish 20 mm semi-automatic anti-tank rifle designed by Aimo Lahti and used by the Finnish Army in World War II.
Lahun
Lahun, also El-Lahun or Illahun, is an archaeological site in Egypt's Fayum, home to the Twelfth Dynasty pyramid of Senusret II and a large planned workers' town.
Lahun Mathematical Papyri
The Lahun Mathematical Papyri, also called the Kahun Mathematical Papyri, are Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematical fragments found at Lahun in the Fayum and held in the Petrie Museum in London.
Lahun papyri
The Lahun papyri, also called the Kahun Papyri, are the largest surviving group of Middle Kingdom papyri from Egypt, excavated at Lahun by Flinders Petrie from 1889.
Lai Bhaari (लई भारी)
Lai Bhaari (लई भारी), also spelled Lay Bhaari, is a 2014 Marathi action drama directed by Nishikant Kamat, marking Riteish Deshmukh's Marathi debut in a double role as Mauli and Prince; it became the highest-grossing Marathi film of its time.
Lai Chang Wen
Lai Chang Wen (赖长文) is a Singaporean entrepreneur, the co-founder and CEO of Ninja Van, the express logistics company he started in Singapore in 2014 with Shaun Chong and Boxian Tan.
Lai Chau hydroelectric plant
Lai Chau hydroelectric plant (Thủy điện Lai Châu) is a 1,200 MW run-of-river hydroelectric plant on the Da River in Lai Chau province, Vietnam, inaugurated in 2016.
Lai Ching-te (赖清德)
Lai Ching-te (賴清德, William Lai), born 1959, is president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 20 May 2024, the 16th-term president and a Harvard-trained physician; formerly DPP chair, Tainan mayor, premier, and vice president under Tsai Ing-wen.
Lai Guanlin
Lai Guanlin (라이관린), born 2001, is a Taiwanese singer and actor who rose to fame on Produce 101 Season 2 in 2017 as a member of Wanna One.
Lai He
Lai He (賴和, 1894–1943) was a Taiwanese physician, poet, novelist, and activist from Changhua, honored as the father of Taiwan new literature and a pioneer of Hoklo vernacular writing.
Lai Huer
Lai Huer (來護兒), courtesy name Chongshan, was a Sui dynasty general and Duke of Rong who led seaborne assaults on Goguryeo in 612 and 614.
Lai Jianping
Lai Jianping (赖建平) is a retired Haitian employee who became one of the condiment maker's largest individual shareholders, worth an estimated RMB 14 billion in 2025.
Lai Ka-ying (黎家盈)
Lai Ka-ying, also known as Li Jiaying, is a Hong Kong astronaut and payload specialist who became the first astronaut from Hong Kong, flying on Shenzhou 23 in 2026.
Lai Kuan-lin (赖冠霖)
Lai Kuan-lin (赖冠霖, Edward Lai), born 2001 in Taiwan, is a former Wanna One member (Produce 101 Season 2, 7th place, 2017) who won a 2021 contract dispute with Cube Entertainment, acted in Chinese dramas, and became a film director at Wanhemeiying in 2025.
Lai Meisong
Lai Meisong (赖梅松), born 1970, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded ZTO Express in Shanghai in 2002 and has led it as CEO and, since 2013, chairman.
Lai Pen-mei
Lai Pen-mei (赖盆妹) was a Taiwanese businesswoman who, with her husband Yang Bing-yi, founded Din Tai Fung in Taipei in 1958 as a cooking-oil shop, later a soup dumpling chain.
Lai Weiming (赖伟明)
Lai Weiming (赖伟明), born 2001 in Ningde, Fujian, is a Chinese mainland actor and University of South China graduate. Signed with Laning Media in 2022, he starred in Da Meng Gui Li, Zi Ye Gui, and as Zhuang Xu in Jiao Yang Si Wo, winning a 2025 Tencent Video New Face award.
Lai Wenguang
Lai Wenguang (赖文光, 1827–1868) was a Taiping general who became supreme leader of the Nian forces after 1864, defeating and killing the Mongol prince Sengge Rinchen in 1865.
Lai Yih Group
Lai Yih Group (来亿集团) is a Taiwanese footwear manufacturer founded in 1987 and headquartered in Taichung, producing athletic shoes for Adidas, Converse, and Deckers from factories in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Myanmar.
Lai-Sang Young
Lai-Sang Young, born 1952, is a Hong Kong-born American mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute known for her work on chaos and dynamical systems, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Lai‐Sheng Wang
Lai-Sheng Wang is an experimental physical chemist who became chair of chemistry at Brown University in 2019, known for golden buckyballs, the Au20 gold pyramid, and all-boron fullerenes.
Lai! Jin Lai Hao!
Lai! Jin Lai Hao! (來！金來號！, Fired Up!) is a 2026 Taiwanese HBO Max drama, a 12-episode adaptation of the webtoon Itaewon Class, starring Eric Chou as a son running the family restaurant Chin Lai Hao.
Laia Costa
Laia Costa (Laia Costa Bertrán, born 1985, Barcelona) is a Spanish actress famous for the one-take film Victoria (2015), first foreign winner of a Lola, Goya winner for Cinco lobitos, and star of Un amor and The Wheel of Time.
Laiba Khan
Laiba Khan (لائبہ خان), Pakistani actress and model in Urdu television; debut 2018, lead as Sitara in Kaffara (2024, over one billion views), also Aafat, Aas Paas, Mohra; married Jawad, nikkah 2024 in Madinah.
Laibach
Laibach, Slovenian avant-garde industrial band founded 1980 in Trbovlje, named after Ljubljana's German name; musical wing of NSK, banned in 1983, Mute-signed, first Western band to play North Korea (2015).
Laibin
Laibin (来宾市; Zhuang Laizbinh) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangxi, China, established in 2002, with about 2.07 million people, mostly Zhuang and Yao, and a sugar industry producing a tenth of China's sugar.