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Lajin
Lajin (لجين), fully al-Malik al-Mansur Husam al-Din Lajin, was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt of the Qalawunid period who reigned from 1296 to 1299 after serving as viceroy under his predecessor, Kitbugha.
Lajja (लज्जा)
Lajja (लज्जा, "Shame, Modesty") is Rajkumar Santoshi's 2001 Hindi drama weaving four women's stories, each named for an epithet of Sita, facing dowry, abuse, rape, and patriarchy; a multi-starrer with Manisha Koirala, Madhuri Dixit, Rekha, and Mahima Chaudhry that failed in India but did well overseas.
LaJohntay Wester
LaJohntay Wester, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver and punt returner (No. 10), 2025 sixth-round pick (203rd overall) from Colorado and FAU's all-time receptions leader; 108-catch, 1,168-yard 2023 season.
Lajos Aulich
Lajos Aulich, also known as Ludwig Aulich, was a Hungarian general and the last Minister of War of the 1848–49 war of independence, hanged at Arad in 1849.
Lajos Batthyány
Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), Hungarian aristocrat and first Prime Minister of Hungary, led the first responsible government of 1848, was arrested, condemned by court-martial, and executed by firing squad in Pest on 6 October 1849.
Lajos Dunai
Lajos Dunai (Drestyák), Hungarian footballer, 1942–2000, defender and midfielder for MTK Budapest; won Olympic gold in men's football at Mexico 1968 and the 1968 Hungarian Cup; two national caps in 1966.
Lajos Ferenczy
Lajos Ferenczy (1930–2004) was a Hungarian microbiologist at the University of Szeged who first achieved controlled protoplast fusion in eukaryotic microorganisms and led its microbiology department.
Lajos Keresztes
Lajos Keresztes (Keresztes Lajos, 1900-1978), Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler, lightweight 67.5 kg: Olympic silver Paris 1924, gold Amsterdam 1928, later Vasas coach of István Kozma.
Lajos Kocsis
Lajos Kocsis (Kocsis Lajos, 1947–2000), Hungarian midfielder for Budapest Honvéd; Olympic football gold 1968 and silver 1972; 308 NB I matches, 112 goals, 33 caps. Not Sándor Kocsis.
Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894), Hungarian statesman and orator, led the 1848–1849 revolution and served as Governor of Hungary; exile in Turkey, England, and Turin; rejected the 1867 Compromise.
Lajos Kovacs
Lajos Kovács (Kovács Lajos, 1936–1997) was a Hungarian middle-distance runner, 1960 Rome Olympian at 800 m and 1500 m, 800 m best 1:47.7, and member of Hungary's 1959 world-record 4x1 mile relay team.
Lajos Pósa (Hungarian mathematician)
Lajos Pósa is a Hungarian mathematician who collaborated with Paul Erdős as a teenager and created the Pósa method of weekend mathematics camps for gifted children.
Lajos Pusztai
Lajos Pusztai is a breast medical oncologist and Professor of Medicine at Yale University, known for applying gene-expression profiling to breast cancer and leading I-SPY adaptive trials.
Lajos Werkner
Lajos Werkner (Werkner Lajos, 1883–1943), Hungarian sabre fencer nicknamed Pápa; two Olympic team sabre golds at London 1908 and Stockholm 1912, individual 6th and 7th; later co-founded the Hungarian Fencing Association.
Laju incident
The Laju incident was a 1974 attack in Singapore in which Japanese Red Army and Palestinian militants bombed a Shell refinery and hijacked the ferry Laju.
Laka Mons
Laka Mons is a 220 km diameter mons (mountain) on Venus at 79.9°N, 262°E, named for the Hawaiian goddess of uncultivated areas and approved by the IAU in 1997.
Lakalaka
The lakalaka is a large group dance of Tonga, often considered the country's national dance, combining choreography, oratory, and polyphony; it emerged around the 1870s and is recognized by UNESCO.
Lakan Dula
Lakan Dula, also recorded as Bunao Lakandula, was the lakan, or paramount ruler, of pre-colonial Tondo on the Pasig River when Spain arrived in 1571.
Lakas–CMD
Lakas–CMD (Lakas Christian Muslim Democrats) is a centrist Philippine political party founded in 1991, dominant from 1992 to 2010 and again the COMELEC-designated dominant majority party for the 2025 elections under Speaker Martin Romualdez.
Lake
Lake: a standing body of water in a landscape depression, fed by runoff and groundwater; also called inland still water, distinct from manmade reservoirs behind dams. Stores about 87% of liquid surface freshwater; stratifies into epilimnion and hypolimnion; warming up to 0.45°C per decade.
Lake Achit and its surrounding wetlands
Lake Achit and its surrounding wetlands is a Ramsar site in western Mongolia, designated in 2004, home to Achit Lake, the Mongolian Altai's largest freshwater lake.
Lake acidification
Lake acidification is the process by which a lake's water becomes more acidic, caused mainly by acid rain and acid mine drainage. It killed fish in Scandinavian and North American lakes in the 1970s and 1980s.
Lake Agassiz
Lake Agassiz was the largest glacial lake in North America, formed by the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet. Its meltwater rerouting is linked to the Younger Dryas cooling and the 8.2 ka event.
Lake Albacutya
Lake Albacutya (Ngalpakatia/Ngelpagutya) is a 5,659 ha intermittent freshwater lake in north-west Victoria, Australia, a Ramsar site since 1982 that fills roughly every 20 years from the Wimmera River via Lake Hindmarsh and Outlet Creek and supports major waterbird gatherings.
Lake Aldwell
Lake Aldwell was a reservoir on the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, filled in 1912 and drained in 2012 with the removal of the Elwha Dam.
Lake Allatoona
Lake Allatoona: 11,862-acre USACE reservoir on the Etowah River near Cartersville, Georgia, impounded 1949 by Allatoona Dam for flood control, hydropower (83-85 MW), and water supply; nearly 7 million annual visitors.
Lake Almanor
Lake Almanor is a large reservoir in Plumas County, northeastern California, impounded on the North Fork Feather River and owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Lake Argyle
Lake Argyle, Western Australia's largest and Australia's second-largest freshwater lake, is an Ord River reservoir created by the Argyle Dam (opened 1972), storing 11,000,000 megalitres for irrigation, hydroelectricity, and the Ramsar-listed Lakes Argyle and Kununurra wetlands.
Lake Arrowhead, California
Lake Arrowhead, California: unincorporated mountain resort CDP in San Bernardino County around a private 1920s reservoir; 12,401 residents (2020), elevation 5,175 feet, lake rights via Arrowhead Lake Association.
Lake Atitlán
Lake Atitlán (Spanish: Lago de Atitlán) is a deep caldera lake in Guatemala's western highlands, filling a volcanic collapse basin and ringed by the volcanoes Atitlán, San Pedro, and Tolimán.