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Livewire (DC Comics)
Livewire (Leslie Willis), DC Comics electricity-wielding Superman villain created for Superman: The Animated Series (1997); comic debut Superman Adventures #5, mainstream debut Action Comics #835 by Gail Simone and John Byrne; adapted in Supergirl and Smallville.
Livi Sheldon
Livi Sheldon, also known as Olivia Jane Sheldon, is a British competitive bodybuilder, online coach, and television personality known as Diamond on the BBC One revival of Gladiators.
Livia
Livia Drusilla (59/58 BCE–29 CE), later Iulia Augusta, wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius; the influential first Roman empress, praised in inscriptions and maligned by Tacitus, Suetonius, and Graves' I, Claudius.
Livia Brito
Livia Brito (Livia Brito Pestana), Cuban-born actress based in Mexico, Televisa telenovela star: debut Triunfo del amor (2010), leads in La piloto, La desalmada, Amanecer (2025), plus legal case with photographer Ernesto Zepeda.
Livia Giuggioli Firth
Livia Giuggioli Firth, Italian sustainability campaigner, founder of the Green Carpet Challenge and co-founder of Eco-Age, a consultancy that closed in 2024 after fraud and relaunched in 2025.
Livia Soprano
Livia Soprano is Tony Soprano's manipulative mother in The Sopranos, played by Nancy Marchand (seasons 1–3) and Vera Farmiga in the prequel film, based directly on creator David Chase's own mother and named for Livia Drusilla.
Liviana
Liviana, also read Liuiana, names two ancient places in the Tabula Peutingeriana: a road station in Gallia Narbonensis near Capendu or Douzens, France, and an unlocated Numidian place about 13 miles east of Thamugadi.
Livigno
Livigno (Little Tibet), Italian Alpine ski resort in Lombardy near Switzerland at 1,816 m: duty-free village, 115 km of slopes on Carosello 3000 and Mottolino, freestyle and snowboard venue of Milano Cortina 2026.
Liviidae
Liviidae (Liviidae Löw) is a psyllid family in Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, given family rank by Burckhardt & Ouvrard 2012; includes Livia and, in many treatments, the Asian citrus psyllid Diaphorina citri.
Livin' la Vida Loca
Livin' la Vida Loca, Ricky Martin's 1999 English-language debut single written by Draco Rosa and Desmond Child, first all-digital Pro Tools number one, five weeks atop the Hot 100, catalyst of the 1999 Latin explosion.
Livin' on a Prayer
Livin' on a Prayer is a 1986 Bon Jovi hard rock song from Slippery When Wet, written with Desmond Child, telling the working-class story of Tommy and Gina. It hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987, is certified triple-platinum, and features Sambora's talk box riff and a key change to G minor.
Living (2022 film)
Living (2022) is a British drama directed by Oliver Hermanus, scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro, adapting Kurosawa's Ikiru to 1953 London; Bill Nighy plays a dying civil servant, earning an Oscar nomination.
Living (有生之年)
Living (有生之年) is a 2023 Taiwanese family drama produced by Lin Xinru, written by Du Zhengzhe, starring Wu Kangren as Gao Jiayue, who returns home at 41; it topped Netflix Taiwan five weeks and won six Golden Bell Awards.
Living apart together
Living apart together (LAT) is a committed intimate relationship in which partners keep separate households. Coined by Cees J. Straver in 1980; common among older adults; about one third of unmarried US adults.
Living building materials
Living building materials are construction materials containing living microorganisms, usually cyanobacteria, which fix CO2 and precipitate minerals, in contrast to bioinspired or merely bio-based materials.
Living Coast Biosphere Reserve
The Living Coast Biosphere Reserve, formally the Brighton and Lewes Downs Biosphere Reserve, is a UNESCO biosphere reserve on England's Sussex coast, designated in 2014.
Living Colour
Living Colour is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1983 by Vernon Reid, known for Vivid, Cult of Personality, two Best Hard Rock Performance Grammys, and fusing rock, metal, funk, and hip hop.
Living concrete
Living concrete is a building material containing living microorganisms, typically cyanobacteria or Bacillus bacteria, that remain active inside it, healing cracks and capturing carbon dioxide.
Living creatures (Bible)
The living creatures, Hebrew ḥayyot (חיות), are the four winged beings with faces of a man, lion, ox, and eagle that Ezekiel sees supporting God's throne-chariot, echoed in Revelation 4.
Living crystals
Living crystals are crystalline assemblies of self-propelled particles that continuously form, break apart, and re-form out of thermodynamic equilibrium, first demonstrated with light-activated colloids in 2013.
Living Doll (The Twilight Zone)
Living Doll is a 1963 Twilight Zone episode (season 5, episode 6) in which Talky Tina, a talking doll voiced by June Foray, terrorizes and kills her abusive stepfather, played by Telly Savalas; a forerunner of Chucky, Annabelle, and M3GAN.
Living donor kidney transplantation
Living donor kidney transplantation is the surgical transfer of a kidney from a living donor into a patient with end-stage kidney disease, giving longer graft survival than dialysis or deceased-donor transplants.
Living donor liver transplantation
Living donor liver transplantation is surgery implanting part of a healthy living person's liver into a recipient with end-stage liver disease, saving over 80,000 lives since 2000.
Living evidence synthesis
A living evidence synthesis is a systematic review or guideline continually updated as new evidence becomes available, with monthly searches and new versions published when conclusions might change.
Living Flame of Love
The Living Flame of Love (Llama de amor viva) is a four-stanza mystical poem with commentary by St. John of the Cross, describing the soul's union with God.
Living for the Dead
Living for the Dead is a 2023 Hulu unscripted series from the Queer Eye creators, narrated and executive produced by Kristen Stewart, following five queer ghost hunters (Alex LeMay, Juju Bae, Ken Boggle, Logan Taylor, Roz Hernandez) visiting haunted US locations; eight episodes, removed from Hulu in September 2024.
Living fossil
Living fossil: informal term coined by Darwin in 1859 for living organisms of ancient lineages showing little morphological change, such as the coelacanth, horseshoe crab, tuatara, and ginkgo; concept is scientifically contested.
Living history
Living history is a form of public history in which costumed interpreters use period clothing, tools, and settings to present the past, especially at museums and historic sites.
Living in the Material World
Living in the Material World is George Harrison's second post-Beatles studio album, released May 30, 1973; produced by Harrison after Phil Spector's exit, it topped the US album chart with the No. 1 single Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), and received a Paul Hicks-remixed 50th anniversary reissue in 2024.
Living Income Differential
The Living Income Differential (LID) is a US$400 per tonne surcharge on cocoa exported from Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, imposed by the two governments from the 2020/21 season.