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Laine Hardy
Laine Hardy is an American country singer from Livingston, Louisiana, born in 2000, who won the seventeenth season of American Idol in 2019 and released the album Here's to Anyone in 2021.
Lainey Reid
Lainey Reid, real name Tylynn Register (born 1998, Gadsden, Alabama), is a WWE SmackDown wrestler and former track star. A Fatal Influence member, she won the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship with Fallon Henley in July 2026.
Lainey Wilson
Lainey Wilson (born 1992, Baskin, Louisiana) is an American country singer-songwriter and actress; albums Bell Bottom Country and Whirlwind, CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year, Opry member, Abby on Yellowstone.
Laing distal myopathy
Laing distal myopathy (MPD1, Laing early-onset distal myopathy) is a rare autosomal dominant MYH7-related distal myopathy with childhood-onset weakness of ankle dorsiflexors, great toes, finger extensors, and neck flexors, slow progression, and normal life expectancy.
Laing O'Rourke
Laing O'Rourke is a privately owned international engineering and construction company headquartered in Dartford, Kent, formed in 2001 when R O'Rourke & Son acquired John Laing's construction arm.
Lainie Friedman Ross
Lainie Friedman Ross, also published as Lainie F. Ross, is an American pediatrician and bioethicist who chairs the Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester.
Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan (born Lainie Levine, 1940, Brooklyn) is an American singer-actress: Funny Girl understudy, 26 Dean Martin Show appearances, Golden Globe and Tony nominee for My Favorite Year, and Maria Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
LAION
LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) is a German non-profit that releases large machine learning datasets and models, best known for LAION-5B, used to train Stable Diffusion.
LAION-5B
LAION-5B is an open dataset of 5.85 billion image-text pairs, assembled in 2022 by the nonprofit LAION from Common Crawl and used to train Stable Diffusion.
LAION-5B child sexual abuse material discovery
The LAION-5B child sexual abuse material discovery was Stanford Internet Observatory's December 2023 report finding over 1,000 confirmed CSAM entries in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion.
LAION-5B CSAM discovery
The LAION-5B CSAM discovery was the December 2023 Stanford Internet Observatory finding that the LAION-5B dataset contained over 1,000 links to child sexual abuse material, prompting its removal.
Laird
Laird, Scots word for a Scottish landed estate owner, equivalent to the English squire; from Old English hlaford. A courtesy description, not nobility; souvenir plot sales confer no legal title.
Laird Hamilton
Laird Hamilton (born Laird John Zerfas) is a Hawaiian big-wave surfer and waterman, pioneer of tow-in surfing, stand-up paddleboarding, and foil boarding, famous for the 2000 Teahupo'o Millennium Wave and never competing professionally.
Lais of Marie de France
The Lais of Marie de France are twelve narrative poems in Anglo-Norman French composed around 1160, the earliest known secular writing by a woman in medieval Europe.
Lais Ribeiro
Lais Ribeiro, Brazilian model from Miguel Alves, Piauí; Victoria's Secret Angel from 2015 who wore the $2 million 2017 Champagne Nights Fantasy Bra in Shanghai and missed only the 2012 show.
Laisha Michelle Oseguera González
Laisha Michelle Oseguera González (born 2001), youngest child of CJNG leader El Mencho and Rosalinda González Valencia; accused in the 2021 Zapopan Navy kidnapping, obtained an amparo, and owns the café El Rincón La Chulis in Perris, California; never criminally charged.
Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire (laissez faire, laissez passer), an economic philosophy of deregulation and minimal state interference, originating with the French physiocrats and Vincent de Gournay; its optimal conditions, Lochner Era history, and the mixed-economy stability debate.
Laith J. Abu-Raddad
Laith J. Abu-Raddad (Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad) is a Qatar-based infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, known for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies.
Laity
The laity, or lay people, are the members of a religious body who are not clergy; in Catholic teaching they are the faithful who are not ordained ministers.
Laiwu
Laiwu (莱芜区) is a district of Jinan, Shandong, China, formerly a prefecture-level city abolished in January 2019. A steel and iron-ore mining center at Shandong's geographical center, GDP 105.74 billion yuan in 2025.
Laiwu Campaign
The Laiwu Campaign (莱芜战役) was a 1947 Chinese Civil War battle in Shandong where the Communist East China Field Army destroyed over 56,000 Nationalist troops.
Laiwu Shi
Laiwu Shi (莱芜市), a prefecture-level city in central Shandong, China, was abolished in 2018. Its territory was divided and absorbed by Jinan, forming Laiwu District and Gangcheng District.
Laixi
Laixi (莱西市) is a county-level city of Qingdao in Shandong, China, between Qingdao, Yantai, and Weihai. Known for Laixi Lake, the Jiaodong Peninsula's largest reservoir, strong agriculture, and its "Laixi Weekend" tourism brand.
Laiyang
Laiyang (莱阳市) is a county-level city of Yantai, Shandong, in the Jiaodong Peninsula; 1,732 km², 795,000 people, GDP 547.8亿元 (2025). Known for the Laiyang pear, Cretaceous dinosaur fossils, and mantis boxing.
Laiyang Formation
Laiyang Formation, part of the Laiyang Group, Early Cretaceous lacustrine fossil-bearing unit in the Laiyang Basin, Shandong, China; Hauterivian–Barremian, about 130 Ma, yielding Lycoptera fish, insects, and plants of the Laiyang Jehol Biota.
Laiye (来也科技)
Laiye (来也科技) is a Beijing-based enterprise software company founded in 2015 by Wang Guanchun and Hu Yichuan, selling robotic process automation, conversational AI, and AI-agent digital employees.
Laizhou–Changyi Oil Pipeline
The Laizhou–Changyi Oil Pipeline, also called the Laichang pipeline (莱昌管道), is a pair of parallel pipelines in Shandong, China, running from Laizhou Port to the Changyi Petrochemical refinery, in service since 2013.
Lajae Jones
Lajae Jones (Lajae Leo Jones), American basketball guard-forward, born 2004, Neptune Beach, Florida; NJCAA champion at Barton CC, Florida State senior, drafted 54th overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 2026 NBA Draft.
Lajamanu, Northern Territory
Lajamanu (formerly Hooker Creek) is a remote Warlpiri Aboriginal community on the northern edge of the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory, about 640 km southwest of Katherine, established 1949-50 and formally named Lajamanu in 1977.
Lajes Field
Lajes Field, also known as Lajes Air Base, is a Portuguese Air Force base on Terceira Island in the Azores that hosts US forces and serves as a transatlantic refueling stop.