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Lora K. Heisler
Lora K. Heisler is a neuroscientist who studies the brain circuits that regulate appetite and metabolism, holding a Chair in Nutritional Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen's Rowett Institute in Scotland.
Lora V. Hooper
Lora V. Hooper, also known as Lora Hooper, is an American immunologist who studies how gut bacteria interact with the immune system at UT Southwestern.
Loracarbef anhydrous
Loracarbef anhydrous (Lorabid) is an oral carbacephem beta-lactam antibiotic, structurally cefaclor with carbon replacing sulfur at position 1; first approved 1991, used for respiratory, skin, and urinary infections, now discontinued in the US.
Lorain County
Lorain County, Ohio, a Lake Erie county created December 26, 1822 from Cuyahoga, Medina, and Huron counties; county seat Elyria; about 323,000 residents (2025 estimate); home of Oberlin College and the city of Lorain.
Lorain, Ohio
Lorain, Ohio: lakeside city at the mouth of the Black River, 25 miles west of Cleveland; about 65,000 residents; historic steel, shipbuilding, and lake port center with a large Hispanic community.
Loraine James
Loraine James is a British electronic music producer from Enfield, London, born in 1995, whose albums on Hyperdub fuse IDM, grime, and R&B with vocals about race and queerness.
LORAN
LORAN, short for Long Range Navigation, is a hyperbolic radio navigation system developed by the United States during World War II for ships and aircraft.
Loran Gas Field
The Loran Gas Field is an offshore natural gas field in Venezuela's Plataforma Deltana area, northeast of the Orinoco Delta, with about 7.3 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas.
Loran-C
Loran-C was a pulsed radio navigation system at 100 kHz, operated by the US Coast Guard for marine and air navigation until GPS made it obsolete in 2010.
Loránd Eötvös
Loránd Eötvös (Eötvös Loránd, 1848–1919) was a Hungarian physicist who measured the equality of inertial and gravitational mass and invented the Eötvös torsion balance used in oil prospecting.
Lorande Loss Woodruff
Lorande Loss Woodruff (1879–1947) was an American protozoologist at Yale University who studied inheritance and senescence in ciliates, maintaining pedigreed Paramecium aurelia cultures through more than 5,000 generations without conjugation.
Loratadine
Loratadine (Claritin) is a second-generation, non-sedating oral H1 antihistamine for allergic rhinitis and chronic urticaria; developed by Schering-Plough, FDA-approved 1993, switched to OTC 10 mg in November 2002.
LoRaWAN
LoRaWAN, short for Long Range Wide Area Network, is a low-power wide-area protocol that connects battery-operated IoT devices over long distances, maintained by the LoRa Alliance.
Lorazepam
Lorazepam, sold as Ativan and as Temesta in Europe, is a benzodiazepine medication first marketed by Wyeth in 1977 to treat anxiety disorders, status epilepticus, and severe agitation, and to sedate patients before surgery.
Lorca
Lorca (Lorca, Murcia) is a city and municipality in southwestern Region of Murcia, Spain; 1,675.2 km², among Spain's largest municipalities, a medieval frontier and Baroque city hit by the 2011 earthquake.
Lord
Lord: British title of nobility used for peers of the realm (baron to marquess, not dukes); today mostly life peers in the House of Lords after the 2026 hereditary exclusion.
Lord & Taylor
Lord & Taylor, founded 1826 by Samuel Lord and George Washington Taylor, was America's oldest department store; it closed all 38 stores in 2020 and now operates online under Regal Brands Global.
Lord Advocate
Lord Advocate, also called His Majesty's Advocate: senior Scottish Law Officer and head of criminal prosecutions and deaths investigation, currently Ruth Charteris KC (appointed June 2026); distinguished from the Solicitor General for Scotland, her deputy.
Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (Bosie, 1870-1945), English poet, son of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and lover of Oscar Wilde; his 1895 libel crisis with Wilde, later Catholic conversion, marriage to Olive Custance, and 1924 imprisonment for libelling Winston Churchill distinguish him from other Douglas namesakes.
Lord Asriel
Lord Asriel is the aristocratic explorer, Dust scholar, and father of Lyra Belacqua in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; daemon Stelmaria; kills Roger to cross worlds; leads rebellion against the Authority; dies destroying Metatron.
Lord Boyd Orr
Lord Boyd Orr, born John Boyd Orr, was a Scottish nutrition scientist who directed the Rowett Institute, led the FAO, and won the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize.
Lord Buckethead
Lord Buckethead is a satirical British novelty candidate, a bucket-helmeted "intergalactic space lord" from the 1984 film Hyperspace (Gremloids), who has stood against Thatcher (1987), Major (1992), and May (2017), later spawning Count Binface after a copyright dispute.
Lord Burghley
David, Lord Burghley (David George Brownlow Cecil, 1905-1981), 6th Marquess of Exeter, British hurdler who won 1928 Olympic 400m hurdles gold in 53.4, then led the IAAF 1946-1976 and the British Olympic Association.
Lord Byron
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron, 1788–1824) was an English Romantic poet and peer whose Childe Harold's Pilgrimage made him a celebrity in 1812 and whose Don Juan became a landmark.
Lord Chamberlain
Lord Chamberlain: senior non-executive officer of the British Royal Household, distinct from the hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain; organizes royal ceremonial events and was official theatre censor from 1737 until 1968.
Lord Chamberlain's Men
The Lord Chamberlain's Men (later the King's Men) was Shakespeare's Elizabethan acting company, founded 1594 under the Lord Chamberlain, a sharer partnership playing at the Theatre, Curtain, Globe, and Blackfriars, renamed the King's Men in 1603 under James I.
Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor is an ancient UK office of state, today combined with Secretary of State for Justice heading the Ministry of Justice. Reshaped by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, it lost its judicial and Lords Speaker roles but keeps rule-of-law duties.
Lord Chelmsford
Lord Chelmsford (लॉर्ड चेम्सफोर्ड), born Frederic Thesiger, was a British colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921, during the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms and the Amritsar massacre.
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales: the most senior judge of England and Wales, Head of the Judiciary and President of the Courts; since 1 October 2023 Baroness Carr, the first woman holding the office.
Lord Collins of Highbury
Lord Collins of Highbury is a British Labour politician in the House of Lords since 2011, now a minister and the UK Special Envoy for LGBT+ Rights.