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Lloyd Hollenberg
Lloyd Hollenberg is an Australian quantum physicist at the University of Melbourne, elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2018, known for silicon quantum computing and diamond quantum sensing.
Lloyd J. Old
Lloyd J. Old (1933–2011) was an American cancer immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, known for co-discovering tumor necrosis factor and co-identifying p53, called the Father of Modern Tumor Immunology.
Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones, born in 1955 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, is a novelist and memoirist whose novel Mister Pip won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award.
Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman (born 1945), American indie filmmaker, co-founder and president of Troma Entertainment with Michael Herz, creator of The Toxic Avenger, author of Make Your Own Damn Movie, chairman of IFTA from 2007.
Lloyd Kelly
Lloyd Cassius Kelly (born 1998, Bristol) is an English left-footed defender for Juventus. Bristol City, Bournemouth (141 games), Newcastle United, then a February 2025 loan with obligation to buy.
Lloyd Kiva New
Lloyd Kiva New (1916–2002) was a Cherokee fashion designer and educator who built a Scottsdale fashion label and co-founded the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Lloyd M. Aiello
Lloyd M. Aiello was an American ophthalmologist, Harvard Medical School professor, and founding director of the Beetham Eye Institute who pioneered laser photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy.
Lloyd M. Beidler
Lloyd M. Beidler (1922–2003) was an American neuroscientist who founded modern taste research at Florida State University, proposed the Beidler equation, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Lloyd M. Bucher
Lloyd M. Bucher, also known as Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, was a U.S. Navy officer who commanded the USS Pueblo. He surrendered the ship to North Korea in 1968.
Lloyd M. Robeson
Lloyd M. Robeson is an American industrial polymer and membrane scientist, retired from Air Products, best known for defining the permeability-selectivity upper bound in gas-separation membranes.
Lloyd M. Smith
Lloyd M. Smith, born 1954 in Berkeley, California, is an American chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for developing the first fluorescence-based automated DNA sequencer and proteomics software.
Lloyd MacLean
Lloyd Douglas MacLean (1924–2015) was a Canadian surgeon and surgeon-in-chief at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital for 26 years who performed Canada's first lung transplant in 1966 and pioneered bariatric surgery.
Lloyd Mayer
Lloyd F. Mayer (1952–2013) was an American clinical immunologist and gastroenterologist at Mount Sinai in New York, known for showing that T cells regulate immunoglobulin class switching in B cells.
Lloyd N. Trefethen
Lloyd N. Trefethen, known as Nick Trefethen, is a numerical analyst, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Harvard since 2023 after 26 years at Oxford, known for pseudospectra and Chebfun.
Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan (Lloyd Benedict Nolan, 1902-1985) was an American stage, film, and television actor from San Francisco, noted as B-movie detective, Broadway and Emmy-winning Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and Dr. Chegley on Julia.
Lloyd Owen
Lloyd Owen (Richard Marcus Lloyd Owen), British actor born 1966 in London; played Henry Jones Sr. in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Paul in Monarch of the Glen, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard, and Elendil in The Rings of Power.
Lloyd Peck
Lloyd Peck is a British marine biologist and Science Leader at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.
Lloyd R. Welch
Lloyd R. Welch (1927–2023) was an American information theorist and electrical engineer who co-invented the Baum–Welch and Berlekamp–Welch algorithms and received the 2003 Shannon Award as a longtime USC professor.
Lloyd S. Cluff
Lloyd S. Cluff (died 2019) was an American earthquake geologist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978, who led earthquake risk management at PG&E.
Lloyd S. Shapley
Lloyd S. Shapley, also known as Lloyd Shapley, was an American game theorist at RAND and UCLA who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Lloyd Smucker
Lloyd Smucker, born 1964, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is a Republican businessman and U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th district since 2019, after representing the 16th district from 2017 to 2019.
Lloyd Spooner
Lloyd Spooner, full name Lloyd Spencer Spooner (1884–1966), was an American army officer and sport shooter who won seven Olympic medals, four gold, at the 1920 Antwerp Games.
Lloyd Tabb
Lloyd Tabb, American software developer, founder and CTO of Looker (Santa Cruz data analytics, sold to Google for $2.6B), designer of LookML, earlier Borland and Netscape engineer, now co-creator of the Malloy data language at Meta.
Lloyd W. Law
Lloyd W. Law (1910–2002) was an American immunologist and cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, whose mouse leukemia studies laid the foundation for combination chemotherapy.
Lloyd Wright
Lloyd Wright, born Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. (1890–1978), was an American architect and landscape architect in Southern California, known for Wayfarers Chapel and two early Hollywood Bowl shells.
Lloyd's algorithm
Lloyd's algorithm is an iterative method for k-means clustering, popularly called the k-means algorithm, that repeatedly assigns points to their nearest center and moves each center to its cluster's mean.
Lloyd's building
The Lloyd's building, also known as the Lloyds of London Building, is the insurance market's City of London headquarters, designed by Richard Rogers and opened in 1986.
Lloyd's List
Lloyd's List is a British shipping newspaper founded in 1734 at Lloyd's Coffee House in London, one of the world's oldest continuously published periodicals, digital-only since 2013.
Lloyd's mirror
Lloyd's mirror is an optical arrangement in which light from a single source interferes with its grazing-angle reflection from a flat mirror, first described by Humphrey Lloyd in 1834.
Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's of London, also known as Lloyd's, is a British insurance marketplace where competing syndicates of underwriting members write specialist insurance and reinsurance, tracing its origins to Edward Lloyd's 1688 coffeehouse.