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Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan (Anthony James Donegan, 1931-2002), the King of Skiffle, was a Glasgow-born British skiffle musician whose 1956 hit Rock Island Line sparked the UK skiffle craze and inspired the Beatles and 1960s British rock.
Lonnie Frisbee
Lonnie Frisbee was an American hippie evangelist and faith healer whose mass baptisms with Chuck Smith helped grow Calvary Chapel, and who later helped launch the Vineyard movement.
Lonnie G. Thompson
Lonnie G. Thompson is an American paleoclimatologist at The Ohio State University who founded tropical alpine paleoclimatology, recovering ice cores from Kilimanjaro, the Andes, and the Himalayas, and won the National Medal of Science in 2007.
Lonnie Ingram
Lonnie Ingram (1947–2020) was an American microbiologist and metabolic engineer at the University of Florida who engineered E. coli to produce ethanol for biofuels and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Lonnie J. King
Lonnie J. King is an American veterinarian and public-health leader, Dean Emeritus at Ohio State's College of Veterinary Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member, known for the One Health approach.
Lonnie Johnson (inventor)
Lonnie George Johnson, born 1949, is an American inventor and aerospace engineer from Mobile, Alabama, best known for the Super Soaker water gun and a career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Lonnie Johnson (musician)
Lonnie Johnson (Alonzo Johnson, c. 1889 New Orleans – 1970 Toronto), pioneering blues and jazz guitarist; OKeh star of 1925–1932, Eddie Lang duets, 1948 hit "Tomorrow Night", later Toronto club owner.
Lonnie Mack
Lonnie Mack (Lonnie McIntosh, 1941-2016), Indiana-born blues-rock guitarist and singer whose 1963 instrumentals Memphis and Wham! made the guitar a rock lead voice; his 1958 Flying V sold for $550,000.
Lonnie Paxton
Lonnie Paxton is an American Republican politician who has served as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate since 2025 and represents Senate District 23.
Lonnie Randolph
Lonnie M. Randolph is an American attorney and Democratic member of the Indiana Senate from District 2, first elected in 1992 and re-elected in 2008.
Lonnie Walker IV
Lonnie Walker IV (born 1998, Reading, PA) is an American shooting guard, 18th pick of the 2018 NBA Draft; Spurs, Lakers, Nets, 76ers, then Žalgiris Kaunas and Maccabi Tel Aviv; career 10.0 ppg over 342 NBA games.
Lonny L. Thompson
Lonny L. Thompson is an American mechanical engineer and computational mechanician who spent thirty years at Clemson University, working on structural acoustics and winning a 1997 PECASE award.
Lonny R. Suko
Lonny R. Suko, born in 1943 in Spokane, Washington, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.
Lono
Lono is one of the four great gods of traditional Hawaiian religion, a deity of agriculture, rain, fertility, and peace, honored at the annual Makahiki festival.
Lonoctocog alfa
Lonoctocog alfa (rVIII-SingleChain, brand name Afstyla) is a single-chain recombinant factor VIII medicine made by CSL Behring, approved in the United States and Europe from 2016 for treating bleeding in haemophilia A.
LONP1
LONP1 (lon peptidase 1, mitochondrial; LON, PIM1, PRSS15) is a human gene on 19p13.3 encoding an ATP-dependent AAA+ serine protease of the mitochondrial matrix that degrades misfolded and oxidized proteins, acts as a chaperone, binds mtDNA, and is linked to CODAS syndrome and cancer.
Lonquimay
Lonquimay, active Chilean stratovolcano in the Southern Andean Volcanic Zone, 2,832 m, SE of Tolguaca; its 1988-90 Navidad cone eruption lasted 13 months, extruded ~150 million cubic meters of lava, and prompted evacuations.
Lonsdaleite
Lonsdaleite, also called hexagonal diamond, is a hexagonal form of carbon first identified in 1967 in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and named for crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale.
Lontaraq literature
Lontaraq literature is the prose manuscripts written in the Lontaraq script by the Bugis and Makassar peoples of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, covering history, genealogy, law, and daily records.
Lontra longicaudis
Lontra longicaudis, the Neotropical otter (lobito de río), a mustelid from Mexico to Argentina; Near Threatened IUCN, decreasing, 90-136 cm, 10-14 kg; 2024 genome data split off Lontra annectens.
LonWorks
LonWorks (local operating network) is a control networking platform developed by Echelon Corporation and released in 1988, widely used in building automation, industrial control, and transportation.
Lonza (organization)
Lonza Group Ltd is a Swiss contract development and manufacturing organization headquartered in Basel, founded in 1897 as a hydropower venture, with 2025 sales of CHF 6.5 billion and about 19,800 employees.
Lonza Group
Lonza Group, Swiss CDMO founded 1897 as Elektrizitätswerk Lonza by Alfons Ehinger; hydroelectric carbide maker turned world-leading pharma contract manufacturer, ~20,000 staff, CHF 6.5 billion 2025 sales, SIX-listed.
Lonzo Ball
Lonzo Ball, born 1997, is an American NBA guard drafted second overall by the Lakers in 2017 after a record-setting UCLA season; later Pelicans, Bulls, and Cavaliers, known for passing and defense, hampered by knee injuries.
Loo (लू) (wind)
The Loo (लू) is a strong, hot, dry, dusty westerly summer wind across the northern plains of India and Pakistan, blowing in May and June before the monsoon.
Loo-Loowaard
Loo-Loowaard, near Loo in Duiven, Gelderland, is a presumed Roman auxiliary fort on the Lower Germanic Limes, known only from 1970s dredge finds studied by Wil Kuijpers, plus a 16th-century havezate, rijksmonument 14184.
Loo-Wit Mons
Loo-Wit Mons (Loo Wit Mons), a 150-km-wide mountain on Venus at 59.5S, 56E in Lada Terra, named in 1997 for the Multnomah and Klikitat volcano goddess of Mount St. Helens; an astra-like volcanic structure.
Looe Island
Looe Island, also called St George's Island, is a 22-acre tidal island in Looe Bay, Cornwall, managed by Cornwall Wildlife Trust as the county's only marine nature reserve, with a medieval St Michael chapel, smuggling history, and restricted boat-trip access.
Loogaroo
Loogaroo (lougarou, lagahoo) is a Caribbean folklore witch-vampire, from French loup-garou: an old woman who sheds her skin, flies as a fireball, and must supply the devil blood nightly.
Look (American magazine)
Look (American magazine), 1937-1971 biweekly pictorial magazine founded by Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr. and John Cowles in Des Moines; Life's main rival, peak circulation 7.75 million in 1969, archive at Library of Congress.